Enough to put you off shopping

[rosie1959]

Today was the first time in a large supermarket since March. I rarely go to Aldi but I do like some of their products at Christmas time so thought it will be quiet will nip in and get them.
This poor woman had a hacking cough and was coughing all round the supermarket. Not just once but constantly Needless to say didn’t stay long. Will be giving it a miss for a while
I would have been too embarrassed to go with a cough like that as would be convinced everyone was looking at me

It's gross isn't it?

Well to be fair she may have asthma or copd or any sort of lung condition (like me). Not every cough - even a hacking or chesty one- is contagious.

I don't understand why people with hacking coughs go out at the moment ! I had a cough a few weeks ago and stayed in til it had stopped .. if someone has copd then surely they are high risk and shouldn't be in a supermarket !

I was in a fairly small shop Sunday and a woman pulled her face mask under her chin to give out a long hacking cough. She just laughed about it.

I moved away sharpish as we are tier 3 and one son has already had Covid caught at school, so I know how easily it infects others.

@huuuuunnnndderrricks

I don't understand why people with hacking coughs go out at the moment ! I had a cough a few weeks ago and stayed in til it had stopped .. if someone has copd then surely they are high risk and shouldn't be in a supermarket !

Not everyone can get an online slot and you know some people actually want to go out. The shielding advice has changed - I was in the extremely clinically vulnerable group and now the advice is just to be careful, not to stay inside all the time. (I actually don’t have copd, I have asthma and sometimes I do cough a lot but I can’t help it, I hate it because people do stare at me but I don’t want to spend my whole life shut away)!

I have had bronchitis for weeks, on third load of anti biotics to shift it. I feel like I need a big neon sign on my head saying 'its not fucking CV'. Not all coughs are CV.

I have asthma and have had some bad symptoms over the last week - cough and tested negative for COVID.

I still had to go out to shop and pick my DS from school

No wouldn't put me off.

I went in a shop for the first time since March. I don’t know why, whether it was the mask, or me panicking, but I started coughing. I was going to just pay for what I had and then it stopped so was ok. I now make sure I have some cough sweets to hand in case it happens again.

Wearing a mask makes me cough. I get a really dry throat and off I go. The amount of filthy looks I've been given is ridiculous. One man even exclaimed 'good lord don't come out if you have a cough!' I found myself telling him it's caused by the bloody mask and not to be so patronising! People assume every cough is Covid like no other ailments exist anymore!

My 87 year old dad coughs constantly. He has Asthma. I've had to warn him that he will be judged if he goes out.

Not all coughs are Covid, not all with COVID will have a cough.

I would have been too embarrassed to go with a cough

Maybe she needs food
Maybe she’s tested negative
Maybe it’s a chronic cough
Maybe she’s got no one to go shopping for her
Maybe you should be less judgmental and stick to online shopping

I had a chest infection with a cough that hung around for weeks after the infection was cleared up.

I had to go out, no one else to do my shopping and couldn't get an online slot. My cough sounded awful, but I was as discreet as I could be and just got on with it 🤷‍♀️ Maybe the lady you saw was the same. Not all coughs are covid.

Shocked that you haven't been out since March!

I have a cough at the minute, I tested negative yesterday.

I still have to buy food.

To add, single parent here with no one to go shopping for me and no chance of an online delivery. If I don't go shopping, we don't eat.

@TheGremlinsAreComing

Wearing a mask makes me cough. I get a really dry throat and off I go. The amount of filthy looks I've been given is ridiculous. One man even exclaimed 'good lord don't come out if you have a cough!' I found myself telling him it's caused by the bloody mask and not to be so patronising! People assume every cough is Covid like no other ailments exist anymore!

Same

And it appears ive developed a nervous cough as well

And i cough as part of my allergy, im ok with medicine but it takes a wee while to work

@huuuuunnnndderrricks

I don't understand why people with hacking coughs go out at the moment ! I had a cough a few weeks ago and stayed in til it had stopped .. if someone has copd then surely they are high risk and shouldn't be in a supermarket !

I have a lung condition that means my coughs usually last for 3-4 weeks or more. Sadly I don't think my work would be too happy if I tried to stay off for that long with a mild cold!

@huuuuunnnndderrricks

I don't understand why people with hacking coughs go out at the moment ! I had a cough a few weeks ago and stayed in til it had stopped .. if someone has copd then surely they are high risk and shouldn't be in a supermarket !

Some of us don't have any choice. I've had a hacking cough since March, caused by allergies and made worse by stress and wearing a mask. I'm not staying in indefinitely!

Why should people stay out of shops just because they cough?
Coughs were around a long time before Covid!
How's about having some empathy for a fellow human being and not being so hysterical?!

She's more likely not to have covid and just be coughing. I'm isolating at the moment waiting for test results of DC. I've just tried to get a delivery for food, not a chance. Click and collect are all full as well so I literally have no way of getting food shopping for Christmas. I will find a way and thankfully I've finished my Xmas shopping but the lady your talking about may not have the options I have.

Please try to remember it's far from easy or straight forward for a lot of people! Don't be so quick to judge.

Not heard of long covid op????

@JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn

I had a chest infection with a cough that hung around for weeks after the infection was cleared up.

I had to go out, no one else to do my shopping and couldn't get an online slot. My cough sounded awful, but I was as discreet as I could be and just got on with it 🤷‍♀️ Maybe the lady you saw was the same. Not all coughs are covid.

Shocked that you haven't been out since March!

Lol I have been out since March even managed to fit a weeks holiday in I certainly was not hysterical about it just noted how a once normal occurrence could make you feel ill at ease Probably if I was under 50 I wouldn’t have given it a second thought but I am a grandmother Never mind back to delivery have them book into January

And I am not judgemental at all just pointed out it made me uneasy