How likely is this to be covid?

[BlondieD]

My partner was coughing last week. He had a sore throat too. I don't know if he had any other symptoms. He doesn't own a thermometer so he never checked his temperature for fever. He wasn't very sick but he was coughing. I wasn't impressed with his behaviour because he had symptoms. He works with the public is a customer service role so there is more risk of picking up an infection. He never test and he diagnosed a cough in himself.

We were out a small party the weekend before last. The people were all family and known. The party consisted of 22 people in total. There's no anti vaxxers and we are all vaccinated except for the children. Mainly all with pfizers.

My partner turned up coughing. I wasn't impressed because he had a symptom of covid. I encouraged him to test but he was adamant that it was just a cold.

5 days pass and on the Friday night I felt what is usually the start of a cold for me and it was a phelym type feeling at the back of my throat. On Saturday morning I woke up with some symptoms followed by more symptoms on Sunday. So far my symptoms are all very mild. I don't have any LFTs. I got a PCR test yesterday and I am waiting on results. Today I hear that many more family members are now coming down ill - all with various symptoms of cold and flu.

To me, this sounds so much like covid. I don't have my test results yet. What do you think here? Will this turn out to be covid?

Might. Or might not.

If I could give an accurate covid result over the internet id be a millionaire.

It’s 50/50 isn’t it, classic covid symptoms, classic normal cough symptoms. Fingers crossed it’s not, but your partner is an idiot.

I would bet my money that you're positive for Covid. I talk to people every day who have it and they tell similar stories.

Yes. Or no. You can’t tell from a post on a forum.

@ChocolateDeficitDisorder

I would bet my money that you're positive for Covid. I talk to people every day who have it and they tell similar stories.

This is what I'm thinking too. The fact is one person turned up coughing and now there's people from that function getting sick with symptoms.

Is he always this irresponsible? Surely anyone in their right minds would use some common sense and get tested in these circumstances.. even if its not covid there is a nasty cold bug going round so he shouldn't have gone to the family gathering full stop. No wonder covid is spreading like wildfire

I really think in these times now ,its just basic courtesy to do a test if you have symptoms. You can order them online arrive the next day .

I’m convinced it was the barmaid who was coughing all over on the Wednesday who’s spread it around pool hall, 3 people and Dh came down with it a few more who said have had sore throats , feeling under the weather, don’t know if they tested.
I made Dh do test Thursday , Friday and Saturday as he had a bit of cough didn’t show pos till the Monday . He hates them throat bit makes him gag , but if my Ds going to be poked and prodded with them dam sure he will be . I know people can’t stay off work testing for 3 days but maybe wear a mask when working directly with public.

The upheaval it brings into a household I wouldn’t wish on anyone .

It really does make me a bit mad .when Ds now has to wear a face mask all day in school , asked to do lft each morning , measures which were brought in before 1/2 term and still in place . Yet some adults can’t seem to take the basic of measures .

His colleague had a dose a few weeks ago and he went for a test and tested negative so my partner decided to take his word and that was that when he had symptoms. He decided he didn't want to test and there was no point in testing even though he was coughing.

I was disappointed and disgusted in him really. You can't trust someone else's test results and presume you have the same dose especially if you have symptoms.

My results came back as covid not detected. I am happy about that but it does leave me with an uneasy feeling after reading some posts here. Some people are taking days to test positive in a pcr. There's other people within that party out sick now. Surely it's not all the same cold virus?

It's been years since I was sick and I look after myself well by eating well and I take a lot of supplements. Other years, people around me came down with colds that I avoided yet here I am, I managed to get the dose he has. Time will tell over the next week or so with his family and their symptoms over the next week.

Even if it is 'just a cold', the fact that he's gone out and passed it to other people will mean they all need to test now too. For some of them, that may mean missing work and not getting paid while they wait for results.

I honestly can't believe people are that thick and selfish. I'm fairly relaxed about Covid and I think he's behaved like a prize twat.

I'm furious. How he thought it was appropriate to turn up at the function and cough his dose all over everyone. Especially now at this point in the pandemic. It's not hard to understand the public health guidelines.

I wouldnt consider myself to be ocd but even his coughing wasn't appropriate. He coughed into his closed fists which was a few inches away from his face so there was no attempt to contain his germs.

I was judging him harshly but I must admit, all our lives people were expected to continue on as normal with colds and flu and then the pandemic hit and we had to change so much. Its going to be very hard to roll back on what people are used to and get people to follow public health guidelines of isolation and testing when they have symptoms especially because there's a crossover of symptoms between colds and covid.

‘Surely it’s not all the same cold virus’ .. well, yes. That’s exactly what it could be. Your partner has gone out coughing with either a cold or covid & spread his germs to apart guest. Colds & covid spread in just the sand way & are equally contagious.

Have you ever worked in an office in winter? Colds hit the entire team. We regularly shared germs prior to covid!