Would you go to the pub with someone who had two kids at home who had tested positive?

[WallOfCarrots]

Just that really. Would you want to sit in a pub for the evening with someone who had two kids at home that had tested positive in the last few days?

@SandAndSea if I was planning to meet up with someone socially and we had COVID in the house, I would let them know, same as I would if we had flu, norovirus in the house. I would be telling them that I wouldn't be meeting up with them because of that. But if I was a person happy to meet up with others, even though there was a highly infectious illness in the house, I would at least be courteous enough to let them know, so they could make the choice not to meet up with me.

Yes. Wouldn't give it a seconds thought.

Not a chance in hell.

The current guidelines allowing it are mad. I think its entirely selfish to socialise indoors knowing your household is positive.

@QueenofKattegat

Yes. Wouldn't give it a seconds thought.

And people wonder why cases are still so high. We might not be having 150-200 deaths A Day, if people did give it a 'seconds thought' FFS

Everyone wanting 'life to carry on' ignoring covid isn't going to make that happen!!

No, I wouldn't.
Why risk it?

^sydenhamhiller

This is really interesting. I had a covid a year ago. Have been double jabbed since. Dd3 (primary) has just tested positive.

As I am double jabbed I can - under current guidelines - still go out everywhere. I will be expected to go to work as a year 2 teacher and teach my class of sneezing, coughing bogie-eating 6 year olds on Monday. (I am part time.)

So whilst I appreciate you might not want to meet me for a drink, if I am deemed well enough to go to work by the government, and provide childcare/ education, I am well enough to go to the pub.^

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There will be close contacts of positive cases everywhere. At your work, sat next to your child at school, sat near you in a restaurant, pub. All strangers mainly. So if you’re avoiding your close contact friends in the pub it would only make sense that you’re really not going out or doing anything, just to be ‘safe’.

We didn't catch it off dd. Towards end of isolation yes white happy, right at the start, probably not (and Id say parent shouldn't want to).

As ever not black and white but nuances.

Simple answer... No!

@WallOfCarrots

Just that really. Would you want to sit in a pub for the evening with someone who had two kids at home that had tested positive in the last few days?

Not at the moment.

@Delatron

There will be close contacts of positive cases everywhere. At your work, sat next to your child at school, sat near you in a restaurant, pub. All strangers mainly. So if you’re avoiding your close contact friends in the pub it would only make sense that you’re really not going out or doing anything, just to be ‘safe’.

But this is a specific enquiry about upping the odds isn't it?

You will be close, face-to-face, yapping, drinking, for an extended period with adults from a currently positive household. Very different to being sat back-to-back with a bit of distance with strangers. Or briefly passing others shopping, travelling etc.

No

We have an immune suppressed CEV person in the house (ie someone for whom the jab might not work) and it's too risky for us. Our lives are very narrow, and we expect it to remain that way through the winter.

Do spare a thought for the half million or so households in this situation, and also the 2million with other CEV (a non-age related category). The relative freedoms of others come at the cost of limiting us.

I wouldn't mind personally because I had Covid very recently and it's vanishingly unlikely I'd catch it again so soon, but it's a bit of a dick move in relation to other people in the pub. I'd go to an outside venue (one with heaters and blankets).

*So whilst I appreciate you might not want to meet me for a drink, if I am deemed well enough to go to work by the government, and provide childcare/ education, I am well enough to go to the pub.^
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But work is more important than going to the pub. Why increase the risk any more than absolutely necessary?

Especially with the potentially more contagious South Africa variant on its way across the world?

I wonder if the Government will need to impose more restrictions if the South Africa variant turns out to evade vaccinations?

No. Do t suppose the other customers would be delighted either, if they knew.

Yes i would

Yes, I'm going about my life normally now.
The only concession is that if I'm visiting someone I know to be vulnerable I test in the days leading up to seeing them.

@Blubells

I wonder if the Government will need to impose more restrictions if the South Africa variant turns out to evade vaccinations?

Maybe.

I think the key measure will the number of people requiring hospital admission, and if the vaccine is less effective then that number will rise and at some point become unsustainable.

Probably not

Mind you if I had two kids at home with Covid then I wouldn’t be going to the pub.

Not especially, but that's my choice. I wouldn't really judge them for wanting to do it. As a pp said, the people at the next table could have positive cases at home.

No and frankly none of my friends would even ask me as they’d be staying in!

yes. I went to the pub with positive people at home!

No and frankly none of my friends would even ask me as they’d be staying in!

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