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FFS I’ve got suspected omicron

327 replies

PatientZerooo · 03/12/2021 15:29

Although nobody has actually told me personally - I only know because my contacts (including DH and DC) have been contacted by T&T and told.

Took test on Tuesday, positive result on Wednesday, T&T follow up today.

I have ruined a lot of people’s plans Sad

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saraclara · 03/12/2021 22:34

@tallduckandhandsome

I don’t really get the angst? You’ve got covid, same as the 10 million in the UK who had it, including me.

I hope you get well soon but it’s not the end of the world, and announcing you’ve got ‘omicron’ doesn’t make it special.

I'm guessing that it feels much worse because having it has inconvenienced other people, where Delta wouldn't have.

At this time of year, it's tough for contacts of someone with Omicron to have to isolate for ten days. I'd feel irrationally bad for my friends and family if I had it too.

saraclara · 03/12/2021 22:34

Irrationally guilty, I mean. It's rational to feel bad for them.

tallduckandhandsome · 03/12/2021 22:39

@saraclara i suppose so, but I’ve been isolating with cold symptoms anyway until I get my PCR results. I wouldn’t want to pass any variant on to anyone.

CovidMakesThingsHard · 03/12/2021 22:49

@Watapalava I’m guessing you’re in the same pact as my brother with his friends and the reasons we have had to cancel meeting up as a family for Christmas as they’ve decided not to do LFTs let alone PCRs if ill and if caught with Omicron won’t name their friends who they’ve been with and vice versa.
You can’t just tell people and let them isolate as you can’t claim covid isolation sick leave or pay unless told to by T&T

Watapalava · 03/12/2021 22:53

To be clear I was going to tell them knowing they won’t isolate

I won’t either as a contact

whynotwhatknot · 03/12/2021 23:08

ive read omicron doesnt have same symtoms as delta

no taste or smell loss and not necessarily a cough

Olliesocks · 03/12/2021 23:21

@Waxonwaxoff0

You haven't ruined anything. A virus will do what a virus does. I hope you're feeling OK.
I read that in “Houses” voice. Virus..irus…irus…irus…..
saraclara · 03/12/2021 23:29

[quote tallduckandhandsome]@saraclara i suppose so, but I’ve been isolating with cold symptoms anyway until I get my PCR results. I wouldn’t want to pass any variant on to anyone.[/quote]
It's not about whether you want to pass it on. The people who were in contact with you at any point during the couple of days BEFORE you got your 'cold' would have to isolate if you test positive for O.

That's what makes it different from Delta, and that's why people are more stressed about getting it.

SD1978 · 03/12/2021 23:31

I'd get over the self pity unless you've gone around gleefully licking people with covid and then your friends and family. You caught a virus, you'll need to self isolate, and friends will need to test and possibly isolate. Look after yourself instead of wallowing in British type self loathing for something utterly outside your control.

Furries · 03/12/2021 23:42

@Watapalava

Actually OP I have to admit if my friend who knew i had loads of xmas plan,s named me i'd be rightly pissed off. Why couldn't you just ring them and let them decide?
Are you serious? FFS, of course she needs to name any close contacts. Who knows how many people those contacts will mingle with in the next week.

I could maybe (at a push) slightly get your sentiment during the summer. But, following the shit show of last Christmas, I definitely don’t get it.

This year, many more families are wanting to get together. And rightly so. But I’d be REALLY pissed off if a friend didn’t name me if they had been contacted like this. No way would I want to put someone at risk. Plus, right now, it’s far enough away from Christmas itself to hopefully lessen the blow.

Kittykat93 · 03/12/2021 23:54

@tallduckandhandsome

I don’t really get the angst? You’ve got covid, same as the 10 million in the UK who had it, including me.

I hope you get well soon but it’s not the end of the world, and announcing you’ve got ‘omicron’ doesn’t make it special.

This..sorry but millions are getting/are going to get covid. Does a thread really need to be started each time someone tests positive 🤦

whynotwhatknot · 04/12/2021 00:01

maybe because with omicron you have to isolate anddelta you dont?

saraclara · 04/12/2021 00:08

@SD1978

I'd get over the self pity unless you've gone around gleefully licking people with covid and then your friends and family. You caught a virus, you'll need to self isolate, and friends will need to test and possibly isolate. Look after yourself instead of wallowing in British type self loathing for something utterly outside your control.
No. The friends have to isolate for ten days, whether or not they test. They don't "possibly isolate", they HAVE to. Which is the point that so may people on this thread don't seem to understand.

The ignorance is astounding. Let me spell it out.

If someone you've been in contact with catches Delta and you're vaccinated, you don't have to isolate. You can get on with your life as normal.

If someone you've been in contact with catches Omicron (or T&T suspect it might be Omicron ) and you're vaccinated, you DO have to isolate. For ten days. Which will fuck up your run up to Christmas and possibly the day itself.

SD1978 · 04/12/2021 00:16

@saraclara - the point still stands. It wasn't deliberate, the self loathing seems OTT. Again, wasn't done deliberately, OP hasn't knowingly gone around and given people covid. She has suspected omicron variant, and anyone who actually blames her, and isn't much of a friend.

nettie434 · 04/12/2021 00:25

I am sorry you have had such bad luck PatientZerooo. I hope you recover soon. In the meantime I am living for the day when 'seriously fucking snappy’ is added to the official government symptom list Grin

Northsoutheastwest76 · 04/12/2021 00:34

OP you have done nothing wrong. Ger well soon.

ViceLikeBlip · 04/12/2021 06:04

@whynotwhatknot

ive read omicron doesnt have same symtoms as delta

no taste or smell loss and not necessarily a cough

These were exactly my (double jabbed) delta symptoms 🤷‍♀️
lightisnotwhite · 04/12/2021 06:41

The ignorance is astounding. Let me spell it out.

Oh get over yourself. It’s not “ignorance”. People are doing whatever makes most sense to them now since we’ve been through all the pandemic worse’s and back a few times.

Isolating for 10 days was the standard rule for Covid since the start. Only relatively recently did you not have to around positive cases. I think most of us can cope with a week and a half now. Even in “ the run up” to Christmas which apparently started mid November,
It’s also being reviewed on the 21st December so every chance it won’t spoil Christmas.

Oblomov21 · 04/12/2021 07:35

I too think people are underestimating they severity.
Rules have changed, the rules for the new variant are more severe.
Saraclara puts it well:

"If someone you've been in contact with catches Omicron (or T&T suspect it might be Omicron ) and you're vaccinated, you DO have to isolate. For ten days. Which will fuck up your run up to Christmas and possibly the day itself."

It would hack me right off, if I was named a close contact.

JacketPotatoQueen · 04/12/2021 11:42

One thing I didn’t appreciate is that household members of people who have been in contact with a suspected omicron case also have to self isolate. My daughter was contacted by track and trace and told she has been in contact with a suspected case. She was told she had to self isolate for 10 days (fair enough) but I was surprised when test and trace then advised that the whole household must also isolate. None of the rest of us have been in any contact. My daughter has tested negative all week (the contact was last Monday) and so have the rest of us - we all test regularly for school / work, so this does seem a very cautious approach. We will all isolate though as don’t want to be fined, or possibly spread it. They are sending a special PCR for my daughter so let’s see.

EffOrfagain · 04/12/2021 12:26

I think a lot of Christmases will be spoilt because of the contact isolation and how easily it transmits, quite expecting to hear from DS in the next couple of weeks that he won't be able to come down to us because of this, if he does we shall just have to have another weekend later on, I wouldn't want him to be not going out in the run up Christmas in case he missed Christmas Day especially after last year when all the hospitality was closed and he had to stay in so much

tallduckandhandsome · 04/12/2021 12:30

I don’t have T&T and rely on my own judgement, taking regular LFTs and taking PCR test and isolating when I’ve had symptoms.

The T&T app isn’t mandatory AFAIAA.

EffOrfagain · 04/12/2021 12:43

I don't think DS would be contacted because of the App as he doesn't used it, more likely from his friends who he goes out with and his work party, he might be named as a contact, I never used the app either as it wasn't fit for purpose.

LemonViolet · 04/12/2021 12:48

T&T isn’t the app, tallduck, it is the ridiculously costly govt scheme that will phone you etc if you are named as a contact by someone with a positive PCR test.

I was surprised when test and trace then advised that the whole household must also isolate. have they provided you with a written instruction for this, @JacketPotatoQueen to show employers etc?

Have to say one thing I’m unclear on now is if you do get tagged by the app, how do you know which variant it is to know whether you need to isolate or not? I’ve had it switched off since I’ve been double jabbed. If it can differentiate variants then it might be worth switching it on again.

EffOrfagain · 04/12/2021 12:52

If whole households of contacts need to isolate, within a couple of weeks most of the country will be shut indoors - that must be an error, it must be just the contact isolating