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Would you go?

70 replies

matildathebookworm · 08/12/2021 20:46

Meant to be going for work Christmas drinks on Friday. Not a massive group and just a local pub affair. But ds has tested positive this week. I have no symptoms and am testing on LFT everyday and have been negative so far. Would you still go if negative or is it risky? The last thing I would want to do is pass anything on to anyone right before Christmas.

If you were negative on Friday would you still go?

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EllieSattler · 08/12/2021 20:47

No.

starrynight19 · 08/12/2021 20:48

I would still go. Dd just had covid and no one else in the house caught it. We just tested frequently.
If your negative Friday then I would go.

521Jeanie · 08/12/2021 20:48

No, I wouldn't. You might well pass something on to your colleagues which would leave them isolating for Xmas.

2toastornot2toast · 08/12/2021 20:55

No I wouldnt go either

Undisclosedlocation · 08/12/2021 20:55

Well if as you say, your worse case scenario would be giving the virus to somebody, then going out socially has to be a no really, doesn’t it?

Hibiscusroses · 08/12/2021 20:56

I wouldn't go. It's not fair on your colleagues.

MRex · 08/12/2021 20:59

No. Worst case is an incredibly high risk that you infect someone just before they see (and infect) vulnerable relatives. If my colleague did this then I'd question if it was their judgement or their morality that was faulty.

prynaithda21 · 08/12/2021 21:00

I would not go. I would not have agreed to go in the first place anyway, though.

TulipsGarden · 08/12/2021 21:01

I wouldn't want to go if I knew your son was positive, so no, I don't think you should go.

I'm currently debating going to my work Christmas lunch next week and the thought that someone could have a child or partner with Covid at home and not tell anyone is making me think I'll skip it.

itsgettingwierd · 08/12/2021 21:03

Once in a while I would have said no.

However I had covid last March, am triple jabbed and work in a school. I've come across many cases I've been contact with. I've always tested negative on LFT for the entire 10 days and not knowingly been an asymptomatic spreader - not caught it (touch wood!)

So I'm a lot more relaxed nowadays about the idea people have built up more natural immunity and a negative test is fine.

KitKat1985 · 08/12/2021 21:03

I'm in the same boat as both kids confirmed covid positive this week, although me and DH both negative. Christmas party is due to be this coming Friday and even though I'll lose the deposit I'm not going, nor going out at all until the kids are out of isolation. Last thing I need is to risk spreading covid to half my work colleagues (who are all NHS / social care staff and needed in work), and I suspect in all honesty given the circumstances I'm sure that they would rather I didn't go either. No one is going to want me to risk ruining their Christmas with their families for the sake of a work social.

MangoM · 08/12/2021 21:04

I wouldn't go. And I wouldn't want to join a work Christmas lunch if I knew anyone was attending with covid in their household.

If you do decide to go you should make sure your colleagues are aware so they can make their own risk assessment.

BananaPant · 08/12/2021 21:07

Nah I wouldn't

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matildathebookworm · 08/12/2021 21:14

I have made them all aware and asked them to be honest if they'd rather I didn't go. Nobody has said that but they might just be being polite.

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ISeeTheLight · 08/12/2021 21:16

Absolutely not. I would be self isolating if someone in my household tested positive.

itsgettingwierd · 08/12/2021 21:16

I doubt they're being polite.

It's a pub. If I choose to go to a pub I know it's not just the people I'm with that pose a risk to me. In fact - if I knew they were testing regularly I'd feel more relaxed around them than people I didn't know who could all have close family members who are positive and not be testing.

Anyone who chooses to go to a pub is taking a calculated risk.

scandikate · 08/12/2021 21:17

No I wouldn't, I would feel so guilty if I passed it on.

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matildathebookworm · 08/12/2021 21:18

@ISeeTheLight those aren't the rules though. I have still been going to the supermarket and other places because (for now at least) I am testing negative.

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ISeeTheLight · 08/12/2021 21:30

@matildathebookworm I never said those are the rules. I said what I'd do. I want to reduce risk of passing on covid when I'm a known close contact, negative test or not.

fluffi · 09/12/2021 00:13

You are definitely risking passing onto colleagues, especially if you are only doing LFTs rather than a PCR. I wouldn't go and risk being the "super spreader" at a work event and to anyone else at the pub that evening.

CloudyStorms · 09/12/2021 06:31

Don't go. You could wipe out your whole team.

KatherineJaneway · 09/12/2021 06:32

No, I wouldn't go

rrhuth · 09/12/2021 06:35

No, I would isolate personally

HailAdrian · 09/12/2021 06:38

No, if anyone there caught Covid, they'd assume I'd given them it and I couldn't be arsed with that. I would not be self isolating though, like pp.

DSGR · 09/12/2021 06:41

You don’t need to self isolate and you don’t need to be doing PCRs.
I’m on the fence, if you’re vaccinated you may well never catch it, however you really don’t want to risk making people sick so close to Xmas

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