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Covid Positive Gathering??

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blameitonthecaffeine · 23/12/2021 16:36

1 of my young adult children and 2 of their young adult cousins (3 separate families, the cousins aren't siblings) all have Covid.

They want to get together and have 'Covid Christmas' as they can't come home to the rest of us. They're actually looking forward to it. Now, I don't want them to be alone and I guess it's not much of a risk to anyone but 2 of them will have to break isolation to get to the other one. They're all students in London and live in (long) walking distance of each other. My child and one of the cousins claim they will walk to the other's very early in the morning in a mask and keep distant. About an hour's walk for both of them. There shouldn't be anyone around, I guess, and they will then remain together until their isolation period is over.

I'm broadly in favour and they're over 18 so there's nothing I can do about it but one of my cousins (parent of one of the younger cousins) is very cross and upset with his child for doing it.

I think they're doing it whatever but just wondering if others think covid positive relatives getting together for Christmas is a reasonable stretch of the rules or not?

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BoredZelda · 23/12/2021 18:50

Isn’t this the third thread asking this now?

MaloryPowers · 23/12/2021 18:50

Sounds fair enough. At this point in time Covid is everywhere and it's best to just get on with it. I fear that the depression and anxiety are now endemic as a result of dealing with Covid restrictions and fear propaganda. Good on these young people.

BeLessMe · 23/12/2021 18:51

@Choux

Also they might not all have the same variant. Delta and omicron can infect the same person so despite all being covid positive the delta positive ones could infect the omicron ones and vice versa. This could make them sicker.

www.thehealthsite.com/news/can-you-get-infected-with-both-delta-and-omicron-at-the-same-time-expert-has-the-answer-853355/

^this. But I’m sure plenty of people will be doing it regardless.
Goldentimes · 23/12/2021 18:53

I would do it. Wouldn't even think twice. Bad enough the three of them having Covid and having to isolate... But over Xmas is just awful. Anyone judging them for it needs a head wobble fgs

FabriqueBelgique · 23/12/2021 18:55

They should do whatever they want to, as long as they understand the risks to themselves of becoming more ill, possibly. And of course not walk near anyone in the streets.

ABitOfAShitShow · 23/12/2021 18:58

I would do this. I think it’s a great idea.

If they can walk to a test centre without infecting the world, they can walk from one house to another.

treeflowercat · 23/12/2021 19:05

I wouldn’t. Even if they do travel by walking / alone - if something like a accident happens they’re putting people who then may need to help them at risk

This is an example of where people
have totally lost their minds regarding risk and Covid.

Scenario 1: Go for a walk without Covid and expose yourself to the risk of having an serious accident requiring attention.
Absolutely fine. Wouldn't even think about it!"

Scenario 2: Go for a walk with Covid and expose yourself to the risk of having an serious accident requiring attention. No way! Screw the risk of being seriously injured, that's insignificant... But the risk, when injured, of possibly passing Covid onto to someone, that's way more serious!

treeflowercat · 23/12/2021 19:09

@Choux

We have to move beyond the point where even the tiniest Covid risk is deemed to trump absolutely everything. It's incredibly unhealthy to exist in this state of hyper-health anxiety.

RickyZooom · 23/12/2021 19:13

I wonder what the Rule Police will do when finally, we have no more rules.

I would absolutely do it, good for them. Why wallow at home being miserable?!
There’s probably millions of Covid positive people doing much worse up and down the country right now.

lololololollll · 23/12/2021 19:15

Theyre not gonna give to anyone they walk past, outside in a mask 😂! So it's fine! The miseries expecting young adults to be alone at Xmas are seriously off

MajorCarolDanvers · 23/12/2021 19:19

Sounds like a great plan

WiseUpJanetWeiss · 23/12/2021 19:21

I'm also a rule follower but I'd be fine with this.

The risk to others from the walk is minuscule if they wear masks (preferably FFP2, but any face covering if not), travel at a quiet time, and keep a good distance from other people. Having an accident en route is very unlikely, even less so one that requires attention from anyone else.

There's a theoretical risk of infecting each other with another strain, but given that asymptomatic people infected in different places are mixing all the time it doesn't feel much riskier than any big shared household.

treeflowercat · 23/12/2021 19:26

@Choux

Also they might not all have the same variant. Delta and omicron can infect the same person so despite all being covid positive the delta positive ones could infect the omicron ones and vice versa. This could make them sicker.

www.thehealthsite.com/news/can-you-get-infected-with-both-delta-and-omicron-at-the-same-time-expert-has-the-answer-853355/

This is referring to simultaneous infection, where someone is infected at the same or almost the same time. These people will have become infected many days ago and have passed through the incubation phase. They appear to be very successfully fighting the virus... and any new virus would get swept up in the immune response.
thewhatsit · 23/12/2021 19:29

That’s the kind of Christmas you’d look back really fondly on in the future I think. How nice.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 23/12/2021 19:30

I think it's fine, as long as they genuinely walk both ways, and don't hop on the bus or get a taxi. Or trawl around the shops for supplies.

LoveGoldberg · 23/12/2021 19:31

Why can't they just zoom each other and their families and have a party together when their isolation ends?????

Because that’s shite.

They maybe fit now, but who knows in a couple of days?

They will have two relatives to look after them.

My only concern would be are they fit enough to do an hour walk, they might feel ok now in the house while resting and doing very little but they don’t want to risk making themselves more poorly by doing too much while ill. I would do the same if I was them though.

Whitefire · 23/12/2021 19:33

Aww this reminds me of the time l had mumps and my friend over the road did too, so we played with each other when we were off school.

Of course they should do it too.

MajorCarolDanvers · 23/12/2021 19:34

@Whitefire

Aww this reminds me of the time l had mumps and my friend over the road did too, so we played with each other when we were off school.

Of course they should do it too.

Lol I did that too
TheYearOfSmallThings · 23/12/2021 19:38

Why can't they just zoom each other and their families and have a party together when their isolation ends?????

Yeah, because that is a shitty substitute for actually human company.

Siameasy · 23/12/2021 19:38

Good for them
One day there will no more testing no more isolations and people won’t be able to moralise anymore.
It’s scary how easily people have been terrified into doing things that aren’t even law (I’m talking about daily asymptomatic testing).

SW1amp · 23/12/2021 19:46

If people with different strains mixing together was going to cause some sort of Super Strain, wouldn’t we already be seeing that from house shares, couples both getting ill after separate Christmas parties etc?

It sounds an awful lot like there is no actual risk for an Omicron person and a Delta person mixing but the hypochondriacs of MN have always got to clutch at some straws…

Goldentimes · 23/12/2021 19:48

@lololololollll

Theyre not gonna give to anyone they walk past, outside in a mask 😂! So it's fine! The miseries expecting young adults to be alone at Xmas are seriously off
Yip the young have sacrificed so much already to protect older or the vulnerabile. Near two years people ... Yes we need to be careful and mindful of Covid but we have to stop being so bloody hysterical as in the case of the posters who keep saying but what if they pass variants on, what if they have an accident, what if they pass it on to someone in the street .... What if what if what if ... Not a healthy mindset at all!
Yellowarmy · 23/12/2021 19:54

Good idea to do it. If they hadn't used a lateral flow test, they wouldn't know there was anything wrong.

WaterBottle123 · 23/12/2021 19:55

Good idea, very resourceful

CeeceeBloomingdale · 23/12/2021 20:05

I didn't expect to say this after reading just the thread title but it's not a bad idea at all. In the main low risk and doesn't risk others imo.