Have your work colleagues come to work with Covid?

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I wonder if we are supposed to now just get on with things if you are seeing more work colleagues coming in with the virus or are people still staying off?
My employer said to me yesterday that unless I am very poorly they expect me to come in and they will be too.
The problem is that I am a PA to a disabled person (not CEV) and my main duties are driving them to appointments, arts and craft classes and day centres so I’m very close proximity.
I always wear a mask to protect them but they won’t do the same as they hate wearing masks (spoils the make up, apparently!).
How have you dealt with working with someone with it? Do you wear a mask or are you just expecting you’ll either get it off them or hope for the best?

No idea who has it, nobody is testing anymore!

I am still testing as my mum is CEV and I help care for her.
My 16 year old ds tested positive yesterday. School says if he is positive he can’t come in until Thursday and then only if negative.

Well no one I know is bothering to test now. Looking back last week I had a terrible sore throat bit of a cough put it down to a heavy party at the weekend then my family member in wales has just tested + so it was probably covid and I still went to work.

If one of my team members told me now they had covid I would encourage WFH if they were well enough but other than that I expect people are in my office with it and we have removed any social distance and mask requirements now too

So in a nutshell I have pretty much let covid slip off my radar but if I was worried about it I would need to wear a mask every day in the office just incase I suppose

Just to clarify i was with the family member last weekend

We will come in with it and work if we feel well enough

We are retail.... so not just about colleagues bit customers too. They won't give a toss about spreading it to us so it's work as usual

Of course, often unknowingly, and I'd say it's gone on all through the pandemic.

But people are going into the workplace with all sorts of illnesses, because they can't afford not to, OP. I personally know of people who have attended work in the last year with 'flu, pneumonia and sickness bugs, when they're still at the puking-every- couple -of -hours stage. Any of these could be very dangerous to someone with underlying health problems.

The Mumsnet attitude that people don't or won't go to work or public places when they are or could be contagious is very naïve at best.

Our office have asked us to still test before coming into the office (we're hybrid working), and if positive, to only come in when you have 2 consecutive days of negatives (from day 5:/6). Were also wearing masks when walking around the office or in meetings.

I tested positive on Monday, so today is my day 5. Still positive, but feel fine (have just cleaned DS' room top to bottom and hoovered upstairs, plus doing the washing). Morally I don't feel I should be going out and about, although legally obviously I can. I've had a fairly mild cold. In fact I had a cold before Xmas which made me feel much worse. So staying in now feels very frustrating.

But on the bright side, I watched tonnes of telly this week 😂

I work in a school and we are following government guidelines to isolate. Most parents are doing the same but a few have insisted their children come in. We could refuse and send home before but not now. Although we have had poorly positive children in and probably tons of asymptomatic throughout. I've given up worrying now. Just getting on with it.