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Going out with covid is it ok? Or aibu?

168 replies

boredoffmatleave · 19/03/2022 09:29

I'm 37 weeks pregnant and tested positive yesterday I seem to managing ok with just rotating paracetamol. I need to pick DD up from her nans she's been there since Monday as she went to their holiday home in Wales with them.

DS is bored and wants to get out in the sun and I have a lot of things to get done OH does everything half arsed so I would rather just crack on with it myself instead of just lying in bed.

Is it ok do we think to just carry on or a big no no? Of course I don't want to make people sick.

I know we don't need to self isolate anymore but it still feels a bit odd not doing so.

OP posts:
BeanStew22 · 19/03/2022 11:28

**You’re not going to pass it to someone in a supermarket.

I think it’s very likely you WOULD pass it on in a supermarket actually. Week 3 of Covid here … only place I’ve been that I could have caught it was a cafe (similar to subway) which has screens for staff (who wore masks anyway) I was 2m from the 2 other customers and there for about 20 mins

WFH, no kids etc, wear an N95 mask when shopping etc

So this BA2 is much more infectious as we know, and I suspect transmits with v minimal contact

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Gingercatlover · 19/03/2022 11:36

Just because it's no longer a legal requirement doesn't mean you just carry on as normal just yet.

Government advice is to isolate until day five and then two negative tests and you're good to go or until day ten if still positive.

Wouldn't wish it on anyone after being down for the last couple of weeks.

liveforsummer · 19/03/2022 11:40

Of you don't want to make anyone sick then you need to think carefully about where you go. Pick up your dd in the car at the door and don't get out - fine. Going to the shops - not fine. Taking ds for a run about somewhere deserted - fine. Taking him to a busy public park - not fine!

TheSnowyOwl · 19/03/2022 11:42

Is it ok do we think to just carry on or a big no no? Of course I don't want to make people sick.

If you just carry on then you almost certainly will make people sick. Even if the person who catches it from you isn’t sick, they could in turn pass it on to someone else as a direct result of you carrying on as normal.

Is what you want to do important enough to risk killing people for it?

Chloemol · 19/03/2022 11:45

And this is why cases are massively rising again

Stay at home, or do you want to take the chance of passing it onto your parents, or others you may meet

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boredoffmatleave · 19/03/2022 11:48

OH has gone to get DD with DS and is picking the click and collect up later.

However it makes me wonder I get sick quite a lot due to my blood disorder my immune system is extremely weak. I'm normally wiped out from a common cold. I honestly thought if I ever caught covid that would be the end of me. But I feel fine to be honest apart from the constant headaches.

Do we really need to be self isolating over something that is so mild?

OP posts:
Babyvenusplant · 19/03/2022 11:48

And this is exactly why the numbers are high

TheSnowyOwl · 19/03/2022 11:52

You might be finding it mild but it’s an unpredictable illness that isn’t mild for everyone.

I do a lot of work with Sands and many women have experienced stillbirths and neonatal deaths because of covid. Directly because of covid. You’re lucky it’s mild for you and your baby is presumably still well. It’s not mild for everyone. It kills. Don’t be so selfish.

PuppyMonkey · 19/03/2022 11:53

Could your DP consider not sitting for hours at mum’s just in case he passes this on to her?

He could, I don’t know, get your DD and then come home and look after you/the kids. Sort the shopping delivery. Cook beans on toast for tea. Try really hard not to be useless.

blinder · 19/03/2022 11:53

Do we really need to be self isolating over something that is so mild?

I had this three weeks ago and it was horrible. I’m only just recovering. My DH caught it and thought he would be fine, until Day 3, when he started getting all the same symptoms as me.

If it stays mild for you, you’re lucky. I hope that’s the case because I would have not been able to manage childbirth alone when I had it, and wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Don’t mistake your own experience for everyone’s!

liveforsummer · 19/03/2022 11:58

However it makes me wonder I get sick quite a lot due to my blood disorder my immune system is extremely weak. I'm normally wiped out from a common cold. I honestly thought if I ever caught covid that would be the end of me. But I feel fine to be honest apart from the constant headaches.

Well you've only had it for a day so it's a bit soon to say. For me the first 2 days were the worst but for many they become I'll later in to the infection. Hopefully it's not the case for you, especially as you're pregnant bit it's possible there's worse to come

NippyWoowoo · 19/03/2022 12:02

If OH was good on his own i wouldn't care but he's useless, he will go to his mums now to get DD and will sit there for hours not thinking about doing a food shop before he comes back.

I assume you knew this before child number 2 came to be? 🙄

bilbodog · 19/03/2022 12:03

Because ITS NOT ALWAYS MILD FOR EVERYONE! Why is this so difficult to understand?

Porcupineintherough · 19/03/2022 12:03

Do we really need to be self isolating over something that is so mild?

Chicken pox is mild for many but we don't take our kids out socialising when they're infectious with it.

Luredbyapomegranate · 19/03/2022 12:05

Go for a walk of course. But no, don’t be a knob and start spreading it around.

RocketFire7 · 19/03/2022 12:07

I do think a lot of the responses here are ludicrous. When testing is rightly withdrawn (can’t come soon enough), people won’t be isolating at all.

We’re now in a position where covid carried the same risk of death as flu due to the huge success of the vaccine programme. We cannot continue to have people under house arrest who are not ill.

Walton45123 · 19/03/2022 12:07

You know what OP, if you feel ok I’d go out. I wouldn’t go around coughing over people but soon people won’t even know if they’ve got it or not.

Walton45123 · 19/03/2022 12:09

@TheSnowyOwl that’s very sad, but there are vaccines available that pregnant women are encouraged to take. We can’t all go under house arrest when we have what is basically a mild virus to protect people who are vulnerable. We don’t for other viruses. The flu kills far more people. Who is to say I don’t have a flu virus right now, am not really aware of it, and pass it on to somebody who is vulnerable?

ElectricFlower · 19/03/2022 12:10

Park yes, walks yes.
Shops no. Soft play no. Visiting friends without telling them beforehand that you’ve got it, no.
To be honest as you’re pregnant and covid can cause complications, I would be testing and doing everything I possibly could to stay as healthy as possible and let my body fight it. If that includes no stress by taking the kids to the park then go. But don’t sit on a bench next to another pregnant person and if anyone comes to sit by you tell them not to.
Deal with your DH when you’re well and can decide to make changes. Tell him he’s going shopping

ElectricFlower · 19/03/2022 12:13

[quote Walton45123]@TheSnowyOwl that’s very sad, but there are vaccines available that pregnant women are encouraged to take. We can’t all go under house arrest when we have what is basically a mild virus to protect people who are vulnerable. We don’t for other viruses. The flu kills far more people. Who is to say I don’t have a flu virus right now, am not really aware of it, and pass it on to somebody who is vulnerable?[/quote]
Er yes, we’re told to not go out or send the kids to school for 48hours when we have stomach bugs, we’re supposed to wait 48hours after last shit or vomit. Same with chicken pox, keep the kids off school and nursery and if you’ve got flu you’re too sick to go out anyway.
Hopefully now attitudes will change more in keeping with Asia. So if you’re I’ll with a cold you work from home if feeling well. If ill then you’re in bed. You don’t go into work when ill.
Unless you work for a shit company like Amazon that won’t pay you, but then that’s the company not the person

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 19/03/2022 12:16

Both my kids have it and are fine so we are going out and about outside and to quiet places for the day. I’m not keeping them inside unnecessarily but kept them off school and won’t go inside anywhere.

Feenie · 19/03/2022 12:17

You’re not going to pass it to someone in a supermarket.

Why do people just make shit up and then casually type it into a thread? Look it up - of course you can!

BeanStew22 · 19/03/2022 12:19

@boredoffmatleave

OH has gone to get DD with DS and is picking the click and collect up later.

However it makes me wonder I get sick quite a lot due to my blood disorder my immune system is extremely weak. I'm normally wiped out from a common cold. I honestly thought if I ever caught covid that would be the end of me. But I feel fine to be honest apart from the constant headaches.

Do we really need to be self isolating over something that is so mild?

I think you will find over the next few days it’s ‘not so mild’. Plenty of people are able to crack on the first few days- it hits you later

I hope you will isolate to avoid passing it on: especially being pregnant risking serious illness for you or your unborn child is foolish

AlexaShutUp · 19/03/2022 12:24

Do we really need to be self isolating over something that is so mild?

Have you missed the fact that rather a lot of people have died, OP?

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