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Would you go out now if positive?

70 replies

MrsVillanelle · 22/04/2022 13:00

Hi,

Just that really. Fully jabbed. Been very lucky and swerved it so far, but came back from holiday last week and within a day or two felt a little rough, then developed a cough and cold, so did a test and got a very positive result.

I've been in all week, but I know by law I don't need to be. Still testing positive, but honestly, I don't know if I need to stay in anymore.

Would you?

OP posts:
toomuchlaundry · 22/04/2022 14:20

What about the 48 hours after D&V would you go to work then @Waxonwaxoff0, if you felt better?

Waxonwaxoff0 · 22/04/2022 14:22

toomuchlaundry · 22/04/2022 14:20

What about the 48 hours after D&V would you go to work then @Waxonwaxoff0, if you felt better?

I don't know quite honestly. Depends if I got paid or not. It's never been an issue as I can't remember the last time I had D&V, I very very rarely get ill and when I do it's a cold type virus. I must have a stomach of steel!

Mischance · 22/04/2022 14:23

I do not think there is any point in people testing if they are not going to do anything in response to the result. In this circumstance I would stay in until I was negative; otherwise what's the point?

I am awaiting surgery, which will be postponed if I get covid - people like me and others who are vulnerable rely on others to do the decent thing. I know it must be frustrating but I think you should sit tight till you are negative. Hope you are feeling OK.

Feelingoktoday · 22/04/2022 14:23

I wouldn’t test so would not know. If I felt ill then I would stay in like o would if I had the flu.

I think if you test then you should follow the guidance.

OctopusSay · 22/04/2022 14:25

I thought I was all over testing and would just carry on as normal, going about my business if I was well enough to do so.

However, I've been quite poorly the last couple of days. Hopefully well enough to go to a long planned event tomorrow. I'd be gutted to miss it, but friend I'm going with cares for elderly MIL and his own mother is in hospital. I can't not test.

Pootle40 · 22/04/2022 15:47

Alwayspaintyournails · 22/04/2022 14:19

I would still isolate, I think it’s so selfish to spread anything about unnecessarily.

You win Bingo!

BogRollBOGOF · 22/04/2022 15:58

When DS had it in March we went out walking and cycling to burn off his energy. No risk outside in quiet spaces.

Generally if I have a cold, it's business as usual if it's a bit sniffly. A moderate cold would make me tired enough to drop non-essential activities. Colds have always had the potential to make vulnerable or unlucky people unpleasantly ill and it wasn't something that caused much hand wringing before 2020. People often have plenty of opportinity to unwittingly spread any illness without realising, and even with covid testing, it's clearly not contained by a test and isolate strategy. Society can't sustain large numbers routinely being out of circulation for mild illness, and people who are actually ill will change their activity accordingly.

HardyBuckette · 22/04/2022 16:01

What do you mean by out? I'd swerve crowded indoor places if I could, but fresh air and exercise is beneficial and there's no reason at all not to go anywhere outside. When I had covid I was quite rough until after the isolation period, so it was moot, but if I'd felt well enough to go for walks I would've done.

Incapacitated · 22/04/2022 18:34

You win Bingo

Is there a prize for most puerile comment? Is that what you're aiming for?

Organictangerine · 22/04/2022 18:38

I’m day 7, been out today as needed to buy nappies and sanitary towels - totally out of both. I intend to go about my business this weekend as usual, I think 7 days stuck at home is enough.

umpkj · 22/04/2022 20:17

I had snotty nose and coldy head for some days (no fever, cough or sore throat). All tests negative. I continued as normal but didn't meet my unvaccinated friend.
I will test as long as I have tests left and stay home if positive but after that I only buy test if I have high fever.

Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure · 22/04/2022 23:01

I’ve stopped testing, and I don’t intend to for the foreseeable future. We need to get on with it now, it’s been 2 years. The symptoms are mild at best, if I can work I will, if I don’t go to work I don’t get paid.... problem is too many people are judgemental on the whole covid situation. We’ve done the protect people bit, now you gotta do what’s best for you.

WindyKnickers · 23/04/2022 07:43

I had covid recently. My work asked me to stay home (I can wfh a bit anyway and I still got paid) and I kept DS off school because he was also positive but he's 6, I'm not going to keep him locked up all day if I don't have to. We went out every day to the fields and woods for a few hours so he could do normal 6 year old stuff and I still had to drive DD to school so yes I popped into the supermarket with my mask on a few times. But I didn't go to the pub or on a bus or anything like that. There is a middle ground, some people seem particularly bad at finding a sensible balance.

WeOnlyTalkAboutBruno · 23/04/2022 08:05

I would if I knew I was positive. But tbh I wouldn’t test for it now.

WeOnlyTalkAboutBruno · 23/04/2022 08:06

I would stay indoors if I knew I was positive, that should say.

MrsSkylerWhite · 23/04/2022 08:07

No, I wouldn’t go out.

strrawberriesandcream · 23/04/2022 08:17

I wouldn't know because I have no LFT and certainly won't be paying for them everytime I have a potential symptom of covid.

If I feel unwell enough to stay at home I will because that's what everyone does if they are genuinely unwell that they can't face going out.

I won't be staying at home for a slight cough, sniffle or runny nose.

I would stay at home for things like D&V and a genuine flu/virus that floors me.

The law doesn't enforce isolation any more, they have taken away free LFT and many workplaces are now expecting covid positive people to work if they are feeling well, so why would anybody in their right mind stay holed up in their house if they are otherwise well.

thebeespyjamas · 23/04/2022 09:58

MrsVillanelle · 22/04/2022 13:11

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow I know! But we're not required to isolate by law at all now are we?

Where you only isolating on orders? Or did you believe it was morally right to do so?

XVGN · 23/04/2022 10:00

If you don't test then you don't know. Simple really.

ilovemyelectriccar · 23/04/2022 10:06

Had Covid a few weeks ago. Went out for a walk in the fields around home. Outside, didn't go near anyone.
Did NOT go anywhere where I would be either inside or in contact with anyone else. Missed the choir event which I'd spent the last couple of months working my socks off to help set up. Swore.
Common sense really.

Northernsoullover · 23/04/2022 10:07

No I wouldn't go out. It IS selfish. If you don't get paid sick I can see the dilemma. However, assuming you aren't self employed you should tell your employer who can then make arrangements to keep you as far away from others as possible and tell your colleagues.
The figures for covid (officially) are low but the number of people in ventilated beds with covid in my country are the highest they have been all autumn and winter.
I should add that I don't see anything wrong with someone going for a solo walk.

thebeespyjamas · 23/04/2022 10:11

Everyone who wants to be jabbed has been jabbed. It's been two years. I know many people who are classed as clinically vulnerable, cancer, bowel cancer, those who are literally clinically close to death, officially, they have also been jabbed.

There is no group who "cannot be jabbed and so we need to be jabbed for them". I haven't been jabbed and never will, my child hasn't been jabbed and never will - this also applies to lots of people I know and have mingled with for two whole years.

If you choose at this point to walk on eggshells it's based on literally nothing.

Think about this; when will you stop all this? What will have to happen before you stop all this?

NoodletheSchnoodle · 23/04/2022 10:31

I'm currently positive (or was on Tuesday when I last did a test) and I have only left the house since then to drop DS at school and pick him up as had no other option for him to get to school. He usually goes to a childminder after school but as I was at home anyway it made sense for me to fetch him rather than send him to the CM and me collect from there. Too risky for her business IMO (even though her whole family have had it)

I caught it from DS who caught it from DH so it's been through the whole house.
Have WFH even though that's been a massive stretch on my team as I was already covering someone else's annual leave and the majority of my job can't be done remotely, but that's what my company wanted me to do. I have felt well enough to be in work.
I have considered going to a supermarket a couple of times but haven't. I did go into the post office however, wearing a mask obviously.
My 5 days is up on Sunday so I will be back in the office on Monday as agreed with my manager (who is the Health & Safety manager for the company) regardless of if my tests are still showing positive.
We have family staying with us this evening overnight which I left to them if they still felt comfortable but I'll be distancing myself from them as much as poss - no hugging/windows open etc. They have both recently had it too so don't think they're too worried about catching it again.

Having said all of that I would go out to a shop or somewhere if I really needed/wanted to. Would keep my distance and wear a mask, I just felt a bit guilty that there was nothing I desperately needed that much.

Topseyt123 · 23/04/2022 11:05

I currently have Covid. I'm on either day 3 or 4.

For me it has been uncomfortable, and like a very heavy, streaming head cold with a very sore throat. Some of that is a improved somewhat this morning so I am keeping my fingers crossed that the worst is over.

I will go for the occasional walk or for fresh air (live quite rurally, so often see virtually nobody). I won't go to crowded indoor places like supermarkets just yet. I don't feel like it anyway.

Cryingintherain99 · 23/04/2022 11:15

I currently have a secondary lung infection (Day 15 after testing positive).
I haven't left the house for the past two weeks.
Aside from the fact I still don't have the energy to walk down the road, and can't walk more than a few steps without gasping for breath/ coughing until I choke, after my experience of covid, I wouldn't want to risk anyone else being effected like I have/ still am.

The person who gave it to me didn't warn me that they had symptoms before it was too late. Their attitude was "We've just got to live with it now. Can't be bothered with testing".

The past two weeks have been a real eye opener for me.
I honestly never been so scared, and being fully vaccinated I didn't expect it to effect me like this.

i'll continue to be cautious even now I have had it (if not more so) as I would hate to think I was passing it on to someone who may not be as lucky as I have been.