'covid fumes'

[SummersBreeze]

I currently have some symptoms and tested positive for covid.

I'm isolating in a room in a large house. Windows are open. Sometimes I put on a mask and dash around the home and go back into my room.

I was due to have some visitors over the weekend and they cancelled. I was chatting on the phone to another person and I updated her on the plans and she said - 'it's just as well they cancelled because now with you having covid, they wouldn't want to be going there with covid in the house'.

I was quite taken aback by this. I am isolating in my room. When I do leave my room, I wear masks and have windows open. I don't go into every room in the house. I am not coughing either. You would swear by her reaction and her words that there's covid fumes all around the home. That I'm going around coughing and sneezing everywhere. I am not.

It would still be safe if the visitors wanted to come. I could continue to stay in my room and we could meet outside at the garden furniture.

Do people still have a fear about covid and fumes all around the place from covid.

I wouldn't knowingly visit a house where someone has covid! I wouldn't expect anyone to come to mine either. I won't be isolating in one room or wearing a mask in the house but even if they did I wouldn't expect anyone to come round!

It's not just covid, I wouldn't want to go if someone had flu either or any virulent illness.

I think the person was right to say it is best that they’ve cancelled. I wouldn’t want to go to someone’s house if they had covid, that’s just common sense.

The current omicron variants are very contagious- much more so than earlier versions so yabu to think the rest of your house is covid free or that having anyone in the house unnecessarily is sensible.

I wouldn't go near anyone with anything infectious if I didn't have to. It's inconvenient being ill, and a pain trying to work when you're feeling crap. It happens, but makes sense to avoid it where you can

DH and I have failed to share it with each other 3x now despite sharing the bed and living normally within the house. We've had it at different times from different sources.

I wouldn't go to a house with someone with Covid if it was avoidable. It's still a PITA with dregs of Covid measures such as guaging how long to keep a low profile or DH's company's household contact WFH policy which bans me from ailing quietly in peace for a few days.
Otherwise it's business as usual on social activity, but knowingly going to close contact without a good reason is something worth swerving.

When you're infectious, you're breathing out virus. You don't have to be coughing and sneezing (understandable misunderstanding though as that was talked about a lot more early on). Exhaled SARS2 also hangs around in rooms you've been in, and if you're not wearing a really good FFP2/FFP3 mask then the mask won't make much difference. So whether you call it 'covid fumes' or just 'airborne virus', it will be all around the home at times (although if you've got the windows open and you only dash out briefly, hopefully it will clear fairly quickly from other rooms).

I don't have a fear of airborne covid so much as a rational desire to avoid it! I wouldn't want to visit either.

Having been flattened for 8 days now by this latest variant I would not willingly go to someone’s house who had Covid.

You sound a bit defensive @SummersBreeze ?

You have no idea how infectious you are currently, or how likely it would be for someone to catch coronavirus by coming in the house.

If someone has a choice (like for a social visit), it makes sense to rearrange to a time when this risk isn't there. Not sure why you'd knowingly do this for something that isn't essential.

It's not fumes though, it's airbourne viral particles.