Is anyone getting this infection outside in crowded spaces?

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The week before last my boss came down with sinitius. He test he was testing but he tested negative. Sinitius is unusual for him and hay-fever too. He was in work coughing and sick.

Then last week I found a fever and I was sore and sick and I was a covid positive. I knew straight away where my exposure was. It was from my prick of a boss. He could have stayed at home while he was unwell but he couldn't do that.

The week before that he attended an outdoor concert. I don't know what his movements were. If he went on public transport, went to a restaurant, used a portaloo, etc. I expect his exposure came from that concert.

Anyways I have a concert ticket for September. I also have holidays booked for the first week of October. With covid reinfections, I am seriously going to have to reconsider that concert or I may not be able to attend to the holiday away. Does that make sense?

Has anyone here got ill with covid from an outside gig?

I know many people will argue that we need to live our lives and we can't put them on hold. I don't want to get sick for my holidays away in October. This is a rough dose I have.

I have back at work and I am experiencing chest pains now. I do t know if it's stress or covid.

Surely nobody knows exactly where they pick it up? I had it last week for second time and I’ve no idea where I got it on either occasion.
go to the gig. You could get it anywhere. Or not get it!?

Well a fair number of people got it at Glastonbury apparently.

It is everywhere at the moment. Many people are saying it is like bad hayfever (once they have their positive) so maybe all the moans that this was the worse hayfever season for ages has actually been COVID.

It's impossible to know who it's caught from or where. It's just bad luck.

I am 99% sure I got mine at an indoor gig Was getting symptoms 12 hours later but not conclusive symptoms till48 hrs later.

I think an outdoor gig would
Be high risk unless your literally at the back with meters of space between you and the next crowd.

But in all honestly you could miss the gig and get it at the petrol station.

How near to your holiday is the concert? I tend to prioritise my holidays so am wary of what I do now for around two weeks before . There are no guarantees though as you could pick up another infection at work. I have attended an indoor gig recently and not caught anything .

I have covid now and it's a bad dose. I am poorly with it. I know there are reinfections.

The concert isn't until September but that won't be long coming and I don't want to make a last minute decision. The concert and holidays are two weeks apart.

I strongly think my employer got his infection from an outdoor concert. I would have thought outdoors would be low risk.
Now I need to reevaluate my own plans and pick and choose between the concert or holiday.

Is this the first time you've had it?

I had the exact same symptoms as your boss but was consistently negative.

Me.

Rural track, blazing Italian sun burning everything with UV light, me keeping reasonable distance away the whole time (cos I clocked that the little one looked quite pale). Chatted outside for about 10 minutes. 2 adults, one child.

I got a sore throat 48 hours later. Then 2 days after me so did DS & DH.

The only other possible way I could have got it is by DH or DS bringing it to the house, but I lapped them both to the showing symptoms stage.

I’m feeling miserable. They are both well on the mend.

And I was the one ordered to the Pharmacy to take a professionally done test (by my doc). So I’m also the only one with a sore nose. Nothing about this feels fair.

yes loads of us got it at an work event (there was about 800 people in a relatively small but outside space with bars/food stall type thing)

I went to Twickenham for the rugby a couple of weeks ago with ds2. We estimated contact with about 150 000 people throughout the day, including packed standing room only trains with zero ventilation.
We were both fine.
I caught it at work (teacher) from 1 of 2 children who tested positive that week. I then generously passed it on to Dh and ds2.
It's the luck of the draw really. You could choose to limit your activities but there's no guarantee it would work.

Well my DP had what he thinks was hay fever and he had a cough and was always testing negative.
Then me and DS got covid again. I think DP was actually positive it just didn't show.

I am sorry you have it - but the fact is you have no idea where you got it from - and stop blaming your boss he tested he was negative (which is fairly common) and he did what he did.

It is everywhere at the moment - I imagine it will be dropping by September/October.

R0 of the latest variants is looking potentially very high (possibly measles levels):

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/new-covid-variants-ba4-ba5-most-contagious-australia-third-omicron-wave-coronavirus-subvariants-ba-4-5

Which I think is into catching outside territory.

How would you know where you got it from?
And at the end of the day, does it really matter?

My work day is often long and drawn out and it doesn't give any time to do much else outside of work except to go home and go to bed to get some hours of sleep and do it all over again. Taking a 3 or 4 day incubation spell, I was no where aside from work and home. I walk to work and don't use public transport. So that's not a viable option for an exposure. The only sick person I was around was my boss. Within days of him being off form, I was fevering up and becoming ill. My exposure was definitely from him.

Thank you. I can't see much good news on the horizon in relation to covid. I think it's only going to go up and recirculate around and around.
I will pay attention to the news over the news few more weeks and decide closer to the time but likely I probably won't go to the concert.

We went to 2 big 6 nations rugby matches. Twickenham and Dublin, so big crowds, plane etc.

Neither of us or our friends tested positive.

We actually got it from someone at DH work a month later.

I'm not very good at testing myself so always show as negative but recently had what I'm sure was covid. I was ill (temperature, sore throat, chesty cough) and passed the same onto the kids, one of whom did test very positive, twice.

I don't currently work and see barely anybody other than delivery drivers, yet was the first of the household to fall ill. The only place I'd been is to the local high street/shopping center and not for very long, and an outdoor mini golf place. I think whatever strain is currently doing the rounds is pretty easy to catch.

It's lingered too. 2 weeks later I'm still coughing.

me and 2 friends on holiday last month once we returned 1 got covid 2 didn't

me and a friend a month later went to London I got it my friend didn’t.

you really don’t know how or where you going to catch it

why are you thinking about cancelling trips in Sept/Oct if you think your boss has given it you now?

You didn’t “definitely” get it from your boss. Even if you did, (even though he tested negative so he probably just had sinusitis), you have even less certainty where he got it from. His wife? Kids? The tube? That pint he popped for after work?

You so realise that “someone I know may have had covid and may have got it from an outdoor event therefore I should avoid all outdoor events” is the sort of thinking that’ll either drive you insane or send you indoors for the next 4 months.