If I was potentially near someone infected on Friday…..(bear with me!)

[Mykittensmittens]

i’m having a shit time. I’m not posting a full war and peace on it as I’ve other threads at the minute in legal matters and Covid. In brief we’ve got a major holiday (flying early hours Monday) which has been planned and postponed 3 if not 4 times and booked since 2019. This is us, DM and her partner.

in the last 7 days, despite us all making a deal to cut back on contact with others to try and remove any risk before going, my Mums partner has tested positive and been hospitalised, we’ve had a next of kin bereavement which I’m dealing with, and to top it all someone I was sitting next to for an hour on Friday (to do with the bereavement) has now tested positive.

it’s now Tuesday and I am negative.

Is it foolish to think given the likelihood is it’s omnicron, and I’m negative with no symptoms (I do have hayfever so potentially some may be hard to distinguish) and Friday was 4/5 days ago, if I still test neg tomorrow the likelihood is relatively small?

I am so stressed and have just about had enough! Once in a lifetime holidays are meant to be looked forward to. Once we get back I really won’t care.

It's impossible to say. The incubation period is 2-14 days so you could still be brewing it. That said, when I had Covid, I was in a car with the whole family for an hour, just a few hours before I suddenly felt unwell and tested positive. They didn't catch it.

In honesty, and I'm really sorry, given the tough situation you are currently in, I'd say you are not out of the woods yet. I would say the next couple of days will be when you'd most likely test positive, if you are going to.

Thanks @mrsfoof - my whole family have had it except me, twice and all on individually occasions, so I’ve effectively dodged it 6 times at close quarters.

I just feel like my luck is bound to run out eventually.

We’re in a similar position. Flying Sunday afternoon and on Friday dd’s secondary school decided it would be a brilliant idea to have a whole school assembly. (So 1000 kids in a hall designed for 200.)

Dh and I are both working from home and the poor kids are being kept isolated.

In the middle of a test for her now and it is so far showing negative.

Dh is annoyed with me because he thinks I’m wasting tests. I’m annoyed with him because I feel better after getting negative tests and it is useful to know if it is in the household at all. (It is only Dd who needs a negative test - the rest of us can skip along to the airport coughing our guts up and no one cares!)

It was 4 days here between DD testing positive and me testing positive. I would have only got it from her as I hadn’t been anywhere else. She tested positive on Weds. i started with symptoms om saturday and tested positive sunday morning. So 4 days incubation max. I know this is only one case but most people

I know catch this variant quickly - so hopefully if you’re still negative now and over the next day or two you will be ok.

DH didn’t isolate from DD and he didn’t catch it (has also never had it) - so definitely not a given that you will catch it OP

I was recently spent the day with DS including travelling in a car with him, the next day he tested positive and two weeks on I am negative with no symptoms. I will keep everything crossed for you.

Thanks all. I really am normally very emotionally tough, but this last 7 days is one thing after another. I feel doomed! Not to mention coping with a bereavement and doing everything to arrange the funeral so the holiday could still go ahead.

I was in the same room as him for an hour, and next to him on a sofa signing some papers for probably 10 mins. The window was open behind me.

For all I know he could have caught it at the next person he went to see and could have been clear at the time, but no one can know that.

what I do know is that I will be thinking very carefully about going abroad next year - all this worry, and then airport hassles too, for a shit ton of money - really not sure it’s worth it.

You just don’t know.

my son never caught it from me, despite being attached at the hip.
my parents never caught it from him, when he got it 6months later, they looked after him for a weekend.
and no-one got it from my parents despite spending an entire day at a funeral, in cars, hugging etc.

It’s weird at the moment. I’ve worked with small kids throughout and not caught it, nor has dd. She finally succumbed last month, we both had mild head cold symptoms that tested positive and we both had negative tests again in less than 48 hours.

I'm in a similar situation minus the holiday. My collague tested positive on fri. She was in my office all week we word opposite each other but 2 m apart. Window open & air filter thing on. I did stand next to her too for a while. I haven't tested positive. I was sure i would but have dodged it many times..windering if I've avoided or if i could still get it. Hope u will be ok for your holiday.

One of my adult DC tested positive for covid a fortnight ago, the day after spending an evening with the rest of the family but nobody in the rest of the family got it.

I'm optimistic for you.

All of us had it recently. Two days it took for all of us to have positive LFTs. So I'm optimistic for you

It took a week between my positive and my dh showing positive. I don't know which day I infected him though, it may not have been day one in which case the incubation period would be less.

Do you need a negative test to travel?

if not I wouldn’t be arsed

even if you get covid you may get it mild so just don’t test

only test if you’re prepared to act in it or there’s no point

you are not actually advised to test anymore - even if symptoms so just go about your daily business and don’t let it spoil your holidwy

the only person who can impact your holiday is you

Do you need to test to fly? If not just keep your finger crossed and don't test unless you get proper symptoms

How are you doing @Mykittensmittens

Dd is still negative so looking good!

Morning! Thanks for asking @Mumoftwoinprimary . Clear and feeling okay. I know it’s fine to fly anyway these days but my mora compass wouldn’t allow me to do that plus I didn’t know how sick I’d feel, so dodging it again is the best outcome.

Although I’ve decided to wear a mask on the flight and in the airport, on the outbound leg anyway. I don’t want to get ill while I’m there. On the way back I’m past being as concerned to be fair.

My mums OH who was hospitalised with a mild case of Covid pneumonia 10 days ago is now clear and fit to fly too which is great news.

Glad to hear you’re ok OP.

wearing masks on the plane - that’ll be dependant on the rules about public transport of the country you’re visiting.

My friend is just back from a holiday in portugal with friends (celebrating their retirement). Of the group of 4, 3 started feeling unwell a few days into the trip and tested positive, all fully vaccinated so no serious illness, but felt crap for most of the holiday, friend lost 10lbs! Thankfully they were in a selfcatering villa so were more comfortable than they would have been in an apartment/shared facilities and with one person ok they could go out for food etc. They think they caught it on plane on way over.

The 4th tested positive the day before they came back and travelled as no restrictions/testing required. All 4 sat together on the plane on the way back with masks on coughing away, said they were the only ones with masks on and flight staff made no comments.

You seem to have been encouraging everyone to ignore covid, tests, symptoms and travel anyway for at least a year. Quite obsessed really. Any particular reason.?