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Can we go on holiday?

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Quenchs · 21/09/2023 06:57

Our toddler came home from school on Monday with a sickness bug, on Tuesday myself and my husband both started with it. We didn't just have sickness however, but gut wrenching stomach pains, full body aches, stiff necks and my husband had what he described as the worst headache of his life. I googled and found an article about that new covid strain and tested and we all came back positive. We've all stopped being sick, still feel achy and a bit rotten. We're flying abroad on Monday, and despite feeling gross we are worried about spreading it. However apparently we are fit to fly as it will have been 5 days+ since onset so we wouldn't actually have a claim to get our money back. The hope is if we do it's a 10 day holiday and we'll be hopefully fully feeling better for atleast a week of it, but there's a chance we won't and there's the plane. I found they were actually quite dismissive about it and my GP said it's rife at the moment and chances are someone on the plane will have it anyway Confused wwyd?

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Blueey · 21/09/2023 08:53

Handieandie is scaremongering OP. It's not evil to go on holiday.

The heavy handed precautions were needed when the virus was very novel and we didn't know the risks. That simply isn't the case now.

If healthy people were all to structure their lives around potential or metaphorical vulnerable or immune compromised people, no one would be able to do anything. Vulnerable people aren't just vulnerable to covid.

Tambatamba · 21/09/2023 09:09

One thing you have to realise is that if anyone goes on a plane with Covid then people on that plane will catch it because of the recirculated air. Masks won't do a thing. So many people I know have spent their whole holiday sick with Covid because they caught it on the plane. For that reason, I'd probably not go if I tested positive, knowing that I'd be ruining other people's holidays. However, if you were going to lose a lot of money and couldn't claim insurance it's a difficult one I understand.

Tambatamba · 21/09/2023 09:19

If healthy people were all to structure their lives around potential or metaphorical vulnerable or immune compromised people, no one would be able to do anything. Vulnerable people aren't just vulnerable to covid.

Covid is a weird virus that randomly affects people who wouldn't normally be by other viruses. I know previously fit and healthy people (one a 14 year old girl. One a guy in his 40s) now using mobility scooters because of long Covid. The girl had asymptomatic Covid. I also know someone who has heart damage. Covid is weird and sinister.

Hiheyho · 21/09/2023 11:22

Just go, you not gonna kill anyone, people should look after themselves and build up their immune systems not other way around

NotReadyForAutumnYet · 21/09/2023 11:54

This thread is depressing. I feel for you OP trying to do the right thing. Some of the bollocks on here though - especially the ooh doesn't the vaccine stop it spreading, people are just as vulnerable to covid as other stuff, you're not still positive after x days even if lateral flow says otherwise, people should build up own immune system as if covid can't actively screw up immune systems. It is so messed up the situations people are put in.

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Quenchs · 21/09/2023 13:21

Weirdly I feel better this afternoon than I have in days but my throat has started hurting and I've began to cough a bit more. I'm preemptively doing a nasal saline rinse and salt water gargles every few hours.. this has been the weirdest bout of covid!

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Ithh · 21/09/2023 15:43

If you are well then go. The way I feel with it today I couldn’t have gone as feel too Ill but hoping by day 5/6 will feel a lot better and I’m sure you will. If vulnerable people fly, that’s their risk not yours. Testing is a pain but as I deal with very elderly people I have to.

handyandie · 21/09/2023 18:40

@Tambatamba the people on this thread don't think about anyone but themselves though.

handyandie · 21/09/2023 18:42

@Blueey you're aware of the surge in hospital admissions right, that's false news and scare mongering is it? It's so obvious those who haven't experienced loss and have no vulnerable people in their families. One day you'll very much regret living life so selfishly.

Tambatamba · 21/09/2023 19:20

handyandie · 21/09/2023 18:42

@Blueey you're aware of the surge in hospital admissions right, that's false news and scare mongering is it? It's so obvious those who haven't experienced loss and have no vulnerable people in their families. One day you'll very much regret living life so selfishly.

I mostly agree. This survival of the fittest narrative is shitty. A lot of people have health risks they know nothing about.

handyandie · 21/09/2023 19:40

@Tambatamba yep and like you say long Covid is no joke, it has ruined people's lives, people who would have assumed this would have just been a cold for them as they were for and healthy.

PinkRoses1245 · 21/09/2023 19:42

Quenchs · 21/09/2023 07:20

I have to say I was staggered the GP saying there will most likely be others on the flight with it as it's so rife, I didn't expect to hear that from him as it did seem dismissive of the risks. Will do another LFT each day and see where we're at, but my LFTs were positive for around a month when I had it in the first wave?

God you’re naive. No one tests anymore. It’s pointless. If you’re ill, you don’t go. If not, get on with your life

DameWhiskers · 22/09/2023 02:03

Ithh · 21/09/2023 15:43

If you are well then go. The way I feel with it today I couldn’t have gone as feel too Ill but hoping by day 5/6 will feel a lot better and I’m sure you will. If vulnerable people fly, that’s their risk not yours. Testing is a pain but as I deal with very elderly people I have to.

Yes, vulnerable people do fly too. I'm ECV. I have a holiday coming up that'll require an 14-hour flight, followed by another 7-hour flight. I haven't done this for 3 years. I'll be vaccinated, though. Is that okay with everyone here? I fully understand there will likely be people on the place/in the airport that are ill.

Wtfnowseptember · 22/09/2023 03:11

Will do another LFT each day and see where we're at

This is crazy talk, op. Just go.

TrashedSofa · 22/09/2023 08:38

I don't believe anyone who claims they'd cancel the holiday and lose the 4k in this scenario.

Funderthighs · 22/09/2023 08:56

It’s not 2020. Go and gave a lovely time.

JerryLovesMargo · 24/09/2023 12:39

DD is a teacher in a SEND school. She teaches some of the most vulnerable children in our local area.

School covid policy, for staff and children alike, is to go in if you're covid positive and feel well enough. And only three days off if you don't.

The staff at the hospital clinic I visit weekly have been given the same advice.

If I tested positive and was well enough to go on an expensive holiday yes, I absolutely would.

Smoky1107 · 24/09/2023 13:48

I had to fly home from holiday last month with Covid. I likely got it on the plane there, I certainly wasn't staying away longer than I needed too. Go and have a lovely time

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