Who has covid right now?

[JemimaFuddle]

I just tested positive.

Had to cancel meeting with a friend tonight and dscs no longer coming for their planned weekend which is a shame.

Me!!! 😫

Me. I had a sore throat and cough this morning so tested before I planned to go to the gym at lunchtime so I could reassure my PT that I didn't have Covid. But the test was positive grrr.

So now all weekend plans cancelled which means some friends I won't be able to see until next year.

I work from home usually but was away for a few days and flew back overnight on Mon. I suspect I caught it on the plane (guy nearest me was sniffing and coughing) or the train home from the airport.

Me, I'm chronically ill and disabled and terrified. All because a friend visited knowing she had covid.

Sorry to hear this @botheredand.

I hope you can get some treatment if needs be. Good luck.

Im so sorry to hear you are unwell. People can be very selfish and thoughtless. I wish you well.

definitely going around, I know a couple of close relatives that have it right now.

I had it last week, got my negative test on Day 9 (Tuesday just gone.) It's a miserable time of year to be ill, but hoping everyone is feeling better before Christmas gets properly underway.

Also sorry for the pps who know where they picked it up. I found it really difficult to move past the anger for the person I caught it from (stranger sitting very close in a restaurant with an awful hacking cough) and get over the selfishness of people spreading it around, when it often has such far-reaching consequences. It properly played on my mind when I was in bed, feeling at my worst.

Absolutely infuriated me the way people seem to just carry on as if it's a cold now.
I have a friend who works in the NHS. She is a covid denier, even though she worked on the wards during the pandemic. Has always refused to test or get the vaccine.
She's had, what I think, was covid last week....really poorly with it. Refused to test, saying "we don't have to", blamed on a cold and then got the right knock with me because I wouldn't see her.
How she feels and what she does about it is her choice but don't then go shopping/out for lunch infecting everybody else!!! 😡

I think it's more like a bad cold this time so no wonder people not testing as much. I had it last month and for thr first couple of days I honestly thought it was just a bad cold. Then it got much worse.

The number of people who have said, "I didn't know covid is still a thing," really annoys me. This is far worse than any cold I've had. And I am fully vaccinated.

I don't really feel bitterness about getting covid. It's an airbourn virus that can be spread before people display symptoms. I was always going to get it at some point.

I would much rather have it now than over Christmas.

I’m not feeling right at all but we don’t have any tests in the house. Are you all buying them from local shops? I’m going to just keep myself to myself for a few days (not goin on our Christmas do tonight), I work for the NHS and there’s no obligation to test so all being well I’ll feel better before my next day in work.

Indeed. I already have long Covid from the first time I caught it (from a client at work). I've taken over 12 months in sick leave and it's cost me £000s in private medical expenses. Financially it's been devastating for me, especially as I'm the only source of income in my household. And that's before we get into the physical impact it's had (such as damage to my autonomic nervous system).

So people swanning around in public and not testing because "there's no obligation to" make me really angry as they're effectively playing Russian roulette with other people's health. At least have the decency to wear a mask if you have cold symptoms and you're still mixing with people / using public transport etc.

Boxes of tests stacked up on the counter in my local chemists, available off the shelf in Morrisons and Sainsburys (that I've spotted, probably other supermarkets too) and from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flowflex-Antigen-SARS-Covid-19-Rapid-Test/dp/B093KZ8CR2/ref=mpsa12?keywords=flowflex&qid=1701454519&sr=8-2

I'm always intrigued that so many people can pinpoint where they caught it. I travel on public transport every day and go to shops. At the moment on the train there is almost a constant noise of coughing sneezing, sniffing etc and a person at a shop serving me yday had a bad cough. If I get a cold or covid I'd have no idea who to blame!

I'm just coming through it now, day 10.

Still not right and off to bed as soon as possible as I am wiped out.

Whereas I live alone and work from home at present (due to my long Covid recovery) but when working in the office, I walk to and from work. I don't go to shops very often (usually get things delivered) and have my own coffee machine at home so don't even pop out for coffee. So pretty easy for me to pinpoint where I've caught it.

I WFH so it's fairly easy for me to narrow it down
I've had it once and caught it at the family Christmas Day meal. That's the only time I had been out that week
Went for the meal, tested positive 28th Dec

I had one left over from when they were free so used that.

I know what you mean. I can imagine that a lot of people are actually wrong about where they thought they got it but there's no way of knowing. Especially if they have small children in school at an age where they are often asymptomatic.

I think I probably picked it up at an event I was at at the weekend but I could have got it from public transport, trips to shops, dscs, the office when I went in etc. There's no way for me to know for certain.

I had it about a month ago took another 3 weeks to feel better .

i used to have a job Covid testing . Some people who were positive no surprise at all others was a complete shock - no obvious symptoms at all .

I knew where I had caught it as it was so obvious! Restaurant where the tables were really close together (like only a few inches gap) and a couple came to sit next to us when we'd just ordered. He was coughing really hard every few minutes and obviously not well and every time he coughed he turned towards us, to spare his partner across the table.

I thought he must know for sure it wasn't covid as he was so blatant about it. We ate as quickly as we could, didn't have dessert and got out of there, but that was Friday evening and I started symptoms on Monday.

I have covid at the moment. I have absolutely no idea how I caught it, nor would I preoccupy myself with that particular how/why!
I've stayed home mainly because I've felt too ill to go out. Thankfully I'm feeling over the worst today - still, I'll stay home over the weekend, purely because I don't want to risk catching one of countless other viruses (when I'm still recovering from this one!).
AFAIC our primary responsibility is to ourselves and our own (thus I have no issue whatsoever with others exercising their right to choose - ie those who've taken on the public health advice that testing for covid isn't necessary, and/or choose to go out as their own circumstances require).
There's never been (and there never will be!) an occasion in my 40+ years whereupon I've sat and angrily stewed over what random stranger may have been responsible for blighting me with one of dozens of possible ailments!

Not me but a couple of friends and loads of people from work.

Quite possibly but I haven't tested because there is no point. I've been in work all week because I don't get paid if I don't go in, I've been feeling ropey for 2 weeks and it's just not possible to take that much time off without consequences, financially and I need to keep my job.

My kids are still going to school, my husband is still going to work because life has to go on.

So many people around me are the same, they've had what I've got and are still coming to work because they have to. Maybe one of them gave it to me and I'll have given it to others but what choice is there? The is real life, we can't just opt out because we are a bit ill, especially not for 2 weeks!

I would love to hibernate at home fully paid whilst someone else deals with the kids!