Visiting friends with Covid - would you cancel?

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I’m nearly 14 weeks and supposed to be visiting friends over the Easter weekend. One has tested positive for covid after an event on Saturday. His partner is currently testing negative.

They’ve offered to test on Easter Sunday, when I’m due to visit, but I’m feeling quite cautious about visiting even if they have negative tests.

Not sure if I’m being overly worried though (have had previous mc and I’m quite anxious anyway). I’d be really disappointed not to go, as would they, but is it worth the risk?

Who wants to get ill if you don't need to?

Yes I'd cancel.

It would be a no from me unfortunately!

Yes I would cancel regardless of your pregnancy (congratulations!) I agree with pp, it’s not worth potentially getting I’ll for no reason. Can you just arrange for another time?

I won't organise my life around Covid if I don't have to. You are pg but They are testing negative. So I'd go. I'm a risk taker, though, and sense OP isn't.

Id cancel, especially being pregnant, you've enough on your plate besides the hassle of catching covid

@lljkk No, one of them has tested positive.

OP, I would reschedule. If one of them is positive now, they are likely to be contagious on Sunday. Going when you know there is a risk that you may catch it seems silly.

Congratulations on your pregnancy OP!

I wouldn't go. There's obviously a chance of you catching it everytime you interact with others but to go knowing that they've recently tested positive is a much higher risk.

Pregnancy is already working your body harder than normal so I wouldn't fancy catching covid on top of that, especially for the sake of something that can be rearranged.

Whilst it's possible you could come across covid in your day to day life, I wouldn't meet someone who knew they had it until either they'd tested negative days 5/6 or had reached day 10 if not testing.

If the event was last Saturday, then they're unlike to have tested positive before Tues, which means Sunday is day 5. Which would be too close for me unless it was an outdoors eventnat which it was possible to distance (and ideally they also wear masks to reduce the amount of their exhalations floating around)

@lljkk

I won't organise my life around Covid if I don't have to. You are pg but They are testing negative. So I'd go. I'm a risk taker, though, and sense OP isn't.

One is currently positive. One is currently negative.

I wouldn't knowingly go to stay somewhere where I knew someone was definitely positive. Likewise I wouldn't knowingly go and stay with someone who I knew definitely had any other contagious virus or illness.

I’d postpone. You won’t feel comfortable so go another day instead.

Thank you all so so much. I have a horrible habit of prioritising other people over me and having to put myself first a bit more now is really testing that urge!

But your responses have really reassured me that it’s not an overreaction to cancel, even if it does mean disappointing them.

Nope I wouldn't go and I'm very much of the 'need to get on with it' now frame of mind. I know it's everywhere but I wouldn't knowingly spend time with someone testing positive.

I'm not pregnant and I wouldn't visit anyone who currently has Covid. Why deliberately visit someone you know has a very contagious illness? I wouldn't visit them if they had a sickness bug either because I wouldn't want to catch it.

Yes I would cancel. Why catch something if you can avoid it? I would do the same for flu/bad cold/norovirus/chicken pox/other.

No, especially not with what covid can do to a pregnancy.
If you really want to see them then meet them outside? But then no nipping in for the toilet/hugging hello etc