Covid

[MissTerious]

If you were with a small group of people last Thursday evening and two of them have now tested positive should you take a test now or wait and see if you have symptoms. It was a meeting in a church for couple of hours. It wasn't me! But I have had close contact with the person. Should this person concerned self isolate. I ask for safety reasons not for rules!! I dont think there are any now or are there?

[bobbinwales]

And newjudge my employer give me the tests... maybe you should write to the CBI

[Peter Pedant]

I wd wait until you get ill to be honest
I mean you are almost there ( inc period 4-7 d can be 14d)

[New Judge]

//NewJudge clearly thinks we're all dumb//

No I don’t bob. I’m just trying to understand your reasoning. If you don’t want to engage in sensible discussion, that’s fine. I know why you were testing earlier and I know about your employer providing testing kits. But that was a very different time.

If you do contract the virus, by the time you suspect you have it you will have been in contact with many other people for quite some time. It must be obvious by now that nothing will prevent the virus spreading. That was quite clear from day one (no other airborne respiratory virus has been successfully contained and there was no reason to believe this one would be any different). To the overwhelming majority of people, including the elderly, providing they are fully vaccinated, the virus no longer presents a serious threat to their health. I believe there is simply no point in testing and no point in taking any isolation measures bar the normal courtesies you would demonstrate if you had a cold or ‘flu. Please convince me otherwise.