Just Back From Our Holiday And Have Now Tested Positive For Covid!

[Tilly2]

Do I just go about my daily business or do I have to stay away from other people?

[gness]

I did my best, 237. However, thanks to others it wasn't enough. He died.

[237SJ]

^ That's your choice and that's fine. If you think there is a horrible flu type bug going around, then you can stay at home. My Mum would have done that. But the rest of us want to live our lives and take the "risk" Personally, I have been exposed to far worse than covid.

[Atheist]

237; That's like saying just stay away from people who spray ammo from guns around. The obvious way is to stop people from going round with live ammo.

[237SJ]

Douglas - the pill is worse than the disease as well.

[237SJ]

Athiest - you can stay away from whoever you want - just stay at home. Your choice

[Prudie]

And people are catching colds and flu and dying, as always. We never told them to keep away from others (even if we should have). I've just not see that kind of risk of being a granny killer type comment on here for some while.
Rightly or wrongly people are not treating covid any differently in the workplace now to any other illness. Indeed a colleague who tested positive was allowed to attend his wife's hospital birth as long as he wore a mask and washed his hands only last week.

[Togo]

What a bind Tills (▔﹏▔) ... where did you go? It is good advise to rest for a couple of days, but I would try to go about my life normally as soon as possible if I were you. Ignore the doom filled hectoring and don't let them guilt trip you into cowering at home. In the meantime a couple of hot, bacon grease oatcake, chest poultices will ease your congestion. :))

[Atheist]

Different folks with different outlooks. I'd be careful not to take a chance of spreading my disease, even if I thought it wasn't real. Why insist on scaring folks just to prove a point? Wearing a mask is no big deal to me. My desire to have a fun night out wouldn't override a wish to be considerate to others' concerns and to play on the safe side, just in case there was something in all this fear.

[gness]

I'm not surprised, LB.
We lived with the fear, Douglas. It was the lack of kindness of others that gave him the disease that killed him.

Stay at home, 237? When you have 3 or 4 hospital visits every week? When you have to mix with folk like you in the hospital and outside.
You've been exposed to worse than Covid. With no immune system?
You take top prize for selfishness.

[237SJ]

Gness, some of us had to work during the initial lockdown. We didn't have any choice.

[andres]

A few days rest at home won't go amiss Tilly. If you've only just tested positive you don't know how you are going to feel over the next day or two.

[Togo]

//My desire to have a fun night out wouldn't override a wish to be considerate to others' //

Tills hasn't mentioned having a "fun night out". I also wonder if you even know what such a thing is. Tills may just want to take s bit of exercise or a stroll. She doesn't strike me as a reckless person but you do strike me as a misery guts.

[Atheist]

Togo, I probably am a misery guts, in your world-view. I advised Tilly to be cautious when you've got or are getting over covid. The OP asked a question and I gave my opinion.
Some of us are cautious and some are happy-go-lucky. My nature is H-G-L, but I do care about others and having lost a son-in-law in the early days I err on the cautious side.

[237SJ]

Gness, for the record. When lockdown first happened, I was flying around the world (mainly S America) bringing plane loads of people home to the UK before the borders were closed. Lockdown had already happened for your part of the world. I didn't even have a face mask, or a pair of gloves and I was confined in a metal tube with hundreds of people for 10+ hours so please don't tell me that I wasn't at risk.

[Atheist]

237; I'm pleased to see that you didn't catch covid and come to a sticky end. It doesn't mean that you were gifted or living proof that covid was not serious. Others weren't so fortunate.

[Atheist]

237; I hope you didn't bring too many carriers into the country when you were flying all over the place.

[237SJ]

^ I have had covid.

[Atheist]

237. I'm pleased to hear that you got over it OK.
Anyway. Back to Tilly. My personal advice is to stay away from folks for a week, just in case.....

[237SJ]

The 'carriers' were Brits that were trying to get home before the lockdown. Maybe they should have stayed away?

[Atheist]

You were doing your job. I'm glad you didn't get cut down in your youth. Things seem to be much safer now that the vaccine has been rolled out. I don't worry half so much. I've never caught it. My daughter, son and grandkids have all had it, but fortunately all survived without much trouble and don't have long-covid effects. Of course, they were all in close contact (schoolkids and teacher daughter) but covid always seemed to be less risky for children, and daughter was able to get vax. Me being older found it easier to stay away from infection and was vaxed regularly. I've had five vaxes.