Pandemic personal consequences

[Steel Icarus]

Colleague who gives me a lift to and from work daily - 25 mins each way - has just tested positive. I've been WFH last two days for MH reasons but I was in her tiny clown car Monday. I mask up, she doesn't. Now - and once more - I wait to see. This shit gets old.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Guidelines say OK after Day 10 as long as no high temperature. It's recognised that coughs and loss of smell/taste can still hang about for a while, so they're not counted as a sign of infectiousness.

I've still got a slight cough, annoying more than anything else, and this is now 1 month after the original positive test.

 

[brogdale]

I've still got a slight cough, annoying more than anything else, and this is now 1 month after the original positive test.

Yep, same experience here 4 weeks after 1st +ive.
I did get out for an actual proper walk on my beloved Roundshaw downs yesterday and felt (physically) OKish afterwards, but still low on energy levels.

 

[nogojones]

Had a routine PCR yesterday and was surprised to get a positive text this afternoon. No symptoms and I just did an LFT to see what would come up and that shows negative.

I'm well stocked for food and wood, so will just sit it out for the week and see what happens.

 

[danny la rouge]

An old friend of mine popped round for a few drams on Friday evening. Triple jagged like me. Had Covid in first wave. He’d done an LFT before coming. The next day he did another LFT before visiting his Mum, comes up with a faint line. I did an LFT, negative. Today Test and Protect get in touch to say I have to isolate until 6th Feb. I’m just out of a long isolation when all my household and then I got it after New Year!

Thing is, it’s my birthday on Wednesday and I was planning to go out for dinner and meet my elder daughter who doesn’t live with us.

Fuck Covid in the face.

ETA: see subsequent posts.

 

[Steel Icarus]

An old friend of mine popped round for a few drams on Friday evening. Triple jagged like me. Had Covid in first wave. He’d done an LFT before coming. The next day he did another LFT before visiting his Mum, comes up with a faint line. I did an LFT, negative. Today Test and Protect get in touch to say I have to isolate until 6th Feb. I’m just out of a long isolation when all my household and then I got it after New Year!

Thing is, it’s my birthday on Wednesday and I was planning to go out for dinner and meet my elder daughter who doesn’t live with us.

Fuck Covid in the face.

I've now been pinged three times but each time there was the disclaimer "unless exempt", i.e. tripled jabbed. Is it different in Scotland?

 

[danny la rouge]

I've now been pinged three times but each time there was the disclaimer "unless exempt", i.e. tripled jabbed. Is it different in Scotland?

Oh, good point. I don’t even know. The rules have changed so much I’m lost.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've now been pinged three times but each time there was the disclaimer "unless exempt", i.e. tripled jabbed. Is it different in Scotland?

You’re right, I’ve checked the website:

“If you're a close contact who is fully vaccinated, you can take daily LFD tests instead of self-isolating.”

Thank fuck. And thank you so much!

 

[Steel Icarus]

You’re right, I’ve checked the website:

“If you're a close contact who is fully vaccinated, you can take daily LFD tests instead of self-isolating.”

Thank fuck. And thank you so much!

No worries. It's not immediately clear. I hope you continue to test negative and that you have the birthday you're looking forward to

 

[danny la rouge]

No worries. It's not immediately clear. I hope you continue to test negative and that you have the birthday you're looking forward to

I love you.

 

[Red Cat]

An old friend of mine popped round for a few drams on Friday evening. Triple jagged like me. Had Covid in first wave. He’d done an LFT before coming. The next day he did another LFT before visiting his Mum, comes up with a faint line. I did an LFT, negative. Today Test and Protect get in touch to say I have to isolate until 6th Feb. I’m just out of a long isolation when all my household and then I got it after New Year!

Thing is, it’s my birthday on Wednesday and I was planning to go out for dinner and meet my elder daughter who doesn’t live with us.

Fuck Covid in the face.

Don't do it, you've just had covid, use your own common sense about this.

edit - just seen above posts which are also correct

 

[Orang Utan]

Two colleagues have come to work with symptoms and then over the weekend tested positive by PCR. Not before closely mixing with customers and fellow team members. Glad I was already trying to avoid the toxic two.

 

[ash]

Really good colleague who I have worked with for over 30 years in different organisations- she’s mid 60’s. Not been vaccinated ‘I’m not anti- vacs - just want to wait now got covid

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Two colleagues have come to work with symptoms and then over the weekend tested positive by PCR. Not before closely mixing with customers and fellow team members. Glad I was already trying to avoid the toxic two.

at them.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Tested positive this morning. Strangely calm. Nothing I can do now but ride it out. Did pretty well working in education for two years without getting it though, eh

 

[bellaozzydog]

One of my “temporary flat mates ” has just started working as a teaching assistant and doesn’t think corona is much of a drama as her and her boyfriend have already had it….despite me actually explaining to them what the immune system suppressing injections stored in the fridge do and knowing I’ve just had a fourth booster letter

ETA neither have had a vaccination

 

[Badgers]

Was sure I had got it recently. Had an interview with someone who tested positive (third time ) the following morning. This coincided with me feeling feverish and coughing relentlessly.

LFTs all negative and went for a PCR which was also negative shame really as I get full sick pay for a positive PCR

On a negative note almost half my family have tested positive in the last month. Nearly a quarter of the staff at work have been positive in the last month.

We are averaging 27% positive tests at the LFT testing station currently.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

One of my “temporary flat mates ” has just started working as a teaching assistant and doesn’t think corona is much of a drama as her and her boyfriend have already had it….despite me actually explaining to them what the immune system suppressing injections stored in the fridge do and knowing I’ve just had a fourth booster letter

can you build a quarantine kennel for them in the garden?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Colleague just messaged to ask if I'd rimg a non-attending student to find out where they are, cheeky bastard. I've told him I'm signed off sick so won't be doing that

 

[nogojones]

Block the school number for the next 10 days. You're too sick to turn it on.

Fuck it. How long do you get full sick pay for? Read up on long covid and have six weeks. The cunts couldn't be arsed to put decent control measures in to stop you getting a potentially deadly disease.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Block the school number for the next 10 days. You're too sick to turn it on.

Fuck it. How long do you get full sick pay for? Read up on long covid and have six weeks. The cunts couldn't be arsed to put decent control measures in to stop you getting a potentially deadly disease.

Nah, it's cool. Colleague is a mate. I've asked him to wash my coffee cup out as I won't be back until Feb 21st

 

[andysays]

Nah, it's cool. Colleague is a mate. I've asked him to wash my coffee cup out as I won't be back until Feb 21st

I hope you are well enough to be able to return to work on Feb 21st, but I'll repeat here a post I made yesterday on another thread

I'm still experiencing symptoms three weeks after first testing positive, so will tomorrow be starting my fourth week off work. I'm mostly just achy and lethargic now, but am a bit concerned that I don't seem to be getting better.

Spoke to a doctor last weekend who said it wasn't unusual for it to take three or four weeks to feel better, and that as long as I didn't have problems breathing or a significant high temperature (which I haven't had, thankfully), I shouldn't worry.

I think I was probably a bit under the weather - tired and stressed - before getting infected, so maybe I'm taking longer to fight it off than I would have otherwise.

It's also worth reminding anyone who isn't already aware (I wasn't until I spoke to the doctor) that you don't need a sick cert for up to four weeks of Covid related illness.

 

[Orang Utan]

My non-vaccinated sis accidentally let slip that she’d had Covid. Not sure when but wish she’d let us know.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Really thoughtful of two of my colleagues to have a go at me for including as a contact another colleague who now has to isolate cos she's an anti-vaxxer.

I followed the guidelines very carefully only to be accused of having no common sense.

 

[nogojones]

Really thoughtful of two of my colleagues to have a go at me for including as a contact another colleague who now has to isolate cos she's an anti-vaxxer.

I followed the guidelines very carefully only to be accused of having no common sense.

Take the month

 

[brogdale]

Take the month

This X 10; I'm just over 1 month on from infection and, though "OK" am still well short of 100%. Moving around (esp. uphill) I feel like I've got the lung capacity of a small child.

 

[scifisam]

Take the month

He has a job where he's actually responsible for other people, though (not as a manager). Staying off while ill or infectious is sensible, but it's not the kind of job where you usually want to slack off.

 

[Steel Icarus]

He has a job where he's actually responsible for other people, though (not as a manager). Staying off while ill or infectious is sensible, but it's not the kind of job where you usually want to slack off.

I'll be off for two weeks now as even the shortest isolation period takes me into the half term holiday. Assuming I'm well I'll be returning 21st Feb

 

[nogojones]

He has a job where he's actually responsible for other people, though (not as a manager). Staying off while ill or infectious is sensible, but it's not the kind of job where you usually want to slack off.

With this sort of attitude its no wonder that management in schools can really take the piss out of their staff. You have prep, actually teaching your wonderful students, marking and all the bullshit reporting every night and half your weekend. The teachers I know are run ragged and have been treated as expendable by the government, LEAs and heads.

The more you give the more you'll be taken advantage of.

 

[Steel Icarus]

With this sort of attitude its no wonder that management in schools can really take the piss out of their staff. You have prep, actually teaching your wonderful students, marking and all the bullshit reporting every night and half your weekend. The teachers I know are run ragged and have been treated as expendable by the government, LEAs and heads.

The more you give the more you'll be taken advantage of.

I'm not a teacher, I have a pastoral role. I don't do any work outside of working hours.