still a covid virgin here, never had it.
Weird. My best mate has never knowingly had it either. In a typical week he'll DJ in 2 sweaty basement clubs and spend about 6 hours on planes. You'd think he'd be guaranteed to get it all the time, but apparently not!
Me too - I've been commuting almost daily (30 minutes each way on a train) since February 2021. My wife has had it twice, one daughter has had it three times, the other daughter is like me and hasn't had it.
Ah, but how do you know? Covid, all strains, seems to have the potential to affect different people differently, people have died of it, and others have been totally asymptomatic. Unless you've been routinely testing regularly right from Mar 2020 through to now, you can't say with any certainty that you aren't just one of the (many) asymptomatic carriers.
It’s pretty rife here in our small, island village - I work part-time in a shop and a couple of colleagues have had it recently - extreme fatigue, sore throat and coughing. Having escaped it, I’ve had it twice in the last year - first following a Xmas party and second after a flight from Glasgow to Australia in April. Due to get my flu jag next week, but not old enough for the COVID one.
It's going to be a part of life for the longer term future. We need to take the necessary precautions and then get on with life Ignoring it wont make it go away
I have had two colds since Feb 2020, one last summer and one a few weeks ago, both tested Neg-.
My GF tested Pos+ for covid several months back and I didn't get it.
I can go to the the pub sometimes several times a week, sometimes live music nights on a Fri/Sat when it's packed out.
Been socialising regularly whenever I could from the moment we were let out of lockdowns, I was single back then.
still a covid virgin here, never had it.
You may well have had it and been like the majority of people and had no symptoms. This os how it spreads.
And I’ve just have an employee try to sign himself off sick for two weeks because he’s tested positive 😳
how big is your team and how long are you prepared to sign someone off long term sick if you insist on the currently sick individual coming back? if you take all precautions what's the worst you've lost? one employee away for two weeks, maybe that same employee on long term sick. if you insist they come back what happens if they take more out?
people 'soldiering on' has long been a shit thing in UK firms. with the highly variable way covid affects people it's orders of magnitude worse.
Just off the back of my fourth case of Covid. Always affects me the same way - no 'classic' symptoms but a few days of complete mental and physical fatigue - even walking 20 steps to the kitchen to get a drink was physically exhausting. This last bout has been the worst - a full week off work which is the longest single absence I've had in 25 years of teaching - tried to go back after 3 days but after an hour of people talking to me and me not really taking anything in, and everyone I spoke to saying 'you shouldn't be here' I took the hint.
And I’ve just have an employee try to sign himself off sick for two weeks because he’s tested positive
Sounds fair enough; plenty of people out at the moment with nasty symptoms after testing positive. The fatigue seems to be the thing for a fair few folks at the moment, and if people are run down they'll make themselves more ill, and that leads to more time off.
There's a lot of it about, and not a lot of promotion towards boosters compared to previous seasons, from what I'm seeing. Same with flu.
Yep, I’m at about two weeks and only starting to feel better.
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I think advice now is to be guided by symptoms - 5 days from start of symptoms and you are no longer infectious usually, but that's not the same as saying you should go back to work after 5 days - if you're still clearly unwell, I wouldn't want you back for the sake of you or others; if you are up to it but can WFH in preference I'd suggest that. If you're fit as a fiddle and back to normal life otherwise, I think 2 weeks of being signed off is OTT.
We have to treat as an endemic illness now. Get jabs where needed / offered still, protect the vulnerable by not exposing them to your illnesses, etc. I'd be tempted to say treat it 'normally' like other cold type viruses but historically (and already i think we're drifting backwards even after the last 3 years of experience) we got that wrong, and struggled in to work coughing and spluttering because it was the done thing. We shouldn't do that for any viruses, not just specific ones.
First timer last month, couple of days feeling pretty rough but thankully recovered quickly minus a few aches.
Couple of weeks easy on the bike and didn't lose much, being asthmatic I was honestly expecting a longer lay off.
We're very much of the mindset, if you aren't well, but feel OK you can work from home, if you are really unwell don't work - we leave it to the individual.
That said, my colleague had covid, was a little unwell, was in work facing me, but didn't realise until some time after when her friends had all had it (but had tested). I was OK - she's had it twice without realising and was in work.