Say nothing

Close contacts no longer need to isolate and contact tracing is a thing of the past.

Covid is now another virus that's become part of life, if anyone is still paranoid about it their only real option to avoid it is to stay at home. I wouldn't think twice about it at this stage.

We all know Covid is still here, we all know numbers are high, we all know that there is a risk of infection in a group setting.

Even if you partner knew she was a close contact she would still be required to go to work so I don't really see the issue.

Whats wrong with bringing chicken pox children out?

Its far safer to expose other children to chicken pox at that age, if they dont get it as a child theyre at much greater risk when they get old.

Yes, you're being dramatic.

Be the hero After Hours deserves, not the one it needs right now...

It’s would ruin a good chunk of the summer holidays. Last thing you’d want when you’ve got holiday “plans”.

Covid could ruin them too. Only a truly selfish person would, knowingly, pass either onto, unsuspecting, others.

There’s also a vaccine against chicken pox now so those “pox parties” of the 80’s are a thing of the past.

That's all very noble, but how many employers will appreciate their staff taking days on end off because they have a communicable disease? How many employees can afford to take unpaid leave if their employer doesn't pay for sick leave?

Should be all stay at home every time we have a headcold? Chances are we'd be shedding the virus before we developed symptoms anyway. There's no need to live in fear unless you're immunocompromised.

The post I responded to mentioned flu. The current advice is still to isolate for 7 days if you have Covid.

How many employers do you think will appreciate it when that's lifted?

Pretty obvious when someone is infectious with chicken pox. And, while many have no symptoms with covid others are, laid up, in bed for a few days.

I’d be, fairly, “ticked off” if one of my kids caught chicken pox, or covid, from someone who knew, full well, they were riddled with it.

They’re in summer camps and have a holiday booked. Lousy behaviour to be going around infecting people, ruining their plans, just because you didn’t want to miss a party.

And that’s just the “inconveniences”, would be far more dangerous to be, knowingly, infecting an old, or immunocompromised, person.

It won't likely take you out of work for a week..

It'll maybe take an extreme minority out of work for a week.

I think the future looksas if its likely most people will get covid, if you get it isolate for 1 week, obviously people over 60 or people with preexisting conditions should be shielded and take extra precautions , at this point the vax rate 96 per cent

I'm not a medical expert just my opinion at this point there should be no stigma in getting it most people cannot stay at home or avoid being near strangers everyday

Many people have stopped wearing masks unless they are going to a place that requires one

I go to shops i put on mask i don't dine inside cafes I don't go to pubs I think everyone should get boosted why take a chance unless you get it you don't really know how bad it can be even if you have been vaccinatted

I think your reaction depends on your age your metabolism levels of vitamin d are you in generally good health not overweight immune system various factors

Hospitals do a covid test on admission.

Take for example, a cancer patient going for surgery to remove a tumour. If covid is contracted before or during admission for a major operation to remove said tumour, the recommendations are that surgery is not to be undertaken for 7 weeks after a positive result.

Knowledge is power. Lots of people need to be careful of coming into contact with various diseases and can make their own decision when they know the risk is there. Otherwise isolation is their only solution.

Many moons ago when my son was undergoing cancer treatment we were kept informed of every sneeze in his siblings playschool and school. It meant that they missed over three months in school while chicken pox made its way slowly around the classes. Vaccine for chicken pox wasn't readily available. Also every child in their classes availed of the newly introduced Measles vaccine which the local health board made available before the general roll out.

So please inform people if you are ill and let them react as it suits them.

Anybody saying covid is just like the flu is an idiot. Long covid is real. The flu doesn't do that and you don't have to have some immunity problem to get long covid.

My partner was operated on this week, cancer. Was swabbed twice before the procedure. Covid is still a huge risk to vulnerable.

And you are free to take that responsibility as seriously as you like.

But you can't expect everyone else to do that for you.

I've had all that and pre Covid was expected to go to work. Taking sick leave was only intended for times when you're so unwell you're physically unable to work.

Do people genuinely think all hospitals, Garda stations, schools, shops and businesses should shut down because there's a cold doing the rounds and too many staff are keeping their germs to themselves to the point they can't function?

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Do you live in La La Land?

It's got nothing to do with empathy. Find one pre Covid example of a hospital or school that closed down because staff were sent home with a cold. Not even an entire one, but one where whole year groups were sent home from school and parents had to leave work en masse to collect their children, and wards closed and patients discharged.

In an ideal world everyone could stay at home if they're sick with a cold, but that has never been the reality. Covid won't change that.

You're the one who claimed workers were always sent home. Bid me good day all you want, but you can't back up your BS.

If you take a Xanax and chill, then go back and read the OP you'll find that the positive tests came after the family gathering. Chances are they were asymptomatic at the time.

The current protocol is not to contact close contacts, and anyone who is genuinely worried about Covid should avoid gatherings. Covid is here, the current wave is predicted to peak next week, so if you or someone in your family is vulnerable you would avoid group situations. No point complaining when you realise someone you spent time with later tested positive.