WOOOOOOOO!
My wife just tested positive for COVID the second time this year and we are sooo mad. We are so sick of other people and their total disregard for each other. Even tho we don’t know for sure where she got it, we were at a small gathering last weekend where someone showed up sick without any sort of warning. They said it’s not COVID and something about how its just their sinuses, you know, the normal brushing off of obvious symptoms.
Then on Monday I had to go to the office for a meeting and overheard 2 different people saying they weren’t feeling great… They both ended up going home and neither of them showed up the next day, but a third person did show up the next day, also complaining about being sick… I really just don’t understand why!
My wife and I do everything we cant to be safe; we wear masks in public, we make our concerns known, we have canceled and changed plan in order to keep in line with our concerns and comfort.
Why do people insist on going to work or to gatherings when they can admit they are sick?
Why does nobody give a shit about anyone around them?
I hate people, I really do, but I still don’t go into social situations while sick and if I had to I would wear a fucking mask. It’s that fucking simple, yet no one has the common courtesy to not bring their fucking communicable disease into public.
Fuck people.
FUCK
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UPDATE: Just got an email from one of my colleagues who just tested positive for COVID. He was in the office Monday, complaining about feeling sick, but waited 4 days to test because “he didn’t even think about COVID until someone else mentioned it.” Mind you, this person sees me with a mask on EVERY DAY, but didn’t think about COVID…
I really really hate people and am thinking about leaning into the hermit life. Just me, my partner, and our cats; everyone else can fuck off.
Yeah. Not going out and spreading shit around when you’re noticeably sick and symptomatic is the fucking absolute bare minimum and I swear to god people are worse about it now than pre-covid because they have the “well I rapid tested once and it’s not covid so I’m fine” excuse now.
I’m not proud of how long I held out on masking and stuff, but I’m a household of one and I WFH, so when I’m at all sick at least I can just be a hermit and not spread shit to anyone, and I have a stockpile of masks if I absolutely have to go someplace. this winter’s covid wave has me wanting to mask again but it feels pointless when historically I’ve almost exclusively been the one getting sick after family gatherings, not the one spreading it.
It took 3 days into symptoms for a positive rapid this time around. Last time I was asymptomatic for 2 days while testing positive. The key is consistent testing for a few days while you are exhibiting symptoms. However, most people just wanna be able to prove it’s fine as quick as possible.