Should I still isolate myself after a positive test? Is it ok to do my own shopping (with a mask) or should I call someone? Do I still wait for a negative test or simply to be free of symptoms? Since people around me don’t really talk about Covid anymore and my country doesn’t have any guidelines in place, I’d be interested in your takes. I don’t wanna be a d*ck to others but would also rather not overshoot and lock myself up at home for two weeks like in the early days. (I hope this doesn’t count as asking for medical advice.)

Edit: Thanks y’all. Guess I just needed to hear that even though everyone has been talking of “after Covid”, the situation hasn’t fundamentally changed despite our lives having normalized. I’ll be cancelling plans and staying home.

  • SomeoneElseMod@feddit.uk
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve had 6 covid vaccinations and I’m still not protected. It’s not a case of “having the chance to get sufficiently vaccinated” if the vaccines don’t work on your immunosuppressed body, or if you can’t have the vaccine at all.

    It’s unbelievably selfish to go out when you know you have covid. How hard is it to stay home for 5 days or so when you test positive ffs?! The fact that you don’t think staying home for a few days is “justified” when you literally risk killing someone vulnerable by not isolating is frankly shameful.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      At some point we need to make a decision though, Covid is in the ecosystem now, and it’s not going away, most people will have little to no symptoms worse than a cold due to natural immunity or being vaccinated. While in an ideal world people should isolate when they have something infectious, it’s not always feasible.

      Is it not on the immunocompromised to protect themselves rather than the rest of society having to change. Surely this has been an issue with other illnesses prior to 2020 and we didn’t always expect people to isolate then when they had a cold, flu, etc.

    • CarlCook@feddit.de
      23·
      1 year ago

      I am not saying I go out socialising. But having to care for a family often makes it necessary to go out and get stuff. Especially when your symptom free vaccinated kids still go to school.

      Anyway do I believe I pose a significantly smaller threat than those individuals that transmit the virus despite having no symptoms at all.

      So I understand your concern and I agree that it is sensible to minimise exposure and take precautions but I also believe in commensurability of measures as there will never be 100% protection of infection. And I say that having dealt with two covid infections and months of heavy post-covid symptoms.