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What would you do? Someone who’s just had Covid.

Ushthetaff said:
Would say you have to do what you feel comfortable with, personally I’ve done everything I can to protect myself and others , vaccinations lockdown rules etc. There has to come a time en I have to get on with life , the cases in Scotland where I live are high , but there is a hell of a lot more testing going on so . as someone has already stated there’s a lot of stats about ,but we do know that the death rate per case is dramatically lowered the choice is as always a personal one but we have to realise COVID will never be eradicated even if everyone is double or even triple jabbed , ( let’s face it we haven’t eradicated the flu and we accept that it kills over 11,000 people a year in fact in. The winter of 2017 the figure was reportedly 4 times that ) from a totally personal point of view I believe life is all about risk and minimising risk is important but zero risk is impossible .but at the end of the day the decision is a personal one and should be respected
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I agree, and for that reason I have an annual flu vaccine, and had all the required vaccines etc when I was working in West Africa. I still got malaria and amoebic dysentery though, the malaria pills were not effective, and the dysentery wasn’t nice. But I was younger then.
Oh, and I wear a seat belt, and stop at a red light too.
I’m just swinging from ‘got to get out there and live’ and ‘got to go on living’ with this one.
 
I may have decided. I’m going to go, even though the main route there’s being repaired and it’ll be an ‘interesting’ journey. It’s a big garden, no one will be offended if my chair’s a long way from theirs (they’re a lovely noisy group who laugh a lot), I’ve an FFP2 for visits to the loo, the host knows that I’m vulnerable, so does the person who had Covid. Any one of us could be carrying it. Distance is all. I’ll let you know later if I got there.
 
I’m back. After such a lot of prevaricating and a bit of a sinking feeling about the drive, I now wish I’d stayed at home. A twenty-five minute drive there turned into an hour and a half because of road closures. When I got there the host had decided we’d stay indoors, because, they said, it was cold outdoors (it wasn’t).
By then it was late and the kind host gave me some very delicious lunch, in the garden, but I felt excluded, and reminded that very few understand the fears of a long term oldie T1.
I then came home, sad that I felt I needed to take more care than them and sad to have missed the conversation and the catching up with each other.
Being older and vulnerable in this pandemic has changed my landscape.
Thank goodness I did a heck of a lot of exciting, enjoyable and risk-taking living when I was younger.
 
Antje77 said:
They could have informed you, knowing you were having second thoughts!
Please go have a nice party all by yourself tomorrow to make up for this one!
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I agree! They’d even said yesterday that they had plenty of coats and jumpers to share if we wanted them in the garden. Oh well, live and learn.
 
Fairygodmother said:
I agree! They’d even said yesterday that they had plenty of coats and jumpers to share if we wanted them in the garden. Oh well, live and learn.
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So sad for you that the day did not turn out quite as you hoped but you did get to see some old friends so not a complete washout.
 
Sorry to have challenged your worries . I respect that you are very clear on your priorities and how you want to manage those worries. Provided the government doesn't choose to restrict my choices in a way that does greater harm (IMO) I hope we can all carry on choosing to do things our own individual way.
 
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