Some people are so daft!! Everyone in my group at the school has succumbed to a cold. It's not very nice, but I'm pretty sure it's just a heavy, face watering cold. No one has needed to take time off.
Everyone has kept their distance (well, some of us haven't this week!! ** ) and some of us with the worst watering faces have been using a hand gel (like in covid times) to try and stop the spread of said cold (but when you're on buses or in classrooms everyday, nothing is really going to prevent it!!)
Monday one of the group was ill enough not to come into school. TBF, she had been avoiding everyone as much as possible but still ended up that ill. She came back yesterday still keeping everyone at arms length at a minimum.
Anyway - when we all arrived this morning at 5.45, she calmly told the other 7 in the group that she was positive for Covid
She'd done a test at home and it was positive.
Ok, I get that some people still test. And maybe we all should have done. But we haven't (including the main instructor!), no one has masked up or stayed home. Over here most people accept that they might get/have it but I haven't met anyone in the last couple of years that's actually tested to be sure
Anyway - she shouted loud enough to us and a few others that the instructor on site at 6am told her she had to go home!! Then she argued that we were all ill so probably all positive. Eventually, with the director of the school, it was agreed she could stay if she wore a mask, which someone had to find her
I just think FFS!! Why do a test knowing that the school may well try and send you home?? She must have known they would suggest that?? Surely!! I still don't think I've got/had it - my lurgy feels exactly like the usual cold I get in February and sometimes December - it's just a bit early but then I'm never with a load of random people for three months before winter!!
Oh and I overheard a conversation in which she and another were saying they were forced to have the original vaccines cos it was required here - maybe if she'd had them all she' wouldn't currently be positive!! Although as I said elsewhere, I have no scientific basis for that thought
People are just daft!!
** There are three people in the group that I hug in the mornings instead of bisous/fistbump/etc. The first day they were ill they stepped back and said no. But the second, Lucie looked so sad that I just said "it's the same bug, might as well hug cos I'm just a few days ahead so it can't make any difference!!" (again, no scientific basis!!) So, now the three of us still hug but most of us do the fistbump thingy cos it's less contact!!
