Close contact - how long these days before you are in the clear?

The median incubation period for Omicron is 3-4 days according to CDC research. That's the median so it is possible for it to kick in later than that.

Suggest getting in a few antigen tests if you have not already got some.

Until you show symptoms.

You are still required to isolate if you have symptoms.

Ah right, but why go into so much detail on how she became a close contact? The post sounds like shaming to me, sure who knows i might be wrong .

agreed, those days are gone, you could pick Covid up anywhere. Nobody tests anymore. I was sick with a respiratory bug 2 weeks ago, no temperature, no aches but fairly dosed. Why would I get a test, Covid is a distant memory now??? I just do as I did long before, take a few Lemsips, early nights, Vitamin D and Vitamin C.......

You're arguing with people that have very little empathy, and think they know more about public health than the qualified, experienced experts that have dedicated their lives to the subject.

You would think that someone who works in healthcare would know the craic at this stage.

And what did she do before covid? I highly doubt she even gave it a second thought, same as the rest of us.

As StarMix66 said earlier, you've become too used to the law protecting you from someone else's cough or sniffle.

Feel free to join the rest of us in the pre-covid thinking world.

You can try to bury your head in the sand and claim everyone else is hysterical, but it does not change the fact that we are now living with a virus that is far more virulent than the flu and unfortunately it is not going away. The world changes, people respond to those changes and act accordingly, this means taking some minor precautions like trying not to spread a virus in a care home.

You can pretend Covid does not exist, never happened, whatever.....the reality is it happened, it is here to stay and some changes are required in how we behave as a result. Your 'pre-covid' world is in the past, it is history.

Have you actually stuck your head outside since covid began? “Your pre covid world is in the past, it is history” a rubbish statement.

My pre covid world and for many more isn’t history. We can do all the things like it was 2019. Pubs, restaurants, concerts , stadiums etc all full again.

Not to mention airports are very busy. i have flown transatlantic about 6 times in the past year. Life couldn’t be better or more normal to be honest. Oh , at Dublin airport i probably witnessed about 2/3 people wearing masks.

Life has moved on for the people who didn’t get mentally scarred by all the scaremongering.