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#2939815 8-Jul-2022 16:23

afe66:

Covid finally struck my house. (3/4)

The week before I go on my first holiday for the year and after moving heaven and earth to get leave etc, booking leave three months+ ago.

First holiday of the year. (Applications for dec jan time off are to be submitted next week)

Youngest unit of the household suspected as introducer of illness. Positive RAT test after 90s!!! The diffused fluid film baring made it to the T line and was screaming you've got no holiday sunshine !!

And yet employer moans about how much unused annual leave we have...

A.

Sorry to hear about your situation. I had a similar thing in August 2021 when I popped my calf playing squash the night before we were away for 10 days. Couldn't walk or do anything, and then months of lockdown followed.

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#2939821 8-Jul-2022 16:30

Thanks.

I think the fact I am trapped at home with sick kids needing to be a parent while feeling sick is the icing on the cake.

If I had injured myself, it would not have been as bad. Quiet time when kids at school, watching whatever I want on tv etc.

Probably got about 4 months of paid unused leave currently..

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#2939841 8-Jul-2022 17:17

I could be wrong here, but have a feeling someone pointed out you can trade the required 7 day iso period if booked leave you had planned as sick if you come down with it during the period. If your boss is awesome

Sick leave during annual holidays
If an employee (or their spouse, partner or dependant) gets sick before starting scheduled annual holidays, they can take the portion of annual holidays they’re sick for, as sick leave.

If an employee (or their spouse, partner or dependant) gets sick during their annual holidays, they can change the days they are sick for to sick leave days rather than annual holidays – but only if their employer agrees.

The employer can ask the employee to prove the sickness before allowing them to change their annual holidays to sick leave.

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#2940741 11-Jul-2022 15:52

I need to pay a complement to the local DHB (well, ex DHB) Covid Response team, they gave me a call on Saturday to see how I was and had someone drop off a Care Pack. This Morning a nurse from my local GP clinic called to see how I was and was going to chat to my GP also for any recommendations.

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#2940765 11-Jul-2022 16:46

DjShadow:

I need to pay a complement to the local DHB (well, ex DHB) Covid Response team, they gave me a call on Saturday to see how I was and had someone drop off a Care Pack. This Morning a nurse from my local GP clinic called to see how I was and was going to chat to my GP also for any recommendations.

Not a thing from my ex-DHB, nor my local medical centre...

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#2940767 11-Jul-2022 17:03

I know somebody who is testing negative but probably has a chest infection

It took 40 minutes for the local GP to answer the calls after the system decided they were being dropped. the first slot they have , three days away

The alternative is drive up with an approximately 2 hour wait, they may not see you if it is not covid, or go to the ed and be 4-5 hours

They are straining hard
And it is not surprising only some of them have the ability to have time to get back to people with the numbers escalation

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#2940776 11-Jul-2022 17:43

Second booster done today, rather have it then not have it.

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#2940780 11-Jul-2022 17:50

Wife and I had second boosters on Saturday morning. We haven't had Covid.

As usual, I had absolutely no reaction. Not sure whether that is good or not?

Wife had shivers and headache Saturday night, but ok by Sunday morning.

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#2940797 11-Jul-2022 18:59

GV27:

Sent someone home with something that is apparently not Covid yesterday. Relived to finally have a RAT that said negative but a) they shouldn't have been there and b) doesn't seem like they'd done one this week (had done one previously).

We really do deserve everything we get at this point.

We've solved that problem here in Australia. You're only a close contact if you've been in a residential setting with someone who tests positive (apparently COVID-19 signed a contract not to infect in workplaces) so you also don't have to tell anyone if you contract COVID-19. Result: there's no COVID-19! If you don't test, you don't detect! Simples!

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#2940877 12-Jul-2022 07:24

Since I've just had Covid, I can't get a booster until mid to late September at the earliest. Apparently no-one told Covid that it's not allowed to re-infect people for 100 days so I have to be at higher risk from now (3 weeks post infection) until I can get the booster.

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#2940890 12-Jul-2022 08:33

Youngest son (15) just got Covid. First week of school holidays down the toilet.

Glad the weather bomb arrived, so we don't feel like anyone is missing out on anything.

He's got mild flu symptoms. I've been feeling chesty and like I'm on the verge of a cold since Saturday, but regularly testing negative.

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#2940892 12-Jul-2022 08:41

k1w1k1d:

Wife and I had second boosters on Saturday morning. We haven't had Covid.

As usual, I had absolutely no reaction. Not sure whether that is good or not?

Wife had shivers and headache Saturday night, but ok by Sunday morning.

Same here - never had a reaction, wife has each time.

Same for flu vax. Wife had to take the next day off. I had nothing but a tender shoulder.

Neither of us have had COVID or flu, knock on wood, despite all 3 kids having brought COVID into the house.

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#2941188 12-Jul-2022 16:24

Like others have said, luck ran out for me as well.

On Thursday/Friday our office was filled with people who were coming from all around the place for the rugby - masks and social distancing be damned.

On Saturday I woke up with the chills, didn't sleep much over that night and on Sunday had a chesty cough and some wheezing, though the chills were gone. Got a RAT test done which was negative. Advised work and went in on Monday feeling pretty good (no return of the chills and the cough was barely anything) and picked up some of my standard chesty cough medicine.
Had a planned day at home to take the dog to the groomer and then the vet, while I was out getting a coffee I picked up some more RAT tests just in case .. and strong positive result.

My only symptom right now is a blocked nose, but I have a blocked nose 90% of the year so nothing new.

Dad also tested positive, like me he has almost no symptoms at the moment (just a cough that has been there for years (it seems) at this point) and felt just a little 'off' over the weekend

Now to decide if my official day of freedom is Sunday 17th or Wednesday 20th ...