Why do people stay home or cancel hangouts over a little cold?

[AmazonChick171]

I have a little cold and a minor cough but that didn’t stop me from going to see my best friend. I know she wouldn’t accept that excuse. I don’t have a fever, fatigue or runny nose. Her mom said yesterday it’s better if I did not spend the night and go home after my visit because I was around a lot of people on my cruise trip that might have been sick and I did cough a couple of times. It’s just a cough! I’m not sick. I ended up leaving at around 8pm. I still have a couple but it feels like I have a cold and now I feel achy. I’m not sick. We’re supposed to hang out this weekend and I’m not canceling over a little cold. People say I should get a covid test. It’s like since after covid, people flip out over a little sneeze or cold and stay home! You can’t stay home over that unless it’s very severe, or high fever! Toughen up people!

[Anonymous]

The problem is that just cause you don’t feel that bad, little to no symptoms of being sick doesn’t mean someone else’s body will respond the same way. Especially someone w a compromised immune system, like someone who is neutropenic or an older person or a baby/child. Yes some people are seriously scared of contracting something, but that’s not for you to decide as stupid or as irrational as you may think it is. I’m sure there’s things you fear that someone would laugh at you for when it’s nothing to them. What’s not to say your best friend gets sick who then passes it onto her mom. You don’t know her mom’s medical issues. This is t about being brave or thinking all this is stupid. Yes I’ve had COVID 4 times. No I didn’t take the shots either.

[Surely]

Even before Covid. If I felt that I could infect someone else when I didn’t feel well. I stayed away from people when it wasn’t necessary to be around them.
Someone with a weakened immune system would appreciate people that were just a little sick would avoid them!

[Surely]

Thank you for the MHO! Hope you are feeling better.🌞

[AmazonChick171]

Thank you. I am

[Alex-Snow]

Some people freak out about things like that. Sometimes I have a cough or just do not feel well so I say in my room and chill

[TallAnon]

To not infect other people, especially because the weak and old experience aggrevated symptoms from the same virus.

[msc545]

Bercause when you have this you usually feel like shit too

[CubaPirate]

Because they're weak softies imao

[AmazonChick171]

Everyone has become soft since covid. I texted her that I expect her to he at my house. You can’t just stay home over a tiny little cold and a cough. She is just being a wimp. If she didn’t want to hang out, she should have been honest. Everyone is so weak. If she was severe then I understand.

[CubaPirate]

I agree 👍

[robocop666]

scared to infect people

[AmazonChick171]

I understand that but a little cold should not stop you