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Bottom line, it’s quite rude to stay in someone’s shared home if you are obviously ill, regardless of whether it’s Covid, the flu, or a bad cold.
I used to get so annoyed when my kids were little and other parents would drop their child off at daycare, handing the daycare teacher a bottle of antibiotics, instructing them to give it to the child at a certain time, saying “he has strep throat” or whatever.
I have a friend who’s an elementary school teacher who said parents and the administrators sometimes get mad at her, because if a parent sends their child to school sick, she calls them to say they have to come get their child. When they try to protest that they can’t, they’re at work and have no one to call on, she tells them that’s for them to work out- that it’s school, not a babysitting service, their child is too sick to concentrate on their work, and that it’s not acceptable to expose the other children, or herself and her own family at home, to whatever their child may be ill with.
It’s policy, I remember coming across it. They will close the listing if someone has covid at it. I think it’s to discourage hosts from canceling under extenuating circumstances when they have covid (I think it might have that affect at least).
@Annet3176 Everything I’ve read seems to say a Covid cough is a dry cough. Is this your understanding, too? I got the impression that a phlemy sort of cough wouldn’t be a symptom of Covid.
And quite true, sometimes a cough is just a cough. Smokers tend to cough, but it isn’t something contagious, and people with allergies can cough, have runny noses, and look quite sick, but it wouldn’t pose a danger to anyone around them.
I’ve been taking Lisinopril for going on 10 years. I get a light cough a couple times a day. I also wear an upper denture which causes a bit of a cough. But none of those are the racking raspy cough of someone with Covid.
I was supposed to have a guest this past Monday the 17th. Last Thursday I started running a temperature, coughing, and sneezing. I immediately contacted the guest and told her I’d be calling Air to cancel under extenuating circumstances and told her I was waiting on my Covid test (negative, but who wants to chance it?).
I contacted Air, told them the story, requested her 100% refund plus fees.
Air did NOT suspend my listing or shut me down. As a matter of fact I had to go in and close off all this week and into next week. Still negative and feeling better, but shutting down anyway.
So perhaps Air is handling each case differently? IDK.
And my politics are not as left wing as most of this forum. Yet I manage to tell the truth, be polite, and ignore things that offend me.
There are a lot of if-this-then-that conditions in the policy, I suspect that you didn’t meet all of the then-that conditions or you did and the CS didn’t read it all. I could dig in and maybe figure out but I’m confident that I have already read more of the article than most of the CS agents.
Actually, I just looked back at it and it is from Apr 2020 and though it says it was updated Apr 2021 they don’t really mention testing. It was before there was so much testing for covid. At this point they probably take a negative covid test, like you had, instead of shutting down the listing.
I had bronchitis and flu and before the pandemic, every winter there would be someone in the office who infected everyone else. One time, in 2017 my cough lasted for months too. IMO no matter who has what, if they are sick, coughing like that they should not be going to stay in someone else’s place and similarly they should not be hosting.
I don’t think that if I as a host would be coughing like that my guest would be ok with it. They would call the CS to cancel the reservation.
well, yeah but in the times we live if I were the guest and be coughing from one of these inoffensive reasons I’d inform the host and prove to her that what I suffer from is minor.
One of the reasons I wanted a bit last night before I reacted was to hear what type of cough she had. She coughed continuously for 4 hours and then it diminished as she fell asleep but still coughed throughout the night. None of the reasons you enumerated would sound like that.
Covid, or brochitis…it is almost irrelevant which it is.
I could not listen to non-stop coughing through the walls of my own home, unless I was forced to, due to it being my child or spouse.
I would not mention covid, but I would cancel the reservation due to the annoying and irritating non-stop coughing that prevented me from sleeping or being comfortable in my own home.
Unfortunately there are many reasons for chronic cough as well as acute ones My husband has a chronic cough that has persisted for months (Yes, he has been to many specialists and is constantly trying to tests and treatments). It probably wouldn’t be quite as dramatic as that of your guest. When we are going to someone’s home we tell people up front that he has this so they won’t immediately assume COVID, flu or cold. Your guest was naïve and/or just inconsiderate to believe that this wouldn’t be an issue for you. We do test before going to gatherings and a few days after but I fully understand that tests are not foolproof.
Oh, that too. Now the lady is threatening to sue me for discrimination. I didn’t engage with her in discussions on ABB platform, but I was very irritated when she said she could sue me. I don’t know if she’s a lawyer but I don’t think she could win.
I don’t understand. Nurses are careful to keep their face covered, wash their hands etc, etc. Much more like any other profession. So why would you say that max exposure? I’m not saying I get a nurse that works in a covid hospital. There are many other types of traveling nurses out there.
