Would you socialise with others while a member of your household was awaiting a PCR test result?

[LordOfTheThings]

Or would you be happy to socialise with someone who had a household member waiting for a result?

Straw poll please. Yes or No for both.

Nope and nope.

I’m in lots of other potentially dangerous situations where I might pick up covid and act accordingly, why would I add another known line of risk if I didn’t have to?

I cross the road every day, doesn’t mean I don’t use the lights when I need to get across a busy duel carriageway.

So yes, I would be very annoyed if it meant I had to do daily lateral flow tests for ten days, can barely cope with them every 3 - 4 days (not envy!).

One of my (teenage) children has Covid and other DC are expected in school still DH and I both have to go to work in a customer facing role. I feel really bad about going to work as one of my colleagues is getting married in 2 weeks (3 time rearranged) & is clearly uncomfortable me being there but company policy means I have to go in plus I can't afford to be off unpaid for 10 days now and then potentially again with another Dc/DH/me getting it. We are done daily LFT but clearly can't social distance from ds - we have 1 toilet and a small house - just hoping we avoid it and/or don't spread it if we do catch it

It does all seem a bit ridiculous to think this time last year we were crossing the road to avoid people 'just in case' but I'm now in direct contact with a known case but can carry on my life as normal.

Going to work is very different from socialising. You have no choice but to go to work, but what you do socially is a choice. I'd be very annoyed if I met up with one of my friends and they failed to tell me someone they lived with had symptoms and was awaiting a PCR result. Even with the rule change, that doesn't mean be abandon all sense! You work in a school, you could pass it onto dozens of people if you get it, and you've just had chemo. I'm not sure I'd think much of a friend who hadn't considered that.