AIBU to pop the shops with my pox riddled daughter?

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Daughter has erupted in pox spots overnight. She's ok in herself, a bit over emotional (she's 4).

So Sunday's activity is out obviously.

I've promised to make cakes with her, now I've realized I need actual stuff to make them.

WIBU to take her to the shop? Large supermarket in town 10minutes away, and possibly the pound shop for occupying tat?

I've got no one else to look after her, her grandparents are away and my husband is working and won't be home until 8pm. Couple of local friends are busy/avoiding the pox.

So, can we nip out?

The thing is korma a lot of people with contagious illnesses will be contagious before they realise they're ill.

How would you tell I am immunocompromised? Because I am.... I have to be really careful. I teach in a school and we have others too (both children and adults). If your child had any sign of cp they would be sent home

Onlyaplastic of course there is, but surely you must agree that deliberately infecting people should be avoided once you know you are ill and contagious.

So a breastfeeding group would be an obvious no no... but a quick visit to the supermarket? I don't see the huge issue.

In that supermarket queue. Could be a lady who's just found out she's pregnant and isn't showing, there could also be a lady on chemo in that supermarket queue.
You can't possibly know who's pregnant/on chemo/immunosuppressed. Which is why it isn't 'pearl clutchy' to give sensible advice to stay away from places with high numbers of the general public.

That's the point.

Is it really too much to ask that people with highly contagious diseases where the NHS advice is to avoid contact with other people stay at home for a week?

It's one week out of your life; an otherwise healthy life spent doing what you please. Yet there has been the suggestion that the people who have conditions that mean their whole life is at risk should they come into contact with CP should be the ones to make the adjustment and stay at home.

That seems unbelievabley selfish to me.

Isadora ahh right, more aces i should avoid then? Great, i'll add it too the list
Btw you wouldn't know it too look at me. I don't wear a stamp on my head.

Just to avoid pg, infants or obviously immunosuppressed people. So a breastfeeding group would be an obvious no no... but a quick visit to the supermarket?

only the obviously immunosuppressed? which ones are those then.......oh hang on, that's right you can't tell.

NHS advice is
"....pregnant women
newborn babies
people with a weakened immune system (the body's defence system), such as people withHIV, those taking high doses of steroid medication and thosehaving chemotherapy
If possible, try to avoid contact with peoplefrom these groups until the blisters have scabbed over and you're no longer contagious"

No mention of it only being people with 'obvious' compromised immunity. People live with HIV, on chemotherapy and with chronic health conditions for years - it would be impossible to avoid all crowded place (hospitals, supermarkets, schools, public transport.....)

I wouldn't go to the supermarket with a poxy child. I think a lot of people live in urban areas though. You don't need to stay indoors to avoid people in a rural area. And I think this where a lot of the comes from.

I also think that there are lots of things that could potentially kill. A bad cold could kill a child with severe asthma or someone having chemotherapy, what is the difference? Why if CP is so bad when a woman's pregnant don't people have the option of being vaccinated before they plan a pregnancy for example? Because you are infectious with cp before you know it. So yes, people do their best to be responsible but if it kills you because you caught it before they had symptoms it's not much consolation is it?