'Keyworkers' are they really BU or am I?

[salsmum]

So just heard today from a support worker friend that 2 young people she knows and do Iffice work in an electrical company are S I at the moment although working from home ( they are not frontline electrical workers) they are sending their 3 year old to nursery because they are identifying as key workers... AIBU to think they have jumped on a bandwagon? I'm not normally so judgy but as a person who works in care usually and is SI with my DD who has major health problems I just wonder A) how they are key workers and B) why they can't keep their 1 child safe at home.

Personally at this time I would really not want my child in school or nursery whether I was a key worker or not. They just are not getting it, the new london temporary hospital will hae 4000 beds and 2 mortuaries, a 40 year old superfit man is on the brink of needing a ventilator in hospital

Iv tried not to think about this as I get the utter rage!!

Sometimes we don't see all the work that is key behind the scenes so for example people in logistics who are trying to plan everything and ensure staff are where they are needed. That may be why they class as key workers, it can also be very difficult to work with a child around yes some people are taking the piss but we don't always know everything.

Why are they si? If because they have symptoms then they cannot send child in!! I’d tell the nursery if so

They are self isolating because the company has said only frontline 'key' workers in. Don't wanna out myself but I know this couple well not elderly not vulnerable etc

Well it depends,if they work in an office coordinating electrical work / staff / jobs it could be safety related? What do they actually get involved in?

Various family members / friends & neighbours have what you wouldn't think are particularly critical work but if you know the details it is.

There's a difference between putting in Mrs Smith's new power socket .... Vs doing critical maintenance work on a hospital's UPS or getting a vulnerable person's electricity-based heating back on or locating and fixing a smoking dangerous cable in someone's house!

So it depends, doesn't it?

They aren't self isolating if they are taking their child to nursery. They are just working from home and that shouldn't qualify them for key worker childcare.

Self-isolating is different to working from home. I'd they're self-isolating, their daughter should be as well and not in nursery.

Sounds like they're WFH. IMHO they're very selfish to send their kid to nursery. The guidance, even for key workers, is to keep children off nursery/ school unless there is no other option. A teacher friend tried to still send her child to nursery (she's not required to be at school), and was rightly turned away because her DP is WFH. I'm amazed their nursery is accepting the child if the parents are at home.