Are you still letting your DC play out with neighbours kids?

[LegoBloodyHurts]

Are you still letting your kids play out with neighbours kids? Seems to be in my neighbourhood the kids are carrying on as normal, and out on the streets together. Mine are home as I won’t allow it.

I'm a Carer working in a nursing home for the elderly. Our policy is, you isolate after showing symptoms. I believe in being pro-active. So after I helped care for a resident who rapidly declined then sadly died. I self isolated at work. On going back I've been verbally abused by staff for what I felt was the right course of action. I took an oath to offer a duty of care. Also to safeguard the elderly. Not to wait till I show symptoms, to then self isolate. If I carried on working like many are doing. How many could you have infected by then??

@Ontheboardwalk but it’s not actually doing any harm?
Any other household on the street could also supervise their children playing in the street if they wanted too, they just have to keep away from other households.

@martinmustering

I’m not clear.

You are not showing symptoms. However you have stopped working to self isolate because you cared for someone who died of covid. You did this because you believe in being pro active.

I’m afraid if the above is correct, your co workers are absolutely correct to be frustrated with you. Nurses and doctors don’t stop working once a covid patient has died. They stop working and self isolate if they are showing symptoms.

Someone has called the police to our street tonight, the people outside are so annoyed and we're shouting on the street to find out who it was 🙄 Just keep your kids in

martinmustering what would happen if every dr and nurse in ICU were ‘proactive’ and self isolate every time a patient in their care died of Covid?

No way. We live on a close and the children have been out riding bikes and scooters with their own household individually but have not gone out with neighbours. Normally there is 3-4 households all out together.

Yes. There is a private courtyard behind our apartment, in the square formed by the adjoining buildings. Back in «normal» times my kids played out there a lot, usually with friends they had invited over, or with 1-2 others that came out. Now, they haven’t been going out at all - but all these kids that never played there are out there, with their parents, all afternoon! They started off keeping the children apart, but now there are maybe 10-15 children running around playing tag and hide n seek! While the parents stand 1m apart chatting. What’s the point when their children are all playing together? Plonkers.