Why will your children's classmates and staff be affected if your husband develops symptoms?
Worry that they've been in contacted with an infected person maybe? And then the wider l, related worries around childcare, school, work, family, etc if the test does come back positive?
I think we're in for a long winter, OP. We've been self-isolating since Thursday last week, cannot get any tests locally and past the point of a test being worthwhile now so are to just have to complete the 14 days. I know the symptomatic person only has to do 10 days but with me and DH in for 14 day, so are they. School don't have a plan in place for pupils who are self-isolating so no work for the DC to do other than what I'm doing with them, despite Johnson claiming in Parliament last night that children still at home are being given school work.
DH is working from home right now, management want them back in the office and the union have essentially told management to fuck off. Some staff are still on the office but a department that would normally be housed on half a floor is currently housed across two entire floors in order to meet social distancing rules so goodness knows where they'll put everyone. They've also had four staff in recent weeks who had come into work despite living with someone who was symptomatic/tested positive and they should have been self-isolating, three of them went on to develop symptoms and test positive themselves so large numbers of staff who had been in contact with them had to then self-isolate (the four staff were all from separate households so that was four teams/departments down, some of them can do their jobs from home but others can't either due to the nature of the work or their circumstances). They have had several staff come into work while symptomatic and had to be sent home.
Several schools hereabouts have had to send entire year groups home due to confirmed cases and have lots of children off due to them having symptoms and either awaiting tests or riding out the self-isolation period. One school had a parent purposely send in her symptomatic children as covid is a lie, that school now has three year groups isolating. DC nursery only had two children in attendance last week and eldest DC class of 32 only had 17 in school at the start of last week.
Realistically we could complete these 14 days and then a week later one of my other DC could develop a cough or a temperature and we're back in for another fourteen days or another attempt to get a test.
They need to sort the testing system out first and foremost because it's an utter shambles. Track and trace is next on the list. They need employers and schools to have clear plans on how people can continue to work/educate if they're self-isolating, and they need financial support in place for those unable to work from home during self-isolation otherwise self-isolating people who can't afford to be on reduced pay are going to go into work and their kids are going to be going to school and childcare.