Wibu to take them for a walk?

[Neatll]

DD and her boyfriend live with me. Her boyfriend has symptoms of covid (sore throat and a cough) he's had a test but hasn't had the results back yet. We're all isolating and my DC's (6,5 and 3) are off school and nursery. WIBU to take them for a quick walk? We obviously won't go to the playground in the park or indoors anywhere but they seem fine for now and aren't poorly.

The DC's are very bored already and they still have lots of energy
Well that’s tough really

@Neatll - The DC's are very bored already and they still have lots of energy so I was thinking of taking them for a walk to burn off some of the energy.

My heart bleeds for you..................................NOT!

I'd bet you don't wear a mask when you're out too, or wear it below your nose or under your chin (both of which are absolutely pointless too).

How the hell can people still need to ask this question. It has been the rule for over a year. Why do some people think they are special and the rules does not apply to them?

It is no wonder we are in the mess we are, people everywhere thinking the rules don't apply because they don't like it or the kids are bored.

Maybe they need to remind everyone of the rules around isolation again

Ds had to shield for the best part of the year. It was shit but it was what was needed.

You need to think outside the box for ways to burn off energy. It doesn’t need to involve going outside

Just Dance or yoga on YouTube, or running up and down the stairs.

The tests are turning round really quickly these days so you might get it back today and be able to get the walk in later if it's negative.

It's possible one of the children might have picked it up at school and passed it on asymptomatically to DD's BF so please do stick to the rules.

There are plenty of ways of aiding boredom and excess energy that don’t involve leaving the house.

It just takes a trip or fall on your walk to need hospital treatment to stop it meaning you don’t meet anyone. Yes that could happen at home but you won’t need to get a passerby to help
Stay at home.

@LookItsMeAgain

Yes, you would be unreasonable. Very. We're so so so so close to getting out of lockdown and lo and behold we have people like the OP who STILL don't get that if you are a close contact or living under the same roof as someone who has symptoms of Covid, that until the test comes back clear, you isolate. You might not be showing symptoms. Your children might not be showing symptoms. You could all be infected and not showing symptoms. You could all be positive for Covid and not be showing symptoms. If you go out and infect 1 person, that person goes home to their family of 5, they become infected and they don't show symptoms for a few days so they carry on going to work/school etc. and infect more and more people so the cycle carries on.

Just for the sake of a walk.

I know it sucks. Please don't go out until you get the test results.

I know symptoms mean the whole house has to isolate! I was just wondering as we wouldn't be mixing with anyone outside

@Neatll if you already know that everyone has to isolate then why did you have to ask on here? You aren't expemt from the rules because your children have energy to burn off 🙄

Jesus Christ it's 24 hours! I'm sure they will cope. I can't believe people still have to ask what the (very basic) rule are.

You may not think you'll be mixing outside but if any of you are positive you could still be shedding and could have an accident whilst out which requires contact with others. Just imagine it's 5 degrees and chucking it down and you won't want to go out.

I know what the rules are and I don't think I'm exempt from the rules! I was just asking a question 🙄

We've been following all the rules since last year

How long have we been in this crisis? And people are still not sure of the rules 🤦‍♀️

Good Lord.

So it appears the OP can't even claim to be unaware of the rules as they have stated they know that they should be isolating.

That only leaves them thinking they are more special than everyone else and that rules don't apply to them.

That is much worse than being unsure of the rules.

As you know that your DCs need to be kept off school, i don't understand why you think it's okay to go out walking with them.

Actually, I'm sure you do know, you're just hoping posters will say it's fine

FFS! how are we 14 months in to this and people still don’t know the sodding rules about isolating.

Isolation means just that. Isolate yourselves. Not go for a walk because you are a bit bored.

@Thatisnotwhatisaid

I may be wrong but thought it was just the person with symptoms who had to isolate until the test result comes back? If it comes back positive then you all have to isolate but I don’t think you’re all forced to isolate before he has a result.

You are definitely wrong! Good grief it has been over a year how can you not know this yet.

If someone in the house is contacted by track and trace and told they need to isolate because they have been in close contact with someone else, then it is just that person that needs to isolate. Someone in the household with symptoms, then everyone isolates.

I know symptoms mean the whole house has to isolate! I was just wondering as we wouldn't be mixing with anyone outside

If you live in a rural location 10 miles from the next house and surrounded by impenetrable hedges, this is fine. Otherwise, you have absolutely no idea whether you will come into contact with anyone on your walk and your DC aren't old enough to be reliably trusted to stay well away.

Being bored for 24 hours won't kill them or anyone else
I'm fucking sick that people think they can just........ >insert any feeble reason

What are you asking then pulling sarky faces at everyone who tells you how extremely unreasonable selfish self centred and ignorant you are?
Duh!

We put YouTube on and copy just dance. My DS enjoys cosmic kids yoga (there are stories based on various fantasy worlds to do the moves to). We have also had our money's worth out of swingball over lockdowns.

So you've waited until someone in your household has actual covid symptoms to decide to break the rules?

Whatever. I smell bullshit

Isolate means isolate.

Don’t leave your house for any reason whatsoever.

The rules have been in place for 14 months .

It’s actually amazing that anyone needs reminders

@Neatll - have you heard of the word "asymptomatic" by any chance? You could be infected and not have ANY symptoms and yet be passing the disease around to anyone in your neighbourhood or anyone that you happen to pass by on this 'walk'.

An idea of just how widespread the moisture in our breath can travel as it dissipates in the atmosphere is look at someone who uses an e-cigarette to vape. When they breath out, just look at the cloud that hangs around. Now imagine that but not someone who vapes. Someone with Covid, out on the street. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there for the next person to walk through, inhale and we're back to square one. That's why we're still wearing masks when we're out shopping, that's why the past year has been mostly spent in lockdown.

I know symptoms mean the whole house has to isolate! I was just wondering as we wouldn't be mixing with anyone outside
It doesn't sound like you know what the rules are even though you say that you've been following them for the past year. If you knew, you wouldn't have come on to MN to ask. You just wouldn't do it no matter how much energy the children have.