Corona dillema

[Coronanamechangie]

Hi all. Name changed as don't want real life hatred.

We've been isolating for 8 days as DH tested positive. We count the 10 days from when he first showed symptoms. Were sending DC1 and DC2 back to school tomorrow.

However just lateral flowed them and DC2 is stongingly positive. We're tempted to send DC1 to school as it's their last couple of days of year 6.

Is this horribly irresponsible? Should we sit out another 10 days as a family? Sposed to be going to Devon on Sunday.

If we should send DC1 to school what should we tell them?

IBU - should do more isolation NBU should carefully proceed with life.

I’m having major surgery next week, my kids are both at school this week, and I hoping for the best, but people that ignore the isolation tiles put people like me at risk.

I think in this case, I would think about worst case scenario and won't send dc in. You may ruin someone else's summer just because you wanted your dc to have last few days of school. Arrange the meeting with dc's friends during holiday instead.

There's no 'dilemma' here OP - you clearly should all stay home.

I think really you need to get a PCR. You don’t want to cancel all your plans for a false positive, but you don’t want to risk everyone else either. And everyone needs to isolate until you get the PCR results.

The 10 day isolation for contacts is from the day after the positive PCR isn’t it. Either way if you’re on day 8 today, your isolation doesn’t end until the weekend and your child should not be at school on Friday. You’re potentially passing to classmates for the summer holidays! Causing problems with flights abroad, childcare, families spending much needed holidays being unwell, parents unable to work before you even consider risk to health. It’s very sad for the child but I just don’t think it’s ok to do that

Please don’t send him to school whatever the ‘rules’ are. You will ruin 30 kids holidays if he tests positive later. It’s not worth it just for his last day of school.

Littlepool Hoping you both feel better soon.

Because of people doing their own thing, my adult son now has covid from a thoughtless ex-friend and I am isolating, leaving my small, essential NHS team down by another staff member. I was told last week that in our trust 10% of staff are off isolating.
Spreading the virus might not kill anyone (or not as many these days, thankfully) but it may cause essential services to break down.
Think on, people.

You are joking...

@Coronanamechangie

Ok. Cancelled Devon. Booked PCR for both kids. If DC1 is negative will send to last day of school. I think of PCR is negative after 10 days off isolation this is not irresponsible.

It's not pedantic arguing. I am trying to follow the rules and do what's best for all.

You can't send any of them back to school tomorrow, negative test or not, as you've only been isolating for 8 days!!

It’s because of people like you that my school has sent 100 children home today and 8 staff, many of whom were supposed to be going on well deserved holidays this year.
But hey, your child misses a day of school…

Sorry, just seen your update but I still can’t believe you were even contemplating sending your child to school. My emotions are high as I can’t say goodbye to some well loved members of staff who are leaving and a young teacher can’t visit her elderly grandparents before starting a new job abroad.

It's 10 days from symptoms from the first person, if symptoms came before test. The fact they weren't isolating for the first 2 days doesn't cancel them out from a day counting perspective.

If DC1 is negative and without symptoms than they do not need to isolate after the original ten days. You cannot go on holiday though.

It's fine for DC1 to go back to school. They're only obliged to isolate from when the first person in the household tested positive, regardless of others becoming infected.

Thems the rules. Look it up. Plenty of diagrams online explaining how it works.

This just depresses me. No wonder this country's in the shit with the delta variant. Happy to blame Bojo for a lot of stuff, but the blatant irresponsibility of people is outrageous. To even THINK about sending your kid into school is beyond selfish.

@Littlepool, you are right to be angry! It is so reckless to ignore the rules and damn selfish too!! I truly am sick of it and wish people would just do the right thing by others, is it really too much to ask? If everyone isolated as they need to, cases would reduce, the R number would go down and we’d be able to enjoy a little normality.

I hope you are okay, for some this is a very scary virus, especially the vulnerable

Pcr and cancel holiday. You are not more important than everyone else

It depresses me too tbh. My DDad is in Australia and is newly diagnosed with a new cancer and I cannot see Australia opening their borders to regular people like me (as opposed to sports stars and katie fucking Hopkins) for at least another 12 months. Oz think the UK is nuts (and have even featured how insane freedom day was on their version of Panorama) so I feel really annoyed when I read things like this thread. 130 k dead with the delta variant on the rise and people think it's okay to just do what they want and not test, or ignore tests or whatever. At least the OP has asked on here and decided to change her plans though so that is something, and certainly more responsible than some.

@agapanthus1979

This just depresses me. No wonder this country's in the shit with the delta variant. Happy to blame Bojo for a lot of stuff, but the blatant irresponsibility of people is outrageous. To even THINK about sending your kid into school is beyond selfish.

It's the rules.

The OP isn't selfish, far from it - if her DC2 has no symptoms, even taking an lft is above and beyond what she is required to do.

I have just emerged from a 10 day isolation with DD. Had DH also become infected, I would still have had to go into school to teach after 10 days of isolation (T&T confirmed - 10 days from onset of DD's symptoms). School would NOT have been impressed by me taking a couple of extra days off 'just in case'.

But have your husband and child who are positive been isolating away from the rest of you? If not then your DC1 might not test positive but could definitely be a carrier and spreader. Don’t ruin everyone else’s six week holidays by sending your potentially super spreader child to school for the sake of a few hours watching a film and messing about with mates.

STOP BERATING THE OP.

Her DC1 can go into school at the end of 10 days from the start of her DH's symptoms - the index case - as long as DC! themselves does not have sumptoms.

DC2, as an lft positive, needs a PCR and will need to isolate for 10 days from the day of the +ve lft, which will scupper the holiday.

But DC1 is COMPLETELY within their rights to go back into school after completing their own isolation. OP may CHOOSE to do more - keep them off for longer - but THERE IS NO RULE THAT REQUIRES THIS.

You mustn't do this. Your child will infect a whole lot of other kids in the class who will infect everyone that they see for days afterwards.

Half the families will have their holidays ruined by self-isolation and the other half will do what are proposing to do and will go out and ruin someone else's holidays.

Worst case scenario, you kill some, or end up being roundly mocked in undergraduate epidemiology lectures for the next hundred years.

Do not do it.

FWIW my whole family have covid right now. I told the school. They closed the bubble. The whole class is self-isolating.

Cantkeepaway

Have you read the full thread?

Its entirely selfish and not the rules - she was going to send them at day 8 not 10

I'm 'meh' with covid but not to this level of stupidity!

FWIW my whole family have covid right now. I told the school. They closed the bubble. The whole class is self-isolating.

Of course. But that is the FIRST isolation - in OP's case, the isolation from her husband's positive test.

What OP is describing is a second positive case in the household - and that DOES NOT prolong the initial isolation for anyone else.