AIBU to go out for a walk when I'm supposed to be self isolating

[whatisforteamum]

Last week we discovered someone in my household has coronavirus.
Dd is staying downstairs as she was here for one night that became 10 days.!
Apart from the usual financial hit it is a small house.
Dh has been his usual moody self and dd has been quite hostile too.
Today we were getting along with some sorting out of old school bits and memorabilia when dd started swearing at me.
I have zero tolerance for this and told her so.Then dh started on about I have a small photo of my late df in the living room while he doesn't have any of his parents.Got a bit nasty and I said I would remove it.
Understandably I'm upset trapped in my room.
It's day 8 of isolation .I live near fields I can walk in avoiding people.
I'm double jabbed with a negative lateral flow test which I've done daily.
Surely I can go for a quick walk.?

@eightyfourandahalf

On MN it's always "an empty field", with no soul around for at least 50 miles...When you see how crowded this country is, I'd love to know where all these "empty fields for miles" might be

There’s field for miles around me… empty too! South East…

For gods sake just go. As long as you don't go anywhere near anybody it's fine

Just go out for a walk!

she isn’t even positive.. what’s the issue
The issue is that you can be a transmitting carrier for several days before you show a positive test.

Wear a mask, avoid everyone and just go. Good luck

@Wobblelmyheadplease

It's a legal requirements for her to stay at home www.gov.uk/government/news/new-legal-duty-to-self-isolate-comes-into-force-today

Whether people like it or not that is the case. You don't get to pick and choose which bits apply to you, it's not like optional mask wearing

"You don't get to pick and choose which bits apply to you "??

Oh my god - have you not SEEN anything on how this government has behaved 🙈🙈🙈

God help us.

No, you can’t go for a walk.
I’d be more tolerant of swearing. Zero tolerance isn’t healthy when locked in together in a confined space for ten days.

But if you worked for some certain professions you're allowed to go to work with someone in your household positive. This is why it's batshit, yes you can go and mingle with people if it's causing issues with work but you can't walk in an empty field 🙄

@Wobblelmyheadplease I didn’t make it up though I read it

www.nuffieldhealth.com/article/a-guide-to-self-isolation-when-youre-staying-at-home

@GorgeousLadyofWrestling

I have Covid and so does my daughter. We’ve been going out into our garden for fresh air and a run around. It’s not healthy to stay cooped up inside for ten days.

The thing I don’t understand is that my PCR test instructions said it was ok to WALK to a specialist post box to post my test in. I don’t drive and it was half a mile away. It specifically said I could walk there, and not to get public transport - which makes sense, obviously. So I did because how else could I post it? So if it’s ok to walk half a mile down a road is it not ok for OP to go for a walk in an empty field?

Exactly.

Thank you for pointing out the effin contradictions in this bloody advice.

OP - maybe order a PCR and take the long way round to the mailbox.

Jeez, the number of people who will LITERALLY follow any rule irrespective of logic.

[quote User5827372728]@Eilatan2018

Yes about yourself. But I wouldn’t say my mental health is more important than a strangers physical health[/quote]
How is someone going for a walk outdoors away from people risking their physical health? Fuck sake, are you completely incapable of using common sense?

funny how nobody who lives in a tower block in the centre of a city ever posts asking if it is ok to leave said block for a walk in the city?

its muddy out there in the fields op, take care

Although, I disagree with the posters saying that the op should go for a walk because the virus doesn't spread so much outdoors and she's unlikely to meet anyone on the way to the field, I can understand the reasoning and think that it's a perfectly reasonable argument.

What does frustrate me, is that people point to BJ's decision not to self isolate and say that if he isn't going to follow the rules, why should anyone else.

It's the Dominic Cummings effect all over again. The vast majority of people were sticking to lockdown until the Barnard Castle debacle. Then the police were faced with huge numbers of people saying that he didn't follow the rules so why should they.

The government is full of corrupt and incompetent idiots. But we shouldn't use that to justify our own behaviour. We need to be better than them.

"I was in the same situation. I was jabbed and negative and my child had it.

TRACK AND TRACE TOLD ME I COULD NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE.

It's not a free for all where people make their own rules up. Everyone gets given the same ones. So much entitlement here by so many posters."

Barnard Castle, G7, anyone?

@cariadlet - but they are SETTING the inconsistent rules.

@RyanReynoldsHusband

No you can’t go for a walk don’t be ridiculous. Isolate like you are required to do

Why would it be ridiculous today, but totally fine and legal in 9 days? She’s not suggesting going for a walk down the local high street is she! You can’t seriously think she is going to infect anyone walking outdoors where it’s unlikely she’ll even encounter anyone? Plus she’s got no symptoms by the sound of it and hasn’t tested positive.

@AbsolutelyPatsy

funny how nobody who lives in a tower block in the centre of a city ever posts asking if it is ok to leave said block for a walk in the city?

Probably because they are more likely to be walking close to other people. The op says she won't be near anyone on her rural walk.

Go for a bloody walk.

@Wobblelmyheadplease

Do you know that these rules don't exist from today in Wales?

That these rules won't exist in England in a week?

If I was told to self isolate I'd have no option but to go out to work - I don't get sick pay, can't afford to shut down my business for that long, and I need to pay the rent.

Most people don't self isolate fully anyway.

I would absolutely go for a walk in your circumstances. You’re not going to infect anyone by walking around a field by yourself.

Half of the pearl clutchers on here could easily have Covid right now and have passed it on to 5 people in their local supermarket today.

Honestly next time just go and don’t post on mumsnet.

This thread reminds me of the poor woman who posted during the first lockdown asking if people thought it was ok for her to walk her dog in a private field where literally no one else went.

Cue thousands of over-zealous ‘report it to 101’ MNers thundering angrily that she MUST STAY HOME.

The chances of transmission outdoors are vanishingly small, so I would go for a fucking walk.

@DeathByWalkies

If I was told to self isolate I'd have no option but to go out to work - I don't get sick pay, can't afford to shut down my business for that long, and I need to pay the rent.

Most people don't self isolate fully anyway.

Can you not claim the £500 self isolation payment?

I don’t know anyone who hasn’t fully self isolated when they needed to, and I know a few who have needed to, some more than once, so how can you say most people don’t?