to go to a yoga class when my daughter has covid

[Itsnotdeep]

I have no symptoms. I have numerous negative lateral flow tests.

I'm interested in what other people are doing. (Btw I did a virtual class today and didn't go, but I really missed it).

It’s not very yogic to risk others’ health, is it?

@ReeseWitherfork Legally close contacts of those with covid (other than omicron) can go out and there are reports (on this post) of positive PCRs recently despite having no symptoms and negative lateral flows. So anyone with common sense who was worried about catching covid (maybe CEV or lived with someone who was) would avoid high risk places rather than being reliant on others.

Please don’t, It’s so close the Christmas and you’ll be inside for an hour? Breathing and exhaling deeply?
Everyone I know is curtailing their activities somewhat whether it’s socialising or being extra careful as omicron is so infectious. Yes, it’s disappointing and inconvenient but you could potentially infect everyone there.

I wouldn’t go, especially in the current circumstances- new variant and so close to Christmas.

My DH had covid when no one else in the household did, I went running, I went to the supermarkets etc, but I didn’t go anywhere I’d be around others for long and didn’t meet up with any friends. When mine and DC’s day 8 tests came back negative I sent DC back to school, clubs etc. But not before then.

You did the right thing not going. It's hard though. We're in Scotland where you wouldn't be allowed anyway, which I think is sensible. At the end of the day lfts aren't going to give you any guarantees.

@Bingbangbongbash

It’s not very yogic to risk others’ health, is it?

I don't think selflessness is a prerequisite for yoga! In fact it's all about yourself and your wellbeing.

But if you can do it at home, you aren't missing it. You're just missing the physical class. Yoga can easily be done in the home. I wouldn't go, I go to the gym to weight train every morning, I didn't go when my son got Covid as I wouldn't want to be that selfish and potentially risk infecting others.

[quote newname12345]@ReeseWitherfork Legally close contacts of those with covid (other than omicron) can go out and there are reports (on this post) of positive PCRs recently despite having no symptoms and negative lateral flows. So anyone with common sense who was worried about catching covid (maybe CEV or lived with someone who was) would avoid high risk places rather than being reliant on others.[/quote]
We'll have to agree to disagree on where the morals and responsibility lies. I think most people are actively trying to avoid catching covid whilst trying to maintain some resemblance of normality. Everyone knows they can catch it anywhere anytime, but I think most of us would hope that people who are knowingly living with a positive case would avoid high risk areas (such as a yoga studio). So it's not a case of "anyone who was worried about catching covid" as I'd like to think that was the majority of people (surely everyone wants go avoid an illness especially one that involves 10 days stuck at home?)

I'm confused where "legally allowed to" comes into this. You don't legally have to stay at home if you've got D and V, or the flu, or your kid has HFM or impetigo but people seem to have a little common courtesy with infectious stuff. Apart from covid apparently.

I don't think OP needs to lock herself in her house. But asking someone to do yoga online for a week or two instead of physically going to a class is so so far down the line of hardships imposed on people over the last 2 years.

Legally close contacts of those with covid (other than omicron) can go out

They dropped the close contact isolation requirement for Omicron a couple of weeks ago in England.

You’re legally allowed to go. However, there is no way I would right before Christmas and risk ruining other people’s Christmas Day. After Christmas I would go as life just needs to carry on now.

Although legally you could have gone. I have personally cancelled things because my son tested positive. Despite me testing negative on lft and getting ( finally) a negative PCR. I even double checked with the garage ( had to take car in for a fault check) and sanitised everything I touched. However I can work from home so a much easier decision. I think you did the right thing doing the class on line

I think the very fact your posting on here means you know you shouldn't go but your hoping you'll be told otherwise.

If you really felt confident that the risk was very low/nil then surely there would be know doubt in your mind and you go, there is some doubt, hence your post so don't go,
I find it really odd that the government has encouraged us to use our own common sense based on the guidance they have provided not wanting to lockdown and force people to abide by rules but people cant do this, they cant weigh up risk and make their own decision based on their own circumstances and they need to be told by others what to do.

If you think yoga is all about you, you’re doing yoga wrong.

It’s about selflessness and being at one with all beings.

I've booked a PCR test for today. I'm not convinced by that improving my moral position though, as I could very easily be negative today and positive in a couple of days time.

I wouldn't go. I go to a yoga class and I wouldn't like the person next to me to be you, possibly infected with covid, the week before Christmas. Yes, legally you can go, but morally I wouldn't.

@IloveRitaConnors

I think the very fact your posting on here means you know you shouldn't go but your hoping you'll be told otherwise.

If you really felt confident that the risk was very low/nil then surely there would be know doubt in your mind and you go, there is some doubt, hence your post so don't go,
I find it really odd that the government has encouraged us to use our own common sense based on the guidance they have provided not wanting to lockdown and force people to abide by rules but people cant do this, they cant weigh up risk and make their own decision based on their own circumstances and they need to be told by others what to do.

I haven't gone either yesterday or today. I was interested in what people thought. As I say, covid is rife here. We have a really low take up rate of the vaccine. And people (not me I hasten to add!) are still going out.

I wasn't hoping for validation to go. Yoga is genuinely almost a life saver for me, so it's a huge thing not to go to the studio - I wouldn't be asking if it was just a thing I quite like doing.

And just to add, we don't actually have a positive PCR in the house yet. She is very unwell and had a faint line on a LFT. That's it. So I'm being even more cautious by not going. In fact, my youngest dd is not even in the house. Her dad has kept her which is also really hard on me as I miss her desperately.

So I don't think I am a selfish bitch, but this is genuinely a big issue for me.

Just saw your post that you didnt go, the relief that you could actually make a decision. I find I have tricky decisions like this to make all the time, more so with covid and I have been amazed how may people must never have had to make tricky decisions. Covid, to me has highlighted this, when its firm and fast rules people are happy, when it's guidance people seem to go in to tail spin. It actually makes me anxious and worried for many!

I never once suggested that you were a selfish bitch, that was not called for at all. Now leaving this post.

I didn't suggest you were @IloveRitaConnors . I was calling myself a selfish bitch!

Sorry if I upset you, that wasn't my intention.

@EarringsandLipstick

you are highly unlikely to have infectious covid even if you do have covid.

It's genuinely unbelievable that people can still type, and presumably believe, this nonsense.

What, might I ask, is non-infectious Covid? 😐

The thing is though that is literally what it says when you report a negative lateral flow test on the government website: ‘you were unlikely to be infectious when the test was taken’.

Maybe you have read and understand more about the reliability of lateral flows but I don’t think you can say reading that statement and assuming a negative lateral flow means you are probably not infectious makes you thick.

I don't think selflessness is a prerequisite for yoga! In fact it's all about yourself and your wellbeing.

Woah yoga is definitely not all about yourself! That sounds like anti-yoga . It is about connection and ultimately relief of suffering. If you think it is just physical postures and breathing, there is a whole load of discovery and exploration waiting for you, have a read about the eight limbs, especially yamas and niyamas, not harming other people is literally baked right in to the philosophy.

@Itsnotdeep thank you for staying home. I think you did the right thing.

You've done the right thing.

@LemonViolet

I don't think selflessness is a prerequisite for yoga! In fact it's all about yourself and your wellbeing.

Woah yoga is definitely not all about yourself! That sounds like anti-yoga . It is about connection and ultimately relief of suffering. If you think it is just physical postures and breathing, there is a whole load of discovery and exploration waiting for you, have a read about the eight limbs, especially yamas and niyamas, not harming other people is literally baked right in to the philosophy.

I was being slightly facetious LemonViolet. I meant I don't think everyone who goes to yoga is necessarily a selfless individual.

But I'm not going.

I honestly don't understand why the act of going to the studio is important. Exercise is important to MH I get that but there are other ways to do it. Ditto the person going 'to get out of the house' you could equally go for a run or a walk, do an outdoor boot camp or some hill sprints and body weight exercises.

And if going in person to the studio is important you want it to survive surely. I feel that way about my gym. I like my instructors and the owner and I would not risk their business and employment. If I caused an outbreak they could be shut for a long time.

We are literally in this situation with one person positive and the rest of us PCR and LFT negative and the line for me is that I will not so anything non essential indoors.