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ButtockUp · 28/01/2022 21:23

My husband is CEV. I think we'll carry on wearing masks and going to places first thing.

We go to the cinema but we choose showings mid/late morning in a weekday where hardly anyone attends.

We go to the garden centre first thing and we never go into our local town after about 10 am.

Suits us.

Sparklingbrook · 28/01/2022 21:26

@ButtockUp

My husband is CEV. I think we'll carry on wearing masks and going to places first thing.

We go to the cinema but we choose showings mid/late morning in a weekday where hardly anyone attends.

We go to the garden centre first thing and we never go into our local town after about 10 am.

Suits us.

Yes, if possible going to supermarkets when they open makes a huge difference, or not long before they close. If at all possible. We've done a few trips to Home Bargains at 8am and been the only customers.

SweetFelicityArkright · 28/01/2022 21:30

As a care worker I guess I'll either try and protect the people I work with and stay off and risk my job and lose income thus meaning I'm in debt and face the concequences of that, or I'll go to work ill/infectious and pass it around with the concequences of that.
Can't wait to make that choice 🤨

Overthebow · 28/01/2022 21:37

you'll be fully paid?

If I too sick to work I’ll be fully paid, but I won’t fake being sick if I’m well enough to work.

Awalkintime · 28/01/2022 21:44

My school will likely close very quickly as the staff fall ill so we'll likely all be at home anyway isolating by default and working from our beds between naps as we have done throughout this.

ShallWeTalkAboutBruno · 28/01/2022 21:47

@Awalkintime

My school will likely close very quickly as the staff fall ill so we'll likely all be at home anyway isolating by default and working from our beds between naps as we have done throughout this.

Our school has recently had 10 teachers out due to testing positive. None had more than mild cold symptoms though, so without testing they would still have been teaching.

Awalkintime · 28/01/2022 22:15

ShallWeTalkAboutBruno
Every single person who has had it at ours have had real issues. 2/3 ECV staff. Some now with long covid too. The demographics of the school play their role and this will impact on some workplaces more than others.

IncessantNameChanger · 28/01/2022 22:29

Is this on the cards? Wont it be like noro or chicken pox so you dont go out for at least days?

Personally it's not my choice so I wont think about what the infected masses do. They will do as they choose.

Personally I wont know if I have it so I felt ill I would test and stay home for a few days until I felt better. Or if it's like I when I did have covid, I'd feel fine and never know. If lft stop being free that is.

I keep thinking recently that nothing negates what covid did to the world. So if go forward and life goes back to normal. That's ok. It doesnt mean that nothing mattered. It will always matter. The end of restrictions does not mean that nothing ever mattered or the lives lost didnt matter. It does not mean any of that. It hurt nearly everyone deeply. Forever. I wont ever forget this. But my life will go on. It's not mutually exclusive.

We cant go stay under restrictions forever. We cant eliminate covid.

I cant get absorbed by rules that arent mine to make.

mightbealittlebitmad · 28/01/2022 22:31

If I don't feel well I'll stay at home unless I need to go out for something necessary. If I'm not feeling great I try not to leave the house bar school runs or getting food/medicine. I'll ring in sick for work even though I don't get sick pay because I just can't face it.

If it's something a simple as a cold or feeling a bit under the weather I'll likely scale back unnecessary things and continue to go to work as normal because with no sick pay I can't be taking time off if I can work even if I would prefer not to.

I've stayed at home for non contagious things like a UTI but gone to work with a heavy cold which is contagious.

Anyone without sick pay will be doing the same as me. I'm lucky in the fact I don't have to drag myself in if I'm at deaths door because my husband brings in the main income but there will be people who will go to work barely standing because they need the money and I don't blame them one bit. They are their priority over someone who they may come into contact with who might suffer if they also get ill, that's just nature, keeping yourself afloat before a random stranger.

BrightYellowDaffodil · 28/01/2022 22:33

I guess this assumes we will know we have covid. If PCRs aren’t available and people don’t LFT then how would you know?
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On a personal level, work have introduced a “Do not come in if you have cold symptoms” rule, so I’d just WFH. Other than that, if I knew I had covid id be staying away from people for a few days but that’s about it.

Fairylightsongs · 28/01/2022 22:33

I’ll behave as I do when I have the cold, which is pretty much what if is now. Stay home when I’m going through the worst of it.

EatSleepRantRepeat · 28/01/2022 22:41

I'll do what I always have done - avoid seeing people if I'm unwell. I can't stand it when people come to gatherings and announce they had a spectacular diarrhoea bug the day before or are getting over a chest infection; it's so grim. My mum shielded for a year before covid when she had cancer because there were so many inconsiderate people around.

GirlInACountrySong · 28/01/2022 22:50

I can't avoid going to work.... will need the money, kids to feed etc... and will need the supermarket I guess

But can easily avoid going out to gatherings,pubs . No WFH option in retail

BasementIdeas · 28/01/2022 23:06

Pretty sure we won’t be able to access free LFTs / PCRs at that point. So nobody will know if they have Covid and things will be completely back to normal. So, if you have an illness that makes you too sick to attend work you don’t go in, otherwise go in as normal

Rosebel · 28/01/2022 23:17

The self issolating rules haven't affected us as when DH and DD2 had Covid we were just starting lockdown.
I'm vulnerable and think I've been incredibly lucky not to catch Covid but if isolation rules are scrapped I probably will catch it and could become very ill.
I understand people want normal life back but I'm not happy about ending isolation,. It's not the end of the world though!

flumposie · 29/01/2022 00:11

If I'm ill I won't drag myself in to work like I normally would.

AlexaShutUp · 29/01/2022 00:15

Inspired by another thread which has shown a very clear split between people who are less bothered about coming into contact with COVID positive people and those who think coming across a COVID positive person would be the end of the world.

I don't fit into either of those categories. I'm not worried about coming into contact with covid myself. I'm vaccinated, boosted and have had covid before so I don't think I would be seriously ill with it. However, I would still be worried about passing it on to someone else who could become seriously ill. Consequently, I would still isolate if I knew that I had covid, regardless of what the rules say.

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 29/01/2022 00:27

@BreakingUpWithMyPhone

The UK has a pretty rubbish culture of going to work when we're poorly, and infecting our colleagues. I wonder whether that might change a little in the right direction.

Hopefully

sleepwouldbenice · 29/01/2022 00:40

@AlexaShutUp

Inspired by another thread which has shown a very clear split between people who are less bothered about coming into contact with COVID positive people and those who think coming across a COVID positive person would be the end of the world.

I don't fit into either of those categories. I'm not worried about coming into contact with covid myself. I'm vaccinated, boosted and have had covid before so I don't think I would be seriously ill with it. However, I would still be worried about passing it on to someone else who could become seriously ill. Consequently, I would still isolate if I knew that I had covid, regardless of what the rules say.

I agree with this, where possible

Hey if the scientists genuinely say no need to isolate then I will celebrate with anyone.

But there is no harm in a bit of caution to help those in a more vulnerable situation. So isolating if you can, or wearing a mask if a close contact or exposed, or avoiding the vulnerable... is it really that much to ask? Really?

winnieanddaisy · 29/01/2022 00:42

I was told early on in the pandemic that I was CEV and was told to isolate . I did go out but not very often and I ended up catching covid from my DD who is a frontline nurse and got it herself from a covid patient. We both had it bad and were hospitalised DD was in ICU for a couple of weeks quite poorly , I was in for just over a week . This was in November 2020.
I've had 3 jabs and haven't isolated for quite a while . I don't feel that I need to and won't be in the future . The virus has watered down so much that flu is more scary .

sst1234 · 29/01/2022 01:08

You are not wrong OP. Most people will be pleased to have normality. A sizeable minority will have withdrawal symptoms that they don’t have someone telling them how to live their lives, for example knowing what to do when you are ill.

nalabae · 29/01/2022 04:43

We are not in isolation in London. Covid is done

Sparklingbrook · 29/01/2022 15:11

@nalabae

We are not in isolation in London. Covid is done

You don't have to isolate if you get a positive Covid test?

zafferana · 29/01/2022 15:16

If I'm too ill to go out, I'll stay at home.

If I'm well enough to go out, I will.

I currently have Covid (day 5). I feel like I have a cold. I'm staying at home, but if I didn't have to then I would've gone shopping today and filled my car up as it's nearly empty. It's fucking irritating being stuck at home when I actually better than I did last time I had a cold, yet then I was free to go about my business that spread what was a very unpleasant virus around the place. The regulations are out of sync with reality. I wish they'd scrap isolation now.

CornishGem1975 · 29/01/2022 17:02

@zafferana

If I'm too ill to go out, I'll stay at home.

If I'm well enough to go out, I will.

I currently have Covid (day 5). I feel like I have a cold. I'm staying at home, but if I didn't have to then I would've gone shopping today and filled my car up as it's nearly empty. It's fucking irritating being stuck at home when I actually better than I did last time I had a cold, yet then I was free to go about my business that spread what was a very unpleasant virus around the place. The regulations are out of sync with reality. I wish they'd scrap isolation now.

Quite. I had swine flu which was bloody awful and way worse than anybody that I have directly known to have had COVID (mainly everyone I know has had cold symptoms, nothing worse if they had symptoms at all) yet swine flu was vile and I was so ill for so long - yet I was able to go about my business - on the school runs, in and out of doctors and chemists, I even held a birthday party.