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Will you self isolate if covid positive test?

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Monopolyiscrap · 12/02/2022 00:47

Compulsory self-isolation is ending if you test positive with covid. Instead, people are being advised to choose to self-isolate.
In reality, I think many people will not. I would not get paid if I self-isolate but am well enough to work, so why would I forego a week's wages?

So will you self-isolate if you test positive with covid?

YABU - Yes I will self-isolate
YANBU - No I will not self-isolate

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AllThingsServeTheBeam · 12/02/2022 00:49

@Monopolyiscrap

Compulsory self-isolation is ending if you test positive with covid. Instead, people are being advised to choose to self-isolate. In reality, I think many people will not. I would not get paid if I self-isolate but am well enough to work, so why would I forego a week's wages?

So will you self-isolate if you test positive with covid?

YABU - Yes I will self-isolate
YANBU - No I will not self-isolate

I don't think unless actually ill we'll even test.
SparklyLeprechaun · 12/02/2022 00:49

I would, but it's no hardship. The kids take themselves to school, I mostly work from home anyway and food gets delivered.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 12/02/2022 00:50

Sorry, posted too soon.

So unless we have symptoms, no, I doubt it

roastingmichael · 12/02/2022 00:53

I would. I can work from home if needed and meetings can be done online or if not covered by colleagues.

I would not want to risk exposing anyone. I hope that my friends and colleagues will take the same approach.

GrandTheftWalrus · 12/02/2022 00:56

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Chloemol · 12/02/2022 01:57

Yes I would, I wouldn’t want to be responsible for passing it in to others

Siameasy · 12/02/2022 02:09

I won’t be testing so no

EmilyEmmabob · 12/02/2022 02:22

Well I'd be treating it like any other illness (I don't really class colds as an illness) where I'd stay away from people if I had it. I wouldn't go to the shops etc or to see friends/family, I'd also stay away from work. But I'd go for a walk or drive somewhere if it meant not being in close contact with people. We do have to 'learn to live' with it but I think that includes having a responsibility towards those who are vulnerable rather than just being out in the general population knowing you could infect someone.

Dishh · 12/02/2022 02:33

@EmilyEmmabob

Well I'd be treating it like any other illness (I don't really class colds as an illness) where I'd stay away from people if I had it. I wouldn't go to the shops etc or to see friends/family, I'd also stay away from work. But I'd go for a walk or drive somewhere if it meant not being in close contact with people. We do have to 'learn to live' with it but I think that includes having a responsibility towards those who are vulnerable rather than just being out in the general population knowing you could infect someone.

Sorry, are you saying Covid is a cold, and not really an illness?

ForksAndSpoons · 12/02/2022 02:51

I would but since I can work from home it's easy for me. I understand that not everyone will have the same luxury. I dread to think what will happen to my elderly parents with underlying health condition once COVID is given free reign.

OutlookStalking · 12/02/2022 03:19

I doubt it. I want to say I would but after isolating 2 fit an healthy children and a husband with nothing wrong with him I don't think we'd do that again. Realistically we wouldnt know next time if they're symptomless. Its made me realise so many must have bee symptomless and spreading all through!!

If I got it like the first time Id be home in bed so isolating out of necessity!!

Topseyt · 12/02/2022 03:37

I wouldn't even test unless symptoms prompted me.

ABCDEFyou · 12/02/2022 03:47

Sorry, are you saying Covid is a cold, and not really an illness?

I read it as she was saying cold is different to covid, as in, a cold isn't a bad illness and maybe would take less precautions but covid and other contagious illness she'd take more steps to avoid passing it on.

NothingIsWrong · 12/02/2022 03:53

If I had symptoms and tested positive I would, but I wouldn't be doing routine tests so could be asymptomatic and I wouldn't know.

Sahgah · 12/02/2022 03:57

I would like to isolate but I'm on 0 hours contract and so I don't get paid if I don't go to work and worse than that someone would take my shifts and I might not get them back again. I don't think I would test again.

LemonViolet · 12/02/2022 04:15

I don’t know yet, I’ll wait to see what my employers policy is. We work in small teams very closely with others, we still all wear masks all day, we’ve had issues with self-isolation requirements knocking whole teams out which has been really difficult, but equally they’re not going to want whole teams off ill together either and I think a lot of staff would be very uncomfortable with colleagues coming in with positive tests.

I’ll still be testing, if I’m sick, or before visiting a clinically vulnerable relative every 1-2 weeks, and before visiting another relative in a private residential home (they require to see a negative test result email before you go into the building anyway and I expect that won’t change). If I got a positive I’d just tell employer and ask what they want to do. But I can foresee there being uproar if they make people come to work in our teams with positive tests, so I expect we’ll have our own isolation/stay off work policy, probably 5 days. Employer will probably do a staff survey on it and then have own policy.

Notdoingthis · 12/02/2022 04:15

I won't test.

I21018 · 12/02/2022 04:20

I won't know because I won't be testing.

ForksAndSpoons · 12/02/2022 04:55

“I don’t see Germany going down the UK’s path quite so quickly,” said Knobloch. “But then you need to bear in mind there are broader philosophical differences in our health system, with avoidance of death still playing a fundamental part in the German system, while Britain’s system places more emphasis on maintaining the ability to work.”

I think this is it in a nutshell. Most countries seem to want to avoid deaths. The UK wants to avoid people people not being able to work. I don't blame people. The provision to self isolate without too high of a personal cost is not existent.

Wish I could get my parents out of the country.

DailyMailHater · 12/02/2022 04:56

I think the bigger question is will you still test?
I don’t think people will test anymore therefore those who are asymptomatic won’t even know they have it

DailyMailHater · 12/02/2022 04:58

Also this who say they will still be testing….will that be the case if they start charging for tests?
I can’t see them being free forever so if they start to charge for your box of 7, and your employer isn’t paying…..will you pay for them? Or not bother?

ForksAndSpoons · 12/02/2022 04:58

@DailyMailHater

I think the bigger question is will you still test? I don’t think people will test anymore therefore those who are asymptomatic won’t even know they have it
I wonder if tests will still ne available at all
CustardyCreams · 12/02/2022 05:12

I won’t be testing so no.

Overthebow · 12/02/2022 05:30

No, I’m not going to isolate and I certainly won’t isolate my toddler. I won’t go in to work if I knowingly have covid as I can work from home. But I would go out for walks and to the shops. I won’t be regularly testing though so unless I’m actually ill I won’t know. I won’t be testing for every cold either.