Will you self isolate if covid positive test?

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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

@NoPostSoNoCard

I will in the sense that I work from home so just won't go out, but I will still need to take my DD to school so I'd still go out for that.

She's missed so much so I wouldn't only keep her off if she's too ill to actually learn.

What will be your response when teachers and staff in the school get it and self isolate.

Our family all had covid a few weeks ago. We only knew to test as the school had an outbreak.

Youngest child was a bit more cuddley but then absolutely fine the morning after. Tested positive straight away but never suffered with it at all, in none covid times they would have still gone to school every day not even had a sick day.

Parents tested positive a few days, I never had any symptoms and dad felt a bit off but nothing bad. Oldest child never caught it even though we never self isolated from each in the house.

If the lateral flow tests aren’t available or they cost money to buy we wouldn’t have tested and never known as our symptoms aren’t bad.

It would be like before covid. Are you sick enough to need a day off work or school? If it’s yes I will stay home but I would go back out into the world when we felt better.

I will not self-isolate, because I won't get paid if I don't work.

I have been saying the same since March 2020, though.

In fact, I've never done a Covid test, as I've had no reason to, so am not going to start now...

Depends on the job. You’d hope health care/police etc would still have a policy of not coming in. But these places have the luxury of sick pay and appreciate delivery drivers etc would be self employed and would still work. There’s also the element of risk. Someone dropping parcels at a door isn’t going to infect many people, but someone counselling someone in a small closed room for an hour, they will definitely infect them. Someone in an office on their own, ok.
I hope attitude to sickness changes especially in the NHS. Previously even if you had flu, until you were bed ridden, you were expected to work coughing and sneezing on the wards with patients. So many people would have been killed by hospital staff. I hope mask wearing for sick people remains in hospitals, so they don’t infect others. Just like it’s been the norm for decades in Asian countries. You have a cold, your wear a mask so you don’t infect others, it’s just polite.

Reading this thread all I can say is thank God I don’t live in the UK. My son’s friend was a fit healthy 12 year old, he caught Covid 2 weeks ago and is now on a heart monitor because his resting heart rate is so high. No exercise allowed until they resolve it. I know loads of others with long Covid. Some people are very selfish.

Sahp. Would drop kids off at school and not go out the rest of the time. But that's it.

If I ever need a reminder of how horribly selfish society can be, I can come back to this thread.

I'm honestly disgusted about the lack of thought and consideration for other people.

Yaaaawwn....

Please. People have put their entire lives on hold in some form for two years now, and taken a newly formed vaccine, the vast majority of society did that for other people, not for themselves. I certainly wasn't doing any of it for myself or my family who all had Covid very early on and were absolutely fine, but I stuck to the rules throughout and am triple jabbed. As PP said, it's the most unselfish society has probably been ever.

And now two years on, people who need to work and pay bills, or hell, even want to just live their lives or shock horror go on holiday are still 'selfish?

I think some people get a kick out of thinking they are above others.

I think realistically only if I was ill enough to need to stay at home anyway. (And that's probably the only time I'd test also.)

@Lima1

Reading this thread all I can say is thank God I don’t live in the UK. My son’s friend was a fit healthy 12 year old, he caught Covid 2 weeks ago and is now on a heart monitor because his resting heart rate is so high. No exercise allowed until they resolve it. I know loads of others with long Covid. Some people are very selfish.

Don't be so ridiculous ... who pays your wages in your country when you are off sick? Who pays if you need to isolate 6-7-8 times a year? All fully paid eh?

It will depend on my work policy. If I need to go into work then I will wear a mask on public transport. I wouldnt go out socially.

Also wont, be testing, but if for some reason I did, then still no.

I work in a school. I’ve stopped testing so won’t know if I get it (again!). I will go back to staying off if I’m too ill to work, otherwise going in. What else can you do? At this point I think about 80% of staff and pupils have had it at least once a year.

once (not a year)

If you are under the impression that you can stop the teacher getting omicron at this point, i think you are somewhat deluded.

By the time most kids have tested positive, theyve usually passed it on to their mates anyway. This means the teacher has little to no chance of avoiding it even if people follow the existing rules. Eventually the teacher will get it or they wont get it.

The problem is 30 kids in close proximity on a daily basis.

This applies to any contagious illness in a school. You cannot stop outbreaks.

Eventually if you are going to get it, you are going to get it. Nothing is going to change that.

If teachers are off with it, schools will have to juggle as they have been for the past two years. Teachers can only get it so many times, just like everyone else, too.

You are not going to catch Covid 6/7/8 times a year. We are talking about people who know they have Covid but won’t self isolate.

@RedToothBrush

What’s your job?

I don’t go out much anyway, so my answer is theoretical to a point. So I would only test if I felt ill and if I feel ill then I won’t go out anyway. If I get it without symptoms, them I won’t know as I won’t test.

I work in a school and won’t be testing but I will self isolate if I have symptoms. Appreciate I am in the fortunate position of getting sick pay so it’s an easy decision compared to people who don’t get paid if they don’t go to work.

@JuliaDomna

Reading some of these comments makes me realise what a shite country England is.

Leave then.

To rule out that you've got asymptomatic covid

And who is going to keep doing that when tests are £30 a pop?

@Cornettoninja exactly. The vast majority of people won't test any more. A few months ago the govt were supplying almost a million lat flow tests a DAY.

I won't be testing unless symptomatic/seeing someone CEV in close contact.

My work is flexible so if I do get it and happen to have tested so realise, I would wfh. I only go in once a week anyway so wouldnt miss much.

I had Covid in December, was poorly for a few days but it was comparable to the sort of seasonal virus I get most years.

I will, but wouldn't expect anyone else to especially if they feel pretty normal as some seem to do.

I do hope no one is penalised for being off work if they need to though and feel rough

I doubt that tests will be readily available so there will be no certain way of knowing will there?

To all the people saying "omg people are so selfish...."

My child almost died with RSV. On a ventilator for a week, doped to the eyeballs on about 5 drugs, medically paralysed. They've been left with recurring chest/respiratory problems.

It's a widely circulating virus. I don't say people are "selfish" because they don't test or isolate with it, just because my child was in the minority to be more severely ill with it.