Will you self isolate if covid positive test?

[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’d love everyone to isolate if I’ll or tested positive - there are lots of people like me who are vulnerable or extremely vulnerable health wise.

@Lclaytonuk5555

I’d love everyone to isolate if I’ll or tested positive - there are lots of people like me who are vulnerable or extremely vulnerable health wise.

but the goverment doesnt care about you , or they wouldnt be stopping it being law to have to self isolate.Pppl will just be following goverment rules which def not unreasonable , be angry at them for allowing ppl with covid freely around vulnerable/elderly.

@zombie0037

Wow so many selfish people, let's hope nobody takes your attitude, and comes to work positive, and spreads it amongst your family,

You've changed your tune. Make your mind up.

Of course I will self isolate. I still remember being furious with my colleague who came into work with flu (pre covid pandemic) when I was early stages of pregnancy following many years of fertility problems and ivf. You never know what other people have going on and it’s not fair to expose them to something potentially so harmful.

The thing about chicken pox/measles etc is that your illness is visible. People can generally see the spots. And you are diagnosed on clinical presentation. When my children had chicken pox there was no need for any official diagnosis… we knew they had it and kept them at home.
Covid is different. The only way to differentiate it from hundreds of other viruses is by testing. At the moment those tests are ‘free’ (they’re not free, they cost billions of pounds, but they appear free to the user, currently). It cannot be diagnosed by clinical presentation, and millions of people carry the virus but don’t show symptoms (although actually it has that in common with many other viruses).
So once community testing is scaled back (imminently), most people won’t know they are carrying the SARS-COV-2 virus. And that’s why it’s different to people going out/socialising/working with chicken pox or measles.

@FunnyGoingsOn

I will but it wouldn't be too hard for me. I wonder if those that wouldn't isolate would visit elderly or vulnerable friends or relatives. It would seem a bit mean to isolate from your own friends and relatives when you wouldn't bother with people you don't know.

If I did isolate I wouldn't do it the same as when it was law. I'd keep away from people but I'd be happy to go for walks or drives.

But surely that's what always happened pre covid.. everyone went to work with a cold...coughed and spluttered in office ( my self included).... but would stay away from any vulnerable relatives.

I'm in Scotland so, yes I will

I will because it’s easy for me to work from home, my OH will have to go to work as there won’t be sick pay offered :-/
Some people have the luxury of choice but not all.

@DarthTater3

Of course I will self isolate. I still remember being furious with my colleague who came into work with flu (pre covid pandemic) when I was early stages of pregnancy following many years of fertility problems and ivf. You never know what other people have going on and it’s not fair to expose them to something potentially so harmful.

So you have your personal problems. How will you be assisting others with their problems? Will you be paying their bills?

YABU of course, people are still dying

YABU of course, people are still dying

What's the thinking here, we should continue isolation until people stop dying from Covid? When do you imagine that will be?

@Lclaytonuk5555

I’d love everyone to isolate if I’ll or tested positive - there are lots of people like me who are vulnerable or extremely vulnerable health wise.

I'd likely have to go through a disciplinary process if I had time off to self isolate after the law change, my opinion on the matter is therefore largely irrelevant.

So, a letter was recently sent by our trust nicely thanking us for our hard work over a very stressful half term where nearly every one of us had Covid, some of us for the second and third time round.

However, the well for funds for bringing in supply staff (and everything else!) has dried up and after half term we will be expected to think very carefully before taking any more sick time...So yeah, guess not.

@DarthTater3

Of course I will self isolate. I still remember being furious with my colleague who came into work with flu (pre covid pandemic) when I was early stages of pregnancy following many years of fertility problems and ivf. You never know what other people have going on and it’s not fair to expose them to something potentially so harmful.

You never know what other people have going on. Is it fair that you expect people to lose pay?

@Lclaytonuk5555

I’d love everyone to isolate if I’ll or tested positive - there are lots of people like me who are vulnerable or extremely vulnerable health wise.

There are lots of people like me who can't afford 10 days off on SSP.

Once the rules change the only people self isolating will be those who can afford it and if they and their employers don’t mind their lives/jobs being disrupted even if they feel perfectly ok. Everyone else will act as they did before 2020 according to their own situation.

It really doesn’t matter if you don’t like it or don’t agree, it’s what’s going to happen.

My company had a policy of "allowing" 3 periods of sickness a year, pre- covid.

Covid absences, at the moment, are not counted. But I fully expect that to change.

So it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks, if I'm facing a disciplinary for self isolation even though I could work, I will work.

And my company is one of the "better" ones.

@CantSitStill2022

My company had a policy of "allowing" 3 periods of sickness a year, pre- covid.

Covid absences, at the moment, are not counted. But I fully expect that to change.

So it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks, if I'm facing a disciplinary for self isolation even though I could work, I will work.

And my company is one of the "better" ones.

I'm 3 in 2 years, which is why I absolutely will not be isolating for a sniffle.

I have a mother with a lung disease and a friend with stage 4 cancer.

So yes I’d isolate for their sake if nothing else.

If I get a cold I'm ill for weeks and get a chest infection. So many of the population are vulnerable, apparently 25% once you hit your 60s. I am more worried now as even mild covid could be disastrous hor me.

My family will be testing twice a week for some time to come. This disease killed around 200 people a day in the UK in January this year.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

To give this some perspective, average combined military and civilian deaths in then UK as a consequence of WWII were also around 200 a day. Most families were touched by a death during WWII. If this cursed disease persists then in a couple more years most families will touched by a COVID associated death.

So yes, if we have a positive in the family ,that person will isolate (my daughter is isolating at the moment and thanks be to God is asymptomatic).

However I am not telling anyone else what to do. It is a personal choice. So long as people are aware of facts around this disease, and not the vast amount of misinformation out there, then I respect their decision.

I would like to say yes, but after going through isolation 3 times with my family when 1 member had Covid I don’t think I could do it again. Though I would be careful, avoid as much contact with other people as possible, prob more cautious than if I had a cold.

Yes of course

@Theluggage15

Once the rules change the only people self isolating will be those who can afford it and if they and their employers don’t mind their lives/jobs being disrupted even if they feel perfectly ok. Everyone else will act as they did before 2020 according to their own situation.

It really doesn’t matter if you don’t like it or don’t agree, it’s what’s going to happen.

Pretty much this.

Looks like self isolation is still a novelty for some. Sure enough, this craze will soon wear off, when the penny finally drops and they get bored, or indeed their employer stops paying them to self isolate. It’s a virus, like many other others and it won’t magically disappear one day.