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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

OP posts:
Whitefire · 15/02/2022 23:16

@sst1234

Funny how selflessness and martyrdom turns to pragmatism as soon as people have to start paying for tests. These are the same people who can sit at home and virtue signal, sorry isolate, watching Netflix and baking banana bread with the kids.
I'm not quite sure what you are saying. I won't be paying for tests, nor have I or ever will be sitting at home watching Netflix and baking banana bread.
ExcuseeeeMe · 16/02/2022 01:16

@GirlInACountrySong

We have done what was required, we have protected the NHS

Vulnerable groups have the information to keep themselves safe.

I'm not putting my family income at risk to 'possibly' protect people I don't even know. All covid measures are now removed at work. Anyone vulnerable entering can take their own precautions.

This with bells on
AlwaysLatte · 16/02/2022 01:18

Yes I definitely would. I would be horrified to think I might give it to someone vulnerable.

GirlInACountrySong · 16/02/2022 01:22

@AlwaysLatte

Yes I definitely would. I would be horrified to think I might give it to someone vulnerable.

Do you not work?

momiamarichman · 16/02/2022 01:51

Yes, absolutely. But I'm a student working from home so I don't have to use time off and such.

ExcuseeeeMe · 16/02/2022 02:40

@AlwaysLatte

Yes I definitely would. I would be horrified to think I might give it to someone vulnerable.
If you have the luxury then good for you. But those of us who need to work to feed our children would be more horrified about our kids going hungry . HTH
Aishah231 · 16/02/2022 06:43

@AlwaysLatte

Yes I definitely would. I would be horrified to think I might give it to someone vulnerable.
Do you worry about giving other viruses to vulnerable people? Have you been abroad since this all started? We all make choices and none of them are risk free for ourselves or others.
Scianel · 16/02/2022 07:35

Free at source tests are confirmed to be scrapped. Inflation at a thirty year high.
Somehow I doubt people will be sitting at home now.

NiLunNiLautre · 16/02/2022 08:14

Most of us will not pay for tests. I certainly won't.
So the chances of us even knowing we have Covid are slashed, especially as it's likely to be mild for most of us, too.
Can't see too many voluntarily self-isolating from here in in, tbh.

SlashBeef · 16/02/2022 09:13

I was vulnerable. I was vulnerable when I had to give birth without my husband in April 2020 while suffering from severe mental health issues. I was vulnerable when my perinatal mental health team weren't allowed to visit my house to support me when I came home with my newborn. Nobody was sticking up for me then because they were too busy telling pregnant women and new mothers to suck it up, get that wartime spirit, 'loads of people have it worse'. I had to crack on and get through it.
I am done. The clinically vulnerable are not the only people in the world that matter and I'm sick of playing along.

Whitefire · 16/02/2022 09:31

Flowers slash I hope things are looking brighter for you and your family now.

ShallWeTalkAboutBruno · 16/02/2022 10:07

@Scianel

Free at source tests are confirmed to be scrapped. Inflation at a thirty year high. Somehow I doubt people will be sitting at home now.
The people who think the tests are ‘free’ will be getting a big shock now the taxpayer has to start paying the money back. There are going to be a few years (at least) of belt tightening coming up. And for us, that rules out paying £200 a month for covid tests.
Toanewstart23 · 16/02/2022 10:10

@alisoninwonderland

People on this thread have said 'they just don't WANT to' Page 2
Hands up Me
Rosscameasdoody · 16/02/2022 11:52

@SlashBeef

I was vulnerable. I was vulnerable when I had to give birth without my husband in April 2020 while suffering from severe mental health issues. I was vulnerable when my perinatal mental health team weren't allowed to visit my house to support me when I came home with my newborn. Nobody was sticking up for me then because they were too busy telling pregnant women and new mothers to suck it up, get that wartime spirit, 'loads of people have it worse'. I had to crack on and get through it. I am done. The clinically vulnerable are not the only people in the world that matter and I'm sick of playing along.
Playing along with what ? None of the Covid restrictions were to protect the vulnerable - they were to protect the NHS, as has been repeated ad nauseum on this thread. Just to be clear, there are many people who have serious immunosuppressant conditions, for whom the vaccines just don’t work, and they are just as much at risk from coming into contact with Covid now as they were at the start of the pandemic. And as far as I’m aware, after having two years of regular emails and letters giving dire warnings of the consequences of Covid and detailing how to keep safe, suddenly the term CEV will be scrapped with no one who previously fell into this category even being informed, let alone advised on how best to keep safe once restrictions have gone. The government is winding up free testing and proposing to charge for anyone who still wants to do so. So no one will know if they’re positive or not - which effectively allows the government to pretend Covid has gone away. So now it’s every man for himself. The problem for those previously classed as CEV is that when you’ve spent two years being told Covid will likely kill you, it’s a bit more difficult to adjust to the thought of people out and about while actively infected. Not asking for any more lockdowns, or isolating, or even testing, so why the attitude ? It would be nice to think that when the restrictions are all lifted, people might spare a thought for previously CEV people who are still at risk, and exercise a bit of caution, but judging by some of the contributions here, that’s too much to ask. So my question again, is exactly what do you think you’re ‘playing along’ with ?
Rosscameasdoody · 16/02/2022 12:32

@SickAndTiredAgain

Because the inconvenience of wearing a mask/doing an LFT/opening a window is just too … inconvenient …?

That’s disingenuous. No one that I’ve seen on this thread (or anywhere else) has said that just doing an LFT for free is too much of an “inconvenience”.
People have said that they don’t have £30 a week to spare on a box of LFTs.
People have said they cannot afford to heat their home/pay their rent/feed their kids if they miss work and don’t get paid.
People have said their workplace almost certainly wont allow people who have covid but aren’t actually unwell to call in sick.

Doing the LFT is the easy part, it’s what comes after if you test positive that isn’t (or what comes before if you have to pay for them). And for many people it’s much more than just “inconvenient”.

Yes they have - several have said they just don’t want to test, or wear masks.
Rosscameasdoody · 16/02/2022 12:35

@Toanewstart23

The NHS should have been so so so much more narrow with their definition of CEV
Why ? It was based on GP records of peoples’ individual conditions. Covid affects people in many different ways and targets different organs depending on where the weakness lies, so many different conditions are vulnerable to it.
Rosscameasdoody · 16/02/2022 12:38

@Toanewstart23

“Vulnerable” means different things to different people

And to me…. Vulnerable doesn’t just mean those, double or triple jabbed that may suffer if they caught covid.

Yep, we’ve covered this upthread.
Remmy123 · 16/02/2022 12:39

No

SlashBeef · 16/02/2022 12:40

@Whitefire

Flowers slash I hope things are looking brighter for you and your family now.
Thank you so much Flowers it means a lot for someone to just show a bit of compassion because it was horrendous at the time.
Toanewstart23 · 16/02/2022 12:49

@Rosscameasdoody

There’s nothing new covered on any thread on this issue at any time.
It’s rehashed over and over
Many times during the same thread.

It’s the covid debate!

Terfydactyl · 16/02/2022 12:58

@SlashBeef
Flowers

Hope you are doing better now. Hope your actually getting some help now too.

VikingOnTheFridge · 16/02/2022 13:41

However much we have covered the fact that vulnerable and vulnerable to covid are not interchangeable, people still conflate the two on a pretty frequent basis.

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 16/02/2022 13:48

are people saying they won’t isolate when positive when’s Boris says it’s ok?

Or are they not isolating now?

Starlightstarbright1 · 16/02/2022 13:52

@OnceuponaRainbow18

are people saying they won’t isolate when positive when’s Boris says it’s ok?

Or are they not isolating now?

I am not testing without symptoms so don't know if i have it.
Waxonwaxoff0 · 16/02/2022 14:36

@OnceuponaRainbow18

are people saying they won’t isolate when positive when’s Boris says it’s ok?

Or are they not isolating now?

Same as PP, I'm not testing.
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