Is anyone still genuinely isolating any more?

[Covidpositive19]

When I say genuinely isolating I mean staring at the same four walls of your house for days without leaving?

I have this morning tested positive. My young DC is on day 8 with everyone else in the house having negative daily LFT so naively hoped I had escaped it.

My DC has obviously been kept off school, school told, any contacts told. For the first 4 days they didn’t step outside the door, but on days 5 and 6 my DP took them for a quick drive (no stops) and on day 7 I drove them to a secluded area for some fresh air. Today with the storms they have not left the house again. We are continuing the daily LFT in the hope of an early end.

I have had a rubbish week, like most families when Covid hits, juggling childcare, home learning and work with my DP. Staring at the same four walls for the next however many days seems inhumane.

I have just got back from a quick walk alone, I wore a mask and saw very few people as you can imagine but any that I did I immediately crossed the road to avoid. I plan on doing this whenever the weather allows. I’m an adult and can actively make sure I don’t get near anyone, in the fresh air I genuinely don’t see the risk. I have been more careful with my DC as they’re young so it’s been easier to keep them in for the majority of the time.

Especially given what the government have been up to!

YANBU that anyone with covid these days should be allowed to exercise common sense when it comes to fresh air/exercise.

YABU that I should stay glued to my house no matter what because of the minuscule risk of an accident when out walking/a wheelie bin hitting me in today’s weather/any other (IMO) mad reasons.

We have just stopped testing

If you WOH and commute, you wouldn't want it to spread to someone CV or CEV???

Self-isolation changes are only being brought in to save BoJo.

I personally wouldn’t have not tested as my DC has Covid, I wouldn’t want to put someone close to us at risk (for example grandparents who usually come to the house to do childcare). And I tested my DC for a few reasons combined, including them complaining of a headache (so unusual), cases ramping up at school and plans to go away over last weekend with family. I couldn’t have knowingly put them at risk without testing her in the same way that if she had vomited a few times that morning, I wouldn’t have gone ahead with the plans and risk everyone else catching the sickness bug.

I think, as an adult, going out with a PROPER mask on & avoiding people by crossing the road etc is ok IF you really must go out. I wouldn't take a child out though UNLESS I could be hyper vigilant and ensure they stayed away from everyone

More to the point, is anyone still testing testing anymore? Especially if they don’t need to professionally.

We've had Covid in last 2 weeks and have been isolating completely until yesterday. DC now negative and able to return to school but adults are still positive. Decided in the best interest of mental health for all that we'd take dc to school. Wore mask, fully outdoors, dropped off early when no one was around. Pick up at after school care the same. Today a friend did pick up/drop off instead but that wasn't possible yesterday.

We feel bad about it but we put no one at risk and it was the right decision.

I feel like in the Uk we have been treated like children who can’t be trusted with having common sense.

Given the threads on here over the past 2 years that's no surprise.

@FantasticFebruary haven’t bothered with a PCR for my DC as their positives on the LFTs have been so blazing my clear and every day. I told school myself and any contacts so didn’t see the point.

Sorry that was meant at @sst1234 - slight fuzzy head!

@cheekychaplin treated like children by Boris Johnson and his disgusting cabinet though? Not by sensible leaders.

Yes, I have a close family member currently isolating. He's also not feeling too well. Not everybody find Omicron easy, even if it's not Delta.

Changes on Monday anyway doesn't it. I stuck to the letter of the rules in the beginning. Now quite frankly I couldn't give a fuck. I've had covid twice, triple vaccinated.

I'm not going to go an breath in the ECV (step dad is) but mine and my children's lives need to happen.

DH is a secondary teacher, no one has lftd for weeks.

I'm isolating. But I've be been our for a walk with the dog at night. I don't speak to anyone so it won't spread.

Freedom day for me tomorrow. DH refusing to even test until 10 days are up!

A lot of us are still shielding never mind fucking isolating for a few days!

I’m in favour of isolating till the rules change BUT I wouldn’t include a walk well away from other people in this. We’ve known for a long time this is unlikely to pass it on.

I went walking late at night and crossed the road to avoid the handful of dogwalkers that were on my 5km route. If I'm healthy enough to do a brisk 5k walk, I'm too healthy to trap myself in the house. Zero people were put at risk and it spared me from insomnia from being sedentary. I did not go anywhere busy or enclosed to be a hazard to anyone else.

Last year, my children were taken for walks at night when they had contact isolations. Imprisoning them for 10 days because a classmate had a cold was a ridiculous policy. Again, no one was put at risk.

anyone with covid these days should be allowed to exercise common sense when it comes to fresh air/exercise

The only way in which you are BU, @Covidpositive19 , is to say "these days". This should have been the case all along, not just now.

Yea I am, but my OH and kids are testing negative which makes it easier!

I test simply because I work with and have vulnerable family members so if I’m positive I’ll avoid them for a few days.

I don’t know what the new rules will be but currently you can’t get things like an operation if you’re positive which has had a big impact on a few people I know as they’ve already been waiting a long time.

I have and will continue to follow government advice. Whole family had it in January, 34 days in total with at least one of us isolating. Yes it was hard but it was the right thing to do.

My mother in law died two weeks ago. Dh went to stay with his dsis while they sorted everything out.
They were due to come home on Monday but both now testing positive. They have no idea now of when they will be coming home.
Dh isn't good at doing nothing and is starting to climb the walls.
They are staying put for now.

YANBU to have gone for a walk OP. Where I live 2 hours socially distanced exercise outside has been allowed for positive cases almost throughout the pandemic, and shockingly enough we haven't all descended into hell-fire.

Lots of people here live in flats without any outside space and it was considered a good balance between preserving mental health and maintaining appropriate covid precautions.

@BogRollBOGOF yes this is my train of thought exactly. When I have had non covid viruses over the past year (bad colds, sickness bugs) there have been days where I haven’t left the house because I felt so horrendous. I don’t feel horrendous today at all and so got out for a quick walk.

@OnceuponaRainbow18 we’ve all been testing negative other than DC until me, today, day 8! I had gotten complacent especially as I’ve dodged it being in the house before.

Where are you @ImInStealthMode?

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