Partner or teenagers being unreasonable - covid

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DP and I came back from a short holiday on Friday, last time we saw DC’s was Monday. I tested positive for covid on Saturday and immediately took myself up to the bedroom and spare room and shut the door.
DP is staying downstairs, we are both NHS so I can’t go to work but DP can as he is testing negative.
DP happened to mention to the DC’s that he had a headache at which point they told him he needed to go upstairs as he probably has covid. He has refused as he is still testing negative and they are really short at work so doesn’t want to sit in the same room as me. As I said before we are both NHS and where he works is more acute than where I work and short staffing could result in cancer surgery being cancelled.
The DC’s are furious and have spent the last hour shouting down the stairs calling him selfish. To be far I can see if from both sides. Older DC is away on holiday at the end of the week and other DC has sporting event albeit 5 weeks away, so can understand why the want their dad to isolate upstairs. On the other hand he is testing negative and coming upstairs means there will be a high chance if he hasn’t got covid now he will have if he sits with me.
so my question is should he come upstairs or stay down and risk giving the whole house covid.

When we had covid in our house we all kept our distance but no-one totally isolated from each other. No-one caught it from the infectious person.
If your teens are worried they should keep some distance and ventilate the house well.

This isn’t about COVID is it! They hate him and this is another excuse to show that.

Oh so you've a pair of little activists living in your home who are actually bullying their father because of his Wrong Think. Don't you think you should present a united front and put a stop to this?

Sorry but your DC sound awful.

a) there were coughs, colds, headaches and flu before Covid and people didn't lock themselves away. He has tested negative continuously so could have an "old fashioned " cold.

b) unless they are sacrificing their lives and staying shut away in their bedrooms they could pick up Covid anywhere. Your DC could pick up Covid from a friend or coach while training for sport and bring it back home - how selfish when family work in the NHS.

Surely saving lives at work is more important than a sports medal. Very selfish.

c) We don't tolerate brainwashing and 'no debate'. Lia is male - no getting away from that. Whether you believe in gender is opinion and everyone is entitled to their own view.

I had a headache for 2.5 days before testing positive. I had headaches after my vaccines and as DH was already positive, I just knew I had covid and isolated.

Do your DC have exams, college, work, about to go away? It could be they're concerned that if they catch covid, they won't be able to attend. Covid wiped both of us out for a week and we could barely function, so in the ideal world it'd have been better to keep apart.

@Afterfire NHS are recommended to rest if they have symptoms, knowing you might have covid and going to work on say, a transplant ward or cancer ward would be totally irresponsible. So yes we still have to test.

This.Their rudeness and entitled attitude is breathtaking

Oh so you've a pair of little activists living in your home who are actually bullying their father because of his Wrong Think. Don't you think you should present a united front and put a stop to this?

Agree with @LondonWolf on this.

Apart from swimming in a murky sea of online social contagion, these bullying activist types are increasingly showing they have one thing in common - they hate one or both their parents.

This needs addressing pretty quickly, I'd have thought. It'll only get worse if they go a university that doesn't respect free speech.

Then they can get hungry. Tell them to ind their necks in.

its probably a good idea to not mix but they are old enough to sort that, and their food out for themselves. Stay with friends, or stay in their rooms.

No offence OP but your children sound very over dramatic it's just a headache and until a test says otherwise why should your partner shut himself away knowing you definitely have covid

Also they sound pretty disrespectful shouting obscenities down the stairs at their dad I know what my dad would have said if I had been that rude to him but I won't repeat it here 😂

Oh so you've a pair of little activists living in your home who are actually bullying their father because of his Wrong Think. Don't you think you should present a united front and put a stop to this?

100% agree with this your kids sound very immature

@CallOnMe why is it for good reason they hate him, ? So far its because he has different views , thats allowed it os a free country and because he asks them to do things, again they live in the house
Now they have said its ok fpr positive mum to sit downstairs but him testing negative couldn't , that makes zero sense as its airbourne so the mum sitting in a room they are in is a risk, to be fair everywhere is a risk at the moment
With no rules and no laws to stay in , every time anyone goes anywhere there is a small risk of picking if up

I think they're being a bit ridiculous - covid is everywhere at the moment. Unless they are isolating at home for a few weeks before the sports event, not going out and not seeing their mates etc, then they are being really silly. They could catch covid anywhere right now. Their dad is testing negative, so why on earth would he isolate with you when you are positive?

Initially, I thought you were going to say that they were outraged by the idea of your DH going to work and potentially putting his vulnerable patients at risk. I would understand that more, though equally, if he is testing negative, you could argue that the patients will be at greater risk if the hospital is understaffed. However, it seems that their only concern is for themselves... are they always this self centred?

If they want to isolate themselves, then that's their choice, but your DH is clearly doing what he believes is best for his vulnerable patients. They need to get over themselves, frankly, and realise that the world doesn't actually revolve around them.

God imagine being bullied in your own home like this. I’d walk out on the lot of you unless there is a massive drip feed incoming.

I think you have more of a problem with the woke snowflakes than your DH having a headache.
Other illnesses existed way before covid and he could just have a headache.

Stay down.