Covid Dilemma - what would you do?

[Iamanon55]

Thought I had a mild cold but just tested and I’ve got bloody Covid! My DD has very important exams coming up this week and my DS has his 18th this week. These exams are very very important and my DD’s future relies on these. No-one but me knows about my positive test and I could keep quiet and no-one need ever know. I feel terrible about this because in any other situation, I would of course isolate and let people know: what would you do?

It's 2023, things have moved on.

I'm not against testing, I do it myself before seeing my elderly nanna but there is no way I would randomly test with cold symptoms then not allow my DC to do exams/celebrations.

It's to be treated like any other virus now - as far as I'm aware there are no general restrictions. You can isolate if you want to, and stay away from anyone vulnerable but if your daughter feels OK I see no reason why she shouldn't sit her exams as normal.

There is no need for you to have tested and certainly no need for your well daughter to isolate.

Carry on as normal and, for goodness sake, stop testing! None of this fuss is necessary.

People test when they're trying to get out of something I guess.

Why did you test?

I dont see a dilemma

You'd dd doesn't have covid.

Do you know these teenagers are all healthy?

And even if they are, I'm guessing they're not taking just one exam? Maybe more than one? So even 'a mild case of covid' isn't an ideal situation to be taking exams in?

I know when I was taking exams a long time ago, the exam takers could ask the exam board to take into consideration health conditions on the day of the exam when their exam was graded.

Whats the point in testing in the first place if you knew how much of a dilemma it would cause

E@WellErrr those of us who are vulnerable, & those of us who care for other vulnerable people. Covid didn't stop existing, or killing just because it's 'disrupted'.

This.

I think kids are still.expected in school.if they feel.well.enough.h ,lots of people have to.work with covid now.

Public health guidance- your daughter and close household members need only consider testing if they are ill.

Same guidance applies to staff working in hospitals, care homes etc.

I would, however, lock yourself away until DD’s exams almost done (or you are negative)- for her sake. But that’s common sense if she has a big week coming up and wants to reduce chance of feeling rough. You’d do the same with flu or anything else infectious….

My DH tested pos in October 10 days before a big family hol. He isolated at home (completely away from myself and kids, in a spare room)… we all dodged it. It was worth it for a great trip! (Not quite sure if he’d agree with me though 🙈)

There is no requirement to test or to isolate anymore.

I work in a hospital in a patient facing role and only need to stay home if I'm too ill to work. If I feel well enough I am expected to go in and wear a mask.

I wouldn't even test otherwise. It needs to be treated like any other virus

This!!

I am confused about your dilemma - surely its you dont want to make DC poorly so they perform well for exams/enjoy their birthday? They do not need to isolate unless you make them poorly.

I dont understand why you even took the test for mild cold symptoms if you were not going to follow the simple and easy advice a positive result would entail.

I didn't even know you still had to isolate!

I have a family member who has just had a transplant and if I'm going to visit them I do test for Covid, but that's it.

@CwmYoy

Socially responsible people are still testing. To protect the vulnerable.

Selfish people aren't.

Socially responsible people who can afford to are still testing...

It's not as simple as calling people selfish.

I didn't even know you still had to isolate!

I have a family member who has just had a transplant and if I'm going to visit them I do test for Covid, but that's it.

Forget it and carry on as normal. No-one needs to isolate anymore, since the vaccinations. The vunerable are now protected. I wouldn't say anything to anyone.

I didn't even know you still had to isolate!

You don’t.

Do they? Seems like a big guess, that OP is hoping to get her DD out of sitting important exams when she suggested the opposite, that she was inclined not to tell anyone she has covid? And was asking others opinions about whether that was okay or not?

I wouldn't even consider disrupting my dds important exams. It wouldn't even be a fleeting thought. I'd try and make sure she stayed well and that's it.

Well then!

Had to double check this post wasn't a couple of years old 😃

@WellErrr

it is the gift that keeps giving, sadly it doesn't only give to the twats who think it no longer infects or kills...if only!

'shirkers' indeed...

like my friend with cancer?
my pregnant neighbour with diabetes?
my very elderly frail neighbour?

oh do fuck off.

I just had to check to see if this was a zombie thread but no, people are still doing this in 2023. Smh, will this madness ever be over?