Would you self isolate?

[janemaster]

The advice is to self isolate if you have travelled from certain areas abroad, even if you have no symptoms. We know in other countries that not everyone has followed this advice.
So be honest, if you had no symptoms but were told to self isolate for 2 weeks in the house, would you? This would mean not leaving the house at all and staying in a separate room from anyone else living in your house.

YABU - No I would not
YANBU - Yes I would

@Aridane Yes. It seems to share the fact that it appears to remain in the body with the potential to flare up at a later date. I was meaning that genetically, this virus has more in common with Aids and Ebola than with Influenza. Not that it has the same presentation.

@SirChing And once again you can't see what some people say to say lives are like and the position they are in.
Thankfully there is another thread discussing this with people who recognise the poverty trap in the UK.

I would only self isolate if I had bad flu symptoms. If not, then I would still go in to work as I need the money

We went to a school open day last week and one of the students told us about their half term skiing trip to Italy. I mean why were they even at school, especially for an open day??
On Saturdays I help out at a Saturday school and a little girl in my group told us about her half term in Italy.
Do people not think?? I stayed at home over half term but now I was exposed to at least two people who had just travelled to the affected areas and this could have been easily avoided.

I guess they will introduce the home test kits at some stage if it gets to epidemic levels and tell people not to come into hospitals unless critical. [obviously not sure if people will take that advice or not] If it was worst case scenario then yes i could see things going badly but none of us know how well we will cope with it. There must be a reason we have been ranked second best to deal with a pandemic and i guess this will really put the governmet and NHS to the test.

It’ll depend if we have the staff to go around doing the home test kits

When I had the swine flu there was one GP who was dealing with all of the suspected cases locally. He didn’t deal with any other patients during that period

He came to where I was to do the test, they delivered my medication there, and I was checked up on there a few times (I was phoned by someone 4/5 random times of day and night to ensure I was complying with quarantine)

I don’t think there’s the capacity locally to have a GP do that now

And once again you can't see what some people say to say lives are like and the position they are in

I am afraid that that sentence doesn't make sense.

I get that you are struggling with this concept, but it's possible to both have sympathy for the poverty trap AND be aware that the need to self quarantine overrides a persons personal circumstances. I notice you also don't seem to be able to grasp that the people who need to quarantine aren't skint, as the vast majority have just come back from holidays!

It's actually fascinating to read the posts of someone who seems to be totally amoral. But I do realise that perhaps you have cognitive struggles that are private, which could also explaon your more recent posts.

So they lock themselves in their house and starve.

Wounded who will collect the bodies.
Bet that job would pay well.

*Wonder

Did those points make a whoosh sound as they went over your head? You clearly don't get the nuances and distinctions that other people have put forwards. So there is really no point in discussing this with you any further.

Are you going to leave the thread again?

Nope. You just refuse to actually engage with the reality of some. Why don't you join the other thread?

I guess they will introduce the home test kits at some stage if it gets to epidemic levels and tell people not to come into hospitals unless critical.

With swine flu they just stopped testing in the end.

With swine flu they just stopped testing in the end.

Or this i guess if it gets to a point where there is no benefit in knowing the actual numbers

Rejuvenation of the planet and a better quality of life for further generations. Good.

I don't think this will "rejuvenate the planet" and improve the quality-of-life for future generations especially considering the majority of deaths are in people who were not likely to have children in the future anyway. If you're really concerned about overpopulation and the impact on future generations don't have any more children.

Yes definitely g

@itsallthedramaMickiloveit no i couldnt, we struggle as it is living in the southeast, taking 2 weeks off work is not an options for me, my company dont offer sick pay, just the goverment one, which is not good enough

So what would you do?

Well no because that's 1. Illegal and 2 immoral.

But as I said. Disease is nature's population control.

Nobody would be doing the killing. It's just life on this planet.

Well yes, but so is infertility and we don't advocate stopping infertility treatment for the sake of the planet.

Yes. Because again immoral. And it wouldn't got down well with the electorate.

But again. Solutions aren't always nice.

We could also sterilise people after two children. But nobody would agree to that. Even though it would help everyone.

We're more or less on the same page itsallthedrama.

Forced sterilisation. One child per family.
Those "delightful " ideas have already been tried. Pesky human beings with their human lives.

Where is Thanos when you need him?

The Government here and in the US need to find a way to ensure those who get no sick pay do not turn up to work when they are sick. I understand the dilemma for people, some people just don't have the option to not work for two or more weeks. People on zero hours contracts and the self employed are in a difficult position as if they isolate and don't work they don't get paid. There has to be a solution put forwards by the government. It is a moral dilemma, but not an easy one if not working means not eating and not paying bills.