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

It's not that you disagree Helena, that's fine. It's the fact you have made up false political leanings with no evidence, you are STILL going on about HB even when I said "oh yes I forgot it's been amalgamated". You have said that I said homelessness is easily rectified, which I didn't, and then haven't provided any citations.

You have implied I have lied about my past jobs and homeless history, you have made disparaging comments about me being a housing officer but, most of all, when I have repeatedly asked you to stop addressing me as all the above is making me feel harassed, you will not stop.

If that's the person you want to be then that's up to you. But it isn't the sort of person I want to engage with or have make things up about me.

I don’t understand why some posters think running would be allowed, or that because they live rurally they could go for walks?! Do people not understand the meaning of isolation!

Yes it means staying away from people ...

@Teateaandmoretea I would go running - where I live at 6.30amI don’t see a soul and if I did I’d just give a 5m wide birth!

@holyhead there are some weird people on here who think you have to stay 'inside', it's the same with chicken pox threads. I reckon if you open your windows in London you are more likely to pass on your germs to the passers by than out on your own in a rural area 🤔.

Ok i apologize for that It was an assumption on my part.

Did you say you have a Masters?

They are about to cover this on Channel 4 news.

I live in a very rural area and can easily walk all day without seeing a soul, I do see a lot of deer, deer mice carry hantavirus. Oh, no!

@Rebellenny I can't afford all that. God knows what we would do. End up in a shitty B&B most likely. Would I do that if it prevented another person from dying? Yes, of course I could. My DD is so precious to me, as I am sure the person at risk is to their family. Like the lady on the thread earlier whose DD will die if she catches coronavirus. Being homeless is truly shit and fucking hard. But it doesn't compare to that poster losing her child if people fail to self quarantine when they need to. Homelessness can be fought back from in time. A child being dead - not so much.

I need to be able to look myself in the eye. And I couldn't prioritise bricks and mortar if it meant possibly some one else dying as a result. And it isn't who I want to bring my DD up to be either.

@Rebellenny Not terrible. Just different.

Depends on what I had been doing, after spending two weeks hiking and camping alone and travelling by private car, no, staying in a hotel, eating in restaurants, drinking in bars - higher risk

I do not agree with everything @SirChing has said but @HelenaDove has come barrelling in and been not very pleasant towards her.
You can disagree with someone without insults, denigrating their political beliefs and passively aggressively hash tagging.

Which i have aologized for But if one isnt enough i can always post several

Aragog

What are you talking about?

I suggested football matches, where they have crowds of over 5000 on a Saturday and pop concerts etc. A suggestion that gatherings of more than 100 could be banned. You start talking about school children..and classes size of over 100

IvyKate - I read this: Be better to have a short term ban on gatherings of over 100 people to stop the spread

I just read a gathering of over 100 people.

We have a room full of at least 90 children pretty much, plus teaching staff - so to me that was a gathering of 100 people.

Obviously gatherings of thousands is different. Although your examples mentioned football, concerts and theatre I didn't realise you meant just specific groups. I just read it as any gathering of over 100, and I felt that was too low a number to be practical at this point.

I was also not the only person on here to not realised you were excluding school groups in your gatherings.

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@Schuyler Thank you. That's really kind of you to say It's not disagreeing which is the issue, as you rightly say, it's the person having the posting manner of a brick to the face, coupled with lies, assumptions and snide comments casting doubts on my truthfulness.

The hashtag just made me laugh. As a low waged, disabled person who also lives in social housing, and was previously homeless, I wondered where I had misplaced all this "privilege" I was supposed to be checking

Aragog

Sorry I wouldn’t have thought a gathering would be a description of child attending school, to me a gathering is a meeting or a party. I’d also thought restrictions on class sizes were in place - that was why the government were going to relax this to allow schools to stay open with less staff

I just can’t see how you can ask people to miss work but allow football stadiums to fill up with fans up and down the country and risk spreading the virus. Let’s stop the fun stuff and concentrate on the serious stuff

@IvyKatie44

You just have me unrelated flashbacks.to painful family celebrations organised by my exMIL:

Let’s stop the fun stuff and concentrate on the serious stuff

Apparently 10am on Xmas day js the appropriate time to.mske such comments

Oops, sorry for the typos

There are restrictions on class sizes at infants, yes. But an assembly, singing, lunch time in the hall, indoor playtime (quite common with our weather recently), etc are all a group of children gathering in one room - so easily 100, 200, 300 or more in one space all in close contact. On a normal week we have such occasions pretty much every day.

It's fine if that isn't what you were referring too, it just wasn't clear - especially in light of other places around the world closing schools as they are deemed as large groups of people in one place with close contact. Let's face schools can be breeding pits for all manner of bigs as it is!

Yes though the loss of wage as OH is self employed would be real worry. I couldn't from breastfed newborn and toddler though, far too late.

I'm more concerned that one of the dc would need self isolate. School, nursery, playgroups- more likely one would close. If nursery, we would not be able to pay but if we didn't who'd pay their staff

What about elderly people who have home carers in if the home carer needs to self isolate.

Ok once was obvs not enough so here goes

im sorry