Child with cough - how many of you isolate?

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Theoretical as we're ok at the moment! So, if one child shows symptoms, either cough or fever, how would you manage it as a family? A child can't be left in a room with food left outside the door on a tray, so there would have to be interaction.
Ergo, everyone in the house goes onto "communal isolation"?
(Obviously I'm taking about younger children, I'm sure teens can self isolate as long as they have an X Box and enough cans of Monster )

It's just me and my 8 year old but if he gets a new cough, we'll both be at home for a week. That's the advice isn't it?

To be honest I think it would be bloody cruel to try and ‘isolate’ a child and as a single mum I’d be isolating us both to the best of my ability but we’d still have to go out for food, medicine etc.

@BlueMoon1103 as a single mum, please reach out to the people in your community. There will be someone who will help with essential errands. We are setting something up locally, most places are!

Look for Covid Mutual Support on Facebook.

Please don't go out.

@BlueMoon1103 yes I agree, I wouldn't try to isolate a child! I'm just not sure how precise the government advice is about family behaviour when one child has symptoms. To me, it's absolutely common sense, but as we've seen, there is a shocking lack of that out there right now!

I hope you're ok

We currently have no symptoms so are you out as normal

If we did need to I’d be very wary of letting locals know I’m a single mum as I feel vulnerable as it is and not everyone has good intentions so wouldn’t be comfortable with that idea at all.

Also @picklemewalnuts I started a thread about isolation and mental health earlier so might be worth a look as many people find isolating themselves devastating for their mental health.

I'm in this situation.Child with temp then cough .Isolating for a week in that me and her are staying in.However I called public health England and they said if others in the family have no symptoms they can carry on as normal.Totally bonkers.We are just trying to keep everyone else apart as much as possible .

I understand Blue. I'm working in my community on finding ways we can support people who need to isolate.
We might do special cafe's for people who are isolating- run by older people who are isolating, for older people who are isolating.
We are doing a telephone cascade, so everyone gets two chats every day- they find someone, and are rung by someone.

Younger people will probably only need to isolate while they are showing some kind of symptom. Older people may have to isolate until the crisis has passed which could be months.

We really need to try and find ways to manage.

We're trying to work that out- PayPal between people works well, as long as they are trusted. Also, cash in an envelope is fine- and can be sprayed with disinfectant.

My other thought is to set up a central gofundme that people pay in to. It could act as a pool of money,

I haven't ironed it out yet- the person is like to talk it over with doesn't think it's as big a deal as the media are saying.