He had a fever.

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DS toddler had a high temp yesterday 38deg. Other than that seemed fine in himself. Today his temp is back to normal. Me and DP also feel absolutely fine...

DS can go to nursery tomorrow as DP is key worker (food production).

Should we be self isolating now as a family? Nursery check all kids temp and will send him home if it it high.

What if it’s nothing and then we have to go through self isolation again when we really get it?

Or do we not take the risk?

I would also be working. I am not considered key worker but considered critical to keep our business going and therefore not been told to work from home. It’s a very difficult balance between keeping businesses going to prevent thousands of job losses and preventing deaths.

ALL of you need to isolate for 14 days, END OF

ALL 3 of you need to STAY HOME

He was running around all day in his superheroes costume a thought he may have overheated. Just questioning but ok I get the advice is to stay at home!

Thousands upon thousands of people are going to die if we don’t get this under control. PLEASE engage your brain for one minute and imagine someone you love the most dying because people are too stupid to follow the govt guidelines.

This is not a fucking joke!!

I’m also critical to our business.

We’re a currently symptomless household.

I messaged my boss yesterday to say I’m not going in again for the foreseeable. The rules apply to EVERYONE.

What if he goes to nursery and makes all the other kids of local key workers sick, which makes all the local key workers sick, where does that leave you then? You'll have no key services.

If there's one thing corona has proven, it's the perishing stupidity of vast swaths of the population.

Job - death

Nope it’s really not difficult and no matter what the business is the givt gave iffered financial help

Ask yourself -how many people am I prepared to kill to keep the business going?

It should be 0 anyway, but when there’s funding available it’s not even a question.

A reminder...

Seriously, read a bit about what is going on in Italy. We are 2 weeks off this happening here. Lots of people will be dying, because people like you are not following the fucking instructions. Stay at home. For God's sake.

We are about to fall into an abyss on this virus and you should be grateful of the excuse to stay home at this point.

@Bezalelle couldn’t have put it better myself. It’s equally terrifying and infuriating. And people won’t listen until it kills or harms someone they love, because rules don’t apply to them.

He shouldn’t be going to nursery at all unless you’re a key worker too. Fucking irresponsible.

What we see as a juggling act now will seem so trivial in a couple of weeks. I'm glad your dc is better - children do tend to get off very lightly. It may be nothing, it may be CV19, but I agree with pp that taking the risk is not worth it. If your dp does not self isolate then the food supply chain from his place of work could be severely compromised as he passes it to others. Please stay home, all of you. It won't be forever.

What do you do for a living op?

Why did you take his temp ? What prompted you to do that if he wasn't showing any signs of being unwell ?

Isolate.

I was fine yesterday. Had to take my car for its MOT as confirmed government are still insisting on this atm.

I'm a keyworker so I need my car.

2 hours after getting home started feeling headachy. Then my face went bright red and temp 38.1°. Temp on and off throughout night. Fine this morning but I do have clear cold and URT symptoms. Slightly achey but don't feel that horrendous atm.

Usually I'd struggle in on paracetamol feeling this this.

I have my isolation certificate from nhs 111 for 7 days.

It's not worth the risk. This may just be a cold (I don't usually get a temp with a cold though). It may be Covid.

But I'm sure as hell not risking passing it on just in case.

What I'm not doing though is telling my ds. He'll have to isolate for 14 days. When I'm better we'll go for isolated walks if he's ok. He knows about CV so will just think this is us doing what we should be doing.

I find it unfathomable that people can be so entirely and unbelievably selfish.

YOU ARE NOT A KEY WORKER. YOU SHOULD BE AT HOME LOOKING AFTER YOUR CHILD AND WORKING, NOT SENDING IT TO NURSERY TO SPREAD CORONAVIRUS TO THE STAFF AND KILL THEIR FAMILIES/THEM. KEE YOUR CHILD AT HOME.

I genuinely don't understand how people are still not understanding or following the guidelines.
OP you are not different to the rest of the country, you are not a keyworker, your child should not be in nursery!
Be a responsible human being and self isolate the whole family for 14 days.

This is what you should be doing OP. Obviously replace the first person with your DS.

Why would you WANT to send your child to nursery anyway. Stay at home and keep him safe. Also, we don’t want our food handled by your husband if he doesn’t understand the 2 week isolation rule...

1. You need to isolate. The whole family.
2. You’re not so important that you can’t look after your child and WFH.

That’s not up to you to decide, but the company who employs me who is following government guidance.

I can't even begin to understand why you don't think it's a given that you ALL have to self isolate.

What is it about the clear and definitive instruction (not advice) that fever in the family means 14 days self isolation that you don't understand?