Just had a thought about this 14 day isolation

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My brother is self isolating for 14 days because his son was sent home from school with a cough. They are a week in.

That cough is subsiding and no one else in the family has gotten sick.

My brother is worried because he doesn’t think for a second my nephew has Covid-19.

He’s worried that in the future he may need to go through self isolation again.

He thinks his job would look very unfavourably on him if he has to isolate more than once.

Anyone else thought of this?

And what is your thought?

Maybe he will have to isolate again. Maybe he won't. It doesn't really matter what his work think at this stage in the game. If he has to do it then he has to do it.

yes, thats exactly whats going to happen.

I asked my partner this exact question earlier. A family member has the signs and we seen them last week so we have to self isolate as we were anyway. If we isolate and don’t get ill but get ill further down the line? Will be potentially 28 days off work.

No advice but following this post!

They have another week to go, if anyone else gets it they have to start 7 dyas. It will happen in families that it has to be done agin, cant be avoided. Until we have mass testing it is the only way

Yes, you have to do it every time someone is symptomatic

Unless of course you are in the exceptionally vulnerable group who have minimum 12 weeks of it

Yes of course people have ‘thought if it’ it’s been posted all over MN & elsewhere.

Yes he will have to self isolate again, until they come up with better community testing it’s just how things have to be 🤷🏻‍♀️

If his work don’t like it - he’ll have to tell them to take it up with Boris 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes of course they might have to isolate again, it could happen to any of us
It's a dreadful thought for any of us who are already isolating - once is bad enough - but spreading the virus to someone who then dies of it is a worse thought.

I've wandered about this. They are ramping up the testing for Covid and also the antibodies test so hopefully he should know soon.

We're in the middle of a pandemic, your brother is following the government's instructions and doing the right thing, boss needs to realise this, as another poster said he (the boss) can always take it up with Boris.

Sorry, I realise reading back I sound a bit daft thinking I’m the only person to have considered it. I didn’t mean it that way, I just had a chat with him and thought ‘oh, I hadn’t even thought of that’.

Gosh, it’s rubbish though isn’t it. Necessary, but rubbish.

I think all bets are off now. When this is all over and future employers are looking at your sick records, I think they will have to only look for non-corona related sickness. All candidates will have a sudden spike of sickness absence from March 2020, so they will be choosing from a pool of people in the same boat.