A question about lockdown!

[velocitygirl7]

So presuming a full lockdown is imminent, I'm desperate for some advice about dd.
She is currently self isolating for 14 days and is totally alone in her uni accommodation as everyone else who should have isolated went home instead
She's only on day 3 and although she is coping brilliantly we are now worried about what happens if there is a lockdown?
Both dh & ds are high risk, so she can't come home until she's done the 14 days but will I be able to go and get her or will she be expected to stay where she is indefinitely?!
She's only 18 and scared

I don't think she'll be able to move.

Cant she come back and stay apart?

Was she in contact with someone with symptoms?

I think if we do "lockdown" she will be stuck. Does she drive? Can she get home without public transport? Then isolate in a room away from you?

I'd get her home and isolate her in a room at home.
Doesn't matter if that means adjusting the home a bit - it's only temporary and I'm sure your anxiety will go through the roof if we go to lockdown and she is not with you. And her mental health will probably decline.

Please bring her home just in case.

In Italy when the lockdown went nationwide an exception was made if you needed to get back home first.

Where in the country is she? Looks like London is the most likely to have restrictions. Also, why is she self isolating? If she has been in contact with someone with it the average time until symptoms develop is 3-5 days. After that it might be worth bringing her home if she hasn’t developed symptoms and isolating her in your house or with a local friend or family member. If she is actually ill at the moment though I think she will have to do the full 14 days. Even in France for example there are forms you print if you have to travel. It may well be that collecting someone who has been self isolating would be a good enough reason to travel. In France at the moment it is by self declaration I think.

We only have one bathroom! I just can't see how she could self isolate safely? Or should I be going out today for a camping loo?! Dh has type 1 diabetes, so we're obviously concerned for him.
I feel like I'm drip feeding but I forgot to add she's in our home town, so literally 5-10 minutes away. Would that mean I would be able to go in the car and collect her? Our family in Italy have one nominated person per household who goes out for shopping etc and dd lives right next to our local supermarket.

Tell her to come home , my dd has come home everyone gone home now . It's best she's got that support at home with her family . She can do her uni work online .

She's mentally ok, we FaceTime constantly and I'm dropping hot meals etc at the gates to her accommodation.
She wanted to self isolate, she's actually appalled at her friends, the two with symptoms traveled home straight away
We're in the midlands.

even in lockdown it will be possible to move around with good reason. a healthy family member emerging from successful solo quarantine and being brought home by another family member is the kind of thing which would be fine.

@ilovecakeandwine we're desperate to have her home but she lives in a flat where two people have had symptoms so she's self isolating.

Why is she self isolating? What has she been exposed to and when?

@VadenuRewetje that's what I hoped.
Her driving licence etc shows that our family home is her primary address and it would literally take me 15 minutes to get her out of her flat and back to our house.

I brought my 19year old home. She is currently staying in her room for 7days before she is allowed into rest of house. She is only allowed out to use the toilet. She cleans it as she leaves and doesn’t touch door handles etc on way there or back. After about half hour or so I then reclean around the area. I deliver food to her room and the dishes stay in there after. I left her crafts/sweets/reading etc and when she arrived home we stayed in a different room until she walked up the centre of the stairs and straight into her bedroom. We matter on FaceTime etc. All her ‘stuff’ has been left in her car and will be for at least nine days.
Get your daughter home sooner rather than later. ASAP.
For reference we weren’t going to bring ours home and I was told I was insane not to get her here ASAP. She and I were quite chilled about her staying at Uni but after she realised she might not get home for 12min she had a think overnight and decided she couldn’t cope with that. After yesterday’s news it was the right decision. I will not be able to leave house for 12 weeks but we will be warm and together.
I wish your daughter all the best

@Isadora2007 two of her flat mates have had temperatures, dry coughs etc

So where are the other 2 then ? If they had symptoms they shouldn't of gone home .

@ilovecakeandwine the two with symptoms and my dds two other flat mates all went home! Various locations countrywide, dd is the only one at uni in her home town.
I think some may have traveled home on public transport!!

They went home !! How are they ? Are they better ?
Well your dd is doing the right thing she has no choice unfortunately just keep her spirits up and get you deliver food etc to her ?

If she is alone it's only 7 days isolation, it's only 14 days if multiple people in the household

Leave her where she is. You are all doing the right thing. All countries who have lockdown have said ‘from midnight on X date’ so once a lockdown is announced I would get her home and follow what @Potentialmadcatlady said. She isn’t the opposite end of the country she is close by and can be joke on now time. I don’t think a lockdown is coming today or tomorrow. It could be more like the end of this week at the earliest so she would have a week of self isolation done and could finish off the other week in her room. So I wouldn’t rush anything now. It’s wonderful she’s being so sensible.

As she is so close to home I would leave her there for as long as possible. As PPs have said, if we do go into lockdown you would still be able to collect her. If she comes home now it will just cause more stress trying to keep apart in the house.

Why is she isolating for 14 days and not 7?

Maybe prepare to come home though, eg can she pack up everything quickly?

No it's not. its 7 days if you are having symptoms. Its 14 days for others exposed as 14 days is the incubation period

*home quickly

Her dd would have been part of a household when the housemates were there. As they had symptoms they would isolate for 7 days but OPs daughter then needs to isolate for 14 days as that's the incubation period.