Keyworkers, are you worried about infecting people? What are your thoughts about bubbles etc?

[nobbymcphailisverypale]

Just interested in what other people's thoughts are about this.
I'm a community physio. Social distancing is supposed to take place in my office but it's pretty rubbish really. Most of my colleagues get public transport to work / visits. I don't, which I'm thankful for.
I wear PPE when I visit clients. I've only seen (so far) a couple of people still in the infectious stage of CV. This could of course increase. So personally I feel like an infection risk for those I come into contact with.

If the guidelines start to loosen, as is likely to be the case over the next few weeks, and / or we are allowed to have "bubbles", I'm not sure how much I can allow my behaviour and contacts to change. My mum lives in her own, but whatever the rules are I feel that I therefore my DCs are her main infection risk. If we join a "bubble", but everyone else in that bubble is WFH and just going out to go shopping etc, I would again be the main infection risk.

I quite anxious about being responsible for infecting others. Do other people have the same fear?

Absolutely. I'm giving my teens the chance to jump ship before I go back to full time on Monday. If there was some way I could stay in a flat or caravan I would. As it is I socially distance at home as much as possible (dds are teens so not as hard as you'd imagine).

Yes. I’m incredible nervous. We’re an extremely high risk household. I’m a nurse in constant contact with suspected Covid patients and my husband is an outreach homelessness worker and we’re both working full time, thus our child is in nursery too!
I’m not sure anyone will want us in their bubble....

I am worried about being infected

I am worried about infecting others

What fucking choice do we have?

Economy over lives

Yes but... have any of you caught it? Being high risk. And around it constantly.

ALL of the staff from my children’s school got it (albeit a small school).

YES I know people who have died.

YES I know people who’ve had to stay in hospital

No, not at all.

I've been at work some days since the start (teacher on a rota) with no PPE. Neither I nor any of my colleagues or pupils have caught it. But I know two people who've had it who hadn't been anywhere but the supermarket and for walks.

Plus it isn't just key workers who'll be working. Loads of people will be by mid June. Maybe the majority, idk.

AND

Schools have been fucking closed to all but vulnerable and key workers.

No we’re talking about trying to get them all back. Totally different situations.

I've just been talking about this. Dh talking about socialising with parents but I work in school and 2 kids will be back in school. I think the risk is too high!

Locum pharmacist working in ~5 different teams each week for up to 12 hours a day. Wear a mask to try and stop us spreading tge virus to each other but social distancing just isn't possible in a confined unventilated space with 5 of us trying to move around. No one will want me in their bubble!

I don’t think anyone is writing down pros and cons of who is going to be in their bubble.

You will just naturally gravitate back to the close group of people you spent time with pre lockdown.

I certainly won’t be avoiding anyone based on their job.

I’ve yet to know of or meet anyone who knows of a solitary person who has had coronavirus. And several of my friends are frontline workers, including two nurses.

Schools have been fucking closed to all but vulnerable and key workers. Now we’re talking about trying to get them all back. Totally different situations

Not really. Not where I work anyway. We've had 2 'classes' of anything between 8-20 key worker and vulnerable children in school depending on the day of the week.

Now we'll have 6 classes (N, R, Y1, Y6, KW/V under 8 and KW/V over 8) of around 12 - 15 children in each day who will all be their own separate bubble and won't see the other 5 classes at all. It won't be much different from having 2 classes, risk wise. I don't think anyway. Potentially less risk because at the moment everyone in school has lunch in the dining room. Next half term all the bubbles will be eating separately.

Sorry I'm not a key worker but I just wanted to say please don't stress yourselves about this. You have had infection control training, meaning that you are less likely to infect people than randoms who wear the same dirty rubber gloves all day. Everyone will want you in their bubbles, you sound very caring and considerate people!

That’s kind playdonut. I hope most people feel the same.
I’m WFH but will go back to work in hospital at some point and this really worries me. The thought of unknowingly passing it on and causing people suffering and possible death is awful. At the moment I can be confident I haven’t but this can’t last....But we didn’t cause this and we can’t solve it - individually we can only do what we can do to protect ourselves and others as best we can in whatever situation we are in.

I'm going back to work next week with very young children and no PPE.
Some of the families have been seen out in groups playing with friends and not social distancing.
I'm concerned for my family and especially for my elderly parents who I deliver food to.

Yes I worry

Less so as time goes on

I met friend in the park and so did ds it was so lovely to see friends I got quite emotional

Life has to go on we have to get back to some form of normality it will be different

And I know some people are staying away from me that’s fine I’m at a higher risk I understand they are anxious