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DS has tested positive-now the FEAR!

161 replies

Money4honey · 25/09/2020 09:27

DS had a text on Monday due to a weird taste and smell issue. He’s otherwise fine. Just got his results and he’s tested positive! He’s in 6th form.
Since Monday, I’ve kept him and the other 2 DC at home with me. Everyone else is ok.
But now I’m shitting myself a bit... will me and DC and DH definitely get it?? How severe will it be?? Agh. So many questions that obviously no one can answer!
Talk me down please MNers

OP posts:
userxx · 25/09/2020 11:47

Are you guys just making this stuff up? Where does it say you can't go into your own private garden when isolating??

It doesn’t but it sounds a lot more dramatic locking yourself away in one room for 14 days solid.

Reallybadidea · 25/09/2020 11:47

@myhobbyisouting

"They're meant to stay at home; which can include their private garden if they have one."

It says do not leave the house. Nowhere does it say, this can include your own private garden if you have one.

When we were still having daily briefings clarification was asked for and due to the potential for being less than 2 metres away from a neighbour they said no. The same went for shielding.

You can go in your garden www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/
YankeeinKingArthursCourt · 25/09/2020 11:49

@tomatoesneedtoripen

I am confused by your comment re: testing for smell and taste issues as being "random". Loss of taste and smell have been in the top symptoms to look out for over many months now.

Tootletum · 25/09/2020 11:51

Well, I've gone on the NHS website and whoever said you can't go in your garden was indeed making it up:
"do not go out to exercise – exercise at home or in your garden, if you have one"
So YOU CAN GO INTO YOUR OWN GARDEN EVERYONE

myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 11:51

Well like I said, that's not written in the Government's guide on their website and was the same for those shielding.

Also, when asked that was their response.

AntiSocialDistancer · 25/09/2020 11:52

@Tomatoesneedtoripen

a test for weird taste and smell issues? that is quite random what a difficult situation in working families
Christ.

Yes.

3 Symptoms of Covid

  • Fever
  • Taste and Smell
  • Cough

One person in house gets it, the whole house goes into lockdown until there is a negative test from the person who has symptoms.

HesterShaw1 · 25/09/2020 11:54

My BIL had it back in April, and Dsis and their 3 kids were completely unaffected.

It's not remotely inevitable, don't worry!

There is a high percentage of non susceptibility.

HesterShaw1 · 25/09/2020 11:56

People honestly think you can't go into your own bloody garden????

myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 11:56

@HesterShaw1 but he was ill enough to be hospitalised?

museumum · 25/09/2020 11:56

Posters have no idea what the OP's husband does. I know loads of people who work alone outside - farming, land management, forestry, working in workshop on their own land, some kinds of construction work (e.g. preparing earth works before the rest of the crew arrive).

myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 11:58

It doesn't matter what he does for a living.

And yes, when they released the shielding guidance, they were specifically told to stay in the house and not the garden.

We have a printed copy of it which got shown to us every time we tried to tell FIL he'd be ok to go into his garden.

HesterShaw1 · 25/09/2020 11:58

[quote myhobbyisouting]@HesterShaw1 but he was ill enough to be hospitalised? [/quote]
Er, no.

He was working from home. He continued to work from home.

He had a but of a temp and a headache for 2 days a d couldn't smell the milk he poured onto his weetabix was off.

That's it.

He's a 42 year old reasonably fit average joe.

MrsxRocky · 25/09/2020 11:59

The whole country is panicking about covid. Woman has kid catching it and told not to panic 🤣.
I'm sure all be fine. Like someone said its less than 1% chance you will be very ill let alone die.
Why they shutting country down for it I'll never know.

deflationexasperation · 25/09/2020 12:00

Op I'm sure I had it in March, smell and taste, gastric symptoms and had it very mild, no one else in house was ill and I didn't isolate because they weren't symptoms then

AldiAisleofCrap · 25/09/2020 12:01

DH is self employed and works alone outdoors and doesn’t come into contact with anyone so has still been able to work.
No he cannot and you are liable quite rightly for a large fine.

myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 12:01

"Er, no.

He was working from home. He continued to work from home.

He had a but of a temp and a headache for 2 days a d couldn't smell the milk he poured onto his weetabix was off.

That's it."

Er, so he doesn't know he had the virus then due to the testing situation in April.

HesterShaw1 · 25/09/2020 12:01

Oh I see, you're asking how did he know it was Covid, if he didn't go to hospital because they were only testing in hospitals aren't you?

Well, feverish symptoms and loss of smell and taste, plus he lives in London and had been working and socialising and travelling on public transport.

HesterShaw1 · 25/09/2020 12:02

As I thought.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 25/09/2020 12:03

DH is self employed and works alone outdoors and doesn’t come into contact with anyone so has still been able to work

He puts fuel in his car. Maybe he drops into the shop for bread and milk on the way home. Maybe he gets a coffee from a window or a sandwich from a van.

He may not do all these things. But it's disingenuous to say he literally sees nobody

myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 12:03

Right, sounds like a cold

HesterShaw1 · 25/09/2020 12:04

I can tell the OP she's most likely to be seriously ill if you prefer?

But that would be untrue.

myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 12:04

"As I thought"

Well yes. Of course. And as I thought he's one of the many many people who are wrongly convinced they've had it and are reinforcing the idea that it isn't as contagious as it is.

Be it through his own Facebook page or his SIL on social media stating it as fact.

Bupkis · 25/09/2020 12:06

@myhobbyisouting

It doesn't matter what he does for a living.

And yes, when they released the shielding guidance, they were specifically told to stay in the house and not the garden.

We have a printed copy of it which got shown to us every time we tried to tell FIL he'd be ok to go into his garden.

@myhobbyisouting If you look at the guidance I linked to it says, going into the garden is fine!

This is from the shielding letter we had...also saying garden is fine for people when they were shielding

DS has tested positive-now the FEAR!
myhobbyisouting · 25/09/2020 12:06

"I can tell the OP she's most likely to be seriously ill if you prefer?

But that would be untrue"

Of course it would be untrue. They'll all be absolutely fine, I'm sure. Most people are.

But it's also untrue that you "BIL had it back in April" and youve no issue lying about that strangely

candourclegane · 25/09/2020 12:08

Also the gov guidance on isolating says:

Looking after your wellbeing while staying at home

Staying at home for a prolonged period can be difficult, frustrating and lonely for some people, and you or other household members may feel low. It can be particularly challenging if you don’t have much space or access to a garden*

www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance/stay-at-home-guidance-for-households-with-possible-coronavirus-covid-19-infection