Would you ignore the instruction to isolate if...

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...you had Covid yourself two weeks ago and possibly started the local outbreak ?

My dd tested positive about two weeks ago but is only just back at college.

She has now been named as a close contact by someone in her friendship group and is being told to isolate by the college.

Ironically, dd was the first of a few to test positive in her bubble so was their person zero iYSWIM.

In these circumstances, would you Just ignore the instruction to isolate at home, or contact Public Health England for advice? I appreciate that she can’t go back to college until this is cleared up but I wonder what the legal position is with track and trace in these circumstances. (So far it’s only the college that have told her to isolate.)

@KnightsofColumbusThatHurt

That is why there are going to be two jabs .one actually is to generally boost your immune system as far as I am aware.

For everyone again blaming governments this is a very complicated virus and the hospitals are still learning about it every single day .

Volunteers for donating plasma are proof that it behaves very differently in different people . Some still have antibodies after 4 weeks . Some have absolutely none after 2 weeks .

Also the affects of long covid are still being studied . It can lay down tiny blood clots in every organ so in the beginning it was just dealing with the volume now it is a learning curve . Which is why things keep changing . Also viruses mutate . So another variable.

So if the medical people report back to PHE that things have changed ? What do you want them to do ? Ignore it or react and change the rules ?

She has not been notified by track and trace

End of conversation

She does not legally have to isolate so why are people posting figures and scenarios

Gov advice is isolate when contacted by track and trace or with symptoms

Notified of contact refers to track and trace only - not hearsay, not letter from achool or friend of friend! It’s track and trace who dictate the risk based on timing and other info

OP please just follow the law nothing more

@Ginogineli

She has not been notified by track and trace

End of conversation

She does not legally have to isolate so why are people posting figures and scenarios

Gov advice is isolate when contacted by track and trace or with symptoms

Notified of contact refers to track and trace only - not hearsay, not letter from achool or friend of friend! It’s track and trace who dictate the risk based on timing and other info

OP please just follow the law nothing more

Funny that because when someone tests positive in my school, I certainly don't notify other pupils via track and trace. It's a simple letter.

Says here

School refuses them entry but legally they can’t be made to stay at home I’m guessing plus kids likely exempt from fines

@Ginogineli

Says here

School refuses them entry but legally they can’t be made to stay at home I’m guessing plus kids likely exempt from fines

That's slightly concerning! No wonder it's spreading

Kids I know who’ve been sent home are not isolating outside of school at all

But then no one I know follows the rules because everyone working, going the gym, going to theme parks, eating out, attending after school and sports clubs etc and I’m tier 3!! The restrictions are very few and because so many other stuff are open (as I’ve listed) it makes a mockery of the other rules