Positive contact

[LG101]

Argh am I right to be fuming? OH just came home and said one of the guys he has been working with today was out at the weekend and was with a friend who’s tested positive.

Current government guidelines doesn’t say you need to isolate if you have been in contact with someone positive. Only if test and trace contact you / symptoms / they live with you, so they are all in work together. Surley the guy who has been in contact with someone positive should isolate? Or am I going crazy here?

You’ve said it yourself, if it isn’t someone in your household or you’ve been told to isolate by test and trace, you don’t have to isolate. Just observe social distancing carefully.

@PurpleDaisies is this logical to you? I was thinking no wonder it’s spreading, to me, this makes no sense. Or could someone explain it to me?

What is that guy supposed to do? He won’t get paid if he doesn’t go to work.

You can’t make your own version of the rules and expect people to stick to it.

The idea is that distancing is enough. We can't let a business employing 100 grind to a halt because 1 person tests positive. Workers should be distanced from each other so that if someone gets it they can't easily plead it around.

Obviously it's not fool proof, but it's pragmatic.
If you don't draw a line, we'll end up with hordes of people staying home or getting tested because a friend of a friend got it. I know that's not what you mean, OP, but that's where it would end up.