Do you really keep DC indoors for 14 days?

[notevenat20]

DS's school year has been sent home for 14 days because someone in his year has covid. I know we are supposed to keep him indoors the whole time. But what have people really done in practice? It's a very long time not to walk further than the bathroom.

[Excitablemuch]

@OverTheRainbow88
Then do something else with them.

I wonder what messages children are getting when they are allowed to flout the law because they don’t want to do as they are asked.

[fish88]

We are currently on day 11 of our 14 day isolation and he hasn't left the house at all. It's what we've got to do to try to protect more vulnerable people.

[willowywillow]

Yes, my teen quite enjoyed it. Meals at their desk on a tray. School was online. Exercise was running round the garden / up and down the stairs 30 times in one go. We talked to them outside the room they were in from the corridor.

[Ffsffsffsffsffs]

We've stuck to all the rules since March. My dd is now on day 1 of her 2nd 14 day isolation period in 6 weeks.

Lockdown 1 nearly broke her. Her first self-isolation at the end of September she stayed indoors for 14 days. This time I will be taking her out for walks, just the 2 of us, after dark (well, it's dark by the time I get home anyway) away from people and close to home. She's doing this because others haven't followed the rules, we will not interact with anyone else whilst we are out of the house.

And yes, the rules state that you should only be in the house or garden.

[Sunshineandflipflops]

My yr 8 was sent home yesterday with instructions to isolate for 14 days from last contact with the kid in his year, which was last Thursday so he actually only has to isolate for 10 days.
I think it’s daft that between Thursday and yesterday he was out and about and at school but now he can’t go outside but that’s what we have to do.

The only exception for us is him seeing his dad (separated) but both he and I are wfh and have agreed not to see anyone else for the duration of the isolation period.

[newlabelwriter]

I got to day 12 here and cracked today and took DS out. He’s been in for the entire time and no symptoms at all so took a chance and went out, touched nothing, wore masks and avoided people.

[Turgha]

Very much easier for people to do this if they live in a house than a small flat.

[SecretSpAD]

These isolations are really tough for kids.

They are really tough on everyone. Including and in particular people who don't get paid for having to be stuck at home with self isolating kids. So maybe we can all just follow the fucking rules and then we'll all get out of this hellhole quicker.

[Caroncarona]

Yes DC has pretty much stayed in for the whole 14 days. Aside from sitting in the car a couple of times when I've needed to pop out for a change of scenery. I wasn't sure really whether that was ok, but figured she's not getting out of the car, so it's an extension of home really.

[Bollss]

@willowywillow

Yes, my teen quite enjoyed it. Meals at their desk on a tray. School was online. Exercise was running round the garden / up and down the stairs 30 times in one go. We talked to them outside the room they were in from the corridor.

You actually isolated them in their room??

[RedskyAtnight]

Unless you live literally in the middle of nowhere or go out at 2am or something, then there is no way you can guarantee that your quick scoot/bike ride/walk won't take you anywhere near anyone else.
Plus, if you have a small child, they are pretty bad at not charging straight into random passers by, even if said random passers by try to keep right out of their way. (Fed up of children running into me when I'm out trying to socially distance; even more fed up now I realise some of them probably should be self isolating).

[Bagamoyo1]

@fish88

We are currently on day 11 of our 14 day isolation and he hasn't left the house at all. It's what we've got to do to try to protect more vulnerable people.

If you walked across a field near your house, didn’t see another person, then walked back again and still didn’t see another person, can you explain how you’d have risked someone else’s health?

[GoJoe2020]

I’m actually amazed at the number of people going out for bike rides, a scoot round the block or a walk.So selfish!

How's that then? 2 of mine are isolating (after negative tests), I take them for a walk every morning in an isolated spot where all we meet are seagulls. (This allowed for in the rules).
How is that selfish, or affecting anyone?

[notevenat20]

There is a child with cancer at my DD’s school. I couldn’t look the parents in the eye if we hadn’t done the whole stint at home.

Point taken.

[WhoopsSomethingWentWrong]

We’re on day 12 with our 7 year old and yes, she’s been at home the whole time. It’s been an arse as I’ve got a 5 year old at school still and a 2 year old who has been going stir crazy (I obviously can’t take him out and leave the 7 year old at home) but we just did as we were told. I assumed everyone had and am now wondering why we bothered after reading this!

[Bagamoyo1]

@willowywillow

Yes, my teen quite enjoyed it. Meals at their desk on a tray. School was online. Exercise was running round the garden / up and down the stairs 30 times in one go. We talked to them outside the room they were in from the corridor.

I actually think prisoners get more freedom than that!

[willowywillow]

Trust, not entirely. They had their room and our study to themselves as that's where the computer they work on is. They also went in the garden, bathroom, corridors and stairs. But we weren't in the same rooms together at the same time. Wasn't a problem for us. Not a particularly busy household.

[msflibble]

Seems excessive to me personally

[NerrSnerr]

How's that then? 2 of mine are isolating (after negative tests), I take them for a walk every morning in an isolated spot where all we meet are seagulls. (This allowed for in the rules).
How is that selfish, or affecting anyone?

Where in the rules does it say you can go out for a walk when self isolating?

[Jroseforever]

Absolutely would take mine out.

Very early or late. Probably both.
And it would be every day of the 14 days.

[JuliaJohnston]

@notevenat20

A friend whose DC are at a posh London school wern't told their DC had to stay indoors. I guess you get what you pay for.

They probably credited the parents with enough intelligence to work it out for themselves.
It's not as if the guidance is hard to access??

[Caroncarona]

I actually think prisoners get more freedom than that

Some parents at DC's school have had to do that as othe family members are really high risk. What else are people supposed to do under the circumstances? It's not great but I guess that's how it has to be for some people 🤷

[Ferrero12345]

We’ve had one 14 day isolation after a case in my DS’s class. He didn’t leave the house or garden although he did (rather pathetically) ride his bike up and down the drive a few times - which I presume is allowed as it is our property. Lots of school families around our street so pretty sure if I did sneak him out it would get back to the school. He absolutely loved staying home though so wasn’t too bad and we do have a big garden. I know other parents who have taken self isolating kids out for walk/bike ride though. I certainly have massive sympathy for those without gardens or tiny ones. Must be very hard.

[kifomadertonasomc]

If you walked across a field near your house, didn’t see another person, then walked back again and still didn’t see another person, can you explain how you’d have risked someone else’s health?

It doesn't. But that's not really how rules work. If I'm on an empty motorway and I drive at 75mph, explain how I'd risked anyone else's health? But it's still against the law, isn't it? Because if you start saying that "oh it's ok in this situation but not in that situation" and so on, you inevitably get people who are confused or just take advantage and the OVERALL risk rises.

And that's what this is all about really, isn't it? Taking individual actions that may not be our ideal choice, but that benefit the whole.

[Caroncarona]

Where in the rules does it say you can go out for a walk when self isolating?

I didn't see that. It says you have to stay in. Otherwise we would have gone for a walk.