Making isolating 13 yr old not leave her room for 10 days!!

[novaparty12]

My niece is 13 and on Friday she was told to isolate by her school as the girl she sits next to tested positive. She lives in London where transmission is really high. I spoke to MIL today who said that my SIL has told her she is not allowed out of her room apart from going to the toilet or having a shower. All meals are left outside her door for her to collect and my SIL went shopping and spend £50 on snacks and drinks so she doesn't have to leave her room. MIL is really worried about her she keeps phoning her in tears. My SIL is autistic and takes everything very very seriously but surely confining a 13 yr old to her room for 10 days is going a bit far isn't it??

People on this thread have got to be taking the piss, surely?! If you honestly think it's ok to make your young teen stay in their bedroom for 2 weeks 'as long as they have plenty of FaceTime with mum downstairs' then you really need to have a look at your parenting skills.

My younger sister has been sent home to isolate because of being near a positive case 4 times this term. That's nearly 8 weeks locked in a room if that's what my parents did. Some of those periods of isolation were only a few days apart. So she would have been locked in her room for 10 days. Out for 4/5 days and back in for another 10. I don't know about anyone else but as an adult I wouldn't be able to cope with that.

1.4% chance @MistletoeandGin ?

Show your workings.

Or are you just repeating a number used elsewhere for a different context? Which is how most of the misinformation seems to be spreading.

Frankly, while schools are open, shops are open, bloody hairdressers are open... then clearly it’s not such a scary virus that we need to emotionally abuse our children.

Exactly.

This thread is actually scaring me. So much wrong information, leading to damaged children.

I thought that people who didn't understand the rules were the people who were ignoring them. I didn't realise that there were people doing the opposite and misunderstanding the rules in making them unnecessarily brutal.

This thread is scaring me too. So worrying that anyone thinks this is ok. Poor kid.

@DameFanny

1.4% chance *@MistletoeandGin* ?

Show your workings.

Or are you just repeating a number used elsewhere for a different context? Which is how most of the misinformation seems to be spreading.

I don’t have workings because it’s not my calculation. I’m repeating a figure I saw elsewhere in this exact context. Not a different one. Outside of household transmission, 1.4% of those identified as ‘close contacts’ will go on to test positive.

@bondbaby

People on this thread have got to be taking the piss, surely?! If you honestly think it's ok to make your young teen stay in their bedroom for 2 weeks 'as long as they have plenty of FaceTime with mum downstairs' then you really need to have a look at your parenting skills.

Also the assumption that all families have multiple devices for their children to FaceTime on. So out of touch with what is reality for a lot of people.

I think in this situation your DN should just get a test to set your sisters mind at ease. I know they are only meant to be taken if you have symptoms but as your sister has autism and it is effecting her mental health go for it. They are coming back very quickly at the moment. My DN had one Sunday results back today, negative thank goodness.

Affecting*

As a former victim of child abuse spanning years, this thread took my breath away.

Many of the people responding that this is "just fine" and kids need to learn to live with it or "don't complain"...my god. It just all sounds like my childhood done out in the open instead of in secret. You are all awful and I hope you remember that your children will be in charge of your old age care. I hope they remember your conduct toward them when the time comes to decide whether old granny needs a visit.

Wtaf have I just read?

Teens might (depending on personality) be different. But people advocating isolating primary children in their room - where’s the cut off? KS1? Preschool age? Handing a one year old a packet of nappies and a sandwich and telling them to look after themselves?! Have you actually done it yourselves- told a distressed child of say 7/8/9 to go back to their room and sit by themselves, for days? Potentially repeatedly if their class keeps closing? And you’re ok with that?

I thought that people who didn't understand the rules were the people who were ignoring them. I didn't realise that there were people doing the opposite and misunderstanding the rules in making them unnecessarily brutal.

You should have been reading some of the shit posted on here in March. Making up rules about going outside, going to work , exercising and screaming at people to do as they said or they were murderers! It was horrific so nothing will surprise me anymore.

Your SIL clearly doesn’t understand the guidance. What she’s doing is very very wrong and needs to stop.

Not this exact context, @MistletoeandGin you were saying that was the chance they'd caught it from their positive contact - the 1.4 was the calculated chance of passing it on to a family member based on the likelihood of the untested asymptomatic teen having the virus in the first place.

And THIS is how lies get their boots on so damn fast.

Oh fuck it, you did bring it into the thread didn't you. So where did it come from? And what was the general infection rate where it was calculated?

Or not. Maybe that's no fucking point to any of it because it's cruel to ask a teen to stay 2m away or have a parent isolate with a primary age kid, and too much to read the fucking guidance so we're all just going to lose complete control over any aspect of this because let's face it it's fuckwittery and niceness that'll kill us all in the end

Certainly wasn't 1.4% for that Rose Garden event

My dd only leaves her room under duress anyway ... I think the advice is to stay away from other household members if possible, if they don't the whole household has to isolate don't they?

World has gone absolutely crackers.

Data out today. Asymptomatic children at home who test positive spread the virus at a rate of 0.7%. How low do you want before you realise asymptomatic people don't spread!!!

Both of my teens are self isolating following 'close contact'. They are certainly not self isolating from us. They are not Ill.

No this is appropriate action to stop the spread. It makes me really sad to watch and and see how poorly the UK is managing Covid and how relaxed everyone is. In my country we now have zero community transmission however I still have to check in where ever I go, many wear face masks, and most practice social distancing. Only in the last week or two have restrictions lifted and they will go straight back if we see any local transmission. We are still dealing with a high positive rate on returned travellers which is our biggest risk at the Moment. They are all strictly quarantined for two weeks.

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully

Jesus Christ so many bedwetters been brainwashed by MSM.

My. 9 yr old DS currently off school as one of his class tested +ve. He has no symptoms. Apart from keeping him at hone, we're carrying on exactly as normal. Hugs, cuddles, sharing toilet etc. DH and I carrying on working, dd carrying on going to school. DS is playing out in the front garden when it's not raining. Fuck me, covid is a nasty virus and a tiny minority will die. It's very sad but called evolution and survival of the fittest. We think we can control everything but we can't. Best thing to do is carry on as normal.

"Brainwashed by MSM" "Survival of the fittest"

Egregious eugenicist shite spouted by a conspiracy theorist. You should be ashamed of yourself.