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??

@GabriellaMontez

That's why no one should be going out except for essential food, health care or distanced outdoor activities, if they aren't absolutely required to go out for work or school

And who decided this? Some nutter on mumsnet? I'll give it a miss thanks.

That's been the advice since March

www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with-possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the-person/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with-possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the-person#what-should-i-do-if-i-am-a-contact-of-someone-who-has-tested-positive-for-covid-19

God why is it these threads always attract at least one get in the bunker, lock the door for 10 years type poster. Fine, you do that if you have the resources.

After dropping DD at her dads I shall be doing an entirely non -essential trip round London this weekend to look at the Christmas lights and have an entirely non-essential trip to Libertys. This will cheer me up no end, so actually essential in my book.

And I'm an ICU nurse so I know EXACTLY how viral transmission works.

My 13 has been sent home to self isolate as a close contact at school tested positive.

We are mixing (her me and her brother) in the house.
Later we will take the dog for a walk (middle of nowhere)

We cant go Xmas tree shopping / cafe for hot chocolate though
She's got ASD so is quite happy about that bit!

Too bad there are so many who are too thick to understand the basics of how viral transmission works.

As you’re obviously so much more intelligent than the rest of (or think you are), please explain the point of shops being open if we should only be going out for essentials. I’m going to the jewellers in a bit, he doesn’t sell food or medicine but he’s allowed to open

@Vintagevixen

God why is it these threads always attract at least one get in the bunker, lock the door for 10 years type poster. Fine, you do that if you have the resources.

After dropping DD at her dads I shall be doing an entirely non -essential trip round London this weekend to look at the Christmas lights and have an entirely non-essential trip to Libertys. This will cheer me up no end, so actually essential in my book.

And I'm an ICU nurse so I know EXACTLY how viral transmission works.

Shameful.

Shameful
What?
Shops are open you know. It’s not March anymore.

I can't help but imagine some posters oursing their lips a d hoi,ing their bosoms Les Dawson style everytime someone doesn't follow their made up, steroid enhanced rules.

• and hoiking

I had Covid recently and to avoid the family catching it I stayed in my room for 10 days. Bearing in mind I was quite poorly so would have been in bed anyway, it MESSED WITH MY HEAD. I wouldn't do it to a child any more than fly.

Shameful? for gods sake Are you seriously turning your nose up at someone going to a shop?

@RickOShay

Shameful What? Shops are open you know. It’s not March anymore.

I went on a completely non essential trip to the jewellers to get my watch strap adjusted earlier. As it was a sunny day I put the top down on the car and drove home the long way. DH also went to the corner shop to buy me cake as I was having a shit day. There's no hope for us!

So stuffing one's mouth with cake and a well-fitting watch are more important than public health. Got it.

Funny though that with wise people such as yourselves determining what's safe and worthwhile, that pesky infection rate and death toll just continues to rise. Guess the virus didn't get the message that all's well except for a few overreacting nutters on Mumsnet.

The shops are open, stop making up rules that are even more strict than the ones we have.

If you want to hide inside for a year fill your boots. Nobody is killing anyone by popping to the shops. However if we all stopped going to the shops then there would be a lot more livelihoods going down the drain.

@IHeartKingThistle

I had Covid recently and to avoid the family catching it I stayed in my room for 10 days. Bearing in mind I was quite poorly so would have been in bed anyway, it MESSED WITH MY HEAD. I wouldn't do it to a child any more than fly.

I hope your feeling better.

The more I think about it I don't even think I could self isolate my children even if they did have covid. I'd be super careful with my hygiene mask up etc but I couldn't leave them to suffer alone.

I cannot imagine what the kids in the care system have gone through never mind self isolating them because they've been moved to a different home.
You'd be fined for doing that to a dog never mind a child.

@PerveenMistry

So stuffing one's mouth with cake and a well-fitting watch are more important than public health. Got it.

Funny though that with wise people such as yourselves determining what's safe and worthwhile, that pesky infection rate and death toll just continues to rise. Guess the virus didn't get the message that all's well except for a few overreacting nutters on Mumsnet.

What's the point of shops being allowed to open if no one uses them FFS? Do you want every small shop to go under just so everyone has to live by your made up rules? I follow the official rules, not those made up by some batshit poster on MN.

(BTW I didn't 'stuff my face with cake', I had one slice with a cup of tea and enjoyed it very much)

@Delatron

The shops are open, stop making up rules that are even more strict than the ones we have.

If you want to hide inside for a year fill your boots. Nobody is killing anyone by popping to the shops. However if we all stopped going to the shops then there would be a lot more livelihoods going down the drain.

The shops are open for political reasons as we all know, not based on scientific knowledge. If immunologists and public health experts had their way, we all would be adhering to stricter lockdown.

Clearly the current approach isn't working well, is it now?

I cant believe this thread is still going.

It is wrong to lock a child away in her room, for ANY reason!

The shops are open for political reasons

Aka not bankrupting the entire country and causing an even worse recession than we will alresdy have

as we all know, not based on scientific knowledge. If immunologists and public health experts had their way, we all would be adhering to stricter lockdown

If whitty has his way we'd all starve to death alone in our houses, sure there would be no spread of virus but none of us would fair very well.

Clearly the current approach isn't working well, is it now?
One word. Balance.

The shops are open for political reasons as we all know, not based on scientific knowledge. If immunologists and public health experts had their way, we all would be adhering to stricter lockdown.

Don't you realise that the shops that you so desperately want to close provide a living for many people and therefore a roof over their heads?

I presume you were one of the batshit posters from March and April calling people murderers for sitting on benches and saying milk and bread isn't essential

Shops are not the biggest spreader of the virus so yes they are following the science.

Just stop making ‘rules’ up. It’s your choice not to go to the shops but don’t berate those who legally are.

@PerveenMistry

So stuffing one's mouth with cake and a well-fitting watch are more important than public health. Got it.

Funny though that with wise people such as yourselves determining what's safe and worthwhile, that pesky infection rate and death toll just continues to rise. Guess the virus didn't get the message that all's well except for a few overreacting nutters on Mumsnet.

Well I shall report back on my shameful shopping trip as soon as. Right after I've grated some cheese into my tea because a trip to the corner shop for the milk I forgot to buy is MURDER!

The virus is seasonal - respiratory viruses always rise this time of year.

But funnily enough there is very little influenza around this year...hmmm I wonder why? Its not because we are SD etc because if that is stopping Influenza then it should also stop Covid. Or is Covid just the dominant seasonal endemic respiratory virus this year, doing what viruses do every year in the autumn/winter months. My little shopping trip and everyone else's shopping trip will make bugger all difference!

DS aged 9 is currently isolating at home after a classmate tested positive last week. His remote learning timetable included PE yesterday and they were asked to create an obstacle course. When his teacher explained what she wanted them to do on their group chat, she suggested they find bits and pieces "from around the house" to help build it. Seems very clear that she wasn't expecting them to be confined to their bedrooms...

Unbelievable that some people are advocating solitary confinement for children.

I can’t believe that covid as taken away some posters care and humanity. How can you expect to lock a child away from their family members for 14 days. This is a child with no symptoms whatsoever. I can’t imagine the trauma.
When DD (7yo) has asked to self isolate because a classmate had covid, she was free to do whatever she wants in the house and live her life as normal just not allowed to go out. I work from home and we kept the 2 year old at home as well from the childminder because she simply can’t stay away from her sister either.
Because DH works at the hospital, we just explained to her that she can’t stay close to him so she understood why she couldn’t hug him and she was fine.
They were doing online learning and there’s no way the teachers would have expected a child to be learning, submitting work, doing the activities without the parent input. Luckily, no one in the class even caught it. Imagine children that have been sent home multiple times and then being confined in a room for weeks on end!

We are in Scotland and when a child has to isolate for being a close contact that is exactly what we are advised to do, we are given a letter which actually tells you how to dispose off the persons rubbish. How to wash clothing and what to do after the person has used the toilet.

It's quite normal for them to be confined to their room.

This is definitely our guidance just for isolating as a close contact.

Stressedmummyof4 Can you post a photo of the letter that tells you to isolate your child in their bedroom?

I’m also in scotland and have colleagues whose kids have isolating and they haven’t been told that.