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??

I got the same letter as Stressedmummy it did suggest for a nursery child a parent might want to self isolate with them.

I'd post it but I'd want to blank out the details first. And I don't know how to do it electronically.

Not normal in my home. Isolated teen has run of the home at least. But it comes with risk. If one of us had a vulnerable health condition, it would be different.

This is what our council have been sending for our local high school kids who are close contacts. Unsure on primary school, there's no way my primary kids would manage to isolate in a room on their own.

This thread is mad. My 4yo has had covid. I can reassure everyone that at no point did test and trace suggest isolation for her. She’s primary age though so maybe I should have just stuck her in a bedroom and created a wind tunnel...

Fucking ridiculous. What has this world come to? Over what? A virus with less than 1% fatality rate. Anyone condoning this is a fucking monster.

Could I just say that from a personal perspective, it is my dream to spend 2 weeks (now 10 days) locked away in a comfortable room with Netflix, a stocked mini fridge, a kettle and meals and snacks delivered to my door. Think how much work I'd get done and sleep I'd get.

Unlikely to happen to me any time soon though . 3 yo is joined to me by the hip and DH is not the nurturing type. Even if I did manage to offload the toddler onto someone else, I'd probably starve to death! At most, the odd supermarket sandwich would be chucked through my door.

I think maybe some of us tired parents, for whom two weeks' isolation with no demands being made of us would be a dream come true, are looking at this too much from our own perspective. Children and young teens have very different emotional requirements to adults.

@Userzzz

Fucking ridiculous. What has this world come to? Over what? A virus with less than 1% fatality rate. Anyone condoning this is a fucking monster.

Amen

Stressedmummy that's exactly the same letter I got for my nursery age child, with a covering letter "we appreciate the difficulty in self isolating children this young, we advise a parent to self isolate with them".

My friend had track and trace on the phone going on about all the food prep stuff and kept reminding them 'she's six' they just seemed to be forgetting they were talking about a young child.

That's awful.

@Stressedmummyof4 I had the same letter and a phone call reiterating the isolation rules. (positive case, not just a contact). husband also had the same phone call despite him living with us and me receiving the call already.

Wtf? My 2 yo Is isolating but that means living normally at home, she hasn't even got symptoms!

I am in no way condoning the letter, in case anyone thinks I am, I am just showing what is being sent.

There is no way I could isolate my younger children in this way, one has additional needs so there really is no option for this in my house.

Stressedmummy I felt exactly the same as you, now way was I attempting to follow those rules with a 3yo, even isolating with me, he loves his Dad and how was I supposed to keep them apart not to mention the hurt to my other child.

What is really brutal is children who are being looked after by low paid workers in homes who will have recieved the same letter and who it would have been more than their jobs worth to ignore. Poor kids.
I can't get over what I read the other day. It was totally off my radar to think traumatised children being moved homes would have been put in solitary confinement (self isolated) cruel beyond words.

We laugh as things people did in the past and we've just written our own Horrible History of 2020.

@Bikingbear couldn't agree more, we've kind of resigned ourself to the fact if one of the kids catch it chances are we're all in for it.

I finished all my kids up from school last week, my eldest high school seems absolutely rampant with it we are receiving daily notifications just now of cases within the school and of late the letters have changed from 'a person' has tested positive to 'people' have tested positive. They are having multiple cases daily.

I don't feel bad pulling them a week early as they are only sitting watching films and doing art stuff just now, I'm lucky enough in a sense I'm a Carer for one of my kids so at home and can do this it has taken some of the worry away.