Would you see your parents if jabbed ?

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We are KW, but next week there isn't school for DS as it's half term. My parents had their jabs today. Do you think if we saw them at the end of half term we would be low risk ( and not mixing or working next week) and they would of been jabbed a week? My DH has twice weekly Covid tests at work and doesn't really get close to anyone, has to wear mask all day and I WFH, but DS been at KW school. Would you risk it ?

@FuzzyPuffling

The vaccines take around three weeks to provide some level of immunity, so seeing them after a week is a) against the rules b) the same as seeing them with no vaccine.

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@buckeejit thank you. She is devastated and now her DB is in hospital too with Covid. Think a couple of weeks after jab 1.

@Dongdingdong

Tut tut *@Musicaltheatremum*

And a special gold to @Okokokbear for using the big word!

It's ok thanks I already got one on my star chart for it.

But seriously before know when would we have ever said jabbed to meen vaccination.

No but I absolutely would three weeks after their jabs. Just waiting on my dad getting the vaccine now and we will be seeing them.

[quote Musicaltheatremum]@Dongdingdong I say Jag(I'm in Scotland so it's the correct word) and I'm a GP. I must be very immature 😂😂😂[/quote]
Do you say there were x number of patients jabbed today in a meeting for example? It just sound grammatically incorrect. So that's why I said it sounds like a toddler.

You might be on to something about being immature though because you are trying to make me feel small by saying that you are a gp. So...

@Okokobear. We would say we jagged X number of patients here in Scotland actually. It's very common for many of us.

Also lighten up. I was having a bit of a light hearted joke. After the year I've had a sense of humour is essential.

@okokokbear is obviously not okokok

[quote LST]@okokokbear is obviously not okokok[/quote]
What beca9i have an opinion on language. OK ok ok

[quote Musicaltheatremum]@Okokobear. We would say we jagged X number of patients here in Scotland actually. It's very common for many of us.

Also lighten up. I was having a bit of a light hearted joke. After the year I've had a sense of humour is essential. [/quote]
You don't get to tell people to lighten up when you're rude.

100%!! My in laws have stopped having the children for us on a Tuesday because of the numbers being high over Christmas! My FIL will be having his vaccination this weekend, and exactly 9 days after this, they are having the children again and will see us!! My MIL is under 60, slim and very fit, so lower risk ish!

I don't get the 9 days bit.

I wondered about the relevance of the 9 days too. Surely the FIL will have little or no immunity from his jab?

9 days is pointless unless it's for your own convenience, which is obviously pointless as the risk isn't diminished.

2 weeks tomorrow for me. As someone who regularly sat in my parents house for tea & biscuits before, I cannot tell you how happy I will be to have this bit of normality restored if we're spared til then!

Simply amazed at the number of people on here who intend to see parents before lockdown restrictions are eased because they’ve had the vaccination, in some cases had it too recently for immunity to have developed. And making these plans despite the amount of information given that vaccinated people should still be following guidelines. It’s so selfish. If we all make up exceptions to the current rules to suit ourselves we will still be in this situation in another year.

@Rhinosaurus but some of won't be breaking lockdown rules. As I posted earlier, we are my 81 year old mother's support bubble but haven't actually been able to do this due to it being too unsafe as both DH and I work in schools. My mum has now had both jabs and we have just recovered from Covid. My mum came into our home this week for a cup of tea (she lives next door). We have broken no rules and at the moment are about as safe as we are going to get.

@Icequeen01
Support bubbles are not what I am referring to - some of the planned meetings on here are clearly not referring to support bubbles. I haven’t seen my parents for months, I’m a nurse and I’ve had the vaccination. I hear a lot of “bending” the rules and deliberately misinterpreting them or justifying not following for numerous reasons, if we are all doing that what’s the point of this lockdown?

*forgot to say - and my parents have also had the vaccination so quite low risk if we were to see each other.

No. Just no.

You’re not considered vaccinated until after the second dose and then you can still catch it just hopefully less severely.

Unless your DH is wearing FP3 masks then he’s exposed. Unless you’re willing to keep your kids at home for 14days they can pass it on

@Buzzinwithbez

I found an elderly relative living in awful conditions in their home. I don't think I'm more special than anyone else but I'm so glad something made me check on them. I wouldn't have had a clue that they were struggling from our conversations. They hid it well...until I went into their home and what I found was devastating. Some of us have had 11 months of this and people's mental health is declining massively. People's medical conditions are also going unmanaged for various reasons. There must be so many people falling through the cracks now... And I'm making a point of listening very carefully to what friends and relatives are saying and if there's any shadow of a doubt I will do a care visit.

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Last lockdown we only realised what a state my in laws had got into when father in law was rushed into hospital and we had to go and care for mother in law who has dementia. She was fairly mild when we last saw them February 2020. We organised supermarket deliveries and dropped food on the doorstep to them.

By July she was in a right state and father in law was seriously ill.

Since December we now visit them and they visit us at least once a week.