Hugs for grandparents

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Completely vaccinated. Is it still not a good idea?

Those of you who still aren’t hugging vaccinated people, when will you?! Are you staying like that forever?

When the guidelines change.

So, if Boris announces that on a particular date the guidelines change, all of a sudden, it will be “safe” to hug grandparents? That makes sense. 🙄

If grandparents chose to hug my children, that's fine with me. There's more to life than Covid. Its their decision to make.

I swear some people need Boris to tell them to fart before they would do it. 🙄

Apart from those 8 weeks last year when we were all locked in our homes and not allowed to see anyone, my OH and I have been hugging our grandchildren (5 & 3) as normal. We gave them a big hug the first time we saw them at the beginning of May last year (my daughter is a teacher so we went back to our one day a week childcare duties) and have been behaving as normal with them since then.

I really can't imagine going a whole year without hugging them if you live near enough to see them!

Give them a hug it's fine just wash your hands before and after contact

@nyomihu

Give them a hug it's fine just wash your hands before and after contact

I really don’t understand this. You think you can catch Covid from the back of their coat? Or do people hug with their hands on other people’s faces? It’s aerosol transmission that’s the issue, which could happen with or without the hugging.

DS is allowed (by me) 2 weeks after dose 2 of the vaccine and after I have done a lateral flow on him.
Bit strict I know but he’s a good boy and gets chocolate as a lateral flow reward.

My mum got her second vaccine today my dad gets his at start of May - 7 days after that they plan on hugging ds age 3
Mum was going through cancer treatment from the beginning of the first lockdown so we have been ultra careful but they have decided once they are a week fully vaccinated they want a hug!
It will also coincide with me beginning to wfh due to being pregnant and dh takes twice weekly lateral Flow tests for work, ds will still be at creche but he's in a bubble and his keyworker had covid in October and other than work or creche we are mostly isolating anyway we go to outdoor national parks for walks etc but not meeting up with people and avoiding playparks (as our local ones are literally jam-packed) we figure we are being as safe as we can be and that hug is very much long awaited on

@Whatalottachocca

So, if Boris announces that on a particular date the guidelines change, all of a sudden, it will be “safe” to hug grandparents? That makes sense. 🙄

No. I have tried really hard to set an example to my kids of not picking and choosing the rules. As I said before, I believe risk is minimal at this point, but having told them we’re doing the right thing and following the rules to this point, we might as well follow through with it for the short period until social distancing rules are relaxed.

@Alfaix

DS is allowed (by me) 2 weeks after dose 2 of the vaccine and after I have done a lateral flow on him. Bit strict I know but he’s a good boy and gets chocolate as a lateral flow reward.

Even if he was positive the vaccinated person would not get seriously ill, or die. Covid will probably be around for years. Do you plan on testing your DS and yourself every time one of you needs to hug someone, for years to come?

Yes here, my mums been back doing childcare since vaccine no.1 - she’s ECV cos of taking long term steroids.. we feel she’s as protected as she’s ever gona be at this point (as in that’s her opinion & she refuses to not see the kids anymore).

@boon - why do you think they have no protection?

I’m testing twice a week for work and will continue until they tell me to stop.
I’m hoping adults will have a non AZ booster in the Autumn and kids will get a vaccine (DS has an inhaler so I would be tempted to give it to him).
Also depends on situation. Outside - no. Inside but distanced- no. Going for a sleepover and will probably end up in bed with one of them- yes.
And no, not forever! We are gradually relaxing all the time.

Yep. My 21 month old darts for his Nan and wants her to pick him up and sit on her lap. We do lateral flow on the adults.

I have wondered about those who have not been vaccinated yet. Whilst the grandparents have been vaccinated, they can still catch covid but it could be mild and contact with them then might pass on the virus to rest of us who aren't vaccinated yet. The toddler is hugging them but I'm not. Until I too have the vaccine.

God no. The singular best thing to come out of the pandemic. But if you are of that persuasion Boris says you can't but I can't see anyone following that.

“We did all the way through and were fine” 😂 honestly you are the reason we’re still in a pandemic! A third of cases are asymptomatic so you may well have had it, passed it on and never known and that’s why cases didn’t drop faster. Really don’t get what is so hard to understand about this concept. My mum tested positive on lateral flow two weeks ago, she never ever would have known if she hadn’t done the lateral flow as she didn’t have a single symptom. Unfortunately she’d already passed it to two people in that time but if she hadn’t isolated after the positive test she could have passed it to many more. AND she had had the first vaccine.

You can get the lateral flow tests for free, we test the adults with the theory that if the kids have got it we will definitely have it from them. They are too little (all under 5 and one is a baby) for piece of mind.

@EileenGC still best to wash hands as could be on the coat covid does stay on surfaces

@EileenGC otherwise could touch coat then touch your face and spread it

But the thing is @Peaplant20, I’m not the reason we’re still in a pandemic. I know 1 person who’s had Covid and she’s a nurse who caught it in hospital. No one in our huge circle of friends or family has had it. I’m definitely not a denier and have rolled up my sleeve and had my first vaccination but the fact is, hugging grandparents is fine. It’s just distressing and disappointing to hear of so many people who are now struggling to make sensible and informed decisions. Hopefully people suffering from hysteria will eventually recover.

@Whatalottachocca but you and your friends could have had it asymptomatically and you’d never know but have spread it around. There’s just no way of knowing.

[quote nyomihu]@EileenGC otherwise could touch coat then touch your face and spread it [/quote]
You shouldn't be touching your face. That's the first thing this pandemic should have taught us. Why are people still touching their faces? (I do agree that hands should be washed regularly though!)

@EileenGC I know I'm aware shouldn't be touching face but people forget hence why I said to wash hands afterwards !