Had enough of isolating

[Florabella]

I just can't keep doing this. All my kids get coughs when they get colds. My son was binged up with a cold and sure enough today the coughing started. This is the 5th time. 5th time of 3 kids off school while I wait for a test that I know will be negative. 5th time that I have let clients down and this one will cost me about £500. Will it cost my my whole contract? Possibly. I can't just move my work by a day - I have to get someone else to cover me and they get paid unseat of me. I can't fucking afford this on top of having to shut my business for months on end with no support. I could just cry.

Unreal that schools are allowing this to happen. Thankfully our school will not accept a child with a cough who hasn't been tested. It takes 1 day folks one fucking day....get a test at the first sign of symptoms and you will have a positive or negative result at the end of the day ready for school the next day. I get it is frustrating but it is what it is.

My own DC is high risk and has frequent RTIs and hospital admissions we are constantly having to test for covid symptoms as well because no one can be 100% certain their child doesn't have covid....if it was that easy do you really think the government would be spending a fortune on testing?

The life of a child in your child's class (your child's friend perhaps) isn't worth the inconvenience? I honestly despair at times.

@Florabella

Lateral flow tests are only for use if there aren't any symptoms. If you have symptoms then it has to be pcr and isolate, and persistent cough is one of the main symptoms.

I feel more of a mug if I am the only person left trying to do the rights thing. Are you all really sending your kids to school with coughs?

I don’t send mine in if they have a cough. It’s a symptom. In fact my DC schools won’t allow kids in with coughs or fever. My youngest DS is known at his school to get a cough with every cold, but we still have to test.

I know this is inconvenient for people but I wish people would think outside of their own inconvenience. We have had several cases in our schools in the past week despite none this whole time! Parents sending their child in with a cough. It sounded like a cold cough but she was sent home. It was positive. From that one positive test, 6 staff have had to isolate me being one of them. I am fed up if having to sit with kids in the isolation room. We are down to the wire with staffing as it is due to budget cuts in education. Several children were apparently sent home yesterday. The kicker is that every child I’ve had to put into isolation were sent in knowingly with symptoms. The positive children so far have had mild colds or asymptomatic so not just a cold.

Obviously the test came back negative, but this morning find out it has been past on to next child!!!!! Seriously!!!!!!!!! I honestly think I am done now

You are not the only person doing right. And your actions in the long run are helping to end this fucking nightmare. It's the people not doing it that are fucking it up for us all.

I honestly think I am done now!!

I understand.

My sister’s son was sent home recently and had to wait for a PCR test because someone he’d been in contact had shown possible symptoms - both my nephew and the original person were both negative.

He was off for 3 days (so my sister had to take time off work) and then after 5 days of being back in school he was sent home again to isolate for 10 days because someone in the class had tested positive. The positive case wasn’t someone he’d been in close contact with as they sit at opposite ends of the classroom and have nothing to do with each other outside of school. So now my sister has had to take another week off work.

I get that precautions have to be in place - but a lot of families are going to really, really struggle with all this.