Would you isolate as a contact and miss your holiday?

[Lemons1571]

If you’re double vaxxed, have a uk holiday booked, and T&T call you up as a contact the day before you are due to leave?

It hasn’t happened to me, just wondering if we all need to keep our heads down for 10 days before we leave for our hols in august.

I suspect I’ll get a lot of yes’s. But in the real world, do you think many people would actually miss their holiday on the basis of a possible contact (or even a randomer!) testing positive?

Or maybe these isolation rules for fully vaxxed won’t even exist by august!

A billion % go on holiday!! Bon voyage!

I would isolate on holiday

It wouldn't happen to me as I dont have the tracing switched on my app. I bearly go out, when I do the QR scanner only works 50% of the time. My dh has been told that unless he lives with someone who has a positive PCR he needs to go into work. So if his boss had a positive PCR, dh needs to take a LFT and rock up as if he wasnt in the office with a positive case until the LFT suggests he needs a PCR. So if he doesmt need to self isolate for a close contact then how can i isolate for a ramdomer? That would not wash with his employer to take his kids in.

It's really not realistically possible to isolate on such tiny odds of transmission if you want to avoid being sacked. Unless your employer is more reasonable than dh's.

One of the cleaners was in close contact with someone at work and they was told to come back in or not get paid and face a disciplinary. Even if you fought that, if would be a black mark and you'd risk being managed out.

My sons class had to isolate the week of half term. Half the class went on holiday as normal and posted pics of them doing so on Facebook!

It wouldn't happen to me as I dont have the tracing switched on my app. I bearly go out, when I do the QR scanner only works 50% of the time.

Op was asking about a phone call from T&T as a known/confirmed close contact though not just a notification of being in the general area of one via the app

Nope.

There is a pop up COVID testing centre where we have our holiday home. Big sign outside about being ‘confident you are negative’

Same people sitting there day after day. Over half term DH would say hi every evening and ask how many people they’d had through that day. The maximum was.............. 3

As if anyone is going to risk a positive test on holiday. Bloody ridiculous waste of money.

I'm dreading this happening with ds3 &4 . They are going to stay with their dad in Ireland in a months time after not seeing him for a year.

When ds3 had covid no one turned up on the doorstep to check we were isolating

@cocoloco987 - if you dont call in on your last day of isolation to say you can't come in for the half day at the end of term due to D&V, you are a better woman than me.

Proper call from T&T I'd do. Phone app, not a chance.

@Fitforforty

Ignoring the moral issue it’s a legal requirement and the fines start at 1k per adult.

Isn't it £10k now?

On what legal grounds have fines been overturned?

I’m would absolutely isolate, I think it’s morally wrong and incredibly selfish not to. We’ve book a U.K. holiday and have taken out travel insurance for it exactly for this reason.

@takemetocedarpoint

Yes I would isolate. Utterly gobsmacked that some PPs have said they wouldn’t. It’s attitudes like that that’ll keep us in this mess for longer.

Having said all that I’d say it’s fairly likely that, as a double jabbed person, you would not have to isolate anyway in the future."

But the Scottish football team - with a direct contact that they are playing football with, staying at hotel with, training with, and hugging as shown all over the tv, doesn't have to isolate and a team mate is positive! Nay, different rules for footie players so why should school kids isolate? My son just ended an isolation (again) and he never hugged the girl in his class that was positive, doesn't sit next to her and didn't spend any more than tutor time with her the previous Friday and most certainly isn't staying in the same hotel and associated and hugging and kissing after a game!

@hellywelly3

I’m would absolutely isolate, I think it’s morally wrong and incredibly selfish not to. We’ve book a U.K. holiday and have taken out travel insurance for it exactly for this reason.

Tell the Scottish football team how incredibly selfish and morally wrong that they don't have to isolate them!

'Normal' people are being taken for mugs now. The selfish word doesn't work any more!

Tell the Scottish football team how incredibly selfish and morally wrong that they don't have to isolate them!

'Normal' people are being taken for mugs now. The selfish word doesn't work any more!

Yea this was my final straw as well. Utter BS