Isolation 14 days after positive test - would you?

[Lemons1571]

Child has a positive test when asymptomatic.
Told to isolate by T&T for 10 full days after test date. They do this, and no one leaves the house.
Go back to school on day 11 as per T&T
Day 13 - email from school - close contact - child needs to isolate for 10 days.

Do they really need to isolate? Will they really be brewing an infection less than 2 weeks after their original infection? It means they will be under house arrest for 20 days out of 22!!

In reality they shouldn’t need too, 20 days isolation sounds brutal for any child but it would be up to the school sadly.
I think I’d ask the school if they have to enforce it as they have recently recovered from the virus themselves.

I think officially the answer is yes, they have to isolate.

In reality, as a parent, I wouldn't enforce it.

I'm dreading this happening to my son who has just had Covid. 10 days stuck in the house was very hard for him (learning difficulties and ASD). No way would I enforce another isolation this soon.

I wouldnt isolate in this scenario. Obviously cant go to school as everyone in the class is off, but no, I wouldnt keep them in.

No, I wouldn’t continue the isolation past the 10 day period. The contact isolation is in case they develop it within that time, if you already know that they have it then that becomes irrelevant.
I wouldn’t be discussing with the school or asking for their permission either, unless the issue is that you need them to go back into school.

No because they have just done 10 days isolation. You only need to isolate longer if during those 10 days you develop symptoms then you start 10 days from day of symptoms so if you start symptoms on day 10 then it’s 20 days isolating, that happened to me started symptoms on day 10 so 3 weeks isolating was not fun .

Am faced with the scenario that DS tested positive and will finish isolation next weekend. The primary school then want him back for one day, on the last day of term (well it’s a half day so they want him in for 4 hours then term ends!).

But if someone else in his class is positive on that day, he will then have to isolate for at least the first week of the holidays.

It would be 10 days positive and isolating, one day back at school, then immediately another 10 days isolating as a contact.

And not being funny, but I don’t want to! Is there any science that says we would need to?

No chance

Just keep him off that day "sorry still not feeling 100%"

Done.