If the app pinged you now, would you isolate?

[musicalfrog]

Just wondering how people are responding at this stage given the changes they want to make to the app (things like sensitivity and NHS/double jabbed status).

*NHS Staff that should be.

I don't have the app and never have however I wouldn't isolate. My sons school have just been sent home as a teacher had it. We did a test, got résults the next day and were out again like normal x

@Mummasdiary2021 You still have to self isolate even with a negative test 🙄 Symptoms and a positive can take several days to show.

No wonder it’s spreading so fast.

No, but then that’s why I’ve never had the app

No. Don't have the app, though.

[quote Girlmama3]@Mummasdiary2021 You still have to self isolate even with a negative test 🙄 Symptoms and a positive can take several days to show.

No wonder it’s spreading so fast.[/quote]
Yes and if contact was a while prior to the test then they would be picked up. I'm not isolating. We have to learn to live with it. I havnt been isolating (as explained above) and havnt worn a mask during this whole pandemic despite being classed as extreamly vunrable and I have been perfectly fine. If you don't like it that's your problem, not mine :)

@Mummasdiary2021

I don't have the app and never have however I wouldn't isolate. My sons school have just been sent home as a teacher had it. We did a test, got résults the next day and were out again like normal x

Thats not how isolation works! He's supposed to stay at home despite the negative test

I know, that was my point. We wouldn't stay at home. We have to learn to live with it at some point. Whether it's now or in 2 weeks won't make a difference

Nope. I got pinged last week, told work, they said their official line is that the app doesn’t count, only a phone call. I’m testing everyday, also jabbed and had it back in January.

I'm not sure what I'd do. I don't have the app. I'm double vaccinated, I think I'd probably take a (proper) test and if that's negative and I have no symptoms/feel perfectly well then carry on more or less as normal. I lead a pretty isolated life anyway, I'm not out in public places if I can avoid it and get most stuff delivered.

I deleted the app at that point.

Nope deleted the app a While ago

I can't believe how many wouldn't isolate. I work with 200 children every day I can't distance from. Would any of you really thank me if I passed it on (as has happened between teaching staff and children)?

@Mummasdiary2021

I don't have the app and never have however I wouldn't isolate. My sons school have just been sent home as a teacher had it. We did a test, got résults the next day and were out again like normal x

Well what a selfish person you are! How about I drive at 60mph outside your child's school, they've got to learn to cross the road after all?

No, because I don't trust the judgement of the app and I couldn't get my kids to school etc.
I was contacted for the first time because I visited a venue where someone else had been that since tested positive... And was just told to do a test and not isolate. I will be extra cautious and do extra lateral flows... And my kids have a virus atm so I had them tested just incase. What we need is very reliable at home tests as good as the pcrs that people can use and isolate as soon as they get a positive, not all this guessing and isolating, ruining the economy and impacting mental health... I thought they would have been able to improve home tests by now

Don't have the app.

@ifonly4

I can't believe how many wouldn't isolate. I work with 200 children every day I can't distance from. Would any of you really thank me if I passed it on (as has happened between teaching staff and children)?

Your circumstances are different to others. I'd almost certainly act differently if I had school age children/worked in a school. I don't. Everyone's circumstances are different. The way this isolation is going, the country is going to grind to a halt. Some people don't get paid if they're isolating, they can't afford to not work.

@ifonly4 If you tested negative and went in, then no I wouldn't blame you. If you were positive and carried on working, yes I would. Contact isolation has to stop at some point...

I work in a school and we got told had to isolate from weds and not allowed back until 16th due to contact with a child who tested positive..I have had 2 negative lateral flow tests and a negative pcr test but still have to isolate.. the whole class does negative or positive

Never had the app and wouldn't even if I did

No, the app is not fit for purpose. I had it until my friend got pinged through a brick wall because her next door neighbour tested positive. I couldn't afford to be off for ten days for that sort of thing.

@ifonly4 if you are vaccinated you have a lower chance of transmitting it to my children who have a very very low risk of becoming seriously ill. I would take that risk to ensure my children get their education. The guidelines for isolation are all coming to an end shortly. What difference does a few weeks make?

We need to learn to live with this now. We cannot hide in our homes forever.

Nope

I am isolating atm.... -ve result and double jabbed, but I have been in contact with someone who has it. I wouldn't to give it to someone else - I can't think of anyone I hate that much.

I haven't got the app, but if I was contacted by a close contact and told they had Covid, I would definitely isolate.

My main reason would be not wanting to pass it on and infect someone who was vulnerable and cause them a serious illness or death.

People like @Mummasdiary2021 obviously only think of themselves 😞

Yes because I'm only meeting people I care about indoors and wouldn't want to put them at risk. I wfh and don't go to pubs etc so it wouldn't be difficult for me.