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DH refusing to isolate

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TiddleTaddleTat · 13/07/2021 22:16

Yes I know he's a knob

He did a home pcr on Tuesday due to feeling very fatigued and having a runny nose.
Developed a cough on Weds/Thu while waiting for PCR result.
Thur Eve result received - negative.
He takes a weekly PCR anyway for work. Sent this on Saturday.
Still waiting for the result.
I chased up today with 119 as it's been over 72h. Advised that we should have all been isolating since he developed the cough.
I wfh but DD has been at at school and him at work.
I have in person meeting tomorrow indoors with a group and no masks.
He is adamant he doesn't need to isolate!
I need to take DD out of school and self isolate until negative PCR is received, don't I? Even if he is flouting the rules like a total knob?

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TiddleTaddleTat · 13/07/2021 22:18

When I talked to 119 today they said the first negative PCR was irrelevant since he developed the cough after taking the test, but he has taken this as a signal that it's a cold/other virus that he has.

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Mindymomo · 14/07/2021 06:44

You should really all be isolating since the coughing symptoms started, which is now 7 days ago.

Frogsonglue · 14/07/2021 06:47

But he had a negative PCR on Thursday?? So now you know it isn't Covid, just another sort of cough/bug? Or am I missing something.

Frogsonglue · 14/07/2021 06:48

Sorry, I was missing when the cough started. As you were.

MRex · 14/07/2021 06:59

With the timeline, it's actually more important for you and your DD to isolate than him right now, because you are more likely to be incubating and entering your most infectious phase.
And yes, he's being a dick.

Pootle40 · 14/07/2021 07:25

I wouldn't be isolating either. Sorry. He took a test after symptoms started and it was negative.

FindingMeno · 14/07/2021 07:36

I would be confused about this because the symptoms are a bit of a grey area now given that I hear the delta variant presents differently.
I thought a runny nose and fatigue could be symptoms of the delta variant, so if you go by that he was symptomatic when he took the test and received a negative result - just not symptomatic for the 3 symptoms flagged up with the initial strain.
I'm obviously non- medical, but as such, despite being a relatively intelligent person, I am not sure what the score is now.
Yes, I guess self-isolate when the cough starts as a precautionary measure if you have the privilege to be able to do that, but surely with an ordinary cold a cough is a likely progression?
I really don't know any more. I suspect a lot of delta variant positives are going untested personally.

FindingMeno · 14/07/2021 07:39

Are you meant to do a test without cough, fever or whatever the other symptom is?
How the he'll do we know what we're supposed to be doing any more?
Granted, I don't watch the news any more as it was fucking with my wellbeing though.

FindingMeno · 14/07/2021 07:43

How the hell

TreaslakeandBack · 14/07/2021 07:45

Confused. He had symptoms, had a test, it was negative.
I wouldn’t be self isolating either.

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TiddleTaddleTat · 14/07/2021 07:49

Thanks for the responses
Yeah I was kind of surprised to be told by t&t that we should be , because of the negative test
He only tested on Tuesday because I had a PCR in the house left over from last year when Zoe had asked me to test
In any case he's just got the second PCR result back which is negative
Lucky for him, it's just a cold

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MRex · 14/07/2021 07:54

I'm confused about why T&T are speaking to anyone who doesn't have a positive test. How did that happen?

Skral · 14/07/2021 08:00

I would have stopped worrying after the first PCR result. Your DH sounds pretty sensible to me.

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TiddleTaddleTat · 14/07/2021 08:04

It's test and trace so via 119, we called to chase up the second test as it was over 72h since receiving

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TiddleTaddleTat · 14/07/2021 08:04

Since sending, sorry

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Looneytune253 · 14/07/2021 09:49

He doesn't need to isolate if he had a negative test the day of the cough?

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TiddleTaddleTat · 14/07/2021 10:12

He didn't develop the cough until a day/two days after taking the first PCR.
In any case it's all academic now as both were negative. Phew.

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MediocrePenguin · 14/07/2021 18:44

I don't think he was being a knob. I think you were being over cautious - I think people are forgetting that it's perfectly possible to get a cough/cold without it being corvid.

Anonapapple · 14/07/2021 18:48

I think your husband was being pretty logical and not a knob at all.

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TiddleTaddleTat · 14/07/2021 19:13

Fair enough. It was the advice of the 119 advisor that we were all meant to isolate. We didn't - I recognised there was a slim chance it could be COVID but unlikely because of the first test - but if I hadn't heard the result this morning I would have started isolating with DD.
I probably am over cautious because I spent 15 months or so recovering from long covid and wouldn't want to knowingly pass it to anyone else.

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