Feeling so angry and out of goodwill

[sausagerole]

I'm feeling so angry and utterly fed up with this government.

DC has just been sent home to isolate due to being a contact. I have a healthy, asymptomatic child sitting at home who isn't allowed out even to exercise. He has numerous health conditions, and his appointments that I have worked so hard to get for the past year all fall within his ten day isolation period. These appointments all impact on the care he receives elsewhere, which in turn will further impact him.

I'm not a Tory but I did have goodwill towards the government at the beginning of this. Impossible situation, no perfect solution, someone always thinks you've made a wrong decision etc etc. But seeing thousands of fans packed into Wembley and knowing that the restrictions will be lifted on Monday is utterly enraging me.

I simply cannot get my head around the idea that the virus is apparently so benign that they can remove all facemasks and social distancing, yet is simultaneously so dangerous that my healthy, symptom free child has to sit at home for ten days without leaving the house, missing important appointments in the process, because there is (apparently) simply no other way to reduce the threat he apparently poses to society. But if you've been traveling and pay for a PCR you're ok after 5 days??

Just feeling so discouraged.

Children under 18 will be contacted by phone wherever possible and asked for their parent or guardian's permission to continue the call.

Like I said - most kids won’t know the full names let alone numbers of kids they have close contact with during the day. And IF someone knew them enough to give their names and mobile numbers, my kids don’t answer the phone to numbers they don’t recognise. And my youngest kids don’t have phones of course so what then? No isolation for most under 12s obviously. There’s no meaningful isolation for kids from now on. Even if you get the odd teen here and there, the majority will be cracking on including going to medical appointments.

Can you ask them to do the video or telephone appointments?

I'm with you, OP - DC2 has just been told they have to isolate for 10 days - missing the end of primary, all the leavers' events, saying farewell to the school they've been at since they were 4..... and also guide camp.

No issue cramming into the tube to go to Wembley, though .

my dd had twice been sent home from school to isolate due to being a close contact of someone thats tested posive in her class or form group and iv just ignored it , we have gone out like normal , im done with all this shite now , il only keep her in if she showed symtoms , its happened twice now in close succession so i refuse to keep her cooped up in the house for a total of 20 days , im just not doing it

The government guidance is clear.. Other people living with the person who was the contact do NOT need to self isolate.
So this is nonsense, the OP and her son do NOT need to quarentine and miss his appointments

Chaos. I don't blame you. I'd do the same tbh

@Theredjellybean

The government guidance is clear.. Other people living with the person who was the contact do NOT need to self isolate. So this is nonsense, the OP and her son do NOT need to quarentine and miss his appointments

And OP's son is the contact so had to isolate?! You seem to have misunderstood the whole situation...

Aha... Yes apologies... I had read it was her dh who was contact.

My son is supposed to be isolating due to a staff member (not even from his room) testing positive at his nursery. I'm not doing it. His sister is still going to school, we need help from (healthy, fully vaccinated and perfectly happy with the situation) grandparents so we can work. The isolation of healthy children is coming to an end anyway and I'm just not prepared to put us all through it.

@sausagerole

I'm feeling so angry and utterly fed up with this government.

DC has just been sent home to isolate due to being a contact. I have a healthy, asymptomatic child sitting at home who isn't allowed out even to exercise. He has numerous health conditions, and his appointments that I have worked so hard to get for the past year all fall within his ten day isolation period. These appointments all impact on the care he receives elsewhere, which in turn will further impact him.

I'm not a Tory but I did have goodwill towards the government at the beginning of this. Impossible situation, no perfect solution, someone always thinks you've made a wrong decision etc etc. But seeing thousands of fans packed into Wembley and knowing that the restrictions will be lifted on Monday is utterly enraging me.

I simply cannot get my head around the idea that the virus is apparently so benign that they can remove all facemasks and social distancing, yet is simultaneously so dangerous that my healthy, symptom free child has to sit at home for ten days without leaving the house, missing important appointments in the process, because there is (apparently) simply no other way to reduce the threat he apparently poses to society. But if you've been traveling and pay for a PCR you're ok after 5 days??

Just feeling so discouraged.

Your OP is completely right.

Either it's dangerous and so we shouldn't have had Wembley packed (of course it's caused a huge superspreader event as it unsurprisingly and totally predictably turns out inews.co.uk/news/wembley-variant-covid-cases-england-fans-euro-2020-final-1107370 )

Or it's not so kids shouldn't have to isolate.

Of course there is a common theme - anything that benefits the 1% is allowed to go ahead, anything that benefits kids isn't.

The thing I'm angriest at is the lack of proper ventilation and mitigation in schools.

And hospitals are filling up. While hundreds of thousands of children's lives are ruined.

Apparently he has. Speechless.

If he has I can see lots of people just doing what they like from now on. And to be honest who can blame them

It’s the perfect storm of high rates, indoor mixing, no masks and less people testing and isolating, just at the start of holiday season 😩