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If someone in your household has tested positive....

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PerditaMacleod · 27/08/2021 13:21

the need for other family members to isolate has been removed. In this scenario, would you be sending your children back to school next week? Although it's allowed under the rules, it doesn't seem right?! Surely it's going to spread like wildfire, but I guess that's what the govt is going for now?

Interested to see if anyone will be keeping their DC at home if only parent(s) are infected.

OP posts:

Banani · 27/08/2021 18:19

I kept my youngest off nursery when my oldest tested positive. I worked from home, DH worked, but changed hours to avoid contacts with colleagues. As I had to be home with one child it seemed wrong to send the youngest in. As it turned out the rest of us appear to have dodged it (2 PCRs and daily lfts over the ten days).

Gibbertycricket · 27/08/2021 18:21

We’ve had a positive case in the house and the rest of us are isolating as we would’ve done before as that’s what feels right for us.

I don’t know what I’ll do if it happens over the next few months with school. Depends on what school guidance is, but presumably they’ll follow government guidelines and say you have to come in. Then if you keep them off they’re missing out on their education and will have unauthorised absences.

But it’s likely to lead to a spike in infections - which even if it’s mild cases could lead to swathes of kids and school staff being off anyway. So interruptions to schooling regardless.

Feels like it people know your DC have a case at home there’s a possibility they’d be blamed/made a pariah at school. So would it best to get your DC to not say if there’s a case in the house?? But that doesn’t seem right either.

I get the points about it being endemic and seeing how we get on learning to live with it (and understand that not all people can isolate) but I don’t feel comfortable with it yet. I guess we’ll know in a couple of months how this next phase is panning out.

SunbathingDragon · 27/08/2021 18:22

I would keep everyone at home but I appreciate some people are in different situations.

Lulu1919 · 27/08/2021 18:23

I'm a TA
I think if positive case in household we should still isolate ..but I know that's now not the rules...so I could help transmit to 100s of children and staff !!!
But if I don't go in I'll not be paid plus can't claim sick pay cos I won't be sick ...
What to do !?!?

Thirtyrock39 · 27/08/2021 18:26

In our nhs trust we still have to isolate if come into contact with a positive case even if outside the household . I'm surprised schools aren't still doing this . Our trust thinking is that we shouldn't be putting our patient group at risk

Thirtyrock39 · 27/08/2021 18:27

Just to add we isolate from work and in working hours but outside of work follow the new guidance

Hairyfairy01 · 27/08/2021 18:27

Morally I don't think I could.

motherrunner · 27/08/2021 18:32

@Hairyfairy01

Morally I don't think I could.

And this is where I can see the teaching profession vilified further.

Wanting mitigation measures = want schools closed = haven’t worked since March 2019 = disrupted education etc

No bubbles now = no isolation = doubled vaccinated = work - but you have positive family members?! Immoral!

toomuchlaundry · 27/08/2021 19:04

@motherrunner there was a witch hunt on social media in a local area last term when a teacher tested positive and people were demanding they were sacked! If there are cases in school this term I can see teachers getting the blame again, although at the moment it is the local teens that are dropping like flies with it

motherrunner · 27/08/2021 19:23

It’s really a concern.

I don’t want anymore disrupted education but I feel uncomfortable going into work if I have positive family members at home. I will be expected in and I can’t refuse to work yet I will be in close contact with hundreds of the unvaccinated population.

I si t want to be labelled as ‘immoral’.

motherrunner · 27/08/2021 19:23

*i don’t

BluebellsGreenbells · 27/08/2021 19:32

I think if positive case in household we should still isolate ..but I know that's now not the rules...so I could help transmit to 100s of children and staff !!!

So I assume you’ll do LFT twice a week?

Can you be certain all parents will do the same for you?

Madcats · 27/08/2021 19:34

We were all ill last month. DH tested +ve first, DD and I had -ve PCR's a day later. I was enrolled on the daily LFT study which meant I did a PCR on DH's day 4 (-ve) then the daily LF tests. It took me 6 further days before I had a +ve LFT.

Unvaccinated teen caught Covid on day 5 or 6 of DH's isolation. She probably passed it on to me.

I was lucky to get supermarket deliveries organised pronto after DH started sneezing, so we could all stay home, grumble and be antisocial.

Delta will spread wild and free in September.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 27/08/2021 19:35

Ds is positive and Dh and I are waiting for our PCR results. Ds is keeping to his room and I'm planning on sleeping in the spare room tonight as well. We will all be isolating for 10 days, just cannot go around as normal with Covid in the house despite the new guidelines!

WutheringBites · 27/08/2021 19:36

NHS worker here; my workplace have instructed we must stay at home if we have a positive case at home… as we work with vulnerable pts.
So come next week, when my children are back at school, I’m sending them into Covid viral soup & im afraid I’m freaking out.
The whole situation is awful. And I completely blame our government, who frankly don’t give a toss about our health.

Underhisi · 27/08/2021 19:41

It is very likely that ds would be the first person in the household to get covid but if he wasn't then we would probably keep him off since due to his disabilities he has very close contact with us and because we would want to monitor him closely. If only of us had it, the other would still take him out for exercise but avoid other people.

MargosKaftan · 27/08/2021 19:46

@lulu1919 - you go in to work. You go in as all the other teaching staff, hospital staff, supermarket staff, care home and restaurant staff will with a positive case at home.

We all know its a shit idea, but as they don't have to pay you if you dont go in when your family member has covid, you and all other people with jobs that can't be done from home, will go into work and probably spread it.

Do not feel a moment of guilt about this, you have no choice.

PreacherTeacher · 27/08/2021 19:49

Bet you can't guess my profession?

Guidelines are that if anyone is positive in my household I will still be expected into work. I have to go in otherwise I will have to take unpaid leave, which I can not afford. My children are under 6 so I can't really keep away from them if they are sick. Potentially risking my children at school getting sick.

I feel like it's a lose-lose situation.

FTEngineerM · 27/08/2021 19:52

Interested to see if anyone will be keeping their DC at home if only parent(s) are infected.

Me and DP just had covid and we kept DS off nursery, DS tested negative but it seemed stupid to allow him to go when there is absolutely no social distancing between parents and children of 15m.

It was tough don’t get me wrong, we were ill as hell and had to look after him 24/7 but what’s the alternative spread it around the nursery and to god knows who else?!

RubyJam · 27/08/2021 19:54

@PreacherTeacher

Bet you can't guess my profession?

I feel like it's a lose-lose situation.

But your situation is not unique ?

I’m in a totally different job but also a key worker and my rules are the same , if someone in my house is positive then I still need to go into work ? If I don’t I’m unpaid ?

namechanged984630 · 27/08/2021 19:55

But doesn't the close contact exemption only apply to the double vaccinated?

toomuchlaundry · 27/08/2021 19:57

And to under 18s @namechanged984630

LillethCrane · 27/08/2021 19:57

We had a family event last week and one by one since, people have been testing positive including those who are double jabbed.
Of those who have subsequently tested positive, many were entitled to go out and about despite positive cases at home. But now they’ve all fallen ill and if schools were open, they would have been passing it around unknowingly. The new rules are so ridiculous, if a family member has tested positive, everyone should be at home…

RubyJam · 27/08/2021 20:00

I agree @LillethCrane but people not being paid now is going to cause lots of issues.

I suppose they are heading the way of treating it like the cold ? Just get on with normal life and the person with the “ cold “ stays home

But your family scenario proved that this new Way is potentially very dangerous/ risky for transmission

nannynick · 27/08/2021 20:01

What about people coming in to the house where the positive person lives - is that different to someone from the household going out of the house, assuming the person coming in is double jabbed?

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