To think this is madness!

[Madwife123]

Daughter 1 became ill on Friday, LFT was positive. She had a PCR on Saturday and found out today she has covid.

Have done lateral flow tests on the rest of the household today and awaiting results. Have also done LFT on us all.

Foster daughter 1 has a positive lateral flow so expect her PCR to be positive

Foster son 2 LFT is negative. He has no requirement to isolate as he is under 18 and so test and trace have said he can go to school tomorrow and doesn’t need to wait for the PCR result to do so. Despite being in daily contact with 2 positive cases and being unvaccinated.

I am vaccinated so I can go to work tomorrow. As I work for the NHS with vulnerable patients work ask me to have a PCR first. So if my PCR comes back negative I can go to work despite being in daily contact with 2 positive covid cases, 1 of which is sleeping in my bed and coughing literally in my face.

How on earth does this make any sense! No wonder it’s spreading so much right now!!

Even if I don’t develop it myself I can still spread it despite being vaccinated and when I have 2 young children with covid quite literally clambering on me, coughing on me etc. I think there is quite a high chance of this. I’m worried about exposing my patients but nothing I can do if that’s the decision made by the trust.

I thought nhs trusts were giving staff different advice on isolating.
I agree seems bonkers.
Can you seek unions advice?
Hospital are so short staffed but agree seems risky as double jabbed can catch covid and transmit.