What concerns you more about getting Covid: the illness itself or the need to quarantine for 10 days?

[Warhertisuff]

Interested to know whether I'm an outlier... Having had Covid in the house previously and not being infected myself, thinking about it, I'm more concerned about the prospect of 10 days self-isolation than the illness.

Your experiences sound awful PrincessNutNuts, I’m sorry

Please try not to use words like “whinge” regarding people’s concerns about isolation

Quarantine

@RichTeaRichTea

Your experiences sound awful PrincessNutNuts, I’m sorry

Please try not to use words like “whinge” regarding people’s concerns about isolation

Thank you.

In my defence, I only applied it to myself, and hypocrites who thought we should shut the vulnerable in their homes for the duration of the pandemic.

If people don't think like that, then I'm not talking about them.

I had Covid and the self isolation was without doubt the worst thing.

I decided not to shield as I couldn't bear staying at home for an indefinite period of time. I was so glad I didn't as I've had worse colds.

My CEV brother shielded, including deciding to live separately from my SIL who is a doctor and worked throughout, up until the point that they had both been vaccinated. It was enormously difficult. We are all very sympathetic to each other’s circumstances - my brother said he would have struggled to go through what I did just as much as I would have struggled with his and SIL’s situation.

Quarantine, I can't afford it for one and dc need taking to lots of things.

Of course self-isolation varies enormously according to your household circumstances and other factors, but I think the fact that we were in a national lockdown in the middle of winter helped me. I was already in a state of semi hibernation.
It’s only natural to dismiss the worst outcomes on the grounds that something so terrible wouldn’t happen to us, whereas quarantine is imaginably bad.

Illness, had it twice, last year I was very ill. Got it two weeks ago, dble vac'd and 4/5 of the house got it. I was a lot better this time around, like a really heavy cold. My dd and dh was very poorly. The isolation doesn't bother me. I was just annoyed I got it at the start of half term and spent it in bed (work in a school).

100% Quarantine.

Especially with 2 under 2s and a husband that works away from home Monday - Friday.

I had PND with my first, I'm coping surprisingly well this time around. But I think 10days quarantine would push me over the edge.

Quarantine doesn't bother me, my 11 days isolating finish at midnight Thursday.
I can hardly put one foot in front of the other, I am also double jabbed.

@Toddlerteaplease

I decided not to shield as I couldn't bear staying at home for an indefinite period of time. I was so glad I didn't as I've had worse colds.

Are you seriously saying that you carried on going to the shops, work, etc, while you had covid, @Toddlerteaplease ?

@liveforsummer

Quarantine, I can't afford it for one and dc need taking to lots of things.

I think the reason I keep posting on this thread is that the reason we don't get covid (if we don't) is that we haven't come into contact with infectious people. And the reason we don't is that people who may be infectious are going into quarantine so they and we can be sure they will not pass it to us. Our actions help keep others safe, and their actions keep us safe.

Quarantine is the reason we aren't all sick. It's the reason that, if you are unlucky (and covid is a lottery on how bad you will get it) you aren't forced to take months off work, and that you don't take your DC anywhere because you can't stand up long enough to get dressed.

Sadly @ArcheryAnnie I am fortunate not to have caught COVID yet and neither had my ECV husband. He shielded when it was in force but I couldn't completely.
I had the cold from hell the other week though (thanks DD1) and I was coughing more than usual. I have asthma so I isolated and booked a test despite negative LFTs as I was out at a party over the weekend so didn't want to take a chance
Sadly I am getting vibes on here but thankfully not in real life that everyone is over it and won't necessarily isolate or test.

Ignore 1st sadly. In the wrong place. Doh!

@ArcheryAnnie
I understood @Toddlerteaplease to mean that despite her own health issues, she didn’t shield herself to avoid Covid, not that she didn’t self isolate when she actually caught it.

@ArcheryAnnie no, absolutely not. I fall into the shielding category. I did not leave the house as soon as I discovered I was Covid positive.

“ I think the reason I keep posting on this thread is that the reason we don't get covid (if we don't) is that we haven't come into contact with infectious people. And the reason we don't is that people who may be infectious are going into quarantine so they and we can be sure they will not pass it to us. Our actions help keep others safe, and their actions keep us safe.

Quarantine is the reason we aren't all sick. It's the reason that, if you are unlucky (and covid is a lottery on how bad you will get it) you aren't forced to take months off work, and that you don't take your DC anywhere because you can't stand up long enough to get dressed.”

Yes, we all understand. The whole point is that most of us have done the quarantine/self isolation at some point and in my case I have already experienced the terrible impact on my mental health. I’m not guessing about it any more than you are your experience of covid. I know it brought me to the point where had I been working (I was on maternity leave) I would have had to take lots of time off, and I was struggling to care for my children. That was a real impact of lockdowns and quarantines and self isolations that did happen - not me imagining what it might be like and thinking it might be difficult to cope with.

I’m also realistic about the risks associated with covid itself, but given that the mental health problem have arisen already, and the covid ones haven’t (yet), I think it is hardly surprising that I am anxious about the thing that has happened happening again because my risks there have significantly increased, whereas my risks with covid have more or less stayed the same.

Having to isolate and not being able to work. Myself and my husband are both self employed so could potentially loose 2 to 4 weeks. We should be a some put away but we don't 🙈

The illness absolutely worries me far more than quarantine. I’m naturally quite introverted and I can easily keep myself occupied at home. I’m late 40s though and not in the most robust health, and although I know that the risk of hospitalisation is quite low, it seems that lots of people my age are getting hit pretty hard by it. Plus we currently have no prospect of any booster either.

@Toddlerteaplease I think we have the same chronic condition - you gave me advice on crutches :) Are you on immunosuppressants for it?

“ I’m naturally quite introverted and I can easily keep myself occupied at home.”

Me too. If i only had to look after myself or had older children I expect I wouldn’t find quarantine itself so difficult.

Have discovered that both are crap, but you don't care about the quarantine bit because you have no interest in doing anything, least of all leaving the house.

@RichTeaRichTea

“ I’m naturally quite introverted and I can easily keep myself occupied at home.”

Me too. If i only had to look after myself or had older children I expect I wouldn’t find quarantine itself so difficult.

Yes my children are teenagers and I’m sure it would be much, much harder with little ones. At least that’s something to be thankful for!

@PastMyBestBeforeDate yes, I think I did. I had Alemtuzemab five year ago for it.