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Got covid but need to drive dd to school wwyd

99 replies

jenkel · 07/11/2021 22:35

That’s it really, dh and I both have covid, daughter awaiting pcr results but only because we both have it, she has no symptoms. I am well enough to drive her to school and don’t need to leave the car, I am on day 7 so I think over the most infectious stage, dh is on day 2. Obviously iif her pcr is positive she won’t be going in but really not sure what to do if it’s negative, will ring the school and ask for their advice. No other way to get her to school, a 15 min drive away and no public transport or people that we can easily ask.

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MzHz · 08/11/2021 07:39

One of the things I’ve learned in all this covid stuff is that what the government”advises” isn’t always the best in terms of infection control.

Use common sense, you are positive, your h is positive, if your dc isn’t vaccinated it’s just a matter of time.

My ds caught it, his mates mum caught it (double vaccinated) and was pretty ill with it.

Think. Don’t just sleepwalk into the govt plan of herd immunity. Some people even vaccinated - get VERY ill. Some stay ill for a long time.

Yogaandcocoa · 08/11/2021 07:42

Keep her at home OP

Fallagain · 08/11/2021 07:43

@jenkel

Just to be clear….

I’m more than happy for her to be at home.

But government advice is for her to be in school. She has already had one pcr that was clear earlier in the week.

I agree that a good chance that she is infectious but government advice is that only the person that has had a positive result should isolate and everybody else should carry on as normal.

Advice for kids to be in school up over ridden in some areas. Law for you not to leave the house.

Law trumps advice.

Treefloss · 08/11/2021 07:45

Phone the school, I'm sure they'd count keeping her home as an authorised absence in this case.

Summerfun54321 · 08/11/2021 07:48

Posts like this make me want to cry. There are still some high risk parents like me waiting for our booster vaccines in the next few weeks. Just keep her home.

RedHot22 · 08/11/2021 07:50

Honestly OP.
As someone who drove their DD to work when I was positive, in your situation, I would keep your DD at home.

ittakes2 · 08/11/2021 07:53

If you are on day 7 you only have a few days left before you can legally drive her. You are close to the school - does she not have some local friends who can help out?

careerchangeperhaps · 08/11/2021 07:54

[quote RedHot22]@AlexaShutUp

She needs to get to a train station and currently doesn’t have access to a car.[/quote]
Urm - get a taxi? You breaking the law is not ok. Isolation is isolation. If your DD is old enough to be going out to work, she's more than old enough to book a taxi / message work colleagues about the possibility of a lift / ask boss if she can work from home due to situation etc.

NewbieAlert · 08/11/2021 07:55

I’d be investigating all the options for someone else to take her.
Are there no friends or classmates who live nearby?

Chloemol · 08/11/2021 07:56

Keep her off school

SummerHouse · 08/11/2021 07:56

Is PCR possibly coming back today? If so bear in mind you might have to go and collect her and that would be tricky.

RedHot22 · 08/11/2021 07:57

Urm - get a taxi? You breaking the law is not ok. Isolation is isolation. If your DD is old enough to be going out to work, she's more than old enough to book a taxi / message work colleagues about the possibility of a lift / ask boss if she can work from home due to situation etc.

Rural, no taxis
No lift/no-one local and she commutes over an hour by train.
Hands on clinical role

tabulahrasa · 08/11/2021 07:59

[quote RedHot22]@AlexaShutUp

She needs to get to a train station and currently doesn’t have access to a car.[/quote]
But.... you drove her... in a car...

Sadiequeenofscots · 08/11/2021 08:02

Keep her at home.

What if you broke down? Crashed the car? What if you got to school and someone bumped in to you from behind as you parked?

Unlikely but possible and you would then be in contact with people. It’s not fair to do this.

Doidontimmm · 08/11/2021 08:03

@RedHot22 did you really share a car to drive your adult daughter to a hands on clinical role? If that’s ok by government rules in England that’s totally crazy! It’s not ok here in Scotland!

RedHot22 · 08/11/2021 08:03

But.... you drove her... in a car...

Do I really have to explain this!
My car. She isn’t insured to drive my car.
Obviously if she was, she could use it
Or is breaking the law driving without insurance ok?

GoodbyePorpoiseSpit · 08/11/2021 08:05

At our school you have to send the kids in or you get a stern phone call re attendance so I understand this conundrum

RedHot22 · 08/11/2021 08:07

[quote Doidontimmm]@RedHot22 did you really share a car to drive your adult daughter to a hands on clinical role? If that’s ok by government rules in England that’s totally crazy! It’s not ok here in Scotland![/quote]
She was required to work!

RedHot22 · 08/11/2021 08:08

As I’ve had said.
I really don’t think the OP should be sending her DD to school or giving her a lift anywhere

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/11/2021 08:09

I would wait for her results.

If negative then I would drive her to school.

tabulahrasa · 08/11/2021 08:11

@RedHot22

But.... you drove her... in a car...

Do I really have to explain this!
My car. She isn’t insured to drive my car.
Obviously if she was, she could use it
Or is breaking the law driving without insurance ok?

It’s a 5 minute phone call to add someone to your insurance, you can even do it just for a set period of time if you don’t want her on it for the rest of the year.

So, um, yeah I think it’s a bit odd to decide to drive her instead tbh.

RedHot22 · 08/11/2021 08:13

It’s a 5 minute phone call to add someone to your insurance, you can even do it just for a set period of time if you don’t want her on it for the rest of the year.

You have no idea what car I have, how old my DD is and when she passed her test. We are not able to insure her so that’s a red herring. What if she couldn’t drive at all?

lollipopsandrainbows · 08/11/2021 08:14

DD13 tested positive last Sunday. DD9 no symptoms but we had spent the half term week all together in a small caravan. Telephoned school to explain DD9 wouldn't be in as morally it didnt seem the right thing To do. The backlash from the school was unreal. Quoting guidelines that she should be in. The attendance officer rang, the head of primary rang. Come Wednesday when she was so so poorly with Covid (lateral flows negative, PCR positive), I knew I had done the right thing. Had she gone Monday and Tuesday, she might have taken the whole class down. Keep your child at home OP.

CherryHug · 08/11/2021 08:14

It's guidelines not law, if you feel your daughter is safer at home, then keep her there and tell school why, they will more than likely understand!

ifonly4 · 08/11/2021 08:15

As said, you'll be breaking the law if you leave the house. Someone will see you or hear about joining through word of mouth.

Unless, she goes to a small school, she won't be the only one off in the school for the same reason.

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