To find it mad that life goes on

[Mammyloveswine]

Covid cases are crazy where I live!! Anyway, my husband (who works from home and never goes anywhere bar school run!) has just tested positive on a PCR! He goes nowhere! All my lateral flows are negative (I'm a teacher) so myself and both children can just carry on as normal!! It's staggering!!

I've been for a pcr tonight as a contact but can't get over the mega difference in just a few months re being a close contact!!

Fab time last night in Twickenham -party time after the rugby -pubs full with people singing /dancing generally being normal. A real relief after the panic and paranoia.

Since the restrictions ended my son had covid. We didn't catch it.
My daughter had a sleepover at our house with a friend who got covid. We didn't get it.
My dh gave daughter and friend a lift in car. Friend got covid. We didn't.
So under the old rules we would have had 30 days isolation each and still not got it.
30 days (ok weekends) missed school for my dd. For being ok?
Meanwhile I was admitted to icu with sepsis from a sore throat 4 years ago. Hardly any awareness about sepsis out there (ok it's not catching but can be spotted easily).

I felt so so wrong going about life as normal when DSS tested positive.. but unfortunately I have no way to drop out of my commitments when it's perfectly legal to go out as a close contact if you've been double jabbed.

It's odd, that you find it mad that life goes on. Of course life should go on.

No cases I know of here, or very few. Dh and I have had our third dose, flu jab, and haven't had covid as far as we know. So, Life goes on.

Of course life goes on. I find it more crazy that we're still counting cases.

Angrymum22

I’m done with Covid. I’ve had it twice once before vaccination and second time post vaccination. Both times it was no worse than a bad cold.
Unfortunately I was diagnosed with breast cancer recently so for me Covid is no longer the enemy and I’m dammed if I’m going to waste anymore of my life being coupes up. I feel like the last two years have been lost.
I will get the results of final tests next week to see if I need chemo. If I don’t I will no longer worry about Covid. Life is for living not hiding from a bloody virus that has killed less people than cancer on a yearly basis“

Really sorry to read that 💐

Life can’t go on as normal though, myself & DH & DS3 tested positive. DS1 & DS2 are negative. They ‘can’ go to school but also could be incubating it & test positive in a few days BUT regardless, I can’t leave the house so I can’t get them to school anyway!
We did the sensible thing & cancelled all weekend activities for them, which I’d hope most people would. Yes we need to go on ‘as normal’ but I still think it’s too soon, after winter it would be better as the NHS is still not great.

On that note, I have no symptoms at all!

I'm confused about this too. Surely everyone in a household who has tested negative on a PCR but has a Covid-positive person in their home should test again once that Covid-positive person reaches day 9 or 10 of isolation, to make sure they haven't caught it in the meantime and are asymptomatic?

Nobody seems to be able to answer this question!

I have Covid positive people in my household at the moment. I am negative but am testing every other day to see if anything happens. At our schools children aren’t allowed to return until we show evidence of a negative PCR at the end of the 10 days.

All such a giant drag and literal waste of time.

The issue is repeated isolations, particularly for people who cannot do their job from home.

On the other hand, I'm getting tired of my department's ultra-cautious attitudes. We've been told that we should work from home for any "symptomatic illness", which is all very well, but some people (ahem, my line manager) are taking the piss and using it as an excuse not to come into work. Unfortunately, at least 50% of our work really can't be done effectively from home, so it means more to pick up for the rest of us. I had bronchitis and was still coughing a couple of weeks later, but it was a totally non-infectious "dead cough". Still didn't stop my manager pulling me aside and ticking me off like a small child. Apparently it didn't matter that it was non-infectious, it might have "caused people anxiety" and was therefore "so inconsiderate".

We've also recently had a "no dogs at work" order implemented. I was a bit at the thought of dogs coming into our City of Westminster workplace (I have never seen anyone) but also a bit at the Dogs Spread Covid theory. And what if someone had an assistance dog? Wouldn't that be discrimination?

@confused88888

I'm confused about this too. Surely everyone in a household who has tested negative on a PCR but has a Covid-positive person in their home should test again once that Covid-positive person reaches day 9 or 10 of isolation, to make sure they haven't caught it in the meantime and are asymptomatic?

Nobody seems to be able to answer this question!

Depends on where you are (e.g.England and Scotland different), but in general

• everyone is supposed to be LFT testing every 2-3 days anyway
• if you have a covid +ve case in the house, and are double vaccinated, then you can go about your business (the difference being on Scotland where you have to have a -ve PCR first)

I’m glad as it meant that when Ds got it no one else missed out on school / work etc

We didn’t get it but later on another dc did and again first could still go to school

Cases not illnesses.

You say your husband goes nowhere but does he never go to shops, pubs, eat out or go for a walk? It's also possible you or the kids passed it onto him as LFTs are not 100% accurate