Driving around looking at lights with covid positive.

[Coronachristmas21]

Do you think it's okay? I know isolation means isolation. 3 out of 4 of us are positive, Dp is nearing the end of his isolation, me and Ds just started . Just Dd to go. Likely she will get it given circumstances.

Anyway, Dd has sen and fascinated by Christmas lights and desperate to see some. Ds is autistic and climbing the walls bored with isolating.

So do you think it would be okay if we drive around our housing estate looking at lights?

We live in a sleepy village in the middle of nowhere in a rather large but quiet housing development. Would involve no main roads or through roads whatsoever. Just around the estate which the roads are mainly all a one way system.

Would it be really bad to do so for 10 minutes?

The likelihood of an accident is next to zero and I've lived here for 10 years and there's never been any form of road traffic collision.

Embracing myself to be told how bad it would be though!

A bored autistic child in isolation is so hard!

We did it Monday with my two covid positive children-we've been in isolation since last Monday- they've missed out on school, seeing Santa, Christmas parties and lunches so yes I was going to take them out from the safety of inside our car to view some of the prettiest Christmas lights! They absolutely loved them!

The thread is five days old. They are probably out of isolation by now!

What a dystopian warped world we now live in where some people consider the hypothetical risk of passing Covid to a stranger if they had an accident as of more consequence than the risk to themselves and their children of being so seriously injured in that accident that they require medical attention from that stranger!

No Covid: Million-to-one risk of serious accident causing injury to me and my children requiring paramedic attention = Fine and would do without a second thought. Perfectly acceptable risk.

Covid: Million-to-one risk of serious accident causing injury to me and my children requiring paramedic attention, but also possible additional risk that a paramedic may get Covid in situation.
The risk of possibly passing on Covid is of such significance to me than my seriously injured child that it completely changes my risk assessment - no way would I go. In fact you'd be a monster even to consider it!