Anyone else who can't help feeling like it's just a bit daft?

[HotelRotel]

Before I go on I should say I know logically it's not daft and I understand the reasoning.

But I'm sat here, half way through isolation with positive DS and I can't help thinking it's all a bit ridiculous. He has not had a single symptom other than a very slightly raised temp the first day when I took him for a PCR. After that nothing, not a single cough, not a sniffle, no sore throat, no further temp, absolutely zilch.

I appreciate he's lucky but I have multiple friends who have either tested positive themselves or who's children have and they have felt perfectly fine.

Again, as I say above I do understand it, but the other half of me can't help but laugh at how crazy it is that I'm isolating my child who's perfectly well and doesn't understand why he can't just go about his normal life!

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Even 3 doesn't give 100% protection. So there will certainly percentage of ppl who will grt worst symptoms and even die.

Then there will be a fourth, fifth, sixth vaccine and none of those will be 100% either.. hence my tongue in cheek comment fix me up to a drip.

I have never had the flu vaccine and have never had the flu in over 2 decades! I still get told off by the doctor for not having it...why though? I'm not even in the age bracket where it will kill me but hey pump yourself with the flu vaccine!

I get tonsilitus the most. Even a simple cold virus will trigger tonsilitus for me. I was almost at 7 times a year pre covid and they wouldn't even consider taking them out but hey you must get the flu vaccine! Get something that isn't going to do anything for your health but we will leave your tonsils in and it will make you ill 7 times a yr and need rounds of antibiotics!

This is the nonsense most ppl are fed up of

Agreed. We seem to have gone insane about a virus that the majority is about as harmful as a cold.

People never bothered in the past if their flu could be harmful to a vulnerable person yet now it seem to be that healthy/unaffected people need to lock themselves in for the rest of their lives...We can't carry on like this.

I agree OP. It is mental and the longer it goes on for the more annoyed I get. I don't agree with a whole generation of children being locked away for years to protect the elderly.

My son has been off school with the normal bug he gets every Christmas which wipes him out for a few days and he sleeps and has a temp. This year we did the lateral flows and a pcr test and All negative. I knew this as this is normal for him every year. We seem to have become scared of any virus now.

I remember back in 2020 before the test centres were open, DP got a cough and we all had to stay home for 10 days. I'm a key worker but didn't have a laptop to work from home. I felt like I was skiving off work and it made me feel really guilty. So I get what you're saying, we all know why we're doing these things but it doesn't stop it feeling ridiculous!

I agree, it does feel like the worlds gone mad. My dh is 4 days post positive pcr test and he wouldn’t even know he was ill if he hadn’t tested. Just a slight sniffle (he was lateral flow testing because he had been a close contact).

I know it’s only anecdotal but I don’t know anyone in real life who has been that poorly with it.

I do understand - it's very frustrating. But I'm here with DD (10) who tested positive at the end of last week and she is so, so unwell. It's been quite frightening at points. This is, of course, just anecdote too, but I was definitely pulled into a false sense of security by the narrative that kids don't really get ill with it.

@ILookAtTheFloor

Yeah it's bonkers.

Completely agree.

This absolutely, I agree.

It just seems surreal though when you see how well my son is, that he needs isolating.

But he doesn't need isolating because of his level of illness, but because of his level of infectiousness. This thread makes no sense.

But he doesn't need isolating because of his level of illness, but because of his level of infectiousness.

But if the infection is so mild for most people, do we really need to isolate so many people for 10 days? It causes huge disruptions to society, especially to our children's schooling.

But if the infection is so mild for most people, do we really need to isolate so many people for 10 days? It causes huge disruptions to society, especially to our children's schooling.

Duh - quoted that without a comment.

We would have been probably heading towards reducing isolation requirements if Omicron hadn’t come along. Super-infectious and high level of vaccine escape = potential for LOADS of infections. And a small % of a huge number can still stack up a lot of people seriously ill, even if for the majority it’s nothing significant.

It’s always been true that it’s a mild illness for most. My DC both had a blink-and-you-miss-it fever as their only covid symptom back last March, this isn’t something that is new to Omicron.

Hopefully things in near future will be relaxed regarding the 10 day isolation. Maybe they will say “keep away from vulnerable people and crowds for 10 days “ I don’t know just a thought!!

I’ve been a good citizen. My whole family have. All the jabs, PCR last week for ALL the middle school kids, Lateral flows for the high school DC twice a week. NOW this week saying LfT every day for the 8yr old until end of term. It’s got too much tbh.

For noro you should be doing it

But as people keep saying, that’s all well and good if you have a bad case of D&V then obviously you won’t be going anywhere bar the bed and the bathroom but what about carriers? We don’t test for mild of asymptomatic cases.

My DD has had two bouts of D&V this year. Both times I’ve slept in bed with her, been sicked on many times etc so I’m obviously exposed to it. Both times I’ve noticed that my only symptoms are a very mild stomach pain lasting maybe half a day. Were it not from wondering if I was going to get ill too I’d probably not have noticed it. Loads of us must be carrying this stuff around unaware all the time. We’ve kept a low profile whilst she’s clearly ill obviously but there are no guidelines for how long someone who has not even once been sick but has definitely been exposed to noravirus should be hiding away and I think we’d all find it a bit OTT if there were.

@LagerthaofKattegat

Hopefully things in near future will be relaxed regarding the 10 day isolation. Maybe they will say “keep away from vulnerable people and crowds for 10 days “ I don’t know just a thought!!

I’ve been a good citizen. My whole family have. All the jabs, PCR last week for ALL the middle school kids, Lateral flows for the high school DC twice a week. NOW this week saying LfT every day for the 8yr old until end of term. It’s got too much tbh.

I assumed we’d let go of the testing requirements rather than the isolation rules first. I feel like saying you can go out with Covid (even though realistically I think it’s ridiculous that walking the dog along a deserted path whilst isolating is considered a high risk and highly immoral activity) is probably a step they don’t want to take whereas stopping actively searching the cases you wouldn’t know about otherwise through asymptomatic cases gets you there anyway.

@Polmuggle

It just seems surreal though when you see how well my son is, that he needs isolating.

But he doesn't need isolating because of his level of illness, but because of his level of infectiousness. This thread makes no sense.

Yeah, very selfish people on this thread

My DS had no symptoms apart from loss of smell but it never crossed my mind that it is ridiculous that we are isolating. No doubts lots of people on this thread broke the isolation rules while positive if this is their attitude

Tbh by the time you know you've got it, you've already spread it about for a few days and THEN you spend 10 days stuck at home no use to anyone even if you feel well enough to work.

Surely - SURELY - if masks are as effective as we are being told, asymptomatic cases should be able to go about their business as usual, just keeping a mask on for those 10 days?

@thewhatsit yes good point about the relaxing of testing. I’d definitely be up for that!

All these things are likely to happen eventually, just not right now when Omicron cases are rising exponentially and no-one can reliably predict what that’s going to mean for severe illness.

Right now, just got to grit our teeth and get through it.

Yeah, very selfish people on this thread

Oh yawn, we're calling people selfish again.

I've not said anywhere that I've not done or am not planning to do the isolating I'm required to do.

I've not even said whether I disagree with it or not! All I've said is that it seems strange to be isolating a healthy (seemingly anyway) child. I am not stupid, I know why we're doing it.

With D&V you stay home because your vomiting and shitting everywhere and with Flu you stay home because most people couldn't get out of bed if the sheets caught fire

Quite!

No doubts lots of people on this thread broke the isolation rules while positive if this is their attitude

I've not had covid, or had symptoms, or been in close contact so no, I've not broken any rules. I do think 10 days is too long and I would prefer people to use critical thinking skills rather than jumping on the selfish bandwagon all the time.

@RobinPenguins

Yes. I think we’ll look back in future years and wonder wtf we were doing. It already seems madness to me that my 3 year old repeatedly had to stay at home with just DH & I for 10 days at a time this year because she didn’t even have covid but someone else had.

Most of the people most vulnerable to covid are, unfortunately, those who are most vulnerable to other infections children could have but don’t have to isolate for like influenza, RSV etc. I’m actually quite terrified that covid might normalise isolating people for other things in the name of protecting the vulnerable, or the NHS or whatever.

I think we'll look back on it as hysteria too. Covid is not severe enough to justify the measures we are taking. What is especially bizarre is that the more we understand the virus, the better our vaccines and treatments are and the less deadly it gets, the more we panic.

@HotelRotel

Yeah, very selfish people on this thread

Oh yawn, we're calling people selfish again.

I've not said anywhere that I've not done or am not planning to do the isolating I'm required to do.

I've not even said whether I disagree with it or not! All I've said is that it seems strange to be isolating a healthy (seemingly anyway) child. I am not stupid, I know why we're doing it.

Yes but you have to enjoy isolating for it to count OP. If you aren't tap dancing about your healthy children missing out on everything for ten days then you are selfish.

I feel for you and thinking will move on at some point. My DD had to isolate with her bubble for 14 days twice. She didn't even have Covid. I took her out for walks in the later half and got all the selfish / what if you trip over in an empty field and need an ambulance nonsense.

As soon as the second one finished they reduced the isolation to 10 days which a/ suggests I wasn't wrong to let a healthy child go for a walk in a field and b/ thinking does move on.