Do you make family members who test positive isolate in an area of the house?

[Branchesonatree]

Just wondering if anyone would do this?

Well we tried to as much as possible. DD, who is a moody teenager, stayed in her room and had meals etc there. I caught it from her (but I did go in her room) and isolated in my room once positive. Other DC and DH didn't catch it.

It would be too hard to isolate them if the positive person was a young child though.

Yes, my DD is confined to her room and uses the en-suite. Food etc left on tray outside her door. It's a pain, but my DS is 15 and has only had one vaccine, so we don't want to risk her getting it.

No. DSS 11 wouldn't have survived if he was excluded from family life as well as school.
I think it really depends on the child, but in our case it would have caused a lot of anxiety and stress

No, we didn't. Mine are age 5 & 7. DH and I both tested positive, so it wasn't an option for us as we had to look after the children. We did extra hand washing and didn't kiss them, but otherwise no social distancing. They did catch is...7 days after DH and I tested positive.

Absolutely not.

When the 3 kids got it in the summer they isolated in their rooms, got waited on hand and foot and had a whale of time.

Me and DH positive. I still working from home, DH is off so basically cleaning continually. All wearing masks, and the kids are not in the same room as us for longer than it takes to run away.

As best as we could, yes. Ds 13 was very happy in his room, we took all his meals up, and he came down each morning to get his laptop and then went straight back up again.

No we didn’t. I had it last Xmas and cooked the Xmas dinner, played board games with dh and 2x teenage dc’s. None of them caught it from me. Both dc’s caught covid in September. Dd first and then DS caught it from her a few days later. Neither myself or dh caught it from them.

Isolating or at least reducing contact will not only reduce the risk of other people in your household catching covid, it will also reduce the viral load caught be the other people and therefore the severity of their symptoms if they do catch covid.
This is really important and not often discussed.
How much isolation or reduction in contact is possible will depend on the household.
But simple measures are absolutely worth taking, ventilation and distancing, hand washing and potentially wearing a mask.

When I was suspected of being C19 positive, my DH banished me to the spare room at the top of the house.
He brought my meals and I had a coffee maker, telly and laptop.
I was a bit put out when it was negative.

Yes, me! I wouldn't make my children do it, but I'm staying in my room in the hope that I don't pass it on to them and then extend their isolation.

@Mydogisagentleman

When I was suspected of being C19 positive, my DH banished me to the spare room at the top of the house. He brought my meals and I had a coffee maker, telly and laptop. I was a bit put out when it was negative.

Gosh that does sounds rather lovely

Yes, my 12 year son stayed in his room and had a.bathroom that only he used. None of us caught it. He didn't complain too much, I think of it had been my 9 year old daughter she would have minded much more.

Fuck no.

A colleague of mine told us today he has Covid (all wfh, over teams). He mentioned making adjustments at home but it would have been rude of me to ask what! Although I was curious. It's me and adult DC here so if one of us gets it (we don't think we have so far) we will just all expect to get it. We wouldn't take any additional measures, just live normally within the house.

Probably would if either DH or I caught it as we have a townhouse and two main bedrooms both with ensuites. Just to not prolong the suffering!

But we have DC3 and DC5 so wouldn't be able to isolate them if they caught it!

No, DD is 24 and tested positive on Monday. We only have one bathroom for a start! She's working from home in her tiny bedroom and couldn't eat in there too. We're being even more scrupulous about cleaning surfaces, handles, washing hands etc. If I get it - I get it, there's nothing more we can do and stay sane.

We won't be. It's only DH and I and we don't have the space to isolate from each other

My 11 year old DD tested positive on Wednesday morning. We have allocated her a bathroom and are trying to keep some distance, but she’s really upset about potentially not being able to see other family at Christmas so I don’t think that asking her to stay in her tiny bedroom for 10 days is going to be good for her. It’s an absolute disaster for us, I wish I had taken her out of school last week so we could have tried to have a proper family Christmas.

@Mydogisagentleman

When I was suspected of being C19 positive, my DH banished me to the spare room at the top of the house. He brought my meals and I had a coffee maker, telly and laptop. I was a bit put out when it was negative.

You should have got a marker and drawn in that second line :-D

@Mydogisagentleman

When I was suspected of being C19 positive, my DH banished me to the spare room at the top of the house. He brought my meals and I had a coffee maker, telly and laptop. I was a bit put out when it was negative.

that sounds great!!!

There was an outbreak at our primary school recently, and I was amazed at the number of parents who made their little children (aged between 6-10) isolate in their rooms. Seemed cruel and unkind to me.

We didn’t at all. Kids are only 6 and 8 though. I’m sure a lot of teenagers would be happy to isolate themselves.

We didn’t make any effort to distance at all. Husband caught it off ds, me and other ds did not.

No we didn’t keep DS away. He had no symptoms so maybe it was easier as he didn’t cough or sneeze and none else caught it. We left windows open and quietly kept a bit of distance without making it too obvious

DH has it now & is banished to the bedroom!
I am sleeping in the spare room. Everything he wants/needs is left outside the bedroom door for him & he doesn’t open the door until I am down stairs.
When Dd or I go upstairs we wear a mask & we’ve upped our hand washing to even more than usual.
He will be allowed out on Xmas eve, if either of us catch it before the end of his isolation it means we can’t see my parents at Christmas.
If my DD was positive we wouldn’t do this, we would let her carry on as normal.