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

[Branchesonatree]

Just wondering if anyone would do this?

No esp not dc

Not possible. Teens with SN and care needs. Ds2 currently has a cough - no idea if it's covid as we can't test him. He still needs help with personal care and toileting and spends a lot of time right in our faces, talking at us. If it is covid, it's only a matter of time for us.

@nancy75

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.

Serious question. I'm intrigued as to why you and Dd wear a mask going upstairs when masks prevent the person who has covid from passing it on. They don't prevent the wearer in any way??

No. When Dd2 caught it, I was just resigned to getting it. The house is too small and only one bathroom. Neither myself nor Dd1 caught it though.

Student DD's yes, currently in the 7 day wait period so daily lfts just before I'm due home from work, if positive they have to stay in rooms as i can't afford to take time off

I am isolating precisely (positive today) to reduce viral load on the rest of the family (as another PP says this is often overlooked but can determine how ill you get). Our house is pretty ideally set up for it though so realise we are lucky in that respect.

We would do the things we usually do with any illness like sleep in spare room, this is more because people that are ill generally are a bit restless and keep the other awake, apart from that, enhanced hand washing and seperate hand towels

My DS ages 12, is happy isolating in his room. I have cleaned and cleaned! DH tested positive yesterday. He is in the attic bedroom! I am on the sofa and so far fingers crossed DD 14 and me haven't caught it. If we do from now on we will just crack on and stop them from isolating. We are only doing it as DH will hopefully be well enough and 'out' on the 23rd. We were hoping to spend Christmas with family

DDs year 5 group are all going through it, she’s just out of isolation. We didn’t isolate as she’s 9 and was ill, she slept in with me.

Was completely agog with a lot of other parents who did isolate 9 / 10y olds, alone and ill in their bedrooms. I despair at it.

We live in a tiny cottage with one bathroom, no en-suites, small rooms very close together. Absolutely no chance of distancing!

Yes. My DD11 stayed in her room for 11 days. She felt pretty crap anyway so was happy to stay in bed.

We only have bathroom and toilet though, and had to change her bedding, take her food and drink, check her temperature, etc. so we couldn't isolate fully.

None of the rest of us caught it and she is now back out of isolation.

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully
Serious question. I'm intrigued as to why you and Dd wear a mask going upstairs when masks prevent the person who has covid from passing it on. They don't prevent the wearer in any way??

You couldn't be more wrong. Both surgical and basic fabric masks provide the wearer with a lot of protection.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250645v1

Results and Discussion Our results indicate that fabric face masks blocked between 62.6% and 87.1% of fine particles, whereas surgical masks protected against an average of 78.2% of fine particles. N95 masks blocked 99.6% of fine particles. Survey respondents tended to underestimate the effectiveness of masks, especially fabric masks. Together these results suggest that fabric masks may be a useful tool in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic and that increasing public awareness of the effectiveness of fabric masks may help in this endeavour.

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully
here are some more links. It's easy to Google.
But there is also plenty of evidence showing that masks protect the wearer even when others around them are mask-free. The amount of protection depends on the quality of the mask and how well it fits. During a hotel outbreak in Switzerland, for instance, several employees and a guest who tested positive for the coronavirus were wearing only face shields (with no masks); those who wore masks were not infected. And a Tennessee study found that communities with mask mandates had lower hospitalization rates than areas where masks weren’t required.

www.nytimes.com/article/covid-masks-protection-stats.html

A number of laboratory studies have also documented that a mask protects the person who is wearing it, though the level of that protection can vary depending on the type of mask, the material it is made from, the experimental setup and how particle exposure was measured.

But the bottom line of all the studies is that a mask reduces the potential exposure of the person wearing it. Here are some of the findings.

www.firstpost.com/health/covid-19-fact-check-does-a-mask-protect-me-from-the-infection-if-i-am-the-only-person-wearing-one-indoors-9986661.html

People who never wear face coverings in enclosed spaces are one and a half times more likely to test positive for coronavirus than those who use a mask.

A report issued by the Office for National Statistics looked at the characteristics of those testing positive in the fortnight ending September 11. While public information has concentrated on the benefits of stopping the spread of coronavirus from a mask wearer, a number of studies have suggested that they also protect the wearer.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/masks-do-reduce-wearers-chances-of-catching-covid-svlcjnxk0

We all had covid at the beginning of the year when we were in lockdown after Christmas and the kids were off school. We didn't isolate away from each other.

If one of us caught it again now, we wouldn't isolate from the household as it's better for everyone to get it at once.

A couple of families I know where one or two of them managed to escape it a few weeks ago, have caught it now anyway

We haven’t had covid yet but we won’t isolate from each other if/when one of us does get it. Our kids are teenagers so we probably could but I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t be hugging them though.

DD & DH have covid and currently isolating but other than no kissing/sharing drinks etc we have barely changed our routine - I refuse to shut my family off like lepers & accept I may get it.

I wfh anyway but have cancelled social engagements to limit trips out and older dc are going to school with daily LFT but both had covid in October so just me left to catch it. If I get it now it will mean cancelling family for Christmas which will be a real shame but so be it.

Nooooo my ds 7 has it at the minute.. we have carried in as normal, he doesn't know he has covid. He thinks we all just have to isolate as he has a cough. He's well enough to play and enjoy family time with us. He's slept in our bed a few times too. On day 8 and so far no one else has tested positive.

I did, I moved into the spare room, used the bathroom upstairs and cleaned thoroughly before anyone else did. I had food left outside for me.

Not going to lie, I was miffed when everyone else caught it (we had been on a long car journey just before I tested positive) and I could go back to being sociable. I’d been happy sleeping, watching box sets and reading snippets of crappy magazines.

If it was an adult yes but it’s the 5 year old so no.

Dp tested positive last weekend. In an ideal word he would have isolated in one room but we have a small house and one bathroom. Both our dc have sen and wouldn't understand to keep away so he didn't isolate away. We did open doors and windows, cleaned and no face to face contact. Dp was asymptomatic too and as selfish as it sounds I couldn't cope with them both on my own for 10 days doing everything whilst enjoying stayed in one room. He wasn't poorly. Turns out we all caught it anyway but 2 have been asymptomatic and me and Ds mild.

I have heard of people isolating their positive young kids dc in one room. No way I would do that. Maybe some teenagers might be happy to do this but don't feel it's right for young children. I've heard that test and trace are asking parents if kids are isolating in one room - and discouraging it because it's not fair or right!!

Back in the summer when whole classes had to isolate because of one case, Ds's ( then aged 9) class had to isolate. Some of the parents were expecting their children to isolate in one room away from the family because they 'might' of had the virus! I just think it was too young!

At 17 my daughter was happy to stay in her room and have meals delivered, and we’re lucky to have 2 bathrooms so we didn’t have to share with her. None of us caught it. She was pretty bored though!

Yes we did this with DS 17 upper 6th. He is doing 4 x A levels and revising for Oxbridge exams so quite busy and I am CEV he homeschooled during the day. Xboxed, ipad, phone spoke to us in breaks. We took him his favourite meals drinks and snacks up on a tray and none of us caught it. He was quite happy wasn’t too poorly and asked for his breakfast fetched up on a tray the day he came out of isolation too. I don’t think I could do it without school to keep him occupied or over Christmas though.

Our ds (19 at time) caught it at beginning of lockdown last year. He was very sick and stayed in his room for two weeks, he was happy to stay there and had his own bathroom. I took his meals and drinks up and did his washing. I have a suspicion i may have had mild case 5 days after him but nobody else caught it, but weather was warm so house was well ventilated and that variant wasn't so transmissible.

Yes, although we only have one bathroom, so cleaned it regularly. We've managed not to infect each other. It was easy for us as the DC are teens. DD still came and sat on my bed, though.

DD caught it in august and we didn't ask her to isolate (teen) and then me and DS caught it but DH stayed clear.

I caught it again last week, am not isolating though kids are keeping their distance. We figure that by the time you realise you have it, you could have passed it on anyway. I am sleeping in the spare room but that's because I'm coughing so much.