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

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Just wondering if anyone would do this?

Yes DH is in the bedroom with an en-suite. If DS or I catches it he'll come out.

It's mainly because he's due out Christmas Eve but if we get it then the misery is prolonged.

If DS caught it we would not have isolated

We did. 3 people caught it 2 didn’t, if all 5 had caught it we wouldn’t have bothered.

Yes

I’m taking it to the extreme….staying in a separate house till isolation ends as I’ll be just out of isolation by Christmas but if anyone else gets it wider family Christmas is stuffed! Very lucky we’d half moved to a new house but have an overlap with old one. I’m bored, miss my partner and would love a hug, but taking one for the team 😂

If myself or DH caught it then we would isolate as much as possible within the house (separate bedroom, separate bathroom, food left outside the door) because we would really struggle with small children to look after if both of us became very unwell. It would be important to try and keep one adult healthy to take care of everyone.

If the DC caught it, we'd probably have one of us just carry on as normal with their day to day care, cuddles and everything, and the other one would probably try and isolate to avoid catching it. Again it would be very important to have one healthy adult if at all possible. It'd be a disaster if all of us caught it and both adults were very unwell.

Most people I know have isolated family members with Covid in their bedrooms! At least in the early days, maybe not quite so strictly more recently. We were a bit more flexible and divided out the space and used outside a lot. Largely wore masks in any shared spaces and just generally kept a distance.

We don't have small children though. Teenagers. They are happy to isolate from us!! I can see v different with little ones.

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??

Actually they do a bit. Just not as much as the other way round.

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-10-27-wearing-face-coverings-protected-wearers-covid-19-infection-large-scale-study

Yes my 13yo has been in her bedroom since Sunday - luckily has her own bathroom too.

We have been meeting in the garden with a fire pit for a hot chocolate in the evening for some human contact.

8 year old - didn’t isolate him but kept a lot of freezing ventilation.

Me - can’t isolate as need to do childcare, but ventilation and I wear an n95 mask. Separate bedroom and bathroom. It’s a hassle not being able to just take a drink downstairs but it’s very open plan.

I thought we would try to sort of keep our distance in theory….tonight my 12 year old came home from school ranging temperature and quite poorly - PCR booked for the morning - she want to stay snuggled with me and I couldn’t imagine telling her to stay in her room all alone for the next 10 days. She quite poorly, very cuddly and needs us. So if it is covid we all go down but so be it I’m her mum and wouldn’t want anything but give her the snuggles she wants.
Dad and I both tripled jab and older daughter double due booster next week!

My 5 year old has it currently and I imagine I would have picked it up anyway before the positive test. I'm not going to stop giving her a cuddle to help her feel better not matter what it is. If DP had it we would prob be a bit more careful.

My 15 year old ds had it in October

We didn't shut him in his room or anything and he's a huggy boy so I fully expected to catch it but we didn't. He was quite ill but none of the rest of us caught it

I cancelled everything outside the home just in case (I can wfh no problem) but his brother went to school as normal (they did keep their distance)

We did but she's an angry teen who hates us anyway so was only too happy to stay in her room.

We did but she's an angry teen who hates us anyway so was only too happy to stay in her room.

That made me laugh. I’m sure she does love you all very much. 😂

We haven't had it yet but if we did, we wouldn't be isolating anyone. My DC are only 4 and 2 though so it wouldn't be fair on them to not be able to see one of us and would be positively abusive to keep them on their own in their room. We would carry on as normal and likely use the garden a lot more than normal for fresh air and exercise!

I currently have it, the rest of the family tested negative.

I'm keeping my distance and opening windows where I can. DH is sleeping in he spare room. But have joined them for dinner the last couple of days. I have it pretty mildly though and am now on day 7, so hopefully less contagious.

Our kids are young, and I certainly wouldn't isolate them! I'd maybe try and keep a bathroom for just the lurgeed one.

No. DD (8) is currently positive and she has been about the house as normal.

No.

My 10yo had it, no symptoms but tearful and apologetic and very anxious about missing school and clubs. I cuddled her as usual (in fact more, as she was home all day), so did DH and her sister. Didn’t make her wear a mask (she hates the idea) and did a normal level of window opening (airing bedrooms daily, nothing more).

None of us caught it.

Nope.

No.

DS has just come out of isolation. No-one else caught it.

No. Me and two DS's have had Covid, they are 4 and 6 so it would be ridiculous and cruel to isolate them and therefore there would be no point isolating me either. We carried on as normal.

DH and DD didn't catch it.

@Doje

Our kids are young, and I certainly wouldn't isolate them! I'd maybe try and keep a bathroom for just the lurgeed one.

No shade to your post but it does highlight the fact that this idea of isolating an individual in the home is quite a middle class thing.

We are five people in a small three bedroom house, my sons share a room. We have one bathroom. This is pretty normal for a lot of people, and a lot have less space than we do. Carving out separate areas of the home is impossible for a huge number of people.