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To think we soon won’t be isolating even when we have covid.

535 replies

Grida · 16/12/2021 17:58

If covid is spreading as rapidly as it seems to be, surely people who have tested positive but who don’t have symptoms/aren’t feeling ill will have to carry on working. The country will stop functioning otherwise.

OP posts:
Onatree · 20/12/2021 19:38

@AnyFucker

Yep. Bring it on.
Amen.
MolkosTeenageAngst · 20/12/2021 19:39

Thousands of vulnerable people die of flu every year and we don’t have to test and isolate for that. I think if vaccines are shown to protect the majority of people from serious illness then it makes sense to start removing the need to isolate, especially if having significant numbers of working adults isolating without symptoms is going to cause staffing issues to essential services. If hospitals are severely understaffed then people will be at risk from that so it isn’t necessarily protecting more people to have essential workers with covid who are well enough to work at home for 10 days.

HailAdrian · 20/12/2021 19:40

I've said this since last year. Unbelievable that some people think testing/isolating etc. will continue forever. 😂😂

NothingIsWrong · 20/12/2021 19:42

@RoomOfRequirement

That would be awful for the vulnerable!

I can understand stopping isolation for exposure, and not going into a lockdown anymore, but let's not forget people are STILL dying of Covid, and if someone tests positive they shouldn't be allowed to go into the office or work in a store!

People who are vulnerable die of loads of different things. My great aunt caught a mild cold and died, but she was 102.

We can't stop illnesses, or rather we could but the collateral damage of closing off society indefinitely would be catastrophic

HailAdrian · 20/12/2021 19:43

And of those of you who are so deeply concerned about 'the vulnerable,' have you always been vigilant about not spreading illnesses or is it OK to give them flu, just not covid?

Lipsandlashes · 20/12/2021 19:44

@CoffeeMuggins

What do we expect the vulnerable to do when this happens? Stay inside forever or gamble with their lives every time they need to go to work or pop to the shops?
Exactly what I expect the vulnerable would do during flu season. And I say this as a person who’s husband has a neurological disease and takes daily immune suppressant drugs.
Overthebow · 20/12/2021 19:44

@RoomOfRequirement

That would be awful for the vulnerable!

I can understand stopping isolation for exposure, and not going into a lockdown anymore, but let's not forget people are STILL dying of Covid, and if someone tests positive they shouldn't be allowed to go into the office or work in a store!

The point will be that no one will test positive as no one will be tested anymore.
GiltEdges · 20/12/2021 19:46

@CoffeeMuggins

What do we expect the vulnerable to do when this happens? Stay inside forever or gamble with their lives every time they need to go to work or pop to the shops?
What did they do before, when it was primarily flu in circulation? Confused
RoomOfRequirement · 20/12/2021 19:47

Wow. So the answer is 'fuck them!' Great, you're all wonderful.

User135644 · 20/12/2021 19:47

It was briefed this was going to happen from March but that was before the mass panic over the new variant.

Whatthefucketyfuck · 20/12/2021 19:48

I work in a school. We have gone (in a week) from telling parents they must tell us if it's Omicron and as an extra precaution siblings must self-isolate even if not Omicron - (a school-specific directive from PHE by the way, not made up by us) as we must control the spread to.....
yeah...um...don't worry if your mum's got it...just do an LFD and come on in. And if you don't come in it will be unauthorised absence.

It is utterly stupid.

I am more for the just come on in to school, you have missed enough. But the govt/media hype 7 days ago means people are still terrified/confused.

HugeAckmansWife · 20/12/2021 19:48

What I really hope is that once this crisis is over the pressure will stay on those in power to permanently deal with social care in whatever way will best free up those NHS resources so that any future situations can be accommodated.. As has been said from the start, the lockdowns were to protect the NHS, not directly save lives. If the NHS can withstand the normal winter flu etc without creaking, it would be less necessary to turn everything in its head in any future pandemic

trackand · 20/12/2021 19:48

I hope so. Currrently have covid as does whole family. It's nothing more than a cold. Dd doesn't even know she had it

Northernlurker · 20/12/2021 19:48

Covid is no more dangerous for the vulnerable now than flu due to vaccination.
We have to move on from this phase.

Whatthefucketyfuck · 20/12/2021 19:49

And, imvho someone, somewhere is raking in a whole load of ££££ from LFD testing. A shit load.

Lottle · 20/12/2021 19:50

I think it will happen but I don't think it's necessarily a good idea.

Overthebow · 20/12/2021 19:51

@RoomOfRequirement

Wow. So the answer is 'fuck them!' Great, you're all wonderful.
What would your plan be then? Everyone has to test and isolate forever? That’s not practical so I’d like to know what your alternative suggestion is?
firefly123 · 20/12/2021 19:52

Absolutely we need this. Really hope that we can move on from this crazy isolating when not even poorly.

JaneTheVirgin · 20/12/2021 19:54

The flu doesn't kill anywhere near as many people as covid, and doesn't require anywhere near as many hospital stays. I have no idea why people still keep pedaling this 'its just a flu!' lie.

aliceca · 20/12/2021 19:54

@hopingforabrighterfuture2021

I agree it can’t carry on indefinitely. As far as I’m aware, covid is the only illness where you LEGALLY have to self isolate, obviously if you have flu or norovirus etc it’s not fair to go out, but most people are sensible about it.
You are wrong. We have a list of diseases you legally have to self isolate for such as whooping cough.
CoffeeMuggins · 20/12/2021 19:54

@HailAdrian

And of those of you who are so deeply concerned about 'the vulnerable,' have you always been vigilant about not spreading illnesses or is it OK to give them flu, just not covid?
Yeah, I actually have.
helpfulperson · 20/12/2021 19:54

The history of pandemics is really interesting. That's basically what happened to the Spanish flu, it mutated to what we have now and we do annual vaccines to keep it under control. All pandemics are still around in some form, other than smallpox. On average 10 people die of the plague in a year. Most run rampant for 3 to 5 years.

RoomOfRequirement · 20/12/2021 19:55

My plan is if you have symptoms of and test positive for a virus that is killing many more people than a cold/flu as you all seem hellbent on confusing the 2, you stay home and don't infect other people.

Though while we're at it if you have the flu how about you also don't go out and infect people?

Bagelsandbrie · 20/12/2021 19:56

@RoomOfRequirement

Wow. So the answer is 'fuck them!' Great, you're all wonderful.
If we don’t move on and stop testing and isolating then people like me who have multiple health issues will die from our (non covid) multiple health issues because the NHS will have been utterly destroyed by staff isolating when they are well enough to work. That actually scares me more than covid. If I can’t get to see my rheumatologist or endocrinologist or any of the other specialists I need to survive I will have no quality of life - if any life - at all. People who keep bleating on about the vulnerable really don’t understand what it is like to actually BE vulnerable. We aren’t as scared of covid as people think we are, we are more scared of the damage covid isolating and testing is causing to our access to health services as a whole now.
Elphame · 20/12/2021 19:56

Sooner the better

In practice, I'm sure this is already happening