Would you rather everyone in your household gets covid at the same time or one at a time?

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A few families I know have isolated in their own bedrooms when one of them has tested positive. Then a week later another person gets it. Etc

Currently all 4 of us have covid and as we have been boosted and it's a mild variant we are managing to look after each other. It's still a nasty virus but none of us are seriously ill. The kids are old enough to get themselves snacks and drinks. It would be different if they were babies though.

Mine was a bog-standard cold so I'd opt for all getting it rather than tag-teaming. DS2 got a faint squinter of a line briefly and had a few big sleep-ins over Christmas and a briefly raised temperature so I'm assuming he had it and fought it off. As our week was cancelled anyway there was no point in PCRs to check (I ended up queuing for over an hour outdoors in another county so was not repeating that joy)

DH got away with it despite us sharing the bed and continuing to live normally within the house.

The DCs were a bit squeamish about hugs in the first couple of days but settled back to normal affection.
I'm wondering if DS1 had it but fended it off in the first place. It was that or the supermarket.

What would be annoying is a succession of family going down with it and being stuck in for 7+ days. At least it was that weird Christmas/ New Year limbo phase anyway.

I tried my best to get it Iver and done with but despite sleeping in the same bed and sharing the same living space I never caught it off him. The 2 kids stayed away from him a bit more and they didn't get it either

All at once if it meant it was once and then that’s it! DS13 caught covid in October. Then December his brothers and sister got it and now he has it again! Me and DH still haven’t caught it.

With an older child (DD15) I'd rather get it all over with at once (and we did give or take a couple of days). But if I had younger children I think DH and I would have struggled to look after them because we both felt so ill with covid.

Just me first (week off work, lie in bed calling out for tea as needed).

Then the DSs and DH all the same time the following week (another week off work, children are feeling grotty therefore quiet and will watch screens, DH feeling very grateful as he always does when I look after him when ill).

All at the same time, however despite not socially distancing we have only managed to get it one at a time.