No isolation when covid positive in March

[Whathefisgoingon]

I just cannot get my head around this.

As far as I know, no other country has announced this.

For two years they’ve told us that it’s dangerous and now they’re prepared to send me to work directly next to someone infected with covid?

I had always believed it should be more socially acceptable to simply stay home when sick, as too many feel forced in to work with flu etc, but this takes the biscuit.

I understand we need to find a way to get back to some kind of normal but this seems extreme.

Will this really happen in less than 2 months!?

[quote OnceuponaRainbow18]@Eightiesfan

Tell that to my year 9 student who tested positive Monday then happily walked into my lesson and sat in the front row 2 days later….[/quote]
How do you know they didn't have a test they day they came back in ?

Whilst I can understand how worrying this must be for someone who is CEV or has a CEV family member / child etc (I would also worry of course).

We will have much bigger problems (and we already do) if the country continues to borrow money to bolster the critically fucked economy.
We have a massive cost of living crisis looming - massive.
We have more poverty than ever, more children living in poverty, more people using food banks etc.
People cannot afford to not work and the government cannot afford to compensate people with top ups or furlough the way they did a year ago.
It’s simply not sustainable. We have to get the country moving back towards economic stability.

We need bojo to step in on this energy crisis and chuck a load of money at it. Cut tax, fund more support for the elderly and those who have to choose between eating and heating.

It’s simply not sustainable.

I totally get why some people are scared or worried or angry that it seems too much to let people out and about with covid but honestly you will be a hell of a lot more scared when the economy starts properly collapsing, the cost of living rises dramatically and suddenly you can’t afford to heat your house the way you’re used to or you can’t afford to get as much shopping as you used to.
Things will get a lot scarier if we don’t move to a sustainable way of living which allows economic recovery.

I don’t think people really understand how bad this cost of living crisis is about to get

Stop bloody testing! You either feel fine and carry on or if feel rough stay at home a bit like we all did pre COVID without anyone losing the plot!

@joydivisionovengloves71

Because their sibling told me, and very unlikely to be positive Monday and then negative that Wednesday

@Footnote

I don’t understand why you wouldn’t have a transition. Not isolating at home but able to go out with a mask, work at a 2 m distance from others, no entering other homes or entertainment venues for 3–5 days.

Because that's a completely unworkable and unenforceable suggestion. You'd have to tag people to have any realistic chance of monitoring them, and can you imagine having to design, implement and staff that, all for a transition period that by definition won't last long? It simply wouldn't work. The state isn't even managing to make all positive people isolate at the moment, and that system is much simpler than the one you suggest.

Perhaps the best way of going forward first would be 'if you are unwell with symptoms we will provide a rapid 24 hour turnaround pcr test, we would like you to stay at home until your results and you will be paid in full until then'? If it is positive we will make sure you are paid in full for maximum of 5 days? Just a thought as I know many people employees and employers abusing the system and many self employed not testing at all?! I know it wouldn't stop the asymptomatic cases but I do believe that we have to stop testing people just in case, due to the large uptake of vax and the lessening severity of the illness. This would also have to be phased out eventually but then to schools, care homes, hospitals then completely. I do understand the cev are concerned, but we do have to at some stage get out of this cycle so perhaps a phased approach might be good? I don't completely agree with my suggestions I'm trying to find a balance! Just my opinion!!

I'm not the person who wrote this (so not the person you're telling to "fuck off") but you clearly don't understand what they are saying.

I understand what they are saying fine , but they are talking rubbish.

If I don't work basically I don't get paid so this is all good news for me

@toomuchlaundry but if i have flu im ill in bed same as d & v
Just had covid and had no symptoms
Luckily i can work from home so not lost wages
Ds18 also had covid one day feeling a little rough then 9 days stuck home perfectly well and he said he could of been at work , no issues and hes lost over. A weeks money by doing the right thing

Let's be brutally honest we have people on here LFT multiple a times a day, what's achieve not much, apart from the short sighted can you see a line idiots.

@Sparklingbrook

But with flu and D&V you are actually unable to go to work as you are so ill.

1/3 of flu infections are asymptomatic too, and many more are very mild. We just don't realise because we don't test for it like we do for Covid!

@Wishfulthinking1977 I think that is a great idea.

@Ohpulltheotherone

Whilst I can understand how worrying this must be for someone who is CEV or has a CEV family member / child etc (I would also worry of course).

We will have much bigger problems (and we already do) if the country continues to borrow money to bolster the critically fucked economy.
We have a massive cost of living crisis looming - massive.
We have more poverty than ever, more children living in poverty, more people using food banks etc.
People cannot afford to not work and the government cannot afford to compensate people with top ups or furlough the way they did a year ago.
It’s simply not sustainable. We have to get the country moving back towards economic stability.

We need bojo to step in on this energy crisis and chuck a load of money at it. Cut tax, fund more support for the elderly and those who have to choose between eating and heating.

It’s simply not sustainable.

I totally get why some people are scared or worried or angry that it seems too much to let people out and about with covid but honestly you will be a hell of a lot more scared when the economy starts properly collapsing, the cost of living rises dramatically and suddenly you can’t afford to heat your house the way you’re used to or you can’t afford to get as much shopping as you used to.
Things will get a lot scarier if we don’t move to a sustainable way of living which allows economic recovery.

I don’t think people really understand how bad this cost of living crisis is about to get

I know. It’s hard to see constant cries for more and more costs to be piled up.

If they bring this in in March, I will have escaped the entire pandemic having not isolated once and also never catching covid/testing positive.

I work in the community in a front line roll, I have a primary age school child. Who has also never isolated or tested positive.

I can't wait, mainly because I'm hoping it will soon bring an end to the constant testing on LFT I have to do. I'm so sock of the things!

That sounds bad alright. I’m in Ireland and it feels like things are not ‘real’ if that makes sense. A lot of people have saved money on childcare over the last 2 years and it feels like there is a lot of money around, house prices have gone way up and very quickly too, but it’s not real and I think we are in for a bang too after this.

Will this be uk wide or just England does anyone know?

It’s all part of learning to live with it. Though I’m
Not sure how my colleagues would feel if I was testing positive and came into the office…

I know loads of people who send their kids back in too early with d and v. I was hoping that COVID was going to provide a cultural shift in that staff would be more considerate with regards to infecting colleagues and managers would allow them to be ill

I will welcome this. Currently on day 3 with two covid positive DC without a symptom between them. They will both miss a minimum of 2 days school this week if not more when they are not sick. It's maddening after two years of this

[quote treeflowercat]@Sparklingbrook

But with flu and D&V you are actually unable to go to work as you are so ill.

1/3 of flu infections are asymptomatic too, and many more are very mild. We just don't realise because we don't test for it like we do for Covid![/quote]
If you have flu and D&V and you don’t go to work it’s because it’s symptomatic.

@OnceuponaRainbow18

Welcome to the world of teaching

Really? DS was off with it for 10 days before Christmas. Last week 12 children in his class alone were isolating and 8 teachers across the school. Very inconvenient all round but I certainly don't see how that correlates with your statement.

@Againstmachine

Basically, don't get cancer,, because you won't be safe if you need chemo, not even in hospitals

Do fuck off my mum is undergoing chemo and is getting great.m treatment and still will be.

My dads on chemo 6- nhs being brilliant but covid is a huge risk- we are still quite restricted in what we do.

But with D&V you are meant to stay at home 48 hours after last bout of sickness etc do you do that?

When my CEV relative got it we were terrified. But it was managed and they got through it.
At the beginning before the jabs and antibodies and before Omicron I think it would have been very different.

@LidlMiddleLover

Good Might make the non vaxxed stop putting pressure on everyone else

eh?

Isn't it the other way around? The vaxxed led by the govt putting immense pressure on the unvaxxed?

Or do you live in a country outside of this planet?