How do you feel about testing/isolation ending?

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If it happens ^

I was speaking to a relative earlier and I was saying how glad I will be when and if all the isolation and testing rules end. It's not that I don't take covid seriously, because we really have. I spent nearly 2 years being so anxious about getting to catching it and being fine!! I know not everyone gets away with it's so mildly but my experience of covid wasn't too bad at all!

Anyway, both dc have sen. Isolation periods have been hard (Dd has had covid twice) m, holding down to test them has been hard, waiting for test results etc. I can't bloody wait to feel like I don't have to anymore. We all had covid in December. The isolation period was hell, far worse than the actual illness. My dc were climbing the walls! Dc had barely any symptoms really and found the isolation hard.

Of course if dc were ill I'd keep them off until better as I would have before covid. I've always kept my kids away from people when germy.

My relative is moaning about all the rules ending and how it will spread it! Which is ironic as they were very poorly last month with covid symptoms and didn't test or isolate but that's another story 😅

I just feel people should use their common sense. If you feel ill, stay home. If you have to go out when ill don't go too close to people, wash your hands and practise good respiratory hygiene!

It's a good thing right? Surely I'm not the only one waiting ever so patiently for any announcement over it 😅

Glad. I'm no longer testing anyway!

As someone who has covid currently I am so glad I had tested with my tiny sniffle rather than wait for it to get bad before I realised. It stopped me spreading it round the office.

Very, very happy. Now we just need to work to make sure that such laws are never allowed to be on the status books again.

I haven’t had covid yet so am a bit nervous. I have family who are ECV so am worried about them but pleased for my teenage DC.

glad about it

sick of people being off with endless isolating.

Very happy - so glad we are finally moving on.

Mixed. We've just had Covid and neither of us want it again, which is going to happen a few times if people are out infecting others. It brought home to me, the fact it can mess up much looked forward plans. We'd tried to be careful knowing we were going away, but DH caught it. Even if we were allowed, neither of us would have been well enough to go.

Very happy

Very happy I’m so over it all now, and the last variant was very mild.

Really really worried. Not everyone gets a truly mild case, in fact everyone I know who has had it recently has had an unpleasant case, children included.

I feel really upset by the triumphalism about it all too from some people, it’s very brexit-reminiscent and very uncaring about those who are concerned - it’s not pleasant.

Nervous. I assume that infection rates, hospitalisations and deaths will rise even further. I don't know what the solution is and know we can't carry on like this forever but ending mandatory isolation (assuming testing will also be scrapped soon) when 1 in 20 are estimated to have Covid in England (and although they are dropping slowly- hospitalisations and deaths are still very high) does not seem like the right time to me. I'd feel better if there was some scientific basis behind it but it's just feels like an attempt by Boris to appease his backbenchers and save his job.

Very happy that we'll be back to normal and think it'll be fine. There was concern from some with the dropping of the mask mandate but just over three weeks later and cases are just under half what they were on the 26th of January and deaths are nearly half too.

Personally, isolation was always a bigger worry to me than the actual virus, I doubt I'm in a minority here

It's clearly ridiculous to end public health measures in the middle of a pandemic. It's not over, not controlled in a lot of the world and the reason it is so difficult to control is because there are asymptomatic carriers. I know it's been a long time but we risk losing any advantages we've gained.

Glad

its time people got back in the workplace....sick of covering for everyone. and the unvaccinated are off monthly! its a joke

its over, the worst of it is behind us

I’m pleased but my husband currently has covid and no symptoms so I’m slightly concerned he would be spreading it round unaware if we hadn’t tested. That being said my son has had to miss school and all his clubs because we couldn’t get him there.
We need a happy medium really, if you are poorly stay home if not then carry on as normal.

Good...just wanna get some normal back! Just gotta get on with it now.

I think it's inevitable, and we would be moving towards it because of attitudes in the general population sooner rather than later. The circumstances that allowed for this policy to be implemented and to be observed by most of the people who were able have been and gone. I'm not convinced that testing and isolation rules still being in existence has actually done anything to control the Omicron wave, the evidence for that is lacking, so tbh I think with all those factors in mind it'll be less significant than some people think.

Glad.
Currently have covid and certainly wouldn’t be out and about but just being able to do the kids drop off (no contact) would help as I’ve struggled wfh with them there.
People need to be proportionate…. there is a middle ground between having to fully isolate and being back to normal. I know not everyone will be sensible though.

I believe that dropping the requirement to isolate if you actually have Covid is a step too far. Even if people want to do the right thing and avoid contact with others when they have Covid, the reality is that many employers will force people into work with Covid if employees only have cold symptoms themselves. Teachers could be exposed to particularly high viral loads if half the class has Covid but most are in because they have mild symptoms.

Fine.

The worrying about isolation and the impact it would have on us and our business was and is greater than our fear of the virus. I say this for Omicron and my thoughts might change for new variants.

I’m also glad the rules are going and don’t think the impact will be as significant as people think. By some estimates around a third of the population have had omicron since it appeared in December. Retaining the isolation requirements is unlikely to prevent people getting covid altogether- it may just slow the spread slightly. So the fact that some people may still be very ill with covid isn’t relevant to the debate about dropping isolation. Those people are extremely likely to be exposed to covid at some point in the near future anyway and it is probably better that that happens relatively soon after they have had a third / fourth vaccine. It’s only useful to slow the spread of hospitals can’t cope or society is breaking down due to the number of sick people and hospitalisations remain relatively low. Plus there are large numbers of covid positive people not isolating anyway e.g because they are pre symptomatic and don’t know they have it.

Lots of people probably had covid but never tested at all. They couldn’t lose money so they carried on. Self employed do not get sick pay. We have seen off omicron. Few deaths now. We have short memories: flu deaths were often 13-20,000 in the winter. So could be 4,000 a month plus! How much did we ever worry about that? Flu deaths are now virtually none. We’ve just moved over to omicron deaths.

We must get back to normal. I tested to see my mum at Christmas. I tested to go on Holliday and come back last September. I tested to have two eye operations. Otherwise I’ve not been ill or even worried. Masks are being binned. Found 6 in one handbag! No more sweaty face! Yay!

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Fine.

The worrying about isolation and the impact it would have on us and our business was and is greater than our fear of the virus. I say this for Omicron and my thoughts might change for new variants.

yes i agree with this