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 😅

know people are desperate to get staff back into work because of the problems caused by isolation. However my concern is that it’s just going to make things much worse when the whole workplace comes down with it at once.

5 of my 7 staff had it at virtually the same time. Barely a sniffle between them. Every single one was capable of working. Most are 55+ and prefer to be at work than sat at home. We can isolate them in a huge space by themselves to mitigate risk.

Not every workplace is risky.

@Florelei

I know people are desperate to get staff back into work because of the problems caused by isolation. However my concern is that it’s just going to make things much worse when the whole workplace comes down with it at once.

It doesn’t feel particularly well thought through. Also are companies just ignoring the advice that we ought to still be isolating if we can?

But that happened anyway! It's often impossible to catch Covid cases before they've had a chance to spread around workplaces. I work in a factory, 3 out of 5 of my team caught Covid last year, from one colleague, isolation didn't help as it just meant 3 of us were off leaving 2 people doing the work of 5 people. I was well enough to have gone into work if I'd been allowed.

We’ve just had a letter from eldest’s school (secondary) updating us with their position in light of the government announcement. It says schools are ‘required to ensure that staff and students isolate for 5 days if they test positive…’. Eh? Anyone else?

Seems BJ wanted the big announcement but some are still going to have to isolate. Anyone know where the ‘required to ensure’ wording can be coming from, given that all legal restrictions have apparently ended?

Anyone know where the ‘required to ensure’ wording can be coming from, given that all legal restrictions have apparently ended?

There is no requirement for asymptomatic testing so this will only be relevant to people who actually have symptoms and test.

Whether it’s a legal requirement or not is pretty irrelevant. It’s not a legal requirement to isolate with D&V but a school would still send a kid home if they were suffering with it and many have a 48 hours clear rule. Again, not a legal requirement.

I have folding money that says that any ongoing wastewater analysis of COVID levels will show that ending free LFTs will have zero impact on levels of COVID in the community. People are milling about with COVID anyway at the moment, as PPs have pointed out.

@Wnkingawalrus

Anyone know where the ‘required to ensure’ wording can be coming from, given that all legal restrictions have apparently ended?

There is no requirement for asymptomatic testing so this will only be relevant to people who actually have symptoms and test.

Whether it’s a legal requirement or not is pretty irrelevant. It’s not a legal requirement to isolate with D&V but a school would still send a kid home if they were suffering with it and many have a 48 hours clear rule. Again, not a legal requirement.

Thanks for replying, but that’s not really helping. It’s the fact that it isn’t any longer a legal requirement that makes the ‘required to ensure staff and students isolate’ wording so odd.

I get the D and V analogy, and was expecting school to come up with a policy along those lines, but the wording of this makes it sound like school have had a directive about it which the government are keeping quiet about.

I think that’s more likely to have come from the local authority?

Well only a few more minutes left then it's a free for all.

Our workplace will require you in... work directly with the public so we will see!

NHS Twitter -

nobody is bothering anymore. Already had 2 customers this morning proudly declare they have covid but just need a few bits. one refused a mask.

war is taking over the news

@TellMeMoreHellebore

nobody is bothering anymore. Already had 2 customers this morning proudly declare they have covid but just need a few bits. one refused a mask.

war is taking over the news

This is what is wrong with people “taking personal responsibility”. So many people have no sense of responsibility to others. They only care about what they want 😔🤬

I agree with everything you say @EnidSpyton . Sick pay, or lack of it, is a big issue .

"Tricky situation for childminders. Or any self employed"

No, only childminders are being told to close if they have family members with covid, whether symptomatic or not, self-employed or not. Everyone else can carry on working.