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Dd positive

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MegCleary · 23/02/2022 14:19

She’s 11 and fine thank god but first time we’ve dealt with it. Luckily. The rest is us negative at present. Would I be ok to go out for a late walk masked about 7pm?
Probably a pathetic question sorry

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itsgettingweird · 23/02/2022 15:48

Of course.

No need for her isolate by law from tomorrow.

No need for you at all.

And if your negative no need to worry about a mask either - although I'd personally choose to inside busy areas as a contact. Outside - no need at all.

Enjoy your walk - I hope the weather is kind Smile

amicissimma · 23/02/2022 15:49

Interesting, isn't it that once it's no longer the law, people think that it's OK to go out and about when they are feeling unwell. Before Covid came along did they happily spread other infections about, or did they stay at home for a few days to recover?

I suppose my question is rhetorical. I imagine that most people do what they think best, according to their circumstances. Which was probably what they were doing if they thought they had Covid - testing and staying at home if they felt they could, not testing and struggling along as normal if they felt they must.

itsgettingweird · 23/02/2022 15:50

Before Covid came along did they happily spread other infections about, or did they stay at home for a few days to recover?

Honestly? I'd go to work unless actually vomiting or unable to get up.

Welcome to working In education Wink

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MegCleary · 23/02/2022 15:52

it says on her track and trace message it is a legal requirement to self isolate

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Katya213 · 23/02/2022 15:53

She can head out with you if she's okay tomorrow.

MelvinThePenguin · 23/02/2022 15:54

@MegCleary

it says on her track and trace message it is a legal requirement to self isolate
Yes, it is today. That goes out of the window tomorrow. But it would be very confusing to say that in the isolate messaging.

I am expecting the app to update at midnight to say I am no longer legally obliged to isolate- but should anyway.

Google it OP. The BBC has a clear update.

BlackCatz · 23/02/2022 15:55

@MegCleary

it says on her track and trace message it is a legal requirement to self isolate
That's because, as of today, it still is.
Yeahbutnotreally · 23/02/2022 15:57

@DearlyBeloathed

There is no legal obligation to isolate from tomorrow, so crack on.
No legal obligation but the expectation is that people would still be responsible enough to stay in, not just skip out and purposely spread it about.

Guidance will remain in place until April for those who test positive to stay at home and avoid contact with others for at least five full days, but there will be no penalty for not doing so

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MegCleary · 23/02/2022 15:59

@MelvinThePenguin I would be interested in hearing if it did. So in theory I could send her to school tomorrow. I'm not going to!

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MelvinThePenguin · 23/02/2022 16:05

[quote MegCleary]@MelvinThePenguin I would be interested in hearing if it did. So in theory I could send her to school tomorrow. I'm not going to![/quote]
Hmm. That one’s more tricky.

The law wouldn’t be against it. The guidance would and therefore the school would probably be within their rights to say no. Like they do for nausea and vomiting.

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MegCleary · 23/02/2022 16:20

@MelvinThePenguin I am interested in your app update.

Dd is staying in till 2 negative tests !

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BeenToldComputerSaysNo · 23/02/2022 16:38

@Waxonwaxoff0

Of course it is OK. Isolation is ending tomorrow in England.
Isolation is not a legal requirement from tomorrow. It is still public health advice. Go for your walk and enjoy!
MelvinThePenguin · 23/02/2022 16:56

[quote MegCleary]@MelvinThePenguin I am interested in your app update.

Dd is staying in till 2 negative tests ![/quote]
I’ll update if/when the app changes!

Theunamedcat · 23/02/2022 18:04

@DaisyWaldron

Would you keep her at home if she had chicken pox? Omicron is both more contagious and more deadly than chicken pox.
And how will people know if they dont test? People won't be able to afford the tests if they get a mild case they will go out and spread it everywhere

The problem with comparing it to chicken pox is they have actual visible symptoms covid can present as a cold

DaisyWaldron · 23/02/2022 18:31

Except in this case, the OP does know that her DD has Covid. And now that the rules have changed people on here keep talking as if Covid is just a cold so it doesn't matter whether or not you know you have it, and it doesn't matter if it gets spread around schools because nobody knows whether their child has a cold or Covid when in 2019 they'd have been absolutely aghast at anyone who sent a child in to school or a birthday party or a sports club with "just a mild case of chicken pox - she wasn't sick enough to need to stay at home, and it might just be insect bites".

Watapalava · 23/02/2022 18:50

Your dc can go to school

Boris specifically said in his statement that this was to stop kids missing school is asymptomatic Or mild

No way will be allow schools to stop them

Kids go to school with colds and coughs

They stay home if not well enough but with anything else they go to school

Kids shouldn’t be testing now so in theory you shouldn’t know if a child has covid anyway

Watapalava · 23/02/2022 18:51

Funny how people keep comparing to chicken pox

Why not compare to cold or flu? Where you actually can go to school with?

TheSnowyOwl · 23/02/2022 19:02

@Watapalava

Funny how people keep comparing to chicken pox

Why not compare to cold or flu? Where you actually can go to school with?

Most people are not well enough to go to school if they have flu.
Watapalava · 23/02/2022 19:19

People can have flu asymptomatically

Most will go at the tail end

MelvinThePenguin · 23/02/2022 19:31

@Watapalava

Your dc can go to school

Boris specifically said in his statement that this was to stop kids missing school is asymptomatic Or mild

No way will be allow schools to stop them

Kids go to school with colds and coughs

They stay home if not well enough but with anything else they go to school

Kids shouldn’t be testing now so in theory you shouldn’t know if a child has covid anyway

Really? I’m surprised he’d say that for a child you know has Covid.

Today, you are supposed to test any child showing symptoms and any child 5+ who is a close contact.

Tomorrow, you no longer need to test a child who is a close contact (or anyone, in fact) but the guidance is still to stay home if you have it.

So, yes, children who don’t have the 3 main symptoms shouldn’t in theory be tested from tomorrow and will be going to school if well enough.

But if you know they have it, I’m not so sure.

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 23/02/2022 19:32

@MelvinThePenguin

Agreed as he also said he wouldn’t expect people to go to school/work with a contagious illness

Watapalava · 23/02/2022 19:33

Kids can go to school with covid

That has been made clear

However if unwell you’d stay at home

No one will be testing so no one would know what’s wrong with them and would treat it like any sickness

As for today - you are advised to test, you don’t have to and you don’t have to test either

MelvinThePenguin · 23/02/2022 19:33

Of course, from 1st April, most people can’t test without paying anyway. So that’s a different ball game.

MelvinThePenguin · 23/02/2022 19:34

@Watapalava

Kids can go to school with covid

That has been made clear

However if unwell you’d stay at home

No one will be testing so no one would know what’s wrong with them and would treat it like any sickness

As for today - you are advised to test, you don’t have to and you don’t have to test either

Can you link to where this has been made clear?

Our headmistress certainly doesn’t know this!

Watapalava · 23/02/2022 19:35

What I mean is that from tomorrow ignorance is the key

No one should be testing so people will only stay off if unwell

Like they do for ever other illness

Doesn’t matter if it’s cold or Covid