Isolating from family?

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Is anyone doing this still?

I tested positive today, feel pretty shite. Very tired, but have been wondering if I could pop downstairs to see my DH and DS?

I've pretty much spent the last 48 hours in the bed/ bath/ car/ sofa etc with my 2yo because he's been unwell. Tonsillitis (seen by a doctor yesterday and prescribed antibiotics), but now I'm wondering if infact he has covid? So would it matter?

I don't want to put anyone at risk, and I'm so out of touch with all the 'rules'.

Any advice?

I tested positive yesterday and I’ve stayed away from my family today because my teens are both doing exams and I don’t want them to catch it from me if we can avoid it.
We’ve still chatted and seen each other a bit...I’ve sat in the dining room with them in the kitchen, but we’ve avoided close contact.
To be honest, if my children were little like yours is, I’d not be isolating from them.

I didn't isolate from 2yo DS. I mean we all ended up getting it anyway around the same time.

There are no rules, but I would isolate because lower viral load is better than higher, even if they do catch it, and they are more likely to avoid catching it altogether.

I would stay away from family if you can, but obviously if your DC need you, then that’s hard to stop them. My DH and DS1 caught covid first, I slept on sofa for 2 nights, although not feeling great. DS2 got covid the next day and I tested positive 2 days later.

I would F the "rules" and go spend time with your family, but again I wouldn't let strangers online or Boris Johnson tell me how to live my life. Not after having the past few years robbed from us all

My husband wanted to catch it so we got it over with in one go (nearly 2yrs since we had it), slept in the same bed and he still didn't catch it!

I did, but only because we have a really important appointment this week for my son so we didn’t want to risk it being delayed. I stayed in our camper and tested each day, I was negative yesterday so I left my lair.

No appointment and we wouldn’t have bothered with any form of isolation at home.

Dh tested positive and we isolated. However, 2 days later I had symptoms and a day later both DS and I tested positive. Clearly we'd both caught it from DH the day BEFORE he tested positive (in fact he'd actually tested negative).
So unless you'd been nowhere near your family in the 2 days leading up to your symptoms starting then I'd probably say you have already infected them.

We didn't isolate at home from one another.

I had it twice and both times dh continued to sleep in the same bed. I sat at the table (when well enough) for food, sat in living room with dh and dd and neither caught it.

When dh has it neither me nor dd caught it despite no isolating.

Dd has never managed to catch it that we know off. She's had negative tests throughout (testing for university and school placements) and two antibody tests and all negative. She's been in very close contact with several people with it, both before and after vaccines, including sharing a tent with one positive person.

There's no guarantee you'll pass it on.

I'd avoid contact with someone particularly vulnerable or someone with a big event (exam, wedding, holiday, etc) coming up though.

Thanks everyone for your replies. My head feels muddled and I’ve slept on and off all day so not really been an option to go downstairs anyway.

I did manage to see him at bath time, I could hear him asking for me so opened the bathroom window and sat in the toilet (fair distance) with a mask on. Maybe I’m being ridiculous but I suppose I can only do what I think is right.

Viral load? Is this apparent because I’m showing positive on a LFT? The line is so dark.

There aren't any rules. We didn't isolate from each other at home (DH and I both caught it more or less simultaneously anyway). It would have been impossible.

Our 23 year old DD, who lives with us, still never caught it, and to our knowledge and hers has never had Covid at all.