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How much should I be isolating with Covid?

61 replies

HJB2021 · 30/01/2023 00:07

Hi, I tested positive today, I’m so far feeling okay. Should we still be isolating at home? My DS isn’t a fan of staying home all day, and I was looking forward to taking him to soft play tomorrow. I have no idea what the guidance is, I would feel too selfish taking him to a soft play but then I hear we should treat it like a cold now 🤷🏻‍♀️

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antipodeancanary · 30/01/2023 00:11

You don't have to isolate any more, but I have it and I am. If I absolutely had to go out I might but would be masked up. I can't work (NHS) so it also feels wrong to be out having fun. But I am do actually feel quite sick.

jannier · 30/01/2023 00:11

You could kill my sister if you met her. She's already been in isolation almost 3 years knows she's only a few years left so doesn't want to stay indoors on her own for the rest of it. I think if you know you have it you should stay away from indoor activities and treat it more like chicken pox.

boxingdayisbest · 30/01/2023 00:38

Seriously? No you can't go to soft play morally!

If you gave it to my kids and they gave it to their grandad, there's about a 90% chance he'll die.

thaegumathteth · 30/01/2023 00:45

There's not a chance I'd go to soft play.

Assuming your ds is fairly young? I'd maybe go to a beach and collect shells or a wander in the countryside if I really had to but not eg a play park.

ReallyShouldBeDoingSomethingElse · 30/01/2023 00:49

I'd go for a walk in the open but keeping away from other people.

I wouldn't go anywhere indoors.

ReallyShouldBeDoingSomethingElse · 30/01/2023 00:57

Oh and re 'treat it like a cold' I can't understand how anyone can have failed to read/hear that Covid can cause problems well beyond the initial illness.

I just Googled and in the UK in October 2022 3% of the population had reported long covid symptoms.

It really isn't 'just a cold'.

Also hospitals are still very wary of Covid coming into wards so most have a ban on visitors if anyone in the household has Covid.

The impact of sharing your Covid around goes far beyond the impact of a cold.

CrackerIsland · 30/01/2023 01:00

Is this a wind-up? Why would you go to soft play knowing you have covid?

Hatscats · 30/01/2023 01:04

I’d go to an outdoor park - did with the my daughter. Still popped to the shops. Would avoid a long time indoors with lots of people!

Ponderingwindow · 30/01/2023 01:07

Morally you know that you shouldn’t be going anywhere. Maybe a walk outside where you won’t encounter anyone. You know that if you happen to encounter a vulnerable individual they could die

AlwaysLatte · 30/01/2023 01:11

I don't think it's on at all to go out and share it, because you could be contributing to it getting to someone very vulnerable. When I had it recently I stayed home for five days. I thought the guidance was to stay at home anyway.

HagridTheGiant · 30/01/2023 01:15

I had covid in December and still feel really run down and just generally crap.
Don't take him to soft play, take him to outdoors things, and just minimise being around people, especially indoors, as much as possible.

beezlebubnicky · 30/01/2023 01:22

Absolutely not. This doesn't just go for covid but other communicable illnesses too - it's just bad manners to go to places unnecessarily and spread something to others that could make them sick. I wouldn't be going anywhere public and indoors for really about 7 days after infection (gov say 5 but the science doesn't bear that out). If you need to go food shopping and someone can't go for you, do wear a mask while you're infectious.

Soft play will have to wait. Walks outside and trips to the park as others have said, would surely suffice for now. Feel better soon OP.

CrapBucket · 30/01/2023 07:09

I'm guessing this is some sort of reverse. Why did you test if you feel ok? And who in their right mind 'looks forward' to soft play?

watchfulwishes · 30/01/2023 07:11

Obviously it would be a dickhead manoeuvre to spread COVID at soft play.
You stay home for a short period, as per guidance, unless you can't e.g. work requires you in anyway.

breadwidow · 30/01/2023 10:49

Til last week I would have been more 'treat it like a cold' - not to the extent of going to soft play though, that is a very much optional activity, but if for example your little one tested positive and shool age and relatively symptom free I would have thought send him in . . . but now I feel rather differently having just had covid for the second time. It was a LOT worse than my first brush with it despite having more vacccines now and I am still not 100%. I wouldn't wish it on others, particularly those more vulnerable and also those who have to take unpaid leave when sick. I don't think you need to stay in your house but you shouldn't be mixing with others indoors. So stick to outside activities only for the next week or so.

Secretname123 · 30/01/2023 20:23

Please don’t go to a soft play. I finally caught covid 8 weeks ago. I still can’t walk anywhere (not even 20m), can’t do much at all really and no sign I’ll be back at work anytime soon. Something has gone wrong with my nervous system and I have never felt so unwell and miserable.

Youcancallmeirrelevant · 30/01/2023 20:25

Why did you test? If you are going to treat as a cold, don't test 🤷🏼‍♀️

gamerchick · 30/01/2023 20:28

I probably would stay away from soft play. But tbh I'd stay away from soft play with any kind of lurgy. Kids are germ factories as it is.

I don't need much of an excuse to stay away from soft play though in general. Awful places

User17498765 · 30/01/2023 20:31

Most people don't test so don't know so would generally go on how they feel to decide whether to go or not

Hopefullyupwards · 30/01/2023 21:14

Is this a wind up? I guess it's a personal risk thing - i.e. is the risk of postponing a softplay session too much for someone to handle over the risk of harming little kids and/or their families?

twinkletoesimnot · 30/01/2023 21:38

I have it for the second time at the minute.
Tested positive on Saturday after a colleague did on Friday.
Only tested as woke up feeling odd and was supposed to be seeing a friend with an immuno compromised dh.

I'm feeling pretty horrid.
My HT (I'm a primary teacher) wanted me in today. I didn't, and not going tomorrow but will probably have to on Wednesday.

I'm staying home apart from that, but am fairly sure I'll be very positive still on Wednesday morning.
It feels very wrong to me but what's the alternative?

JanuaryBlues2023 · 31/01/2023 09:27

Sorry I wouldn’t contemplate soft play or anywhere where either of you are likely to come into close contact with others.

Go for a walk or do something in the open and keep your germs/covid to yourself/yourselves.

wast542 · 31/01/2023 09:29

You don't.

megletthesecond · 31/01/2023 09:33

Don't go to soft play. It's a plague pit at the best of times. Go to an outdoor playground.

I have it for the first time and do feel pretty grotty. I'll go for a walk but won't go anywhere public and indoors until day 10.

MrsSkylerWhite · 31/01/2023 09:35

Soft play? No , obviously.

For those saying most people don’t even test, irrelevant. OP has and knows she’s positive. Would you seriously go to a place full of babies, kids, possibly pregnant women, grandparents knowing you were positive?

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