Convinced I'm going to get covid in the next 2 weeks. What can I do?

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Over half the staff at my school have come down with covid recently. We are struggling to stay open. Most of the staff who are currently well have already had covid, some have got it for the second time. Nearly half our children are off sick too.

It's a bit unsettling hearing that more and more colleagues are testing positive although I've been double jabbed. I'm trying to make a plan for if and when I get it.

DH is working away this week mon-fri so I've got lots of easy meals in for me and the DCs. We have an oximeter and paracetamol in the house. I'm making DH get the Christmas tree today so that's done. Sounds silly but if I'm wiped out with illness I just want to know it's there!

Surrounded by lots of positive cases in close proximity so I'm surprised I haven't had covid yet. I catch everything else going.

I've finished Christmas shopping and might start wrapping

My DD has just tested positive, so having avoided it so far, if I'm going to get it, it's now. I've been told by T&T that I don't need to isolate, and me and DH are awaiting our PCR test results. I feel very uncomfortable about going into work on Monday. I think I'll keep my mask on throughout the day, I won't go into the staff room and I'll just have my breaks in empty classrooms. Part of me wants to get a positive test result so that I don't have to go in Monday and potentially spread it all about. I'm relatively young, fit, healthy and double vaxxed. The same can't be said for everyone else in my school and that fact I have to go in really doesn't sit right with me.

Hope your DD is OK @Orchid876

It's a minefield isn't it. To act within the guidance but try not to spread it!

I don't trust LFTs at all and have had so many PCRs recently as close contact.

Well my tree is up and some presents wrapped. Going to try to finish that today and sort stocking gifts. I'll be so gutted if I get covid in the holidays and can't see my parents as they aren't local 😔

My DH currently has COVID, and I slept right next to him for 7-8 hours every night for at least 3 nights when he must have been infectious. He's in the spare room now, but even now we can't completely avoid breathing his COVID infested air. So, same as you, I assume I'm going to catch it and I feel very uncomfortable still having to go to work. Half of me wants to go in because I've got A-level classes that need teaching, but at the same time, I keep thinking I've got it but without any symptoms yet, and I'm passing it on to everyone.

The thing that's really pissing me off, is that I'm cancelling all my hobbies and stopping my children going to theirs but we're all still having to go to work/school. I'd feel terrible though if I went to my hobby, then discovered I did have COVID and spread it to loads of people there and ruined their Xmas!

If I don't catch it now, then I can only assume that I must have some weird immunity to the disease.

Covid is a complete joy thief isn't it. You still have to do all the day to day shite but the fun stuff is out of bounds.

I have yet another cold 🙄 but negative PCR and so I'm ploughing on. Got food shopping slots booked. Gift cards for nieces and nephews and school photos for various relatives send recorded delivery yesterday. Bought gingerbread houses to decorate. Ready for Christmas if I need to isolate. Good luck everyone

Same here, pretty much. Planning for an Isolating Christmas, be a bonus if I don’t have to. Even low key family visiting will have to be decided on a daily basis and not until 10 days after I break up.
I’m the weakest link in the household, DH working from home.
It’s shit and it’s more exhausting to plan than a week of constant parties and celebrations!

Keep calm and carry on and don’t buy into the panic! It’s working well for me and my colleagues. We had our Christmas “do” last night and it was so lovely to be together and to be having fun.

Yes, Fizzbo, you and your partying colleagues are pretty much the reason I’m planning for isolation, cheers for that

Our staff do has been cancelled 😒😤🙄