This is none of my business, but I thought I'd ask anyway

And what is your solution? Get fired?

Getting fired is preferable to killing someone in my opinion. But both examples are extreme and unlikely to happen. It’s obvious what the son should do. Tell his employer that everyone in the house has Covid and he will not be in for a few days. If it’s possible to work from home it’s not a problem. If not, then he simply needs to stay at home and keep testing. It’s unbelievable to me that someone would defend the indefensible, but there’s always one isn’t there?

So long as son has no symptoms and has negative lateral flow tests then he can continue going to work. Plenty are doing it. Dil should be self isolating. I would be more concerned about mum going in but if she does LF tests each day and avoids contact with others and is double vaccinated and someone needs to look after gc what else can she do? Only if son stays home instead. Not easy.

maddyone

Getting fired is preferable to killing someone in my opinion. But both examples are extreme and unlikely to happen. It’s obvious what the son should do. Tell his employer that everyone in the house has Covid and he will not be in for a few days. If it’s possible to work from home it’s not a problem. If not, then he simply needs to stay at home and keep testing. It’s unbelievable to me that someone would defend the indefensible, but there’s always one isn’t there?

Unfortunately I disagree. This virus is awful but my family come first. The roof over my children's head. The food in their stomachs. They matter more. My husband can not stay home. He would have to work. Work do not have a pay for family isolating so he would go to work.

Maddyone….how do you account for medics w or king with COVID patients and any other infectious people for that matter. Surely it’s all about hygiene at this stage and a family with three school children need an income. You can’t really say he’s go8ng out to kill someone, that’s unfair.

dogsmother I think you’re the one who’s being unfair because I absolutely didn’t say he’s going to kill someone, I said it’s an extreme example. In other words it’s unlikely to happen. However I had Covid in January pre vaccination, and I was hospitalised for twelve days, on oxygen the whole time, given a mountain of drugs which saved my life. I still have some chest pain where the pneumonia was located, and I tire more easily now. Having suffered very serious Covid I’m afraid I have little truck with the I can’t take a few days off work thinking. It’s selfish pure and simple. My son in law and daughter are doctors, but they took time off when one of their children showed symptoms. This happened several times as the children were at school and nursery because their parents were/are key workers. They both got Covid too, from their patients. Luckily for them not too serious. Just a week off work.
If you think Covid is all about hygiene, all I can say is no wonder we’re in a pandemic. Obviously a lot more public education is required rather desperately. I didn’t think there would be anyone left who after nearly two years thinks preventing Covid is all about hygiene. Covid is an airborne disease, spread by droplets. I thought everyone knew that now, but obviously not.

How privileged your DD and SiL are. Very lucky indeed. If only others had their privilege.

What is needed is money. You can not ask someone to care about the faint possibility of others over the definite of their children suffering.

Bibbity

How privileged your DD and SiL are. Very lucky indeed. If only others had their privilege

You think maddyone‘s daughter and SIL are privileged and lucky to be doctors working themselves into the ground caring for critically ill covid patients?

I find the moral high ground stuff that goes on about covid really unsettling. I dont think calling other people immoral when they are following the current guidelines is particularly moral behaviour.

Grannynannywanny

Bibbity

How privileged your DD and SiL are. Very lucky indeed. If only others had their privilege

You think maddyone‘s daughter and SIL are privileged and lucky to be doctors working themselves into the ground caring for critically ill covid patients?

They have a great privilege that they have jobs that allow them the finical comfort to take time off when necessary. That is a privilege many do not have.

* financial

I'm going to have to agree with Bibbity here. Doctors are more likely to be in a financial position where they can afford to take a few days off. Someone on minimum wage is less likely to be able to do that. I can see they might be between a rock and a hard place when a few days off might mean they can't pay for their housing or food or any special needs or regular needs of the family.

In an ideal world we could all take off time when sick. The world is not ideal. Since the world is not ideal, we have been given regulations to follow to balance/mitigate risk. All we can hope is that people are following the guidelines.

If he is legally allowed to attend school then he should particularly if he is vaccinated. Too many kids have lost schooling and that time cannot be made up. Morals don't pay the bills or put food in you stomach. Lots of firms don't pay staff when they have to isolate so how the hell are they supposed to live. I am treble vaccinated so NEVER EVER do lateral flow testing. Had to isolate twice at the beginning of the year and it affected my mental health. Will NEVER do it again. That's why we have the vaccine.

If you are told it is ok to go into work, you have to go into work or you risk losing your job. Not all employers seem that bothered about people bringing Covid into the workplace - rightly or wrongly

You have to go by what your home nation's rules are and currently in Scotland if a family member has covid and you are double vaccinated you have a PCR and if negative you can go to work or wherever. Employers including NHS expect you to go back to work when you get a negative result and people can be disciplined if they stay off as it would be an unauthorised absence. Morals do not come into it. As in Wales rules can change overnight so you need to look it up.