Yeah. Last Tuesday, my wife and I received a notification to self-isolate for six days. We weren't allowed out of the house to exercise or even to walk the dog. We were on a short break at the time, the day before were were due to return home anyway.
Four days before, we were in a pub in Worsley, so assume this is where our phone came into contact with the phone of someone who tested positive. Our son was with us though. He has the Covid app, a modern phone, but wasn't asked to self-isolate. Strange. In fact our son goes out quite a lot compared to me and the wife and I'm surprised he hadn't been asked to SI yet.
We're due to go away on 24 July. We'll either stay home before then or else be very careful where we go, in order to not have to cancel this holiday.
17 year old son just tested positive. Very mild symptoms (slight headache and sniffle). Rest of us are negative, but still isolating for next 10 days. Me and wife double jabbed.
Kids now missing a combination of school, 3 day sailing trip, DofE weekend expedition, School Dance production that’s been worked on for months, Trip to Thorpe park, 7 Cricket games. When we come out of isolation it could happen again a few days later I guess.
This until mid August...and who knows maybe longer.
Kids are distraught, especially 13 year old daughter who’s being invited to watch her mates having fun on the end of a FaceTime.
Fuck off...just fuck off.
no doubt we could and should have done better but you cant compare us with NZ, which is the least connected developed country in the world.And New Zealand. A sparsely populated group of islands thousands of miles from anywhere.
Laughable.
We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.So shit mate - my lad is isoloating as well and similar missed a 2 day bike ride, sports day etc! Keep smiling somehow
I know the feeling. Mine have lost so much. And that’s without any of us testing positive at any point.We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.
She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.
I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.
Oh mate that's terrible. I had similar situations last year and it's heartbreaking for the kids. My way out of it was to promise amazing things when things open up again - looking at next summer now - 3 holidays instead of 1, all the festivals, football matches they can fit in etc, etc. and just spend all the money saved from doing fuck all for 2/3 years. Give them the best year of their lives. At least that's something.We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.
She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.
I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.
There was an expert on the App on breakfast news yesterday who said the check in doesn’t affect the automated track and trace. It’s a bit of a gimmick in that regard.Did you check in on the NHS app through your phone and your son didn’t? Happened to me on Sunday and my wife didn’t get a notification, I’ve noticed as well if you look at the times it has you placed in at a venue it doesn’t record it accurately, it had me checked in at two places with times overlapping that were more than a mile apart.
I did that (promised lots of amazing things...you know...the kids had to have patience and understanding so we could be good citizens and get the vulnerable vaccinated!?!?)Oh mate that's terrible. I had similar situations last year and it's heartbreaking for the kids. My way out of it was to promise amazing things when things open up again - looking at next summer now - 3 holidays instead of 1, all the festivals, football matches they can fit in etc, etc. and just spend all the money saved from doing fuck all for 2/3 years. Give them the best year of their lives. At least that's something.
It's shit isn't it.We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.
She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.
I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.