Surely this can’t be right?

Son' s girlfriend shares son and daughter with husband
who she is separated from. children live week about. when girlfriends husband has children she stays here not at her own house. Should my husband and I allow this.

Madgran a three year old at my friend's nursery tested positive for Covid, so everyone who had come in contact with the child, including my friend had to self isolate for fourteeen days.
It's not ridiculous, as small children do not socially distance and that child may have or could infect others.

Are people being intentionally obtuse in pretending that they don't realise there is an expectation on one of the 3 year old's carers to isolate with her? Or is it just another excuse to point out how stupid they think the government rules are?

A 3 year old self isolating!! Yeah, right!! Honestly, this just highlights how ridiculous this situation is becoming!!!

Same here, an adult at DGS school tested positive, DGS was immediately tested and isolated with me for 7 days.
DD and SIL still went to work as usual. He was thankfully negative we got the result in 12 hours but still stayed home together.

tidyskatemum, yes it's right (according to the rules) although it appears to be totally bonkers too!

4allweknow I maybe be wrong but I think the OP was questioning whether it was the correct advice that the entire household didn’t need to remain home rather than just the child. I don’t think there was any suggestion that the 3 year old had to be left unsupervised in their bedroom.

The child was in contact with a positive case so they can’t leave the house for 14 days. Nobody else in the household was in contact with that positive case so they can all go to work and school. Except of course for the adult remaining home to care for the 3 yr old.

And, how does the Scot. Gov propose a 3 year old self isolates? Stays in room, only coming out for toilet and having meals delivered to door of room! Never mind how they would occupy themself. That would be physical and mental abuse. It has to be wrong on every level.

I volunteer at a Care Home and have had to take the test on a weekly basis. Two weeks ago I tested positive. My housemate works as a support worker but the NHS app told her she had to isolate. I had no symptoms, so the Home tested me again, and this time the test came back negative. We assume the original test was a "false positive" which can happen.

So, although I have never had the virus, both my housemate and I still have to isolate for the full fourteen days. I am retired so it does not affect me so much, but she is working and now losing money.

A few weeks ago my daughter and son-in-law were told to self isolate because his if used or dad was admitted back into hospital with covid. Me and my granddaughter didn’t have to isolate , but we did only leave the house on a couple of occasions. As they came to the end of their isolation two things happened, his dad died and my dd went back to work ( she’s a nurse ) . A week later my daughter became ill with covid and test and trace immediately contacted the rest of us to isolate and stay at home for 14 days . Yesterday I was feeling unwell so had the test and yes, I have covid too . My dd really is unwell with a temperature of over 40 degrees for the past week . She has a cough and headache . 111 sent an ambulance out to check her over but because her lungs were clear did not take her to hospital . We have all had messages from test and trace again today to remind us all to stay at home for 14 days again . I also had a phone call from them asking for my symptoms which are headache , sore throat , cough and laryngitis but because I don’t have a temperature ( it’s been 36.7 every time I’ve tested) then I only have it mild and should recover quite quickly and shouldn’t be as infectious. Test and trace have said they will continue to contact us during isolation. They have said if our incomes are affected there is help available . If used properly I believe test and trace works . None of my family have the app on our phones . It all works by the information given when you have received your test result . They get you to tell them who all your recent contacts were. I was classified at the beginning as being very vulnerable and to shield the whole time . Thankfully So far I’m ok x

Yes, all very self isolating if you have separate bathrooms etc. If not, then what?
It’s fairly meaningless. We are all running around like headless chickens. At least that’s what it feels like.

a friends twins had to stay home for 14 days as a baby at there nursery tested positive, mum and dad and other two kids could carry on as normal, she tried to get her twins tested but was told no, and the rest of the family only had to isolate if the twin boys showed any symptoms and this in scotland.

What OP says is correct as this happened to my DG who had been in contact with a positive case. My DD questioned it and was told that yes she could go out but DG had to stay at home for 14 days. In the end they all stayed in just to make sure incase DG was incubating something. GD did get a test and it was negative but still needed to stay in for the full time.

nannypiano

Paddyanne .... that was my immediate thought. Gives him a bit more thinking time. Or was he trying to prove the tracing system does actually work.

My DH said exactly the same. He has no advisors at the moment so he is staying in until they get some in place.

GreyKnitter surely the child shouldn't then be going to his dads if he's meant to be self isolating? That makes no sense to me ?
Hopefully the child doesn't have the virus......

Hancock this morning asserted that if someone tests positive they are contacted and talked through what “close contact” means by a physician.
My friend tested positive weeks ago. No phone call from anyone!

I couldn't be so cruel as to shut any relative of mine in a bedroom on their own for a fortnight.

Not sure about a three year old, but there was a recent report that secondary school children are now a worrying source of spreading the infection. Three year groups in our local school have so far been sent home.

My friend had her hair cut by someone who tested positive the next day. I presumed she would have to isolate but she said her workplace would only let her be absent from work if Track & Trace told her to isolate. They didn't and so she has carried on as normal. (Fortunately she, or her family, don't appear to have caught it) But I cancelled going for a walk with her.

Same with my 15 year old granddaughter someone in her bubble at school tested positive all her bubble have been told to self isolate but were told there families don’t need to. We thought that was wrong info to.

My DGD had to isolate for 10 days after a fellow school child tested positive. My DDIL was told that my DGS could still continue going to nursery, plus my DS can still go to work.
You could t make it up could you. The imbeciles in charge of the asylum springs to mind ?

I don't suppose you meant it seriously, but no, the child cannot be left alone at home with a tin-opener.

www.mygov.scot/child-safety/
recommends that small children should never be left alone.

Whether the parent who stays at home can claim wages or unemployment benefit or sick pay is rather more difficult to assess.

Paddyanne .... that was my immediate thought. Gives him a bit more thinking time. Or was he trying to prove the tracing system does actually work.

Paddyanne

Paddyanne get a grip. No it's not.