Stay At Home If Your Sick

[fruitsalad]

Self isolate, surely if you have any kind of flu, you wouldn't be able, or want to go anywhere

[douglas9401]

Even manflu? :-)

[Mamyalynne]

For a usually fit,healthy person the virus symptoms are unpleasant but not totally debilitating, it's the more vulnerable who may feel very unwell.

[Buenchico]

The Government/NHS advice is to stay at home if you have symptoms that might be leading towards full-blown Covid-19 symptoms.

So if you've simply got a high temperature (even though you don't feel particularly unwell) or a newly-developed continuous cough (even though you've got no other cold/flu symptoms at all), you should still remain at home for 7 days:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

Many (probably most?) people would normally continue to go to work and/or socialise with others if they'd simply got 'an annoying cough' (rather than 'flu'). It's those people to whom the advice to self-isolate is mainly aimed at.

[rowanwitch]

Yep, it's the martyrs who go into work saying OH its nothing, and promptly infect the rest of the workplace. Stay at home you stupid hand jivers

[Arksided]

Any excuse for me, If i kick my little toe on the coffee table leg, that's it i'm out for the week.

[ichkeria]

And the reason for that is because that’s when you’re most infectious

[Arksided]

Yep, Knockin' on heaven door.

[pixie374]

When is the most infectious time? Is it before you have any symptoms?

[ichkeria]

No it’s up to the first 7 days after you start displaying them: so it is assessed

[Arksided]

Being Asthmatic, I think I'm classed as 'vulnerable'.

[pixie374]

Ok, thanks ich x and yes, arky x

[ichkeria]

Once you get really ill you are unlikely to spread it.
The recent news conference was very interesting : thank goodness we seem to have a government which listens to sensible advice and moreover lets sensible people speak.
It’s enough to make one a Brexiter lol

[MartinMillar]

The problem is that some workplaces put you on special measures if you have too much sick.
Government workers are put on special measures if they have 3 occasions or 8 days depending on what comes first

[Tilly2]

Surely there will be some leeway, Martin.

[ichkeria]

I thought the most interesting thing they said was this:
There will come a time when you cannot stop people getting the virus, indeed with the likelihood that up to 10,000 may already be infected, then that time is probably already here.
And they say actually it’s good that people would get it because that builds immunity for the future

[MartinMillar]

Yes but when? People will worry about taking sick in case of action until senior board members give a blanket message that you won’t have action taken.

[ladybirder]

I hope we're not going to have this every year now???

[woofgang]

Yes there is leeway. Special measures are designed to make sure that sick leave is for those who are sick. They can be asked to see occupational health, get a medical certificate from day one, phone in to report on their condition and so on. If someone is continually ill then it may mean that the job that they are in is not suitable for them. None of the measures should cause any hardship to someone who is genuinely ill.

[maggiebee]

On one hand if you're over 60 you're elderly and vulnerable so should take extra care. On the other hand you are expected to work until you're 68? Does not compute.

[woofgang]

I thought they said over 70 maggiebee?