Family Still Isolating

[KittyGlitter]

I have family still social distancing and I'm not allowed in the house. I'm just wondering if anyone out there is still isolating or knows of people isolating. I feel like they are the only ones but I assume that's not the case. They aren't vulnerable - just fear of getting COVID.

[Neveracrossword]

The only people I know of who are isolating are two people in the middle of chemotherapy. That's totally understandable, your family's stance seems a little extreme.

[Tilly2]

Our nextdoor neighbours are still isolating. She has an auto immune disease.

[Sqad]

///They aren't vulnerable - just fear of getting COVID.///

Seems reasonable to me if they want to avoid getting Covid for whatever reason.

[davebro]

My neighbour still wears a mask whenever he goes outside. Don't think he has any health issues.

[237SJ]

Waste of time - masks don't work anyway

[nailit]

Never isolated once.
(But I'm in relativly good health)
My Sister also never isolated
(She has an auto immune disease)

Neither of us has suffered any ill effects.
Weve both had Covid.
Both were ill for a day.
Neither of us are vaxxed
Both doing well.

Her sister in law on the other hand,
Vaxxed to the hilt,
STILL isolating,
Scrubbing hands,
Still masked outside,

And is housebound with FEAR....

[Arksided]

Covid hasn't gone away the death rate is still high, but thanks to those sensible folk who've had the vaccines it didn't spread like wildfire.

I don't know anyone who is is still isolating, but surely it's whatever makes them feel safe if they choose to so.

[Arksided]

*do

[237SJ]

Vaccines don't stop it spreading. My cousin's husband has lupus and it has affected his heart. He's in his 50's and they are on a Med cruise at the moment. He could stay at home and hide behind the sofa but he chooses to live his life and enjoy it. He`ll be dead for long enough.

[pastafreak]

If they have no known health issues if they did get covid it's likely to be very mild...and it might give them some protection. Covid is here to stay...like flu or colds. How long are they going to isolate for?

[Arksided]

237SJ Good on him for living... are you a satiation or a doctor?

[Sqad]

//////Vaccines don't stop it spreading./////

Eh! so what do vaccines do?

[237SJ]

Sqad - as far as I know the (covid) vaccine just makes the symptoms less severe but you still catch covid and can still spread it. I had covid not long after my booster. I have heard that the UK is the first country to approve a new Moderna (I think) vaccine that might actually prevent people being infected.

[nailit]

Where is the control group for this Covid vaccinne?
What are we comparing it to?

Arn't medicines supposed to have a control group?

[douglas9401]

Vaccines do nothing, it was all a ploy to get us all fitted with microchips so the government can track our every move.

Get with the programme Sqad!

Now leave me alone, I'm having my daily cup of Dettol.

[nailit]

//as far as I know the (covid) vaccine just makes the symptoms less severe//

And even that is suspect....
Where is the evidence.
I was ill for a day with it?
A bit fatigued for a week....

Ive had worse hangovers....

[New Judge]

//Seems reasonable to me if they want to avoid getting Covid for whatever reason.//

Only if they are going to continue isolating for the rest of their lives, sqad. With Covid now endemic it is inevitable that everybody will be exposed to the virus, probably multiple times, unless they isolate from every other human being for the rest of their lives.

// My neighbour still wears a mask whenever he goes outside. Don't think he has any health issues.//

If the mask is of the usual type – poor quality, ill-fitting and worn, handled and treated incorrectly, it will do neither him nor anybody else any good. If he wears one of reasonable quality, wears it correctly, stores it properly and changes it frequently, it may provide a very small measure of protection to those around him. If he really wants to get any benefit from wearing a mask he must wear an FFP3 or FFP2 variety and wear, store and treat it correctly. This will provide him with 98-99% protection. And he must wear it continually for the rest of his life because, as above, exposure to the virus is inevitable.

Isolation is effective for so long as you practice it but it must be complete isolation. If anybody your family members mix with does not do likewise (like, for example, if they go to the shops) the rest might as well not bother.

[Sqad]

237...yes, on balance I think that you are correct in that a vaccinated person may well pass on the virus.
However , the first vaccinated person may, pass the virus on to person 2 who will then have mild or no symptoms and if she passes it on to person 3 who is also vaccinated will be in the same situation, mild or no symptoms and so on until it meets a non vaccinated person who may get , no symptoms, mild symptoms or be seriosly inconvenienced.
The vaccine has brought a halt to the spread, but I get what you mean 237.

Some of these "mild" symptoms are quite debilitating and may last for 2-3 weeks....headache ,lassitude, anorexia, loss of taste and smell etc.

[nailit]

My mum died at the height of Covid.
We (her family) were all told to keep away.
Did we bollo x

No ill effects followed...