DOOM: Plan B

[OwlHoot]

Unless I'm wrong, (and as usual it wasn't made absolutely clear) it looks like you will need to do the full 2 weeks in isolation if you're identified as a contact of someone with Omicron, even if you're fully vaccinated. If this is the case, it's a f**king huge deal. You can go out as much as you like, but you risk personal lockdown if you come into contact with an unvaccinated git.

How would they ever know if you leave your mobby at home or don't install the ridiculous test & trace app?

 

[TwoWolves]

Many of the unvaccinated catching Covid are school children.

They aren't currently allowed a vaccine even if they want one.

They aren't even real cases. At my daughter's school, a lot of the kids are faking a positive result using orange juice or Ribena so they can bunk off.

At the local primary kids with the sniffles are being tested by their hypochondriac mums.

 

[SueEllen]

They aren't even real cases. At my daughter's school, a lot of the kids are faking a positive result using orange juice or Ribena so they can bunk off.

At the local primary kids with the sniffles are being tested by their hypochondriac mums.

The kids I know who have and have had it definitely don't have hypochondriac mums. They are forced to do a PCR as they live with or have regular contact with vulnerable and/or elderly people so don't want to kill a parent, grandparent or other elderly relative.

 

[d000hg]

How would they ever know if you leave your mobby at home or don't install the ridiculous test & trace app?

You realise that track and trace is still ongoing - notifying of close contacts the old fashioned way.
Are you saying that "getting found out" is the only reason you'd isolate?

 

[mattster]

They aren't even real cases. At my daughter's school, a lot of the kids are faking a positive result using orange juice or Ribena so they can bunk off.

At the local primary kids with the sniffles are being tested by their hypochondriac mums.

I doubt primary school kids are gaming anything, possibly some of the older secondary but they are mostly at least single jabbed now.

Our school is telling us we have to do 2x LFTs a week, which we do for the most part. No positives in our household yet, but plenty around the place - many of which only came from PCR after -ve LFT (up to 50% false neg). Only a matter of time for us, I guess, although my suspicion is that my kids have actually had it and we missed it on the tests since they were sniffling at the same time as a lot of their classes were off with it.