Quarantine Life

Ronald Chavez2 said:It doesn't really matter; if you happen to deal with a doctor who actually takes their job seriously, they’ll likely ask about your living situation. They might want to know if there's any way—regardless of sharing a roof—for her to move into a separate room, or if you can manage to avoid one another in common areas like the kitchen or bathroom, or simply stop sleeping or eating together, and that's supposedly enough. Of course, because pretending that's actually possible is such a simple task, isn't it?

This doesn't answer my question at all.
You're making assumptions that simply aren't true.

It's been about 10 days since her isolation period ended.

coastaltiger7 said:It's been about 10 days since her isolation period ended.

Either this was written incorrectly, or it's simply imprecise.
My household members were required to be in self-isolation from the very day I received my positive test result. As far as I was concerned, my isolation period began when symptoms first appeared, but since I wasn't even tested until nearly ten days later, I was technically only in isolation for one single day; meanwhile, they had to remain in isolation for another nine days following my lead.

Morgan Peterson said:Either this was written incorrectly, or it's simply imprecise.
My household members were required to be in self-isolation from the very day I received my positive test result. As far as I was concerned, my isolation period began when symptoms first appeared, but since I wasn't even tested until nearly ten days later, I was technically only in isolation for one single day; meanwhile, they had to remain in isolation for another nine days following my lead.

That’s what they told me too. 7 days if you can physically separate from her, 10 days if you can't. Starting from whenever my own isolation ends.

Quarantine's back to 14 days.

Hey.

mellownomad7 said:Quarantine's back to 14 days.

Hey.

Does this apply to people like me who are already mid-quarantine? I’m not actually sick myself, just a close contact, and I’ve been stuck at home since Wednesday. Will my isolation be extended to 14 days now, or am I still looking at the original 10?
I'm planning on giving my doctor a call on Monday to clear everything up anyway.

Still hunting for more details, but nothing solid yet.

Capak said new guidelines on quarantine and testing are dropping today. Quarantine for everyone is going back to 14 days.

“We’re resetting all quarantines to 14 days. We had dropped them to 10 days mainly to get healthcare workers back on the job faster. Now we’re moving it back since most of our medical staff are vaccinated. Case numbers are down, but we don't know how much of that UK strain is circulating in the population. That should be announced later today,” Capak said.

https://hr.n1info.com/vijesti/stozer...-do-15-ozujla/

Capak acts like they just landed from Mars. Healthcare workers were basically handed a swab to the nose and told if the result comes back negative, get right back to work.

mellownomad7 said:Still hunting for more details, but nothing solid yet.

Capak said new guidelines on quarantine and testing are dropping today. Quarantine for everyone is going back to 14 days.

“We’re resetting all quarantines to 14 days. We had dropped them to 10 days mainly to get healthcare workers back on the job faster. Now we’re moving it back since most of our medical staff are vaccinated. Case numbers are down, but we don't know how much of that UK strain is circulating in the population. That should be announced later today,” Capak said.

https://hr.n1info.com/vijesti/stozer...-do-15-ozujla/

This is absolutely appalling.
Are they seriously still refusing to acknowledge that those of us who have already recovered don't need a six-month isolation period? It's still stuck at three months, even though the data clearly shows immunity lasts way longer than half a year!
And since we can take sick leave, theoretically, we could just keep missing work indefinitely—even though the odds of actually getting sick again are practically zero—but now they want to tack on an extra four days on top of that?
Where does this madness end?

To make matters worse, we aren't even allowed to sign up for the vaccine because we've already had it and aren't considered a "priority group."

Morgan Peterson said:Either this was written incorrectly, or it's simply imprecise.
My household members were required to be in self-isolation from the very day I received my positive test result. As far as I was concerned, my isolation period began when symptoms first appeared, but since I wasn't even tested until nearly ten days later, I was technically only in isolation for one single day; meanwhile, they had to remain in isolation for another nine days following my lead.

I guess every epidemiologist handles things differently.
I know plenty of cases where family members stayed in isolation starting from the day the sick person recovered.
The epidemiologist in my city tells us you can still be contagious on the very last day of the primary patient's illness, so because of that, everyone else's isolation period starts from that final day.
And honestly, that makes sense to me.

A teacher at my nephew's preschool just tested positive for COVID-19, so I'm guessing all the kids in her class are probably stuck at home now... I'm just a little confused, though—for some reason, they told the dad he has to isolate, but his wife doesn't? It seems kind of weird, I guess. Anyway, the dad is actually my brother, and I was just over at their place visiting earlier today when they mentioned it.

coastaltiger7 said:I guess every epidemiologist handles things differently.
I know plenty of cases where family members stayed in isolation starting from the day the sick person recovered.
The epidemiologist in my city tells us you can still be contagious on the very last day of the primary patient's illness, so because of that, everyone else's isolation period starts from that final day.
And honestly, that makes sense to me.

Exactly—that’s what they told me and everyone else I know. That’s why my wife was stuck in isolation for 10 days starting after my last day.
I guess Morgan Peterson just got lucky since she gets out of isolation right after her test, which is probably why those other folks only had to deal with 9 days.

coastaltiger7 said:I guess every epidemiologist handles things differently.
I know plenty of cases where family members stayed in isolation starting from the day the sick person recovered.
The epidemiologist in my city tells us you can still be contagious on the very last day of the primary patient's illness, so because of that, everyone else's isolation period starts from that final day.
And honestly, that makes sense to me.

That’s only because those family members isolated simply because they didn't have a decent setup at home to actually quarantine an infected person properly. You just tell the epidemiologist that the sick person was kept in a separate room, that the last contact happened when you drove them to get tested, and suddenly your ten-day clock starts ticking from that moment, doesn't it?

Morgan Peterson said:Either this was written incorrectly, or it's simply imprecise.
My household members were required to be in self-isolation from the very day I received my positive test result. As far as I was concerned, my isolation period began when symptoms first appeared, but since I wasn't even tested until nearly ten days later, I was technically only in isolation for one single day; meanwhile, they had to remain in isolation for another nine days following my lead.

But what exactly prompted you to get tested in the first place? Does a positive result automatically trigger a mandatory quarantine for everyone living under the same roof? And what happens if someone was merely exposed and there's just some suspicion about it—in those instances, are all household members required to go into isolation as well?

Ronald Chavez2 said:That’s only because those family members isolated simply because they didn't have a decent setup at home to actually quarantine an infected person properly. You just tell the epidemiologist that the sick person was kept in a separate room, that the last contact happened when you drove them to get tested, and suddenly your ten-day clock starts ticking from that moment, doesn't it?

I guess that's fine if it's actually true. But if it isn't, I'm really not okay with putting people's health and lives at risk.

That was my experience as well. After my husband finished his initial 10 days, I was granted an additional 10...
Our family doctor was completely stumped about when my isolation period actually started. The epidemiologist had already cleared him for "10 plus 10," even though his fever didn't officially break—dropping below 99°F—until day 12. But since I was already logged into the system, she wasn't going to try changing it.
You can still catch it on the very last day someone is contagious.

coastaltiger7 said:I guess that's fine if it's actually true. But if it isn't, I'm really not okay with putting people's health and lives at risk.

placidnomad87 said:But what exactly prompted you to get tested in the first place? Does a positive result automatically trigger a mandatory quarantine for everyone living under the same roof? And what happens if someone was merely exposed and there's just some suspicion about it—in those instances, are all household members required to go into isolation as well?

I actually started developing symptoms myself; I ran a slight fever and lost both my sense of taste and smell. After those symptoms began on Tuesday, I reported them to the CDC on Thursday, and they didn't come to test me until the following Tuesday. If you factor in the two days it takes to receive the test results, that's pretty much the entire duration of the isolation period.

Lawrence Reed3 said:A teacher at my nephew's preschool just tested positive for COVID-19, so I'm guessing all the kids in her class are probably stuck at home now... I'm just a little confused, though—for some reason, they told the dad he has to isolate, but his wife doesn't? It seems kind of weird, I guess. Anyway, the dad is actually my brother, and I was just over at their place visiting earlier today when they mentioned it.

Actually, neither the mom nor the dad should have been ordered into isolation. Since the child hasn't even tested positive yet and is just considered a contact, they should be staying home too.

Drew Gonzalez75 said:Actually, neither the mom nor the dad should have been ordered into isolation. Since the child hasn't even tested positive yet and is just considered a contact, they should be staying home too.

It's more likely the father just got sick leave rather than actual isolation orders.

Drew Gonzalez75 said:Actually, neither the mom nor the dad should have been ordered into isolation. Since the child hasn't even tested positive yet and is just considered a contact, they should be staying home too.

mellowskipper said:It's more likely the father just got sick leave rather than actual isolation orders.

But yeah, he finally explained to me that he just phrased things poorly—he actually just got some time off work so he could stay home, it wasn't like official quarantine or anything...