Family Life, if we need to isolate some what

utmbuilder

For parents no matter how many precautions you take your kids have to go to school for now.

If there is no school parents will know keeping children indoors, and not bringing them to playgrounds, leisure centers, mcdonalds, public toilets is tricky.

We are slightly outside dublin so journey's in the car every day are very possible, trips to the mountains for hikes, walks in the phoenix park, maybe even fishing with a fire lighting beside a lake.

We are lucky to be self employed and work off our computers at home.

Has anyone got any-other ideas of activities to keep hyper kids active and happy if we do need to try to change in their life to avoid contamination if required in the future.

NIMAN

It will be near impossible to self isolate in a family environment and avoid the entire family catching it.

Its not practical for someone to stay confined to one room for a fortnight, and have food left at the door.

And what is both parents get it? Kids going to look after themselves for a fortnight?

Peregrinus

NIMAN wrote: »

It will be near impossible to self isolate in a family environment and avoid the entire family catching it.

Its not practical for someone to stay confined to one room for a fortnight, and have food left at the door.

And what is both parents get it? Kids going to look after themselves for a fortnight?

But think this though. If the family members are isolated separately even before anybody in the family is known to be infected, are the kids going to look after themselves for a fortnight?

The entire family will not catch the disease unless one of them is actually infected. If one of them is known to be infected, then that one must be rigorously isolated. But it's simply not possible to rigorously isolate everyone who might be infected, on the basis that they have been part of a community such as a school or workplace where someone turns out to have been infected. What you can do is reduce the spread of infection by home isolation - most people will be fine, because in fact no-one in the home has been infected, and in the remaining homes observing basic counterinfection measures will still provide a measure of protection.

utmbuilder

I was more asking, things to do when a school closes and your avoiding the community, no actually being infected.