My Wife Is Not Allowed To Visit Her Father In A Care Home Because Covid Is In The Building.

[dave50]

Why, she's not infected so she's not bringing it in, it's already there! It's absolutely ridiculous, it's time to end this bloody paranoia and move on and let everyone get back to normality.

[ToraToraTora]

yep the jobsworth types are hanging on to the last vestiges of the power they have been given over us. They want this to continue as long as possible.

[maggiebee]

No, you're right, she's not taking it in, but she could be bringing it out.

[Redhelen72]

I suspect that they are worried that it will be passed onto other vunerable people

[elliemay1]

Maybe they're worried that she will catch it and thus infect others that she comes in contact with

[dave50]

Oh for goodness sake she could catch it from anyone at any time. What about her father's mental health, does that not matter? Its ridiculous.

[Buenchico]

It might be worth bringing this guidance, from the Department of Health and Social Care, to the attention of the care home authorities:

"Contact with relatives and friends is fundamental to care home residents’ health and wellbeing and visiting should be encouraged. There should not normally be any restrictions to visits into or out of the care home. The right to private and family life is a human right protected in law (Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights). Where visiting is modified during an outbreak of COVID-19 or where a care home resident has confirmed COVID-19, every resident should be enabled to continue to receive one visitor at a time inside the care home. End-of-life visiting should always be supported, and testing is not required in any circumstances for an end-of-life visit."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infection-prevention-and-control-in-adult-social-care-covid-19-supplement/covid-19-supplement-to-the-infection-prevention-and-control-resource-for-adult-social-care#considerations-specific-to-care-homes

[douglas9401]

It may just be a hangover from when the government killed all those old folk by moving them out of hospitals and back to care homes.

[choux]

2 weeks ago I attended hospital 3 times and the one consultant told me that there had never been so much Covid about. Today I had a phone consultation booked with my GP Surgery at 11.00 but I got a text at 09:05 saying the doctor was sick so it had been rescheduled for 23rd May. We have been self-isolating since the first lockdown, so I can see why this continues. Trouble is we can all have different priorities at whatever cost. Your wife does have my sympathy though, dave.