My son caught Covid from his girlfriend. Got tested on Thursday and returned a positive result on Sunday. Both teens are mildly symptomatic. Wants to go stay with his girlfriend next weekend as he normally does every 2nd weekend. Her folks have said it’s ok. Is he legally allowed to, if he remains at their place and is isolating along with their family? There’s no info online about this kind of thing.
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No, he should have been isolating at home since his test on Thursday. He is not allowed to just hop in the car and go isolate elsewhere.
There's a COVID hotline that will give you a clear answer, however absolutely no he cannot. He must isolate in your home until he gets a negative result and is not allowed to travel anywhere even for an intimate partner.
He has to stay put as soon as he had his test and especially after receiving the results until he is deemed out of the infectious stage.
He may think it’s harmless to travel to his girlfriends but what if he is in a car accident, stops for a drive through, car breaks down etc then he has automatically infected a group of people so he could hang out with his girlfriend.
He needs to stay home until he is cleared to leave. His girlfriends parents are not to be trusted.
No he has to stay where he is. He is not allowed to leave his home.
Her parents are idiots! He has covid. He CAN NOT LEAVE HIS HOME!
It’s Covid not Ebola.
I don't known if you've noticed but covid is killing people at a pretty alarming rate but hey, at least it's not Ebola 🙄🙄🙄
Covid is more infectious than Ebola. Ebola is far easier to contain. So while Ebola is some real scary shit outbreaks don’t turn into pandemics.
Covid gets out of control, is hard to contain and has had a huge impact on our hospital systems.
These clowns don’t notice until it hits one of their family.
Stupid comment. Her parents are idiots. Hey let’s , have someone come and stay who has covid 🤦🏼♀️ Don’t worry about any innocent people who he may put at risk. If you have covid, stay home it’s not that bloody hard.
OP here. Girlfriends whole household has Covid. That’s why they thought it was ok the teens see each other. No one else would be at risk.
Your son leaving the house could potentially put the community at risk though. He could be pulled over on the way there for a random traffic stop, he could (God forbid) be involved in an accident - both scenarios where he could infect first responders.
So it's not a "no one else would be at risk" situation at all.
That is why we stay home. At home in our own house. Period.
Not seeing his GF for a few weeks isn't going to kill him.
Pretty sure the guy can go a weekend with out seeing his girlfriend.yes leaving his home is putting people at risk. it’s not hard to comprehend. STAY HOME!
Yes but doesn’t make a difference. He should have isolated there in the first place. As if you would want to be in a house of covid cases anyway yuk! Stay home and rest and do the right thing.
Keep complying people especially you idiots who live in fascist Victoria. Enjoy your 6 monthly boosters at $90 a shot. Idiots!
Enjoy the beach in the sweltering heat whilst we enjoy Sunday sippers with our friends in a fancy restaurant :P
Are you calling people that live in an entire state idiots because you don't agree with their premier following medical advice?
Or are you just bad at interpreting statistics? Ebola has an average death rate of 50% but doesn't spread as easily (hence epidemic status only). Total ebola deaths ever is roughly 15,000. COVID 19 has a lower death rate per infection, but spreads very easily. Thus, it became a pandemic and has so far taken almost 5 million lives globally. Only 1654 of those deaths were in Australia because we shut our borders and social distance more easily than other countries.
Covid has been an inconvenience and financial pressure on our country. Other countries have dealt with enormous death rates and grief. With vaccination rates rising, our inconvenience will lift soon too.
Education is best obtained through medical journals and factual sources. Conspiracy theorists and paranoid schizophrenics with a strong social media voice are less reliable resources. It's everyone doing the right thing that has helped Australia cope so well in the grand scheme.
If I'm not mistaken, you and anyone else in your household would be considered close contacts and should also be in quarantine. Same goes with anyone who lives in GFs house.
As a side note, this is why home quarantine doesn't work because people can't seem to grasp the "at home" part.
Where do you suggest people quarantine then?
So true! Can’t trust anyone to quarantine at home.
After 2 years of this pandemic.. how is this even a question 🤦🏼♀️ OF COURSE HE ISNT LEGALLY ALLOWED!
If the police come to check on her or him he will be fined and likely placed into quarantine. He has to stay in the one place until he is told officially he can leave.
They could have isolated together, but they didn't, so no they need to follow the rules of isolating.
There is so much information on line about this. The rules and what to do is stated very, very clearly.
If he was there when he found out I would have said you may as well wait it out there. If he goes there without you knowing while he's still infectious then make him stay there until he's all clear. He can't just go from house to house, it's one or the other.
This is what will be happening in the future when everyone's able to travel freely again. The immunised will be bringing it back home and spreading it, just like influenza which has taken a back seat due to lack of international travel. Quarantining is going to be unrealistic in the long term future. As nice as it is to think everyone will do the right thing it just won't be possible and in many situations there won't be a choice. Families will still need to feed their kids, will still need to seek medical attention, go to chemist's, fuel to get there etc etc. Not everyone has support and not everyone has the option of home delivery. Victoria and NSW will be better at dealing with open borders than the rest of us that have boasted low cases and normal lives as our health system is about to learn to deal with covid for the first time instead of the second or third. It's been all good and well locking covid out but there were professionals advising against it from the start as everyone needs to eventually deal with it. It's just delaying the inevitable. Hopefully in the not so distant future Covid 19 becomes just another illness just like the flu did eventually. Sorry, got a little off track here but these posts and the answers really make me think that none of us are ready for a future with covid 19.
If you are negative & he lives with you it would make more sense that he go there & stay there. Drive directly there, no stopping
No. He has to pick a place and stay there. Imagine if he gets pulled over for rbt. Putting the police at risk so he can go see his girlfriend. It’s 2 weeks, he will survive not seeing her.
OP here. He’s 15. Doesn’t drive.