Teddie G on 17 July 2021

Well where do I start, as things are supposed to be getting back to normal it seems we are being more isolated than ever. In the last 18 months things have been a challenge for everyone and I think personally there will be more to come. In the last few weeks requests for self isolating have hit my family more than ever! First my husband gets pinged to isolate, he works in retail and he’d been near someone who had COVID, then we were asked to self isolate to allow my daughter to have teeth removed in the hospital. Then three days after we were both pinged again for my husband and I had to isolate another 4 days. That ended then one of our children’s bubbles has burst meaning he has to isolate until the last day of term! So in the last approximately 5 weeks we’ve only had a few days in between having to isolate. We may as well as just have been in lockdown! For my family where change really affects my disabled children’s behaviour we would have been better off in lock down. It makes you wonder if we should we turn the app off but after thinking on it we decided against it, plus I’m extremely clinically vulnerable and I’d hate to put myself or other vulnerable people in danger because I’d turned track an trace off. I think it’s more scary now the amount coming down ill and wouldn’t be surprised if by mid autumn we are not in lockdown back to square one! I think our government are now letting us all down.

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