Covid: Shielding and Visitor Risk
Discussion
Apologies in advance for another Covid thread.
Looking for views on the following scenario.
Elderly mum has a few serious heath conditions so has been shielding with no visitors in the house.
A tradesman has to visit the house (for about half an hour) and will be checking all rooms so looking for advice/guidance on the best way of managing this.
Current plan is as follows:
Mum will be in the garden during his visit.
Tradesman will be wearing a mask and gloves.
All internal doors and windows will be left open.
He knows not to touch anything un-necessarily.
Once he leaves, surfaces/switches etc will be wiped down before mum re-enters house.
Doors/windows left open for rest of the day.
Should we cover furniture?
Hoover the carpet/mop the floor once he leaves?
Anything else?
Trying to get a handle on the level of risk as we are all, as I hope you can appreciate, worried by this.
Cheers.
Looking for views on the following scenario.
Elderly mum has a few serious heath conditions so has been shielding with no visitors in the house.
A tradesman has to visit the house (for about half an hour) and will be checking all rooms so looking for advice/guidance on the best way of managing this.
Current plan is as follows:
Mum will be in the garden during his visit.
Tradesman will be wearing a mask and gloves.
All internal doors and windows will be left open.
He knows not to touch anything un-necessarily.
Once he leaves, surfaces/switches etc will be wiped down before mum re-enters house.
Doors/windows left open for rest of the day.
Should we cover furniture?
Hoover the carpet/mop the floor once he leaves?
Anything else?
Trying to get a handle on the level of risk as we are all, as I hope you can appreciate, worried by this.
Cheers.
SpeedBash said:
Apologies in advance for another Covid thread.
Looking for views on the following scenario.
Elderly mum has a few serious heath conditions so has been shielding with no visitors in the house.
A tradesman has to visit the house (for about half an hour) and will be checking all rooms so looking for advice/guidance on the best way of managing this.
Current plan is as follows:
Mum will be in the garden during his visit.
Tradesman will be wearing a mask and gloves.
All internal doors and windows will be left open.
He knows not to touch anything un-necessarily.
Once he leaves, surfaces/switches etc will be wiped down before mum re-enters house.
Doors/windows left open for rest of the day.
For your mum's peace of mind I would do these.Looking for views on the following scenario.
Elderly mum has a few serious heath conditions so has been shielding with no visitors in the house.
A tradesman has to visit the house (for about half an hour) and will be checking all rooms so looking for advice/guidance on the best way of managing this.
Current plan is as follows:
Mum will be in the garden during his visit.
Tradesman will be wearing a mask and gloves.
All internal doors and windows will be left open.
He knows not to touch anything un-necessarily.
Once he leaves, surfaces/switches etc will be wiped down before mum re-enters house.
Doors/windows left open for rest of the day.
As above the risk really is very slight at the moment.
The current daily confirmed case number is 726, so approximately one person in every hundred thousand per day (and the vast majority of those will be self isolating). There will of course be small numbers of unconfirmed cases wandering around but these won’t alter the magnitude of the odds.
Taking the precautions described above is easy and free so is entirely reasonable. However it’s not worth stressing about.
The current daily confirmed case number is 726, so approximately one person in every hundred thousand per day (and the vast majority of those will be self isolating). There will of course be small numbers of unconfirmed cases wandering around but these won’t alter the magnitude of the odds.
Taking the precautions described above is easy and free so is entirely reasonable. However it’s not worth stressing about.
SpeedBash said:
Can't thank you enough for your level-headed responses - just the sanity check I needed.
The responses tie-in with what my GP niece said - finally got hold of her a few hours after posting this.
I'm stressing more than my mother so your replies helped. Cheers.
A few weeks ago we had three men in the house for two days fitting a new boiler in a new location. None wore a mask nor did we ask them to despite both of us having underlying health conditions. We're both still alive and as far as we know, virus free. Your mum should be fine.The responses tie-in with what my GP niece said - finally got hold of her a few hours after posting this.
I'm stressing more than my mother so your replies helped. Cheers.
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