Help! I've got Covid and I'm stuck in a hotel

[medusawashere]

I travelled to Plymouth for Christmas and did all the right stuff. I'm double jabbed, booster booked for early Jan and have been doing lateral flow tests every day to stay safe and protect others.

This morning, I woke up coughing, sneezing and with chest pains and my LF is positive.

I'm stuck in a hotel with no way of getting home! I live in Bournemouth and my fiance (who was going to meet me Christmas Eve) has also tested positive.

Does anyone have any bright ideas or am I stuck in a hotel room for ten days? I'm devastated. I just want to go home :(

[Whitegrenache]

Go home - mask up and go home

[PurpleDaisies]

Did you drive or go by public transport?

[LividLaVidaLoca]

@Whitegrenache

Go home - mask up and go home

You have no idea if she travelled on public transport? Don’t be ridiculous.

[medusawashere]

I'm sorry, I forgot to confirm.

I came by train :(

[Tricked2003]

Will the hotel even allow you to stay?

[thevassal]

Can your fiance drive? Can they come and pick you up and take you to theirs/home?

[alienbaby]

Get your fiance to come and pick you up and have Christmas at home together why would you stay at the hotel

[Leonberger]

Can your partner drive?

If he is well enough I would get collected and go home. If he stays in the car he isn’t going to infect anyone else.

[logsonlogsoff]

No-one can collect you? You should go home ASAP.

[Overthebow]

Can anyone come and get you? Have you told the hotel you’re positive?

[logsonlogsoff]

Get him to borrow or hire a car if he doesn’t have one. Worst case scenario I would mask up and get the train back.

[Huy456]

Do you know anyone who has just recovered? They could pick you up?

[Porcupineintherough]

Where is your fiance and how are they feeling? Do they drive? If they do and feel well enough, could they come get you?

[RNBrie]

Mask up and go home. Keep as far away from people as possible even if that means moving seats on the train. Or can you go straight to your boyfriend's and isolate there? If he drives, can he come and collect you so you can isolate together?

[medusawashere]

Oh I have every intention of getting out of here. I don't want to put anyone at risk.

[Huy456]

Do not get on a train

[medusawashere]

Fiance is unwell and has to work from home. He is refusing to drive here

[PurpleDaisies]

You are allowed to leave self isolation to move to another place to self isolate if it becomes impractical to stay there.

I would be trying to find a safe way home. Has anyone you know recently had covid and fully recovered? I would be willing to drive a good friend home wearing masks and opening windows if I was at low risk of catching it again. Or could someone drop a car to you and they travel home on public transport?

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1045/made

[alienbaby]

How fucking selfish are people? Of course you cant get on a train

[Porcupineintherough]

Trains are packed at the moment. If you dont want to put people at risk then you are better off where you are, or finding someone to drive you home.

[alienbaby]

I would expect my fiance to come and pick me up irrespective of feeling unwell given the circumstances

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

@Huy456

Do not get on a train

Frankly, this may be her only option.

[PriamFarrl]

@medusawashere

Fiance is unwell and has to work from home. He is refusing to drive here

If he’s well enough to work then he’s well enough to drive.

[BluebellsGreenbells]

Where is he? Is it far?

[AntiHop]

Please don't go on public transport.

Who were you visiting there? Does your fiance have a driving licence?