Next Door Neighbours

[MyCatTibby]

We live in a semi detached. Our neighbours are a couple who I would say are in their thirties. Last Monday morning I was woken up at around 4:45am by severe coughing from the girl next door. This carried on until Friday when an ambulance turned up and took her away to hospital. She has Covid-19. I know her boyfriend should now be isolating himself for two weeks. However he went out yesterday in his car and twice today. We’ve noticed he’s brought bags back which indicate he could have been shopping although they were not supermarket bags so can’t be sure about that, he could have been visiting parents which is equally wrong I know. Yesterday his parents visited for about three hours. I’m totally shocked. IABU if I report this?

One of my neighbours is out regularly, sometimes more than once a day. Keeps coming back with bags of stuff. He is clearing his deceased father’s house - sorting the estate, dealing with probate and going thru a shit time.

Other neighbour has apparently commented about him being out and about.

Very rarely do we know exactly what people are doing and why they are doing it.

@vodkaredbullgirl yes I really hope so

If you report it, and he is completey innocent, I’m sure he will be able to explain that.

@MyCatTibby who are you going to report him to?

OP. You spoke to him over the fence, you had the chance to ask him what was in the bags & did he visit his parents who stayed with him for three hours.

I couldn't get worked up about this, and suggest that you don't either, OP.

@goingtotown I spoke to him and offered help before I saw him going out

Why can't people just follow the rules. It makes me angry and sad that some people are so flippant with other people's lives.

If this was my neighbour I would possibly drop “do you realise you’re supposed to be self-isolating for 14 days”? Into the conversation - maybe he doesn’t realise? I wouldn’t “report” him though - you don’t know he’s been to the shops and if his parents were sat in the garden and social distancing there’s not much risk.

Maybe some people just think “fuck it, il take my chances” if they don’t personally feel ill. I’m no stasi type person but I’d think someone who went to the shops after their dp had been confirmed with covid very selfish and stupid.

@antihop exaclty. Our friends nephew has died of Covid-19 he was 28. My nephew is a doctor on the frontline treating people with Covid-19. I feel sick that our neighbour has been living with someone who has Covid-19 and think it’s ok to go out and about. He should be isolating.

I take it you offered to help OP?

Of course he should be self isolating and that means staying indoors. I can't fathom the replies on this thread saying otherwise. No wonder the UK has the highest death rate in Europe!

@Bleepbloopblarp they were t social distancing in the garden. They were putting up a bloody gazebo.

Well I guess he’s being a dick and breaking the rules.
However that’s why everyone has been and still are, socially distancing because you have to assume anyone might have it.
His poor girlfriend has it because she had to work.Thats pretty gutting as she had less chance of avoiding it. If people don’t want it then there’s plenty of help available to stay in.

Meh. After the Cummings debacle, I no longer give a shit what other people do.

If you report it, and he is completey innocent, I’m sure he will be able to explain that.
What do you mean, completely innocent? He has confirmed his gf has Covid. He should therefore not be going out at all and should not be having his family around for visits. He needs to self-isolate for 14 days and not go out, even for shopping or medicine.

I would talk to him (ensuring I stood back at least 2m when he answered the door) and if he then went out again, I would report him to the police. I would consider it my moral duty to do so in order to protect his parents, anyone they may come into contact with and anyone he potentially comes into contact with.

The OP is not a curtain twitcher. She is a concerned citizen and is being a responsible adult - unlike her neighbour.

"One of my neighbours is out regularly, sometimes more than once a day. Keeps coming back with bags of stuff. He is clearing his deceased father’s house - sorting the estate, dealing with probate and going thru a shit time."
Does he live with someone who has been with diagnosed with Covid-19?

@MrsFogi yes I did. Read the thread.

Gosh, you actually notice your neighbour going out and coming back with shopping (but not supermarket) bags? Don't you have anything else to do? If he did visit parents and you don't know if he did, he could have been taking essential supplies to them and not going in their house.

He is allowed to go shopping as long as he keeps his distance from others and no doubt he sanitises properly once he's back home.

Let's hope he hasn't caught the virus from his girlfriend and that she makes a good recovery. She has youth on her side but no one can tell how the illness will affect her, we just have to hope for the best.

Most of all, stop being a nosy neighbour! It is unbecoming.

Report him to Boris.

If he was drunk driving every single person on this thread would be telling you to report him. If he spreads Coronavirus to staff at the supermarket, people he is shopping near etc, he could kill a significant number of people, far more than driving drunk.

If he was drunk driving every single person on this thread would be telling you to report him. If he spreads Coronavirus to staff at the supermarket, people he is shopping near etc, he could kill a significant number of people, far more than driving drunk.

Such a brilliant way of looking at the situation and I totally agree.

Why would he be spreading virus to supermarket workers if he keeps distance from others, wears a mask and sanitises? I doubt the man is that irresponsible. Even those self isolating are allowed to buy groceries and have a bit of fresh air occasionally.

Has his wife been tested?

@Lynda07 no they are not. People who are living with people who have tested positive for coronavirus should isolate for 14 days

@Hollyhobbi yes. She has Covid-19