Going out after positive covid test?

[onefootinthegravee]

A work friend has literally just text me.
Her boyfriend received his covid result positive on Monday.
He has a cough a temperature and aches and pains.
She's tested negative.
She's just told me he text her this morning and he was out and about.
Surely nobody is that stupid
Aibu to call him a massive stupid twat?
I can't get over how bloody selfish

Cue 3 million pages of posters agreeing with you. Why do you need the validation?

What they said ^

Will it make you feel better?

It will be better for your mental health if you just get over this, honestly!

If he's on day 11 of symptoms and feels OK in himself that's fine. He could have had a test on day 5, results on day 7,so today is day 11.

He's not fine on Day 11 if he has any other symptoms but a cough. Definitely not if he still has a temp.

Frankly, if she's living with him/seen him etc, her negative test means nothing unless she's on day 15. A negative test does not exempt you for self-isolating if you're a known contact of a positive case, as it can simply mean that you haven't developed it yet.

So, neither of them should be out and about most likely, and yes, they are selfish and stupid.

I've posted many times that half the people of this country are just to thick to get it so it's never going to end.

Yes, YABU.

a) What @ProfInkly said. The 10 days start from when he first had symptoms. So if he's self-isolated for 10 days and now only has a cough and/or loss of smell & taste, he's played by the rules. Unless you know exactly when he first had symptoms, you don't know whether he's done anything 'wrong' or not.

b) You're unreasonable to call anyone 'a massive stupid twat' and make yourself the Covid police. Especially someone you have so little influence over as a colleague's boyfriend. What are you hoping to achieve? He may possibly have broken the rules/law and may possibly have put other's people's health at risk, but how does name calling help that?

It depends when he first got symptoms and if he still has them

YANBU and I can absolutely understand why you're upset.

Your friend & her BF are part of the reason why the rest of us - who are sensible, take precautions, and most of all have respect for other people's health - have to be restricted in our freedoms t meet with family & friends.

They are selfish arses and stupid too. It's worse because really, there's nothing you can do, except to have nothing more to do with either of them.