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Friend gave me covid - AIBU about how I feel right now

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aibuQuestion · 10/10/2020 12:52

Just want to know if I'm overreacting here.

I agreed to babysit a friend's baby for an hour last week so she could run an errand. They came to my house and I kept baby in the sling throughout (baby's happy place apparently).

Three days later I got a call from this friend who had tested positive for covid. The following day I started feeling unwell, a couple of days after that my DC developed a temperature and my DH also started feeling unwell. We got tests and are currently all covid positive.

The friend had said her symptoms started the night after I babysat. So two days before she told me about the test result. I'd seen her DH one of the residential streets here wearing a mask the day after I babysat (so the day of the night her symptoms started) which I remember thinking was odd as literally nobody else was on the road except for me. But maybe a coincidence or he always wears it - as she said symptoms started that night.

If she'd told me when her symptoms had started I would have been way more careful around my DC and DH but as I had no symptoms myself and was unaware of hers, nothing changed. Still cuddling and kissing my two year old, sharing cutlery at dinner, not wiping down handles indoors etc. My DH continued to go to work and saw friends (they all have to self isolate now and one feels unwell). Luckily I knew about the result before going into work that weekend and before seeing my high risk family members. By sheer luck I'd had to cancel a play date the day after I babysat.

AIBU to be very angry that I could have prevented infecting my family?

OP posts:
Cissyandflora · 28/07/2021 22:13

@Augustbreeze

Are you saying that the minute any of us realises we have one of the three main symptoms we should tell anyone who might be a close contact?

You could be right, but I don't think anyone's doing that at the moment. A few might tell you if they've booked a test, most wouldn't until they had a positive result and some not even then.

Yes this. This is what people should be doing. I agree with you OP and have had a similar situation here myself. My son’s school was worse than useless and allowed children to mix when they had been with a Covid case. Made me really angry. Also one boy had Covid and his family said it was too difficult to isolate so his sister came to school.
Justgorgeous · 28/07/2021 22:26

Wow - totally unreasonable.

BoltonDoowar · 28/07/2021 22:31

Zombie tbread

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