AIBU to give the correct details for contact tracing?

[Justlovingthis]

I’ve now fallen out with a good friend over this.
My adult child (20) has COVID and got symptoms the day after this friend was over and the friend stood chatting fairly close to them.
After their positive test they got contacted by test and trace to see who’s they’d had close contact with etc. They gave them my friends details.
The friend is now furious with us saying we shouldn’t have said! As they now have to rearrange their diary and lost work.
There wasn’t an ounce of concern for my child (or for me for that matter and I’m in what was the vulnerable group).
Surely we’re not being unreasonable?
Ps the username is sarcastic!

You have absolutely done the right thing, its people like her who dont want to self isolate who are causing the virus to stick around. We have to keep each other safe and if people are going to ignore the rules then they should be fined

Thank you again for all your comments (& votes), I feel better to stand by what we’ve done. Although we’re in tier 1 there’s now around 500 cases locally so clearly spreading and I feel we need to do what we can to slow / stop this. My dc really isn’t too great. Not needing the hospital but it’s hurting them to breath. If this is how it can affect a healthy 20 year old I’d hate to see it hit someone extremely vulnerable.

It's quite scary that some on here think it's fine to go out and continue life as normal after testing positive for covid. We know who is spreading it now then.

Yanbu op. No one is above the rules, absolutely no one.
Oh apart from government and their advisors obviously.
Just a vent - voted Yanbu and would do exactly the same.

@Tootletum

Given what's at stake both in hiding and in providing the details, it is really tough. Realistically, if your son was chatting to your friend in passing for less than 15 minutes, and was otherwise not in the room, they're extremely unlikely to have got it. What I would hope ij the same situation is that the friend would be told by you and would self isolate on their own. But people just can't afford to lose work if they don't work from home. It's all very well for me, I happily provide my details to everyone, because if I had to self isolate it would make fuck all difference. But she shouldn't be arsy about the fact you're simply doing what you're told.

It’s only 15 mins if at 2 meters distance though. Most people seem to think 2 metres is about 2 ft.

It drops to 1 minute at 1m or less.

And this woman’s attitude is exactly why there are some of the flaws there are in the test & trace system!! DH is a contact trader and you’d be surprised at the number of people they have called all sorts of names - ranging from cartoon characters to play on words names that could be genuine or could be something else (Aman Banger!!) Then there are the phone numbers that don’t exist and the ones that go to voicemails or phones that are never answered.

It’s frustrating to hear in the press that the tracing system doesn’t work and only makes contact with 60-80% of those in contact with people diagnosed with covid when the tracers work bloody hard to make contact with people who don’t see the point in giving accurate details!!

Your friend is an idiot!

I'm just shocked that test and trace actually contacted someone.