Reported Covid positive family for not isolating. AIBU?

[Joswis]

A family in the area I live in have all tested positive for Covid. The mother has been quite open about this on social media. One of the teenagers has been out and about despite being positive.

The mother has let this slip on social media. She has been roundly attacked, but has built a web of lies to try to defend herself.

I have reported them. I suspect others have too. although none of us have admitted this to each other. Am I unreasonable?

@SunflowerButterfly

Considering the tests are 93% inaccurate, as admitted even by Boris himself, and as recently confirmed by a court in Portugal, then YABU. Stop snitching on people and get on with your life. The Stasi paid people to do this, it's pretty depressing in the UK in 2020 the Stasi would find an army of people happy to snitch for them. All for a virus with a 99.8% survival rate too. Utter madness.

Bollocks. Source???? You can't say something like this with no evidence.

yanbu. my sister, a bloody nurse brought her son home from uni after he tested positive for covid 19.
two days later I met her and family walking the dog. Bloody right I reported her, self isolation is exactly that.

so you've reported the whole family because one of the teenagers is still going out?

have you ever had to handle a teenager? it is so hard to get them to do anything they're told and short of locking them up as a PP said I cant see what the mother could do. it's a tricky one but I actually feel sorry for the mum. reminds me of when my teenage brother used to refuse to go to school and my mum used to get fined. was a joke.

Absolutely not, in fact I applaud you.

The only outcome I'm interested in is what happens afterwards. Did the neighbors stop speaking to you or did the whole community shun you for being a snitch. Really is not a coming together experience this covid thing, more like "never trust your neighbors " proof

@RayOfSunshine2013

YABU. I wish I had time to be involved in other peoples business. Maybe they have a family to provide for

The teenager?

Yanbu. This virus is evil.

@confusedx3

so you've reported the whole family because one of the teenagers is still going out?

have you ever had to handle a teenager? it is so hard to get them to do anything they're told and short of locking them up as a PP said I cant see what the mother could do. it's a tricky one but I actually feel sorry for the mum. reminds me of when my teenage brother used to refuse to go to school and my mum used to get fined. was a joke.

Therefore said teenager needs to hear it from somebody who has more authority than the parents they are ignoring

You say the teenager has been 'out and about'. Has she been on her own, on a bike ride or something like that? She could be outdoors and not in contact with anyone.

The other family members may not have been anywhere at all.

The 'mother', according to you, has built a web of lies around her in defence. They might not be lies.

@SuperCaliFragalistic

On these types of thread I'm usually in the myob camp but if they've actually tested positive they should all be staying home without a doubt. Reporting is reasonable in these circumstances.

Me too!!! Normally I do an eye roll at the covid threads, but if they've got positive tests and still not isolating that's not on at all! So the teenage child has just been out with their friends? That's so dangerous!

Here are some sources for people to explore, if interested:

About the recent court case in Portugal: www.theportugalnews.com/news/2020-11-21/court-decides-that-quarantine-in-state-of-alert-is-illegal/56830

Prof Sucharit Bhakdi, a microbiologist, on the PCR test (which is being used to diagnose covid, which it was never designed to detect viral infection):

Boris admitting the tests only work 7% of the time:

I agree. The OP clearly can't trust these neighbours to act responsibly to protect people. (As an aside, do people really use the word 'snitch' after leaving primary school?)

@SunflowerButterfly

Considering the tests are 93% inaccurate, as admitted even by Boris himself, and as recently confirmed by a court in Portugal, then YABU. Stop snitching on people and get on with your life. The Stasi paid people to do this, it's pretty depressing in the UK in 2020 the Stasi would find an army of people happy to snitch for them. All for a virus with a 99.8% survival rate too. Utter madness.

Utter bullshit!!

Quote didn't work. That was a response to yeOldeTrout.

Really is not a coming together experience this covid thing, more like "never trust your neighbors " proof
Yeah nothing says community spirit and rallying together like contracting an incredibly contagious disease and swanning round the streets like a fucking plague rat.

If they have a positive test in the household then there is no reason whatsoever that would be good enough for them to be excused from isolation. Their positive test could be someone else's death sentence.

YANBU. I'm sick of people saying that it's no one else's business, of course it is!

Who / where have you reported them to?

YANBU, it's one thing to be a curtain twitch busybody because someone is slightly bending the rules but reporting someone for being a complete dangerous idiot spreading the virus to all and sundry is only fair.

@ktp100

Well done you!!

Selfish cunts like this could literally kill someone else's loved ones.

This exactly. This isn't a time when people can do whatever the hell they want. People can die as a result of selfish behaviour like this.

[quote SunflowerButterfly]Here are some sources for people to explore, if interested:

About the recent court case in Portugal: www.theportugalnews.com/news/2020-11-21/court-decides-that-quarantine-in-state-of-alert-is-illegal/56830

Prof Sucharit Bhakdi, a microbiologist, on the PCR test (which is being used to diagnose covid, which it was never designed to detect viral infection):

Boris admitting the tests only work 7% of the time: [/quote]
The Boris video is completely out of context, that question he was answering was in relation to people being tested at airports and that it would only detect a positive case in 7% of cases as you wouldn't get a positive during your incubation period! Not that across the board 93% of covid tests are inaccurate! Find the full interview and educate yourself, you've used a doctored interview on YouTube that fits your narrative! Check your sources before you pedal shite like this!

I’ve seen this 99.8% survival rate quoted elsewhere but it’s bollocks surely. Trying to do the maths, but if you say there are 50,000 deaths in the UK, this rate would mean 25million infections. Am I doing my sums right???

What happened when you reported them? Did the police turn up? Helicopters? Boris himself?

Of course you aren't unreasonable. And yes, it's everyone else's business when trying to protect their vulnerable family members.

@RayOfSunshine2013 it's the teenager who has been out, probably doesn't have a family to support

YANBU

it’s not like reporting someone for having a group of seven instead of six, it’s someone who has tested positive but is going round spreading covid.