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?

YANBU. It’s people like them, and yes those that say you are being unreasonable, should mind your own business etc that mean we are where we are now

So let’s hope those that said you shouldn’t report are not the same people banging on about how bad it is now, don’t see why we should be in lockdown, can’t cope with it etc.

The audacity of this poster calling someone else ‘brainless’ is unreal.

I’m scientist who works in the pharmaceutical world, specifically working with similar testing kits. Do you honestly think that the best regulatory bodies in the world would approve a product that fell so short of its claims? It’s infuriating that people with no scientific literacy seem to want to impose their views on the world, despite not knowing a journal article if it hit them in the face.

Please, if you are going to do anything today, go and research the art of researching . YouTube videos are not a reliable source.

Referring to sunflowerbutterfly in the post above.

Not keen on covid police but if they've all tested positive, they need to stay at home.

They can't all have had a false positive.

I think they should be fined.

@nosswith

You did the correct thing OP, and the family concerned have brought it upon themselves by talking about it on social media.

Yeah they deserve to be reported for being ridiculously stupid.

Break the rules but don't then post about it on social media and tell everyone you're breaking the rules! People really do leave their brains behind when it comes to social media.

@SingANewSongChickenTikka

This is one of the better explantations I’ve seen for the whole false negative claim thing.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/false-positives-coronavirus_uk_5f686da4c5b6de79b677e909?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAcOP6gBs3tqTdXVHBr4fVkmGlddZmSihyRzN-7SdOmeAvi4so7b_7CUtrVhi-FafwuDStPGNceMPqllT6lyhEbky1CVuqE42c_bakx_TNhsgm9wyci4T7AD4u-G855RjcwPIoFqoTATjDoMygqejV2BXXCUVqeb4E_evW387qqr

I find it quite disconcerting that so many people happily spread false information about ‘the science’ when they clearly don’t understand it, picking one headline to support a viewpoint is misleading and dangerous. Similarly those who misunderstand history and throw around words like Stasi.

YANBU OP, it’s one thing turning a blind eye to someone who should be isolating as a contact nipping oit, doing so when you know you have Covid is something quite different.

Absolutely this. I don’t appreciate my years of experience in the scientific world being written off as being ‘unable to think for myself’.

I can really tell you that most people died from underlying causes. I asked.

People who are already unhealthy are dying,

I am 47. My 'underlying cause' / the thing that makes me more vulnerable for Covid - is arthritis and the medication I take for it. In normal times this would not be something I'd be expected to die from. It won't reduce my life span. Flu could make me poorly and I have an annual vaccination but isn't likely to kill me.

I caught Covid at school. I had a complication - my blood pressure rose so high I had to be sent to a and e as a matter of urgency due to the very real risk of heart attack or stroke. Either of which could ultimately have killed be I guess. All down to Covid.

Had the worst happened would that really have been an 'underlying causes' statistic?!?!

I'm not 'unhealthy' I am not 'going to die anyway' - well not from the underlying cause and hopefully not for many more years.

But it was a real concern for a short while 7 weeks ago when I was in the doctors having an ambulance called whilst my Dh was rushing over to meet me before I got to hospital.

Pitchforks waving! I see the OP hasn't actually qualified her inflammatory post. She states that one family member has been out- a teenager. Lucky to those who have reasonably well behaved teens- but I know several who just wouldn't respond well to being kept in. Should mum be bolting the bedroom door?

There's nothing to suggest the others have been out. Not sure why the family should be reported not just the teen.

@Aragog

I can really tell you that most people died from underlying causes. I asked.

People who are already unhealthy are dying,

I am 47. My 'underlying cause' / the thing that makes me more vulnerable for Covid - is arthritis and the medication I take for it. In normal times this would not be something I'd be expected to die from. It won't reduce my life span. Flu could make me poorly and I have an annual vaccination but isn't likely to kill me.

I caught Covid at school. I had a complication - my blood pressure rose so high I had to be sent to a and e as a matter of urgency due to the very real risk of heart attack or stroke. Either of which could ultimately have killed be I guess. All down to Covid.

Had the worst happened would that really have been an 'underlying causes' statistic?!?!

I'm not 'unhealthy' I am not 'going to die anyway' - well not from the underlying cause and hopefully not for many more years.

But it was a real concern for a short while 7 weeks ago when I was in the doctors having an ambulance called whilst my Dh was rushing over to meet me before I got to hospital.

Agreed. I have a health condition which does not affect my life expectancy, nor does it affect my ability to live a full life. It would count as an underlying health condition though if I were to die of covid. I find it utterly repellant that my death would somehow mean less to people because of this.

Problem is, not everyone with an underlying health condition has a diagnosis. Some people who are quite content with stating that they have no risk factors may be woefully inaccurate.

You wouldn’t play Russian roulette if the odds of dying were the same as covid, along with encouraging everyone you know to also take that risk, so I’m perplexed that some people are so resistant to even the most basic precautions. No, lockdown is not a long term solution, which is exactly why we all need to do our bit when it comes to the short term solutions. If you have covid, or are symptomatic, stay the hell home. Give the vulnerable, along with businesses and the economy, a fighting chance to survive.

Of course some people may worry about being able to put food on the table if they have to isolate, but surely that’s exactly what we should be angry at. A lack of financial assistant for those people. It’s not the controls and measures that are the issue here but the impact it’s having without the appropriate welfare system in place.

of course its the right thing to do

all the people saying what if tey have to work well so do the rest of us but we'd rather not catch it off someone who knowingly is infecting everyone else

YANBU

Hopefully you screenshotted the post as evidence.

Whether it's reasonable to leave the house is so dependent on context - a young child wrapped up in the buggy for a walk in the park is not the same risk as a teen at a friends house sharing a can of Coke. It's because the stupid people in our country can't work out what taking reasonable precautions means that we are in lockdown and we have to not leave houses when isolating (actually a walk around the park would be no risk to anyone)

an inhumane totalitarian dystopia Stalin and the Stasi would be proud of.

Stalin and the Stasi!

I guess the big upside of the pandemic is people vaguely brushing up on historical periods, so they can conflate and misuse events to insult others.

I now understand how Hitler got into power, the Nazis used fear to convince the population that what he was doing was necessary and not that bad because 'its for the greater good' remember.

That really isn't how it went. And I find it highly offensive that dopes like you grab onto something like the Holocaust and compare it to the inconvenience and distress of living during a pandemic.