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This woman. Covid!

109 replies

Bbee29 · 24/03/2021 09:23

There is a woman in fb friends with. She’s not really a friend but she lives nearby and I would say hello. Kids go to school together.

She’s very active on social media. She’s a complete covid denier, doesn’t believe in the virus, masks, the vaccine etc. That’s her choice of course. She posts a lot of conspiracy theories on her Facebook.

Anyway...

She has posted that she feels unwell. Fever, cough, throat etc. There’s nothing to say this is covid as other viruses still around but you don’t know until she’s got a test.

People are telling her she needs to get a test but she is refusing as she doesn’t believe in it. She’s sent her kids to school etc. One is in my DS’s class 😒

Obviously it might not be covid but there’s no way she knows without a test and she’s refusing to do one. Wouldn’t be so bad if she wasn’t out and about and sending her kids to school.

She’s been in trouble before. She was told she had to isolate (she posted that online too) but was seen out and about.

This sounds extreme but she is crazy and I feel like this could cause a massive outbreak in the school community. A community which has lead practically zero cases!

Aibu to be just a little bit peed off with this? I’m not sure where this post will get me. But I feel like I need to vent!

I just feel so annoyed at this attitude tbh. Would you say anything or tell the school? Or just leave it?

I can’t be the only one who’s annoyed at this. We have quite a few mutual friends who live locally who will probably see it.

OP posts:
Notaroadrunner · 24/03/2021 11:56

Well done for telling the school. I'd have no hesitation in doing the same. If the woman is stupid enough to post on Facebook then she's effectively sharing it with he world, as anyone of her fb 'friends' could share it or screenshot it and pass it on via other social media. I doubt you will be the only one to tell the school.

Butteredtoast55 · 24/03/2021 11:59

You can report her here:
www.police.uk/tua/tell-us-about/c19/v7/tell-us-about-a-possible-breach-of-coronavirus-covid-19-measures/

Definitely do this as well as telling the school. The school has no power to check or enforce Covid- regulations. Schools cannot ask for proof of a negative test so she could easily say she has done one and it is negative. Her behaviour is the sort of stupid nonsense that has contributed to the death rate in the UK.

ktp100 · 24/03/2021 12:21

I'd send the lot to the school and keep my kids off until they've dealt with it.

I'd ring the Police, too.

Some of the parents in that class could be carers for elderly relatives, as I am. I'd take her head off if her kid was in my class. We have not made all of these sacrifices for selfish twunts like that to literally kill our loved ones.

TatianaBis · 24/03/2021 12:27

You need to contact the police as well OP. This is what Covid regulations are for - to stop some twit passing it to a whole school.

TatianaBis · 24/03/2021 12:28

You've no idea how efficient the school secretary will be in dealing with it quickly.

GreenSlide · 24/03/2021 12:33

I wonder if the school will do anything, or just keep an eye on the kids for symptoms. I doubt there's very much they can do?

Viviennemary · 24/03/2021 12:37

Tell the school

quiteathome · 24/03/2021 12:40

I can't believe after living through this for over a year people are still so stupid and reckless with other people health.

CuthbertDibbleandGrubb · 24/03/2021 12:40

I'm glad to read that the school were advised. I agree it should be a police matter as well.

Comefromaway · 24/03/2021 12:42

@andyoldlabour

She is a complete and utter, selfish, reckless idiot. I thought all children were being tested regularly, they are in our area.
Secondary children are but not primary. And it's not compulsory, a covid denier is hardly likely to give permission for her child to be tested.
NeedaLittleNap · 24/03/2021 12:44

Schools can only stay open if people are responsible about symptoms and testing. Thank you for doing the right thing. And it still will have been the right thing, even if she turns out to have a cold.

BluebellsGreenbells · 24/03/2021 12:48

Why haven’t you fetched your kids? I wouldn’t hesitate.

I bet a few parents have collected theirs.

SunshineCake · 24/03/2021 12:50

YABU to be peeved. You should be bloody livid and calling the school !

SunshineCake · 24/03/2021 12:51

@Bbee29

I don’t want her to know it was me though. Or sound like a busy body to the school. Never had to do anything like this in my life! 😒
Why do you care what this idiot thinks of you? Come on.
Obbydoo · 24/03/2021 12:51

Please don't feel bad about it. Assuming the school takes action you may literally have saved a life by preventing the idiotic woman spreading a potentially fatal disease. Huge respect to you for doing the right thing.

SooMoony · 24/03/2021 12:57

I wish some of these conspiracy theorists, with their ridiculous belief that covid isn't real, had worked alongside me over the last year.

Despite PPE, several staff members became infected with the virus, including me, and some of us became seriously ill. We are all healthy fit adults with no underlying health conditions.

This woman needs a reality check.

LimitIsUp · 24/03/2021 13:01

Well done OP, you have 1000% done the right thing.

Gerla · 24/03/2021 13:02

I wish some of these conspiracy theorists, with their ridiculous belief that covid isn't real, had worked alongside me over the last year.

I would add to that the number of people who say to leave it up to fate! My 82 year old neighbour has just died from Covid - for the whole of the last year he continued having his family around every weekend, no masks, no distancing - including his Son -IL who works in a hospital! I just don't understand this mindset.

MinnieMous3 · 24/03/2021 13:04

Yep, screenshot and send to the school. They won’t say it was you.

HerculesMulligan · 24/03/2021 13:12

Thank you, OP, you're doing exactly the right thing. My husband is CEV with a condition that means his vaccine may not be as effective, and families like ours would be fined if they didn't send their child in. We know the risk we're taking in sending DS6 to school at the moment, and relying on the common sense and humanity of all of the parents of other children in his class.

JustDanceAddict · 24/03/2021 13:16

If she's posted on FB then you are in your right to contact the school. I’m sure school will be discreet in where the info came from.
People like her make me so angry.

MadeForThis · 24/03/2021 13:20

You did the right thing.

FlamingoQueen · 24/03/2021 13:22

You did the right thing by telling school. They have staff and all the other children to protect. They would keep your name out of it. I really can’t believe some people!

Just4thisone · 24/03/2021 13:26

I'm not a full believer in the covid. Kind of on the fence. But that is my thing . And I won't put that on to others. If I had symptoms I would still get a test even if I don't believe in it. Because weather I believe it or not its not worth the risk of me spreading it about if I am wrong which I could be . Suppose im saying she should air in the side of caution.

Could you ring the school and tell them but make it clear you don't want the person to know it came from you

GloGirl · 24/03/2021 13:28

@Just4thisone

I'm not a full believer in the covid. Kind of on the fence. But that is my thing . And I won't put that on to others. If I had symptoms I would still get a test even if I don't believe in it. Because weather I believe it or not its not worth the risk of me spreading it about if I am wrong which I could be . Suppose im saying she should air in the side of caution.

Could you ring the school and tell them but make it clear you don't want the person to know it came from you

I'm so curious, why did you think it caused a global shut down if it's not real? Genuinely interested.