Help! I've got Covid and I'm stuck in a hotel

[medusawashere]

I travelled to Plymouth for Christmas and did all the right stuff. I'm double jabbed, booster booked for early Jan and have been doing lateral flow tests every day to stay safe and protect others.

This morning, I woke up coughing, sneezing and with chest pains and my LF is positive.

I'm stuck in a hotel with no way of getting home! I live in Bournemouth and my fiance (who was going to meet me Christmas Eve) has also tested positive.

Does anyone have any bright ideas or am I stuck in a hotel room for ten days? I'm devastated. I just want to go home :(

@vivainsomnia

OP, I reckon you will be fine with getting the train. Just sit next to the window. It probably won't even be that busy now anyway. That's what I would do anyway. Just think how shit it would be if you didn't have Christmas at home - I'd be gutted Typical rationalisation to justify the most selfish act that got us in the mess were in now.

Aye and just think how shit Christmas will be for years to come for the family of the person infected with Covid and killed because posters on here think it would be perfectly fine to sit on a train, with Covid. Christ some people are thick as fucking mince!!

Hire a car. Better than getting on a train.

The Covid virus is airborne, so no danger to the next car renter - and they are well cleaned between hires anyway. You could tell them you've tested positive after you handed the car back, if it's on your conscience.

Op,
You need to get home and take a PCR to confirm what’s going on.

I don't really care if people think I am selfish. Fuck me if I would spend Christmas alone in a hotel room rather than with family when most people get only mild symptoms anyway. I would get on the train even if it was packed. I know all of you are going on like you wouldn't but I bet most would if it meant missing Christmas otherwise.

Well obviously there’s no way of knowing for sure what people would actually do in this situation, but I think you’re the anomaly - I think most people wouldn’t get on a packed train when knowingly Covid positive. For one thing, it’s illegal.

Why cant he get in his car even if he is positive with mild symptoms ? He wont talk to anyone or interact go get her and come back home 🤷🏻‍♀️

@immigrant002

Why cant he get in his car even if he is positive with mild symptoms ? He wont talk to anyone or interact go get her and come back home 🤷🏻‍♀️

Because he's an arse.

@logsonlogsoff

Op, There’s not. Person on here who wouldn’t just go and get the train rather than spend a week in a hotel room alone.

There are plenty of people who wouldn’t be so twattish. Especially those of us with CEV loved ones who haven’t a chance of developing a full immune response, despite have 3 vaccines. We know the very real risk to life.

Don’t judge others by your own low standards.

Medical staff are fit tested, thats why they are unlikely to become infected when treating positive patients.

Not always. We know several doctors and dentists who worked through the entire winter wave of covid last year (no vaccines yet) wearing standard N95 masks and they were fine. With the vaccine it's even safer, to the point most aren't concerned at all.

The main form of transmission really is droplet, usually through talking face to face while both are unmasked, or sitting in an unventilated space while an unmasked person is talking nearby. Even a few seconds of droplet exposure is much riskier than being 3x vaxxed and sitting double-masked, next to a known covid patient.

Though of course, OP did say she's symptomatic so that would not be ideal. Last resort might be a taxi firm? If you are willing to pay a high premium then there might be a recently recovered and/or vaccinated driver willing to take the job.

There really is some shite on this thread. It really is an excellent example of people jumping to comment without reading the details provided in the original post, people not applying or displaying any common sense, people being v selfish and lacking intelligence.

It's no wonder that 'the general public' can't follow simply instructions.

As for sitting on a train next to a Covidy person, I'm not planning to get on a train for a while (so lucky me) but if I did, it would be with the ABSOLUTE conviction that there will be Covid-positive people on the train with me. Both unknowingly positive and those who know they are but are doing it anyway. I'm not saying that's right, but we know it'll be happening. FFP2 masks offer a great rate of protection to others if fitted properly (apparently toupe tape is good for sealing the sides if you find they don't fit) and offers a good rate of protection to the wearer from other people, too. While I'm not of the 'get on a train' camp, if everyone was actually wearing proper FFP2 masks and wearing them correctly (and not taking them off for periods to have a coffee, etc) then infections would be massively down generally. I think the time for fabric or those paper 'surgical' masks has come and gone.

@Idontgiveaf324

But if she doesn't get the train, she will be stuck there over Christmas! I doubt many on this thread would give up Christmas with their family's just because they have an illness. I'd definitely get the train home. It's just one of those things where you have to be selfish. Okay, it's not great but what's the alternative?

Tough shit she'll just have to suck it up

When are you due to check out of the hotel? If you're there for Christmas, presumably you can just stay and isolate there if your fiancé won't come.

At first I agreed the fiancé was selfish but I remember driving to get my pcr when I first had it and I was not with it at all I was getting lost and all sorts. I wouldn't have felt safe to drive after that. Plus his company may be insisting he wfh instead of call in sick

why can the OP not stay at the hotel? did I miss something?

Could your BF pick you up from Reading?

If so you could talk to the rail company that runs the sleeper trains, you would have to buy a sleeper ticket but you could get on the train, get into your compartment and get off at reading.

You would be travelling really late / early hours of the morning so you would be in Reading at 3am.

You would need passenger assistance too and yes it would be a crap journey.

There are several walk in test centres across the city (I've been using the guildhall and its central and quick) and the test results have been coming back overnight, so if you can get one today you should have the results tomorrow morning. At least you could be sure then.

@sashh I think if there’s someone in OP’s life able to drive 1.5 hours to Reading for 3am, they’d be just as able to drive 3 hours to Plymouth at a much more sociable hour!

@GlomOfNit

As for sitting on a train next to a Covidy person, I'm not planning to get on a train for a while (so lucky me) but if I did, it would be with the ABSOLUTE conviction that there will be Covid-positive people on the train with me. Both unknowingly positive and those who know they are but are doing it anyway. I'm not saying that's right, but we know it'll be happening. FFP2 masks offer a great rate of protection to others if fitted properly (apparently toupe tape is good for sealing the sides if you find they don't fit) and offers a good rate of protection to the wearer from other people, too. While I'm not of the 'get on a train' camp, if everyone was actually wearing proper FFP2 masks and wearing them correctly (and not taking them off for periods to have a coffee, etc) then infections would be massively down generally. I think the time for fabric or those paper 'surgical' masks has come and gone.

FFP3 not FFP2 - and good luck with finding any that aren't Chinese fakes - I use them for my work and the government pulled them from sale on Amazon and Ebay early last year. Even Screwfix had none.

@Justkeeppedaling

Hire a car. Better than getting on a train.

The Covid virus is airborne, so no danger to the next car renter - and they are well cleaned between hires anyway. You could tell them you've tested positive after you handed the car back, if it's on your conscience.

Good idea! £££s but if that's ok, I think that's a better option. Though I'm sure there will be someone along to tell us this will literally kill someone's granny.

If the man is not too unwell he can drive in the evening - first thing after work.

Your fiancé should absolutely leave the house at 7pm. Get to you for 10. Get a good nights sleep then you both leave at 6am he’s home by 9am.

Though tbh he should be off sick anyway.

Good idea! £££s but if that's ok, I think that's a better option. Though I'm sure there will be someone along to tell us this will literally kill someone's granny.

@GlomOfNit nope, worse than that- kill OP and cause a massive motorway pileup. She already told us her eyesight is too bad to drive safely.

@Idontgiveaf324

I don't really care if people think I am selfish. Fuck me if I would spend Christmas alone in a hotel room rather than with family when most people get only mild symptoms anyway. I would get on the train even if it was packed. I know all of you are going on like you wouldn't but I bet most would if it meant missing Christmas otherwise.

I'd just suck it up, but then again I'm not a self entitled selfish fuck Wit

@Idontgiveaf324

But if she doesn't get the train, she will be stuck there over Christmas! I doubt many on this thread would give up Christmas with their family's just because they have an illness. I'd definitely get the train home. It's just one of those things where you have to be selfish. Okay, it's not great but what's the alternative?

There's a reason why we aren't on the Plymouth sardine run this week (or last year, for that matter) - a giant fucking covidy reason. It would have been wonderful to actually see family, but we didn't want to be the cunts who brought it down into what was the place with the lowest rates in the country.

OP your fiance is a dick. He can come get you after work. He doesn't work 24 hours a day. He's actually going to leave you in a hotel for the next 7-10 days. You're right, what a lovely kind person he is