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

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medusawashere · 22/12/2021 11:26

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 :(

OP posts:
MalbecandToast · 22/12/2021 15:03

@NeverDropYourMoonCup how sanctimonious! Effectively calling the OP a cunt for visiting her family. Nice.

mydogisthebest · 22/12/2021 15:08

@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.
Well you are selfish, totally and utterly.

You would knowingly put your family at risk? Not everyone gets mild symptoms. One of your family could become seriously ill, possibly die.

GlomOfNit · 22/12/2021 15:11

@HaveringWavering

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.

three posts in... True true.

Oh well then, I guess it's the gutter for OP. What else is she going to be allowed to do?

Abraxan · 22/12/2021 15:11

@godmum56

why can the OP not stay at the hotel? did I miss something?
It's not been confirmed on the thread.

The hotel may not be open over Christmas or may not be serving food.
Not all stay open over Christmas.

GlomOfNit · 22/12/2021 15:12

though fair enough, have just read her post saying she's very poorly sighted and can't drive. Back to Fiance Plan A then.

Or maybe she could ring Public Health England (or whatever they're called this month) and ask them what the fuck she's to do?

diddl · 22/12/2021 15:13

@museumum

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.

Where should he sleep?
Lockheart · 22/12/2021 15:15

@Thatsplentyjack

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 Confused
He has covid and should be isolating - he can't come to get OP.
HaveringWavering · 22/12/2021 15:16

Have missed something? OP, your fiancé was going to pick you up on Xmas eve, right? You say he can’t come now due to work, sounds like he is not so unwell he couldn’t drive. You are legally allowed to move your isolation location and surely you have to be able to travel on transport driven by someone else, so better for him, already positive, to drive you than someone else? So he just collects you as planned, but you drive back to his home rather than to relatives.

Chasingaftermidnight · 22/12/2021 15:18

I banned relatives from coming to visit us by train this Christmas and given the comments on this thread I now feel very much vindicated in that decision.

OnGoldenPond · 22/12/2021 15:19

How many people would be comfortable being alone on a long car journey with a random stranger they found through an open Facebook group appeal? I know I wouldn't. Normal personal safety precautions still apply during Covid Confused

HaveringWavering · 22/12/2021 15:20

@lockheart he stays in the car the whole journey (men can piss in bottles). OP comes out of the hotel to the car. OP can’t walk home, the hotel can’t accommodate her and there is no other solution that doesn’t involve exposing an uninfected person to Covid.

userxx · 22/12/2021 15:21

He has covid and should be isolating - he can't come to get OP.

Oh come on! He's sat in a car....alone. The risk of spreading his germs is miniscule.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 22/12/2021 15:21

@Huy456

Is there anyone on here in Plymouth who has recently had covid and drives a convertible?
🤭
FinallyHere · 22/12/2021 15:23

In all this trouble, there is at least one good thing, a silver lining to the cloud. You have seen how your fiancée reacts under pressure and it isn't pretty, is it?

Once you are better and feel up to it, throw this one back in the sea.

Find someone who would really put themselves out for you, in an emergency.

Itsmybaby · 22/12/2021 15:25

Can he not come and get you on Christmas Eve?

WeeHaggisFace · 22/12/2021 15:26

Loads of black taxi's offered services to positive patients. It's worth calling a few local ones and seeing if they have any drivers that would take you OP.

diddl · 22/12/2021 15:27

Presumably the family who are closer in Totnes have also refused to fetch Op?

Not sure why it all falls to the fiance who is further away, has covid & has just started a new job.

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 22/12/2021 15:29

[quote MalbecandToast]@NeverDropYourMoonCup how sanctimonious! Effectively calling the OP a cunt for visiting her family. Nice.[/quote]
No. Just people who think that everybody would insist upon seeing their families rather than wanting to not spread it round.

Or as was more likely the case with the southwest, making sure they got to stay in their second home even though Tarquin had a bit of a cough and missed the last day at prep school so they travelled down that little bit earlier.

Totnes has a high percentage of unvaccinated of all kinds as well. Getting on the gold bus would mean the OP is potentially sharing with MIL when she goes to see DP's grandma in Torquay, then she'll see his Auntie back in Crown Hill as she's on her own, then there's FIL himself who had a stroke four years ago, then there's all the elderly in the village, the other relatives, the old boys who rely upon the pub for hot cooked meals and company, the next door neighbour who has just finished chemo, etc, etc. OP isn't doing that, but people insisting that EVERYBODY would are wrong, both factually and morally.

HaveringWavering · 22/12/2021 15:29

@diddl

Presumably the family who are closer in Totnes have also refused to fetch Op?

Not sure why it all falls to the fiance who is further away, has covid & has just started a new job.

Because the point of isolating is not to spread Covid to people who don’t already have it. Her family would need to expose themselves if they collected her and brought her to them. And her sister is having a baby; they probably want to avoid ending up unable to see the baby. Also, do we even know that it’s her family and not his who are in Totnes?
anonanonanon123 · 22/12/2021 15:30

@logsonlogsoff

Get him to borrow or hire a car if he doesn’t have one. Worst case scenario I would mask up and get the train back.
WHAT??? Selfish irresponsible behaviour like this is why we are in this mess. I would be absolutely livid if someone on my train was knowingly positive!!!!
PrivateHall · 22/12/2021 15:33

OP, I am so sorry this had happened to you! Really the only option is for your partner to come when he feels up to it, I don't know where he lives in relation to where you are now, but surely he can carve out a window to get you at some stage, even in the evening if necessary? I am sure he is very stressed too but he can't just leave you stuck on your own in a hotel for 10 days! I really hope you are ok. Have you managed to get a PCR done? Apologies if I missed that, I did read all your posts. Though I suppose if your partner has it, you have symptoms AND a pos LFT, it is pretty conclusive Sad Good luck Flowers

GoodPrincessWenceslas · 22/12/2021 15:33

Is there anyone who is triple jabbed who could come and collect you, even on the basis that you drive with all the windows open? Totnes isn't that far, is it?

diddl · 22/12/2021 15:36

"Because the point of isolating is not to spread Covid to people who don’t already have it. Her family would need to expose themselves if they collected her and brought her to them. And her sister is having a baby; they probably want to avoid ending up unable to see the baby. Also, do we even know that it’s her family and not his who are in Totnes?"

True. I just feel that Op's fiance is getting an unfair battering.

Looks as if Op might have to stay where she is (if she can once the hotel knows) & her fiance pick her up on Christmas Eve.

friendlycat · 22/12/2021 15:43

I’ve just looked up the procedure on visit England.

If positive you inform the hotel and must travel privately home. If you came by public transport you ring 111 for advice.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 22/12/2021 15:50

Assuming DF is not well enough to drive, he may be well enough in a day or two.
It's unreasonable to demand a sick person to drive for 6 hours. Some people say that's not far - it's a long way if you're sick!
One of the symptoms of covid is fatigue - DH worked from home when he had covid, from his bed, but kept falling asleep. I doubt he could have driven 6 hours until he recovered, which took 2 or 3 days.