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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:
Ugzbugz · 22/12/2021 21:46

Hang on? Don't masks work????

Plus 1 in 3 have no symptoms so there will be many people on your journey home who have covid. Anti vaccers, anti mask wearing, have anti isolating. I would be going home and avoiding where I can.

MojoDaysxx · 23/12/2021 07:50

OP, should just sit it out in the hotel. One has a moral duty to behave responsibly. Plus, government guidelines are clear.
I wish the original poster a swift return to good health. I hope you feel better by the day.
Sending a big hug, as I sure you feel pretty miserable.

user1471447863 · 23/12/2021 17:05

People are making out xmas in peace in a hotel is some kind of hardship?
I've spent more xmas's away from home in hotels for work and it's no big deal
Anyway if OP is +ve there's not going to be any spending it with family.

In true MN style the man is in the wrong regardless. Had the show been on the other foot and OP posted that her partner was 3 hours away in a hotel and he was asking her to come and get him despite her isolating and working a new job you'd all be chiming in that she should leave the selfish bastard and he should man up and solve his own problem etc etc

CheshireKitten123 · 23/12/2021 17:11

Can you update us OP?

How are you feeling?

Are you still in the hotel or have you made other arrangements ??

Vapeyvapevape · 23/12/2021 17:21

@CheshireKitten123. I hope the op does update but unless she’s stayed in the hotel, she will get grief from those saying she shouldn’t have gone out , grief from those saying she shouldn’t get the train and grief from those saying her boyfriend shouldn’t pick her up.

Loverofoldfilms · 23/12/2021 17:25

@Ugzbugz

Hang on? Don't masks work????

Plus 1 in 3 have no symptoms so there will be many people on your journey home who have covid. Anti vaccers, anti mask wearing, have anti isolating. I would be going home and avoiding where I can.

I am a bit taken aback by this. Once you know, you know and shouldn't put others at risk just because other people also don't follow the rules.

Maybe this is just how society is now.

Explosivefarts · 23/12/2021 17:27

@alienbaby

How fucking selfish are people? Of course you cant get on a train
Exactly I’m amazed how many people would be willing to risk a train packed with people . Wow
fatchilli123 · 23/12/2021 17:29

He could be dangerous driving unwell , what a stupid thing to suggest ... He then has an accident putting more people at risk including our precious medical staff ffs

NowWhatUsernameShallIHave · 23/12/2021 17:31

Please do not get on the train

It’s selfish

There are people with weakened immune systems and chronic illnesses still travelling

Mansdem · 23/12/2021 17:35

Really. Do NOT get on a train.

Pammy55 · 23/12/2021 17:35

Some Fiancé ?

Egghead68 · 23/12/2021 17:35

I hope you stayed where you are unless a recently infected and recovered person was able to drive you home

LeeBowman · 23/12/2021 17:37

A tricky situation, my sympathies.

What did you do in the end?

NoBetterthanSheShouldBe · 23/12/2021 17:38

@misssunshine4040 I spent a few days in a well-known ‘luxury’ chain hotel last summer, and the package booking conditions made it very clear that if you developed COVID you were out as soon as packed.

I was concerned as I would have had no option but the train. Happily not infected and hoping things have moved on since then.

Londoncallingme · 23/12/2021 17:41

@alienbaby

Get your fiance to come and pick you up and have Christmas at home together why would you stay at the hotel Confused
Because she may have no way home without using public transport and she’s being a responsible adult.
Lovemusic33 · 23/12/2021 17:41

OP hasn’t come back so she’s probably made her way home one way or another.

I think anyone travelling in a train is likely to be in contact with someone who is carrying covid, the same as our children being at school are?

In op’s position I probably wouldn’t have asked for advice in MN 🤣, I would have got the latest train (less people on it), double masked and kept my distance from people.

Everyone saying “she should kill a old lady”….it’s very unlikely, most people are vaccinated, omicron isn’t killing people (unless they are very unwell/dying with something else).

I hope she has made it home for Christmas and I hope she dumps her DP if hasn’t come to pick her up.

Londoncallingme · 23/12/2021 17:43

@fatchilli123

He could be dangerous driving unwell , what a stupid thing to suggest ... He then has an accident putting more people at risk including our precious medical staff ffs
I could have easily driven when I had Covid - he would know if he could or not.
Ari202 · 23/12/2021 17:45

You can go home to self isolate. He’s already got Covid so he may aswell come and get you.

Basset51 · 23/12/2021 17:47

Shocked people are suggesting train!
Don’t think staying in hotel is going to put more at risk than getting the train so the idea of getting out to protect people at the hotel, doesn’t really work if you’re going to travel by train. Please don’t do that. You have no idea how vulnerable some people on the train may be

Londoncallingme · 23/12/2021 17:47

So that’s easy - Fiancé was meeting you on Xmas eve anyway, so he can meet you as planned but outside the hotel and take you home.

Yehbut · 23/12/2021 17:50

I agree with lovemusic33. I don't think many frail vulnerable people are travelling by train.. unless they’re mad. Good luck to Op she sounds responsible and in a very stressful situation. Hope you sort it out xx

Londoner78 · 23/12/2021 17:51

Stuff of nightmare! So sorry to hear you are in this situation . The best course for action will be you feeling well enough to drive back in a rental car (least interaction with the outside world ).

The second option if you can afford is to reconcile with the reality and stay put in the hotel for the full length of quarantine if you can afford it (and the hotel is ok with you in isolation - they should be) or wait for a few more days (3-4 days) when the fiancée regains his energy and feels well enough to drive .

Also to those people who are upset with the fiancée .. maybe he is feeling really unwell to drive ?! When I had Covid I was working from home but had zero energy and shit loads of fatigue to be able to do anything .

Queenbee77 · 23/12/2021 17:51

How ill are you? Get together with you fiancee who you say have it too and enjoy Christmas together!! With a mask and wi dow open in taxi if you are worried

evian76 · 23/12/2021 17:53

Ask your fiancé to pick u up? He has it too so that ok, right? I might be wrong though

SoupDragon · 23/12/2021 17:56

With a mask and wi dow open in taxi if you are worried

Do you think that is fair on the taxi driver?

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