Friend asked me to do a lateral flow before I met her today ....cheeky?

[reeedleed]

I have zero covid symptoms
I've had all 3 jabs she's had none
She doesn't believe in using anti bac /hand gel (fair enough )
Yet she had the audacity to ask me to do a lateral flow?
Aibu to think it's cheeky ?

She sounds like a moron, I’d have understood her asking if she was taking all the precautions not to catch it; vaccinations, mask and hand gel. But as she’s doing nothing to protect herself then it’s ridiculous to ask you that

A bit strange perhaps but not cheeky

I wonder how accurate LFTs are. My friend was due to go to the States tomorrow, long awaited trip to see family. Took LFTs for the past three days all negative, but the supervised antigen for travel came back positive. No trip.

@Nelliephant1

Not at all. Your friend was being immensely sensible.

Her unvaccinated friend is the opposite of sensible.....

BTW friend had tested positive for Covid two weeks ago, so was well outside the isolation period and stayed at home in order to get well for the trip. Bummer for her.

If she’s vulnerable/ elderly then fair enough - although she should really offer tonoag for the test.

If she isn’t then it’s a bit weird. A lot of people have ‘gone a bit funny’ driven over the edge by the constantly changing covid advice.

Depends on why she isn’t vaccinated. If she’s anti vaccine then it’s incredibly cheeky.

@ConsuelaHammock

Depends on why she isn’t vaccinated. If she’s anti vaccine then it’s incredibly cheeky.

what about the non use of hand gel?

So she won't take any precautions for herself but she wants you to do it for her??
Presumably paying for the test too?
Yes that's a bit cheeky.
In your shoes I would probably do it and wouldn't say anything but I'd be rolling my eyes a bit.

She doesn't trust the vaccines
She is fit and healthy and no one in the family has health issues.

If she is just an anti Vaxer then yes she’s being unreasonable. Just ignore.

It’s not fair enough to not believe in washing your hands/ using hand sanitizer.

@reeedleed

She doesn't trust the vaccines She is fit and healthy and no one in the family has health issues.

In that case I’d refuse and say it’s because I don’t trust lfts 😆

It’s reasonable to ask for lateral flow, given prevalence is pretty close to an all time high and
many people’s vaccine immunity will be wearing off.

It’s daft not to be vaccinated and to not bother with hand gel etc.

Meh! I couldn’t get worked up about this. Covid cases are ridiculously high at the moment. However I’d expect her to do a lft too.

Not cheeky at all. She's a friend not some random stranger.

she can’t be that bothered if she refuses the most basic measures to protect herself, so YANBU

(If she was genuinely concerned and had done everything possible to protect herself it wouldn’t be unreasonable to ask you to do a LFT though(

YABVU

Being anti vax doesn’t automatically mean you don’t think covid is serious.

I would do a LFT and try and listen to her to find out her worries about the vaccine.

What hood would anti-bac hand gel do against a virus? I don’t see the relevance of mentioning that she won’t/doesn’t use anti-bac.

Would she be doing one too?

What good…

Just go with it OP.
I'm reasonably healthy and strong, triple jabbed and very careful. I've also lost 3 weeks of my life to my very first dose of covid very recently and despite being a week on my feet again, I am by no means normal (nausea, hard of hearing, poor memory and vertigo). It's knocked the stuffing out of me.

I'm very wary of catching this again yet DH barely felt it. It's so strange, just do the LFT if it makes her feel better.

NB I've not RTFT, so apologies if there's been more informative other than the OP.

We always do LFTs before meeting up with someone so it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. I don't agree that her reasons for being in vaccinated are relevant here at all, and the hand gel? Meh. If she wants to be careful when meeting people then that's perfectly reasonable. It's up to you whether you do it, it it's hardly a hardship to swab your nose.

If she's doing one too when she asks someone else to, I don't see the problem.

I took one this morning before I was meant to meet my friend and I'm positive. Hate to think how many people I could have infected if I hadn't.

I'm pregnant so everyone does a test before they come to my house, even if they're just dropping something off for me. I don't ask them to and we're all triple jabbed. Family and friends see it as good manners. I'm really dubious that someone who doesn't trust vaccines or hand sanitiser would trust a LFT?