To be mad friend lied about being around someone with covid?

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Our joint friend who'll I call friend A had covid last week.
Friend B told me she hadn't been round her as I said I was worried about getting covid as I'm due to go on holiday a week today and would ruin my plans. Normally I wouldn't be to bothered if I didn't have these plans but I've been looking forward to taking DC away and had this planned a year ago!
Friend b came round on the Sunday for a few hours but had a cough and sore throat. She said again that she hadn't been round friend B as I said I don't mind cancelling if she's unwell.

Friend B then came round the following day (Monday) and tripped up and told me she did see friend A when she had covid but it was outside so it didn't matter.... even though she had the same symptoms as friend A but said it was hay fever.

DC2 then started having same symptoms as friend B two days ago so I tested and he has covid! There's no other way he'd of gotten it.

AIBU to be annoyed that she lied to me? It's now looking likely I'll have to cancel our holiday. 😟

I would be annoyed that a friend deliberately lied to suit herself, and not just about because this was about being in contact with covid. She put her wish to have a social life above being honest with you. You may not be able to say 100% that she passed covid to your dc but she was perfectly happy to lie and it is probable her lies have cost you your holiday, which I would be pointing out to her.

You have every reason to be very pissed off.

She's no friend to have deliberately done that.

I would be furious at her lying and now jeopardizing your holiday!!

Why did you test? No legal requirement to do so, nor to isolate, so as long as you arent travelling anywhere that requires a negative test before entry....you can still go?

But yes, yanbu to be annoyed by your friends lies!

Requires negative tests to go hence the test otherwise I wouldn't of done it. I'm really upset that she lied to me more than anything she could of just said sorry I saw friend A I'll see you in a week or so to be safe but she lied because she wanted to see me.

Well you have a right to be annoyed she lied, for sure. However I don't think you can say with certainty there's no other way he could have got it.

YANBU to be angry with your friend.

YABU to be so certain she is the reason your child has Covid unless all of you literally never leave the house or have had anyone else round.

Honestly. I would be raging. You had good reason to not want to be around someone who had been near a positive covid case. You told her these reasons and she lied for what? A few hours at your house on a Sunday afternoon. Her selfishness has possibly cost you a long awaited holiday and the excitement of going away. I would text her and tell her what her actions have done. And I would be rethinking the friendship.

YANBU I'd be absolutely fuming and I'd tell her as much.
People saying "you don't knowyoucaught it off the person who had been in contact with someone who had covid and had covid symptoms and visited you. It could have been a random passerby." Are being pedantic. B knew she had been contact with covid, she knew she had symptoms, she knew covid would ruin her friends holiday but she lied and went anyway. And now OPs holiday is ruined.

You have every right to be raging at her. Most people test negative after five days if it's Omicron, so fingers crossed.

Not in my experience they don't. I tested positive for 9 days and so did my brother and wife and my grandchildren.

I'm sorry op. I would be so angry.

I’d be furious. Obviously you can’t prove your friend was the source but it can’t have helped.

I'd be REALLY pissed off!

I'm going on holiday tomorrow, and have just received my test results (negative! yay!) at GREAT expense. It wouldn't have been a massive financial hit because of insurance. But still, I'd have been absolutely gutted. I've also had mine booked for a year.

Fortunately, I had covid myself at the beginning of April, so am probably fairly decently immune to it at this point in time. But if I HADN'T of had it yet, I'd have isolated myself for the previous 10 days (I'm self-employed, so I could have done if needed).

I'm so sorry about your holiday!

Not in my experience either. I first tested positive with Omicron on a Thursday, and was still positive the following Sunday.

Well just to give you hope, I tested negative after 4 days with omicron. Fingers crossed for you.

I’d be raging at her, it’s incredibly selfish of her!
Sadly though, this isn’t my experience of covid. My dh and I were positive for 9 days before we got our first negative. We were both feeling better by then but still very much positive on day 5.

I would be livid and ditch her permanently. Wtf is she doing coming round your house with a cough, when she’s just been with a covid patient, and lying about it?

She sounds like a total selfish idiot.

I’m very sorry about your holiday.

Teacupsandtoast · Today 08:21
Why did you test? No legal requirement to do so, nor to isolate, so as long as you arent travelling anywhere that requires a negative test before entry....you can still go“

some people still want to do the right thing?

Absolutely she is not your friend at best and at worst she knew she had Covid and actively wanted to ruin your holiday for you.

Two most recent relatives took 12 days and 11 days to rest negative on LFT

I would be so angry. YANBU

Your issue should not be that she lied, annoying though that is , but that she came to yours while symptomatic.

DC2 then started having same symptoms as friend B two days ago so I tested and he has covid! There's no other way he'd of gotten it.
Of course there is other ways. You or siblings could be carriers. Other children etc.
I get why you're peeved. But opting for a holiday during a pandemic has obvious risks. You knew that and sadly in this case that gamble didn't pay off.