Sister on holiday with Covid

[CarlosSainzAKASmoothOperator]

Spoke to sister this morning. She and her young child have tested positive for Covid after having a cough for a couple days. They are on a cruise due to disembark tomorrow.
I've told her she should tell the medical team onboard and isolate in cabin. She says I'm being ridiculous, that it's the last day so she will stay onboard on the pool deck in the fresh air. She lap says there's loads of people coughing.

I'm angry at her - she's got a flight back tomorrow - she says she will wear a mask but will enjoy the last day of the holiday.
She only tested as she had an lft in her case which I told her to pack.

Aibu for being annoyed at her?

Yes I absolutely did.
I told her if she wanted a lift home from the airport then she wasn't getting in my car if she was positive. I have myself and my family to protect too!

At this stage, you are being ridiculous OP. So many people are walking around with Covid right now. Get a grip.

Yep this. It's winter and unfortunately there's germs everywhere.

@MoggyP

Er no.... in the U.K. it is NOT 'stay at home unless it's essential' 😂

You been under a rock??

I would be

The medical team need to know what's going round on the ship - whether covid or not - as it's not a typical environment and sometimes additional actions are required.

Covid is not like the common cold - that's just a myth designed to give comfort and help inure people to repeat bouts of a disease with potential to be v nasty indeed and whose longer term effects aren't yet known (the other main tactic being to mock those who point out the uncomfortable parts of the evidence)

Is it 2020 again?

I also work with vulnerable people and am expected to go to work with covid. Although, we can’t access tests and there’s no requirement to test so I wouldn’t know anyway.

you are being completely and utterly unreasonable

Right ok, I've accepted I'm BU. But she's been told to make other plans to get back from the airport tomorrow as I'm not putting mine or my families health at risk.

Yes I was wondering what the PP meant by ‘five days’??

Some of us don’t get that luxury when there are bills to pay.

Well my children have been told if they have covid they must return to school as soon as they feel well enough to, even if they're still testing positive so I think the days of self isolation are long gone.

Yabvu…

You’re lucky she was honest about the result.

Show your dsis this thread.

She wasn't going to test - but I got her on WhatsApp video call and made her and her child. I'm meant to be picking them up from the airport tomorrow but I have told her she will need to make alternative plans to get home.

You sound exhausting.

It is lunchtime in my school and im sat in a room where I've had approx. 140 students so far today and another 30 to go. Covid is everywhere. We've students walking down the corridor announcing that they are feeling rough but not bad enough to stay home but they tested positive. There are no requirements to isolate. The people around her are probably safer being in the fresh air than I am. I'm assuming that you have children who are in school. They probably have classmates with it. I have colleagues in school who have also tested positive but are here. They all feel like they have a cold. Anyone could catch it anywhere at the moment.

OK the published wording is "try and stay at home for 5 days" but other public statements have been using the terminology of "essential" - on the grounds that unless essential, home is where you should be. Longer if your symptoms have not gone by day 5 (up until the time they have gone)

No, I'm not under a rock. Just aware of the current guidance.

But it is correct that you do not need to test. But if you do and it comes back positive, then yes you should be isolating at home

Your choice not to pick them up, absolutely. But you can't police other people's lives like this.

YABU. There are no rules to isolate any more. People with covid should do what theyd do with any other contagious illness - only stay home if they are too unwell to go out / work etc.

Most people have had vaccinations and have had exposure to the virus in its previous/ current forms and most have knowingly had it too, so have received at least partial immunity from that too.

Is your dc at school or nursery OP? You do realise it’s rife in schools again?

You are being ridiculous and hysterical.

YABU.

Me too and I consider myself cautious.

You need to get over yourself OP. Telling your sister what and what not to do. Flipping hysterical you are.

Half the people i work with have it and nobody could care less about it.....none of the buggers wear masks or use sanitizer so no point! It's how it is!

In which case it's rather late now!

She really needs to stop letting you dictate her conduct to her - and you need to stop telling her what to do. You do you, and leave here to do her.

She needs to speak to the medical centre on cruise ship, they will advise her what she should do. Yes, it’s all around, but personally I wouldn’t want to fly home knowing I had Covid. That’s what having insurance with Covid cover will help with.

Will that now involve public transport now?
You were accusing her of selfishness for going about her business on the cruise and now you're increasing her exposure to a wider pool of people?
There's an irony there...