Urgent- should I go home

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Please help. I am 22 years old in a city away from home for work (2-3 hours away depending on whether I am picked up or use public transport).

Should my parents come and pick me up, I really want to be at home during this as we don't know how long this will last. Can they pick me up?

Or could I take the train to my home city and then take a black taxi?

I'd be there in a flash for my ds 22

Waspnest, not what I said. I said OP could Self isolate (at parent's house) if need be. Lots of people are SI in family homes. I imagine tons of people will need to commute today to get to the place they want to stay for the foreseeable future. Better do it by car than on public transport.

But you may well be carrying cv.

Most big cities will currently be full of people who have caught it but not yet shown symptoms. Especially London and especially those who work in the City (due to lots of international travel for work and lots of holidays till the last minute) but expect the financial sector in most cities is fairly affected due to the same factors.

How would you feel if you gave it to your parents?

Even if you isolate for 2 weeks once you get there (in one room), I can’t see a way of you getting home that doesn’t risk giving it either to them or people on a train.

Get your line manager to put the reasons why you can't work from home in writing. There needs to be a paper-trail of these idiots who are helping spread it. You travelling into work each day contradicts the very clear government demands yesterday. Make your manager accountable for his/her actions.

I’m 30 but I live alone and my parents offered to come and get me 🤷🏻‍♀️ ‘Be an adult’ isn’t very helpful advice. The most adult thing you could do in these circumstances is challenge your employer - that takes grown up ballsyness. Going home in the face of an indefinite period of quarantine is sensible. There are plenty of adults who would balk at self isolating completely alone. I think being stringent with hygiene and if your parents have enough food in the house that none of you will have to go out once you get there, get them to pick you up and go home.

DD is mid 20s, and came home when the threat of lock-down arose at the end of last week. She is working from home anyway, and being stuck in a flat with no outside space for three months didn't appeal. Fortunately she had the option, drove home, and has been using her own room and bathroom.

Thank God she's has a reasonable boss - and I must say, is working very hard while she's here.