DP has just been contract traced 😔 His company is still generally working from home but a few of them had to go into the office this week as a one off. It turns out the partner of a colleague who also went in has just tested positive. The colleague didn't need to go in - they volunteered, even though their partner was already symptomatic and waiting for the test results at that point...
Why would you do this? I know the test result delays have been really tricky for some, e.g. those on zero hours contracts. But in this case DP's colleague could have carried on doing their normal role from home whilst someone else went in for this particular project (there's a number of them in the same role - he didn't have any special attachment to the project).
Sorry if I've missed a good reason - I'm just struggling with not being able to see an end point right now and this only reinforces that 😞 we were also meant to be having a week off next week (our first this year maybe) and I guess we'll be at home now in case DP has it. Gahhh.