Made to feel bad

[Covidoutcast]

For testing positive for Covid.

Throughout this I have been adhering to the rules, washing and sanitising my hands, mask etc.

I have worked from home throughout.

I am double vaccinated.

Except Monday we were all called back into the office for a meeting and bbq (40 or so people, all outside) and today I have tested positive (symptoms started Wednesday night, PCR test yesterday, results this morning). I took a LFT Monday morning which was negative.

My DC broke up from school on Tuesday and so my MIL looked after them on Wednesday whilst I WFH so she is a close contact and is spitting feathers.

DH is bemoaning how he is going to work with the DC at home (they were booked in at holiday club next week, money lost and we are all stuck indoors).

Work have sent a snotty email round about how we must all take care (and they are shitting themselves that everyone is going to be track and traced, our office will have to close). Plus they named me as being the person positive - that isn't right, is it?

I don't feel too bad from the Covid but the guilt! I feel so bad for everyone this affects. I can actually see why people don't test/ isolate.

I haven't been contacted by track and trace yet - will they just ask for my work details rather than me listing everyone I work with? I wasn't in close proximity to them all.

If anyone should be feeling guilty it should be the person who decided to organise a jolly at the workplace during a pandemic. You could have got it from someone at that meeting/bbq. If I were you, If contacted by test and trace i would definitely name the person who organised the jolly as a close contact and maybe say you cant remember who else was there and tell them to ask the organiser. They would hopefully think twice before organising their next jolly at the workplace.

From my experience, test and trace will ask who you were in close contact with 48 hours before your positive test. Those people should isolate.

They will also ask where you've been in the week before your positive test. But this is just to determine where you could've picked it up.

Then they'll ring you to check you're isolating.

Your work should most definitely not have mentioned you. I would not be happy about that. Anyone could've been carrying the virus. Totally unprofessional.

Hope you're feeling ok too.

My MIL is the biggest martyr.

She is also a Covid obsessive and has been very worried about catching it so I now feel bad about that.

@Covidoutcast

My MIL is the biggest martyr.

She is also a Covid obsessive and has been very worried about catching it so I now feel bad about that.

For all you know, she could have passed it on to you! Ridiculous your work named you, they should be taking accountability for organising a large event in a pandemic anyway!