Train journey while awaiting PCR

[crazycrochetlady]

A niece has just made a 5 hour trip home on a train from London. Got on the train this morning having taken a PCR last night. Bingo just had a positive result. She's poorly too - achy and sweaty and coughing. She shouldn't have travelled by train should she?
I get that she wanted to get home and not quarantine in London but I'm pretty cross that my sister or her ex h didn't go up and get her rather than potentially infecting a train carriage.
I haven't tackled sister over this because I think there's no point. But am I right to be inwardly fuming that someone else's Xmas is likely ruined?

Absolutely right to be fuming - extremely irresponsible behaviour.

Yep selfish

That’s awful and she’s more than likely ruined a lot of Xmas’, not to mention them then infecting vulnerable relatives at Xmas!

She is a very selfish person to do thT.

Seriously selfish behaviour

Very selfish indeed. Especially if her parents had the means to go and collect her.

I'm not crazy then. Sister said oh but she didn't have symptoms. I don't believe this since niece had a couple of negative lateral flows but pressed ahead with a PCR and then made a dash fir the train while awaiting result.
Once home she was rushed straight to her dad's to isolate. He really should have gone up and got her.
Garghhh

Wow, that’s incredibly selfish. What a stupid thing to do.

They knew full well she probably had covid and are just making excuses.

I don’t know if you can report people for it but i would be looking into it.

FFS how many people on that train have now had their Christmas ruined or worse. We can't blame people for completely asymptomatic transmission but she had symptoms; seriously selfish.

Yeah, that’s seriously selfish.
And that’s obviously bollocks about having no symptoms. Why did she do a PCR then? Something prompted her to do that, esp if she had neg LFTs.
And she obviously should’ve isolated until she got the results.

Wow that's terrible, if she had symptoms to warrant PCR she should have stayed put. Prayers that no one else caught it from the selfish young woman during that journey.

I tend to think even if she hadn't symptoms she clearly had reason to take the PCR so shouldn't have travelled. But arguing with sister will be impossible. Sister's household also pissed about during first lockdown - her son was flitting between her house and his girlfriends. Abs both kids (early twenties were drifting between their mum and dad's homes. No issue with space either because both homes are huge

Wow that's why we're in this mess. Selfish little brat if you're old enough to live yourself in London you're old enough to take care of yourself even if you're ill. If she was really at deaths door and parents didn't mind being infected they should have picked her up in a car.

I assumed it would be awaiting a PCR as a contact.... which is rather more understandable, and also- not illegal.

But travelling after symptomatic PCR testing? Hugely selfish decision. And illegal actually.

She and her family will twist themselves in knots to justify it though- because legality aside, they know it’s morally and ethically a shitty thing to do.

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Wow that's why we're in this mess. Selfish little brat if you're old enough to live yourself in London you're old enough to take care of yourself even if you're ill. If she was really at deaths door and parents didn't mind being infected they should have picked her up in a car.

Exactly my thoughts. Why the f-ck didn't they go up? In fairness I wouldn't have left my similar aged DD up isolating alone st Xmas. But I sure as heck would have taken responsibility fir it and not allowed dozens of others to potentially be infected

And people like that are why we’ll never get out of this mess

This is the type of things huge fines should be for. If our country was more like some of the Asian countries this would probably be jail.

Had she not realised that you have to self isolate until aPCR result comes back? Ffs.

Selfish and idiotic!

Yep that's awful, trains are pretty busy right now as well, the last two trains I got from London (LNR) were packed.

How incredibly selfish and irresponsible. She had no way of knowing who she was going to infect or how vulnerable they might be. Makes it worse that your sister seems to think its ok too. Seriously, what's wrong with people!

What an utterly selfish thing to do

Symptoms or not if you have good enough reason to take a PCR then it’s chance it’s positive. Omicorn especially spreads far more we don’t know by how much or how far in train carriage. So even a mask in next row could be on dead cert to get now. Fabulous.

If she couldn’t stay at student digs or home then family should have got her. Can’t believe how many people could be put at risk.

She could actually have killed someoen