BIL knowingly came to our house after close contact

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NC for this
I don't know if I'm just overreacting here
I know I could catch it anywhere and people are obvious spreading it unknowingly but I'm so annoyed with BIL for doing this
He came to our house to drop off presents for dc's today and stayed a few hours . Then just casually drops into conversation that someone he spent the day with at the weekend has tested positive and he will get a pcr test but not until tomorrow night when he's 'got time'

So bloody close to Xmas !

Depends ... if you’ve been at home for the last week or longer to protect CEV folk then YANBU

However if you’ve been going to the supermarket / shops / gym / work / seeing friends indoors etc then YABU.

Selfish bastard, why not get a PCR test earlier. He could have gone to a drive thru test station & had results in 24/48hrs. Absolute bellend of a man.

@doitwithlove

Selfish bastard, why not get a PCR test earlier. He could have gone to a drive thru test station & had results in 24/48hrs. Absolute bellend of a man.

Because you don't pcr test, for having close contact.

He hasn't followed the guidance, he's meant to be testing each morning with a LFT and
"To further reduce the chance of passing COVID-19 on to others, you are strongly advised to:

limit close contact with people outside your household, especially in crowded, enclosed or poorly ventilated spaces".

He hasn't broken the law but I'm amazed to see everyone say he has followed the guidance.

Yanbu

He should at least have done a lateral flow test as he spent the whole day with this positive person.

Your BIL should have given you the choice. It would be the decent thing to do.

I'm not sure if the rules in England are different to Scotland but he says he has been officially told to get a PCR
The whole 'when I get time' attitude just adds to it. He might not get the results back in time and then we have the moral dilemma of carrying on with our plans not knowing if we are a close contact to him if it turns out he's positive . So we'll probably ditch our plans
DH is a teacher and has somehow managed to dodge it this whole time so he is also furious
He tried to get him to get a test earlier so that we know and he just said he can't until tonight. We can't force him .
I didn't think I had to 'lay down my rules' before he came over. I thought he was more sensible than this .
If this was reversed there is absolutely no way I would have just rocked up without prior warning . I just wouldn't risk it

Yanbu, he's an absolute dick.

All these PPs saying he's not breaking any guidelines...my DD is currently positive. I however am fully vaxxed, so far asymptomatic and testing negative on LFTs. So under the guidelines I could go visit elderly relatives and sit with them for hours maskless. Except I wouldn't bloody do that would I, because it would be the height of stupidity.

The guidelines are there to enable people to carry on working, shopping, doing the necessary. But you'd think people would exercise common sense when it comes to unnecessary socialising.