Some perspective

[Christmas20021]

We went for lunch on Monday with friends of ours (she's an old uni friend and one of my best friends)

They picked us up in a taxi and we travelled half an hour to the restaurant, she was coughing and clearly had a 'bug' she assured us it wasn't Covid (so I assumed she had tested) and we had lunch. I felt really on edge every time she coughed, and commented was she sure she didn't have Covid! She then told us she hadn't tested 😡

Her DH even seemed a bit embarrassed by this. We made an excuse not to get a taxi back with them and said we wanted to have a wander around the sales, my DH was furious.

This morning, she has WhatsApped me to say she has just done an LFT, it's positive and she feels really ill (no 'shit, I hope I didn't pass it in to you')

I'm not going to kick a dog when they're down and I'm sure apologising to me, or even acknowledging how irresponsible she was isn't top of agenda if she feels poorly ... but I'm really pissed off. I'm also having to manage DH's utter fury at the situation.

We've had to cancel lunch today with extended family, as FIL is CEV

No really point to this post, other than to vent. I can't vent at DH as it will - rightly, on this occasion - fuel his dislike of my friend.

Arrrgh! 🤬

She was being very selfish.
Surely this isn't out of the blue behaviour though?

You chose to take the risk of going out. Had you all had negative tests before going out, but picked it up anyhow, you'd have accepted it as one of those things.

You did not choose to be in close proximity if a closed vehicle with a newly symptomatic person who had not tested, and it is your friend's lies that put you in to that situation.

You are vastly more likely to catch it from a newly symptomatic person who is coughing in a space as small as a taxi than from others around you, even indoors.

Your friend has been an utter lying shit to you all.

Your friend is a dick.

I hope you’re ok

@chantico

You chose to take the risk of going out. Had you all had negative tests before going out, but picked it up anyhow, you'd have accepted it as one of those things.

You did not choose to be in close proximity if a closed vehicle with a newly symptomatic person who had not tested, and it is your friend's lies that put you in to that situation.

You are vastly more likely to catch it from a newly symptomatic person who is coughing in a space as small as a taxi than from others around you, even indoors.

Your friend has been an utter lying shit to you all.

^ pretty much that!!

@Blubells

than you are from a random stranger sat a few metres away

I'm not sure. Sitting a couple of meters away for a couple of hours in an indoor venue? Omicron seems to be very transmissible.

More transmissible than the others, but not everyone is getting it. Yes, there are a an increased number, but it's still not everyone. Even after almost two years there are many many people who have never had covid, in any form.

Even with the omicron variant, it still isn't being caught by every person vaguely in the vicinity. Most transmission happens at close contact, such as between family and friends.

You are far more likely to catch it from someone close to you face to face, than a stranger sat a few metres away who won't be directly facing you and talking towards you.

Some friend you've got there