I’m in a quandary and would appreciate some advice. Briefly my DH’s son and family who live in Thailand have just arrived today in UK for Christmas. They had to test before they left and when they arrived today had to test again and isolate until they get the result possibly in a couple of days. Before they set off they seemed to think they could come directly to us after they landed and isolate with us, but I pointed out to my DH that ‘isolate’ meant isolating on their own. This was resolved by them fortunately being able to stay in an empty flat in London. When their result comes through they will then come to us for a few days. My DH will host a party at the end of next week for all of his family, their wives and children amounting to about 12 people in all. However I was taken aback today when I heard that the family from Thailand had been met at Heathrow by another member of the family (who will be attending the family party next week) who drove them from the airport into central London to the flat where they are now isolating (I thought they would have got a taxi) - thus defeating the whole object of isolating upon arrival until they received their results - no doubt they will have hugged each other when they met, as they haven’t seen each other for over 2 years. My DH seemed unconcerned by this when I pointed it out. I am concerned however and suggested that everyone who is coming to the party should take a lateral flow test, including ourselves, just to make sure. I feel my DH is reluctant to do this and I feel awkward about insisting as they are not my children and I don’t want to be interfering. It’s just that we’ve been very careful through the epidemic, and we’ve had our booster jabs, we wear masks, socially distance etc and as this new variant is apparently highly infectious, I do think we should be really careful. I am starting to feel really stressed about the whole thing.
