This week:
MIL is in hospital in ICU with COPD and shortly before we visited she was moved to CCU (mostly critically ill heart patients).
Called up the nurses about the rules for visiting before flying out. The nurse coordinator says to test as soon as you land and before visiting the hospital.
I thought since the flight was only 1 hr I'd rather test on the day at home instead of having to do it in an airport so me and DH test negative.
On the way to the airport, we received a message from BIL saying he also tested before the flight and showed us 2 positive tests with the question "Is this OK or not OK?"......
The first thing MIL says "who told you to test, you shouldn't have took the test"
She says she asked a nurse and you dont have to test to get in, you can still come because everyone has to wear masks.
I freaking out at this point because we were supposed to share a ride, have dinner with elderly family and share a house with BIL and most obviously it's ethically mad to put these ill people in danger. I take the phone as DH is driving and ask " The nurse told you that BIL is allowed to come into the critical care unit with confirmed Omicron?" knowing the answer. She repeats that you dont need to test and it's silly and she doesn't know why we were told that. I say " to protect you and the other ill patients" then I tell DH to take the phone back as my frustration was rising lol. DH asks again about whether MIL mentioned to the nurse that he has an active infection and she admits no, she did not.
BIL contributes that if it was any other flight for holiday he would have travelled anyway, but maybe he shouldn't come to the hospital trip -_-. We pull in and call him and he says he called the hospital to speak to the head nurse and asked if he could come visit with Omicron and she cussed him out
Thankfully that was the end of that. Makes me think if that was a normal visit he probably wouldn't have tested and we'd be sitting here infected right now.
Other report
Only 5-10 % of people were wearing masks on the plane.