Would you isolate in an airplane bathroom for 5 hours?

Michigan teacher tests positive mid flight

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A Michigan schoolteacher who tested positive for COVID-19 in the middle of a flight to Iceland a few days before Christmas says she ended up voluntarily isolated in the plane's cramped bathroom for the last five hours of the trip to Reykjavik.

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Fotieo said her throat began to hurt about halfway through her Dec. 20 Icelandair flight out of Chicago. She had brought some rapid test kits with her in case she needed them while traveling.

"I just took my rapid test and I brought it into the bathroom, and within what felt like two seconds there were two lines (indicating a positive test)," Fotieo said.

Fotieo opted to stay isolated in the airplane bathroom for the remainder of the flight, which she estimated was five hours. "There’s 150 people on the flight, and my biggest fear was giving it to them," she said.

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So she was exposing passengers for 2 and a half hours .. then tests positive. and only then worries about spreading it to them. And locks herself in the bathroom for several hours after .

As if flying wasn’t miserable enough. To spend it in a tiny arse bathroom.