Last year I was working at a job I wasn’t too thrilled with, and was simultaneously dealing with kids doing long distance learning and things were becoming too stressful for me. I didn’t have days off and couldn’t ask for any. So I told my boss I had come in contact with someone who had covid. And then I stretched out the “getting test results soon” for as long as possible. I just didn’t want to deal with the hassle of letting them know the truth. My best friends were laughing at me because I was being so stupid about it…I still get teased about it…and I’m typically a responsible person and definitely not prone to lying. Technically, I had been a contact of a Covid-positive person, but it wasn’t as close a contact as I had led them to believe.

Anyway, all this is to say….Covid makes a very convenient excuse these days.

At any rate, I wouldn’t call him out on any of this. If you choose to reply, don’t act all “omg! How awful!” I would remain more distant and aloof, but courteous, in tone and feel him out. No need to confront him or question him. If you don’t think you’d date him after all this, then there is no point in giving yourself agita over it and if you do want a relationship of some sort, then starting off making him feel like he’s being interrogated might turn him off, especially if he actually did have Covid. Just respond how you would to an acquaintance and see what happens. Keep your cool. Definitely let him know your feelings about how he didn’t tell you he was positive. But as for “why didn’t you do this or that”, I would just let it rest for the moment. Boys are stupid sometimes; they don’t always do things in the way we would.