Missing a very important factor, her pet isn’t just ‘sick’, but infected with a very contagious virus. If you has a family member sick with ebola would you go face to face? You can’t “have a heart” when highly contagious viruses are at play. It’s frankly extremely selfish behaviour. 

This!

Correction for #6 Entertainment, Netflix was released by Oculus for Gear VR not Rift (although it might have seen been made available for the Rift).