Positive Covid test but we have no food in!

[ViralVera]

I got a text at 10pm tonight to say the DS is positive for CV. He hasn’t really had symptoms but THREE members at his SN college tested positive earlier this week so he was sent home to isolate and I wanted to make sure as DH is a keyworker. I really didn’t think it would be positive.

I’m bloody furious that staff have passed it onto vulnerable students. DS is classed as CEV so has been taught to be very good with hygiene but the staff haven’t been wearing masks, and didn’t seem to adhering to 2m social distancing at his induction session, but that’s another thread.

This means the whole household needs to isolate from now obviously but we are a family of 6 (adults) and get through a LOT of food so I shop every 2/3 days. The next big shop was due to be tomorrow!

The earliest online delivery I can get is for Wednesday and we literally only have milk, eggs, chips, meat and rice/pasta but not enough for 4 days. No squash/bread/cereal/yoghurts/fruit/veg etc.

There is literally no one local we can ask. DH’s brother lives an hour away but his family also has Covid (not from us as we haven’t seen them for months).

It’ll be a lot of shopping for a volunteer to get, if I can find one.

I’ve booked the other 5 of us for a drive in tests tomorrow so I was thinking about me and DH double masking and scooting round Tesco chucking stuff in trolleys as quickly as possible straight afterwards.

Should we? If we have it tomorrow, we had it today too!

Can't believe you're still considering going after all the helpful suggestions on here, including the fact you've now said you have amazon prime

OP just really doesn’t care.

She’s “raging” at whoever gave it to her kid (and despite what she says we don’t know it came from college), but she’s perfectly happy to jeopardise other families.

OP. Of course you shouldn’t go to Tesco!! Why would you consider it?!

Local Facebook group post and someone would gladly do it.
Or try Deliveroo (ours does an m&s food as well as a coop), or Amazon groceries, click and collect.
So many options to choose. You will not starve. You do not need to go to Tesco.

Please also isolate for the full time regardless of test results.

@Madein1995

I dont see what other options are availanle anyhow. Op isnt coughing her guts up and intending to go out sans mask dragging all the family with her! If theres no one available then there is no one available. Ringing local councillors, school mums and grasping at other straws is just too faffy, inconvenient and stressful.

Whereas being given Covid by a selfish arsehole who knows there's a good chance they are infected isn't faffy, inconvenient and stressful at all.

FFS.

I bet the staff members are so happy that they still have to go to work in the middle of the pandemic and risk getting Covid, having arsey parents get angry with them and then the risk passing Covid on to vulnerable members of their own families. The staff sound horrible. So sorry that they’ve been going to work to teach your child so you don’t have to have them at home.
Totally understandable that you’re annoyed your child has Covid but please have consideration for staff.

I think regardless of what people are writing on here saying don’t go, try and find another means etc that the OP is just going to go anyway.

Even if you’re prepared to lie to get your husband a test for the greater good (although you have a rather loose interpretation of the greater good!), why are the rest of you being tested?

Have you heard of viral load? If two or three of you have it, the others in the car are getting a larger dose of the virus and are therefore more likely to become very ill from it. Therefore, you are putting everyone in your family at a higher risk by getting in the car together for that amount of time. If you and your husband have it, you are also doubling the load for anyone in the supermarket who catches it from you.

Just think of others and do as you are told, it’s really quite simple.

Sounds like you love a drama. You've got plenty of food by the sounds of it, eat some weird shit til the delivery can come in 4 days. Sounds like the Dukan diet, you might lose some weight and a bonus 😂

I see on Prime I can order food to be delivered today. It would be breathtakingly selfish to go to the supermarket today. It's people like you who have caused the second wave.

So you’re ‘fucking raging’ at those you think passed it to your son, but quite happy to scoot round Tesco with your husband and possibly infect others.

co-op do same day delivery if you spend over £15 which i'm sure you would!

I know you dont care op but it's people like you who are prolonging this pandemic. Stay at home and isolate the full stretch. Do not get a test unless you have symptoms. Theres no point you still have to isolate your time.

Morrison's can be contacted by phone or do prepackaged boxes. Iceland are also good for next day.

What is actually in your cupboards?

Click and collect, try local delivery firms like market stalls and check local Facebook pages, try all delivery options, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Iceland etc. Get a small shop delivered by a volunteer until you can do a large shop. Phone your local corner shop or co-op and ask if they can help even if they pack you could collect the basics in your car.

If all else fails then it's takeaways, food boxes or just make do but there is no need for this to be the case.

Your furious because you think staff may have passed it onto your son when they didn’t know they had it yet you are quite willing to pass it onto others at the supermarket knowing you might have it and should be in quarantine?

The fact staff are positive might be because other students are, btw, they could have caught it from work themselves.

To those saying Deliveroo, remember many of us don't have such services, I'm in a town of 40,000 and have 4 takeaways on just eat (all pizza & kebabs), no Uber eats or Deliveroo. But we do have volunteers because I'm one of them

@Peppafrig

You are raging at the staff. Really the ones who put themselves on the line everyday ? They more than likely caught it off a pupil. Yet your happy to go to Tesco and pass it on too any vulnerable person and their families really .

This. Such hypocrisy from OP. I was in a similar situation and engaged my brain and called a local shop who were doing deliveries for essentials and we had a couple more takeaways for those few days also. No way would I have put anyone else at risk for my own sense of entitlement.

@ViralVera use Prime Now. We can get a slot on it today, well this morning and this afternoon. There are lots available in our area so please try it.

If not someone will have to go for you

OP, if masks were enough to prevent the spread of COVID entirely, we'd have gotten rid of it by now.

So you’re absolutely furious that staff haven’t followed guidelines yet you have yourself broken guidelines by getting your son a test with no symptoms and then booking the rest of the family tests with no symptoms and you are now contemplating breaking them again to get food despite not having even asked if anyone can help locally...

And your justification for why you’ve all had tests is really testament to your attitude. They’re necessary because we’re special. No you’re not. You have not followed the guidelines...

YABU...you are also being a hypocrite.

Each update makes it clear why you have no friends to help you tbh...

@ViralVera

DH works an 30 miles away so no colleagues nearby. I WFH now but office is in central London so also no local colleagues. Family miles away. None of the DC’s mates have cars. They are teens. Our neighbours are elderly. We have no local friends, only acquaintances, we’ve lived here for 4 years! It is very sad .

The chances of us infecting anyone in Tesco in minuscule with masks on, no cough or sneezing, just by walking past them. Unlike getting up close while working with vulnerable students with no masks on.

I didn’t know about Amazon. We have Prime. I’ll check it out. Thanks for that.

Actually according to the govt stats something like 25% of covid transmission is actually in supermarkets and it’s the most high risk area for catching it. Stop minimising the risk.

I am fucking raging.
You're raging and blaming the staff yet you seem to think it's ok to go to the supermarket when you are supposed to be self-isolating because your DS has tested positive.
So you don't care that you might pass it on to someone else?

Wow, how selfish can you get.