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!

There's no point trying to apportion blame - it's just as likely that the staff caught it from an asymptomatic student who would have tested positive on the same day as them if they'd had a test done then.

Post on local FB Covid Mutual Aid pages - you could split a 'big shop' into smaller deliveries if you are worried about the amount of shopping a volunteer would have to carry.

If you buy food every 2-3 days. What’s your plan for the rest of the self isolation ... to just pop into Tesco every now and again?

Hopefully they also booked the first available delivery. Though it didn't sound like they had! 🤔

I’m bloody furious that staff have passed it onto vulnerable students

But fine to do the same to people in your local supermarket. Ok........

nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/

Try this OP. And you really don’t have a leg to stand on criticising the staff if you are considering going shopping knowing you should be self isolating.

@EasterIssland

If you buy food every 2-3 days. What’s your plan for the rest of the self isolation ... to just pop into Tesco every now and again?

OP said that Tesco could deliver on Wednesday, so presumably is planning to do a 2-week shop to be delivered then, but needs to get by until then.

OP, pay for one of your DC's friends to go to Tesco in a taxi and get the basics. Give them £20 and the money for the taxi and the shopping (transfer instantly to them via PayPal or something).

This has to be a wind up surely?

If you were waiting for test results your dp shouldn't have been at work yesterday and your dd shouldn't have been in Tesco. You should all isolate if a family member has symptoms until you get the result.

In addition, the guidance to schools suggests masks aren't needed in school. Staff are risking themselves getting close to children to help and educate them. It is not their fault.

Even if you "double mask" it doesn't matter. You're touching stuff. You could have it on your clothes/ body/ hands etc. Masks aren't magic armour.

If you are really planning on going to go to the supermarket after your son tested positive you are being ridiculously irresponsible then you have no right to be annoyed at whoever gave it to him being in work. You are doing the exact same thing.

Stay at home and find a way.

@Unescorted

I’m bloody furious that staff have passed it onto vulnerable students

But fine to do the same to people in your local supermarket. Ok........

Exactly this.

No, you clearly should not be going to bloody Tesco. Get takeaways and order from prime until the next slot.

How you have the nerve to be fuming at the college while debating going to Tesco is a joke. Bloody hypocrite!

Sounds to me like OP is going to Tesco no matter what. She’s going to be touching scanners, trolley, food she might look at and put back. People wonder why it’s not going away........

Literally any of us could have to isolate for 2 weeks at a moment’s notice. You should be more prepared!! How did you not have a plan in place for this??

sherryperry

If you were waiting for test results your dp shouldn't have been at work yesterday and your dd shouldn't have been in Tesco. You should all isolate if a family member has symptoms until you get the result.

Exactly this!!!!

Ring your local shop (spar type) and order and pay for basics over the phone and get them to deliver.

Have you tried amazon fresh? I always get a same day or next day slot

@ViralVera - have you considered that your son might have passed the virus on to the teachers if he's now said he has a sore throat but due to his ASD didn't mention it until you had him tested?

I'll just add this rather helpful info graphic...

But yabvvvu to consider going shopping knowing you should be SI. Can you afford the fine if track and trace ring while you are out?

I'd do the following before risking the lives of shoppers and supermarket staff:

Iceland deliveries
Coop/Deliveroo
Sainsbury's "chop chop" if they are working in your area
Corner store
Local Facebook group asking for help/looking for mutual aid group
Local council website
Ring track and trace and ask if there's any provision for people in your circs.

More generally - we're in the middle of a pandemic. You have vulnerable family members. You have some amount of contact, collectively, with others, upping your risk. You seem to be employed, so a few £ left to spare at the end of the month? Why did you let it get to the point where you don't have a few more days worth of food in? Pasta, sauce, block of cheese, frozen veg, porridge oats - it would set you back around £5, can live in the cupboard/freezer for months and you wouldn't have this stress. I'm hugely sympathetic with people not having that kind of money to spare, but that doesn't seem to be you.

And a household of 6 adults but not one of them has someone nearby they can call on for help?

Worth looking at the wholesalers. Lots started home deliveries during the last lockdown and would normally be next day delivery. Try Bidfood, Brakes or JJs.

This has to be a wind up surely?

You would you hope so, no one can surely be as ridiculous to blame teachers in a school where social distancing is nigh on impossible, some of the students will be distressed by teachers in masks; and then test the whole family despite that being pointless as it could still go on to develop within 14 days. But we know people are ridiculous so maybe.

Also yes @FlippinNoah I have never seen the whole thing about blaming someone for passing on a virus. It's being passed all around the country, no one wants or means to give someone Covid.

What causes the spread is people simply not thinking. It's exactly the "I'll just do X before I isolate" thinking that OP is demonstrating. Would you just do X if it means someone could DIE as a result?

Think.

You probably shouldn't have asked mumsnet OP, you knew you would get a slandering here.

For what its worth I would have probably said go to tesco and be sensible, however I actually work in a shop myself and stuff like this does make me worry. Its one thing when people are asymptomatic and don't actually know they have it, but when you have a positive test in your household and you knowingly go out it does make me worry that there are lots of people doing this. I serve and see many many people a day at work, many of whom don't wear masks, or handle cash (yes I've still had people take notes out their pockets and LICK their fingers to separate them and hand them to me!) And of course no social distancing.

I'm not in a vulnerable group but a friend of a friend wasn't either and they're now in intubated with covid.

Please please don't go out. I don't think I want to go back to work.

Amazon Prime Now is good and will get you food shopping very quickly (same day).

I will apologise now for the lack of paragraphs. For some reason my phone doesn't like to do them!

Your teenage children's friends must have parents? I simply cant believe there is no one you can ask to help you out, such that you would knowingly break isolation laws by going to a supermarket.

How many people will you potentially kill due to your insistence on ‘scooting round Tesco’? How many deaths are acceptable to you, that won’t keep you up at night?

I don’t think the OP should go, but this is bloody hysterical. The natural R rate for this virus is about 3. Usually it’s passed on to close contacts, not people you brush by in Tesco, or the R rate would be hundreds high. And it kills (strongly skewed towards the very elderly) roughly 1/100 of those it infects. So the likelihood of the OP being responsible for mass deaths in Tesco is very very very low indeed.

Perhaps we should all calm down.

Sounds like you’re going to do whatever the fuck you like regardless of what anyone says on here. You can’t moan that school are irresponsible and yet go to Tesco when you should be isolating.