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!

YABU.

I was in a similar situation. I would get the first slot you can. In the meantime, is there a local butcher/green grocer doing deliveries ?

@ZombieAttack

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.

This. You don't seem like a very nice person OP.

Plenty of ideas here so you can avoid going to the supermarket. You are being incredibly unreasonable even considering it as you would put the staff and other customers at considerable risk. Imagine if you were identified as a super spreader and then named and shamed in the tabloids like the poor man who went skiing!

On another note, please don’t be ‘raging’ at the staff at your son’s college. I am sure they would prefer to be sitting safely at home. I’m not sure if people realise just how unsafe educational institutions are for those working in them.

Iceland is an excellent option, they have deliveries here on Tuesday.

The rules are so complicated and chance so much I can never understand it. If your husband has no symptoms but has CV19 then I think you all may not need to or even be allowed to leave the house to get a test.

Second issue try asking someone to buy the food. My son (a student) in March did food shopping from a local face book group for an old man who was housebound. There are lots of young people like that who are happy to help and my son even shares a car with his twin so it was fairly easy and gave him a good lawful reason to get out of the house too and he was helping someone else so it was good for everyone.

Oh the irony, you blame staff for passing it to your child as if they are the evil spreaders solely responsible- where do you think they got it from??
Then in the next breath you say you will go shopping, potentially spreading the virus, in the full knowledge that you live with a positive case?? Does that seem responsible to you?

Morrisons doorstep deliveries mean you can ring and order from a list of groceries to be delivered same day information my.morrisons.com/doorstep-deliveries/ here

As teaching staff I strongly refute your accusation and anger at the staff. Remember, adults are more at risk than children and yes, even cev staff have been working. It's likely that they caught it from students but as adults they went on to develop symptoms so got tested. I don't go anywhere except work and to the shops (as infrequently as I can). You're being completely unreasonable. You shouldn't go to the shop, talk about hypocrisy. Seriously. Knock on your neighbours door if you have to. Oh and how come there are 6 adults in your house and none of you know anyone within an hour? Are you saying none of you have any local friends at all? That's a little unusual, maybe you should work on that.

Sorry, but you can't complain that the staff in the college 'gave' your son covid, and then a few sentences later say you are thinking of scooting around Tescos when you might be positive yourself. That is not only hypocritical but also incredibly selfish.

@OrangeIsTheNewTwat

My neighbour was in this situation. On the way back from the test, the parent (single mum of disabled adult who may have caught it at college), went & stocked up a massive shop with a click & collect. It came back positive, & they had to manage with deliveries, Facebook volunteers & whatever other help they could get for several weeks. Why didn't you? You blame your DS's tutors but are willing to risk an entire supermarket full of staff, who are all keyworkers, because you didn't plan ahead? Plus whatever customers you may encounter.

Your neighbour was being just as irresponsible as you accuse OP of being. The fact that she and her child had not yet had a result back yet didn't magically mean that she couldn't spread the virus.

Yes YABU to go to Tesco when you know you have come into contact with a positive case. It doesn’t matter how quick or careful you are you are still risking other peoples health and potentially lives. Don’t post on AIBU if you can’t handle being you are wrong.

Do you see what you have written
Your post is horrible

You were nasty about the staff caring about your son who unwittingly gave him the virus

But you and your husband would knowingly go around Tesco when there is a postive case in your home? What a nice person you are.

@ViralVera

No click and collects available either.

Bit of a coincidence that 3 staff members test positive then DS gets it isn’t it Cookie? None of the rest of us have had symptoms. They are in his ‘bubble’. One of them for definite was in college on Monday, then got a positive test on Tuesday. I am fucking raging.

Let me get this right.

You're raging at staff for passing covid on to your DC when they didn't know they had it.

But you are considering deliberately going to a supermarket where you'll come I to contact with loads of people, quite possibly vulnerable people or those with family members who are vulnerable, when you know you have covid.

Are you for real?

You haven't tried hard enough to get food by other avenues.

Have you, for example:

Asked for help in your local mutual aid group on Facebook?
Asked for help in your local Facebook group?
Tried Amazon pantry?
Looked on Deliveroo to see if local shops deliver? (My corner shop does)
Called your local corner shop and aakee if they deliver
Called the council to ask if they know any schemes that can help
Etc

Just popping into Tesco's when you know you have covid is selfishness of the highest order.

You might give it to someone who dies of it, or passes it on to someone who dies of it, do you understand that?

Masks do not stop spreading, they just lessen the risk.

Cannot believe you are actually doing this. The mind boggles.

We have a couple of local groups... if you have the same, ask someone on there if they would be prepared to help. I know I’d help if someone sled under these circumstances

Are you saying you have 6 adults in the house and not one of you have a friend with transport? No one?

We were in a similar position.

Try Deliveroo, as often the Co-op and your local BP filling station will be on there. That will do the emergency things. Then get friends to bring a small amount each. People will be keen to help.

Unless they find out that you went out knowing you could passing on the virus to any number of people KNOWINGLY.

Firstly, don’t drive yourself mad fuming at the people who may or may not have bought CoVid into your home. It’s a pointless exercise.

Don’t go out and risk passing it on to yet another family. Ring your local church. Explain your situation and they will arrange a volunteer to pick up your groceries for you. If you don’t have a local church I am sure any synagogue, temple or mosque will be happy to do the same.

And stop being angry about this. We are living with a new, highly contagious illness. It’s inevitable that some of us will catch it. I’m sorry it had to be you, but fuming and complaining won’t change anything. Just hope it’s a mild, short lived illness. Ask for the help you need and then start counting the days to freedom.

Absolutely do NOT go to the shop. Your DS didn’t really have symptoms so you could be the same and could spread it unknowingly.

Keep trying for an earlier slot. Often Tesco release slots for the next randomly!

You complain and out the staff at your sons school catching and passing it in covid. Maybe they caught it from the supermarket 🤷‍♀️ So yeah do not go to the supermarket please.

You are being unbelievably selfish and unfair. Haven't teaching staff been told not to wear masks? Aren't they at a higher risk of catching COVID from pupils? It could have even been from your ds. Your ds didn't have any symptoms and therefore shouldn't have been tested. I have no idea why you are testing the rest of the household either, it will change nothing in terms of isolation. Yes, in an ideal world we would all be getting tested daily, or at least after a close contact but this country hasn't got that capacity. By getting your household tested you are delaying keyworkers from having their results and therefore being able to return to work. And you and your dh BOTH want to go to tesco?!? Neither of you should be going, there's lots of alternatives available to you. You know this yet you don't seem to care about anyone else beyond your immediate family.

Download the app nextdoor and post asking for someone to go shopping for you. We have loads of people on there offering to do shopping etc for people locally. I yesterday offered to collect from the butcher as a lady in the next road doesnt have tranport and doesnt want to risk the bus

YABU to scoot round tesco, YABU to book up so many test slots when none of you have symptoms so are not eligible. YABU to be 'raging' at staff who are risking their and their families health each day to educate your son. YWU to not get some shopping in when your son was sent for a test when you knew it was possible he d be positive. Between 6 of you you must have one friend who can get some basics, order a take away or 2, use one of the many instant grocery deliveries that have popped up, use amazon, ask for a volunteer to help. So many options that don't involve exposing more people, which you should really understand being so angry that your son has caught it. (Colleges were never going to be the safest place for staff or students so I'm not sure why you are so shocked)

You are furious with college but willing to put staff and customers at risk by going shopping? Don't be so selfish.
No wonder the virus is spreading and there are no tests. Your DS could have caught the virus from family who have no symptoms that's more likely.
There have been loads of suggestions on here. Even if children's friends are too young to drive/don't have cars what about their parents? Surely one of them drives and could pick some bits up? Or as said ask the supermarket and on Facebook.
I think YABU on all counts from blaming the staff, to booking tests when you're not meant to, to suggesting it's somehow okay for you to go out and possibly infect a load more people.

Google covid mutual aid in your area, or if that doesn't work ask on a local Facebook group / call the council. A volunteer isn't going toimd getting you food in for 4 days - that's why they volunteer! My DH did it for a local family and got them three bags of shopping. You should definitely do that rather than go to the shops (and doesn't make any sense why both you and DH would need to do that anyway). Honestly it's this kind of shit that means covid is still spreading.

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.

The official guidance very firmly tells teachers not to wear masks in class, and also recognises that full social distancing may not be possible for vulnerable students.

You also need to bear in mind that, with five other adults in the house who may be going to work and who do go out shopping twice a week, there is an excellent chance that your son caught it from one of them.