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!

To mind*

I am trying to get this clear OP.

One is meant to self-isolate even whilst waiting for a test result. Example: last Wednesday i was hosting a virtual conference for 600 people at which I was also a speaker, and I had 2 lectures to do in the morning. My teething baby was excluded from nursery to get tested so we all including 5 year old son had to cool ourselves at home to await results and I had to do my lectures online and host the blasted conference whilst having a screaming baby and a 5 year old running riot at home. Just because we were awaiting test results for the baby who we knew was just teething but nonetheless. Those are the rules and one does what’s best.

You are asking whether you should go shopping at a supermarket when you know your household member has COVID?

Fuck me for tearing my hair out not going into my office where I have my own individual office to host 600 goddamn people in peace while awaiting test result for teething baby. What a fool I am.

Asked (not sled) 🤦‍♀️

So your furious with staff for passing on the virus but it's ok for you to go to Tesco and pass it on there?

@ViralVera

Your dh should now be isolating for 14 days and going nowhere near work.

Unbelievable that you’re taking zero responsibility in this scenario - you had time between the test and the result to stock up on your shopping but didn’t. And are now raging about getting infected whilst planning to send TWO positive people out and about and putting countless others at risk. And you’re seriously expecting people on here to believe that a family of 6 adults doesn’t know ONE person locally who could drop in supplies to last a few days?

With people like you about, no wonder the virus is still spreading like it is.

This is why we are in this mess. People like you OP are directly refusing to follow the rules because you think you know better and are more important than others.

I’m going to bet that OP went to Tesco last night.

Bit of a coincidence that 3 staff members test positive then DS gets it... 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

I am CEV and a teacher working full time and we have had two cases in Yr 7/8 pupils so far. I am doing my best not to get COVID but if I get it from school, I won’t be ‘fucking raging’, I will count myself as very unlucky.

YABVVU. School and college staff have to get on with it, shielders can no longer stay home and we are all doing the best we can. Wind your neck in and spend your energy online sorting a volunteer food delivery.

I have no words 🤦🏼‍♀️

Have you not been reading all the threads where teachers are saying it’s impossible to SD and that we’ve been told NOT to wear a mask in lessons by the government. I can’t imagine teachers SD is a SN environment either.

Stop being angry at teachers for a start, you made the decision for your child to go in.

So your angry at your son getting it yet your willing to risk others by going shopping?

And you don’t all need a test, that’s a waste as you have to isolate any way. Your son shouldn’t have been tested either really

OP you say your ds has autism, I wonder if perhaps you do too. This is the only reason I can think of to explain your distinct lack of empathy.

seriously, fuck off. Autism is not lack of empathy.

my arrmchair diagnosis for you, perfect would be an ignorant cow. Hth.

No you shouldn’t.

Can you ask a neighbour to help with shopping?

You sound like very hard work op

There are so many great suggestions on here, there really is no excuse for going into a supermarket, you are not allowed out the car at a test centre but you want to park up next door and wander round a supermarket! I cant even get my head round why you want to spend 30 mins in a supermarket not just pop in and out of a local shop to get a couple days of bread and milk seeing there is a delivery slot wed. Utter madness.

You’re ‘fucking raging’ people have passed COVID on whilst just doing their jobs yet you’re happy to go around Tesco and pass it to everyone there? Brilliant.

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The selfishness and hypocrisy is utterly astounding 🙄😤🤦🏻‍♀️

Realise it's bit awkward but there are loads of options here OP rather than go to the supermarket yourself and needlessly endanger the lives of others.

Takeaway, deliveroo, lots of different local volunteer groups that you have been signposted to. Ask your acquaintances to help you even if they aren't friends, this is how acquaintances can become friends. Ask you dc friends to ask their parents to help you. Most of them would do this I'm sure and if you have 4 dc there will be a lot of friends you can ask, only needs one to say yes!

Are you very rural and a long way away from any food shops? Even a corner shop would do for 3 days surely.

Two people from the same isolating household going to Tesco is obviously the wrong thing to do. You're being irrational because you're panicking, op. There are options available to you, so you need to calm down and think logically about what is the sensible thing to do.

I was thinking about me and DH double masking and scooting round Tesco chucking stuff in trolleys as quickly as possible straight afterwards.

Wow, just wow. You have the audacity to complain your son got CV from teachers then you will double mask and scoot around Tesco's.
You are a joke.

@flaviaritt

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.

Recent findings though are that the virus is not spread uniformly, and that 10 to 20% of sufferers are responsible for 80% of cases.

Reading these posts it is very easy to understand why.

english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-30/the-k-factor-why-it-matters-where-we-are-infected-with-the-coronavirus.html

your general attitude is shocking.

Think op has gone now she’s, quite rightly, been handed her arse on a plate. What a grade A twat.