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Positive Covid test but we have no food in!

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ViralVera · 15/11/2020 00:15

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!

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JamieFrasersSassenach · 15/11/2020 08:57

@ViralVera FGS - if you genuinely have NO-ONE who can get your groceries then post on here the county you live in - if you are near enough to me I'll go and get it for you!!

The rules are:

If someone in your household tests positive ALL members of the household must self-isolate for 14 days.

Only get a test if you are displaying one of the 3 main symptoms:
High temperature
A new continuous cough
Loss of taste and/or smell

In a nutshell that is it.

burritofan · 15/11/2020 08:58

we literally only have milk, eggs, chips, meat and rice/pasta
Have you considered using these foodstuffs to cook something.

Snackasaurus · 15/11/2020 08:58

You're blaming the teachers but have you thought where they got Covid from? Perhaps they got it from doing their weekly shop at Tesco when people who should be isolating are going around, double masked because 'they have nothing in'!

luckylavender · 15/11/2020 08:58

You sound a piece of work OP. I realise it's hard but people have given you solutions & yet you still want to risk infecting people in a supermarket. As for blaming your DS's school, he could easily have got it from one of you. It's very contagious & transmissible, that's how it works. No one deliberately infects others.

Pikachubaby · 15/11/2020 08:59

So she is furious for other people passing on the virus

And her response is to go and pass on the virus herself

It’s actually funny

It shows how selfish people are really

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 15/11/2020 08:59

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Walkaround · 15/11/2020 08:59

@ViralVera - I hope you realise what a bloody hypocrite you are, to be so angry at others because you think they must have broken rules on testing and isolation whilst considering going shopping when you are required to self-isolate.

IdblowJonSnow · 15/11/2020 08:59

Why was the OP 'raging' at the staff? We're in a pandemic, people, lots of people, get Covid? Especially in an educational setting.
But obvs fine for her to go to shop! Grin

Benjispruce2 · 15/11/2020 09:00

Neighbours? I’d do it.

HareHoo · 15/11/2020 09:00

You cannot go out. Guidelines apply to everyone. Why are you testing everyone else? It’s a waste of tests as you should only be testing if they are symptomatic. The wait for results is long enough.

SpilltheTea · 15/11/2020 09:02

Engage your brain OP. You obviously can't go to Tesco. You're hardly going to starve to death. Surely if you were getting tests, you should have been much more prepared for this. Get a takeaway and stop moaning.

Star81 · 15/11/2020 09:02

I get that your angry at the fact your son has tested positive but even if he saw this COVID positive teacher on the Monday, the virus doesn’t pass that quickly that your son would have got it from there. He could be sitting around other asymptomatic students and that’s how he got it. Another adult from your work could be asymptomatic and that’s where he got it you’ll never know the actual source so think you need to calm down at the college.

With regards to you all getting tests today, no you should not have booked them. You all have to isolate for 14 days now anyway so wouldn’t be around anyone.

When it comes to shopping, you’ve already said how angry to are as you assume a tested teacher attended work knowing they’d had test. So surely for you to know your supposed to isolate as you live with a positive case and all getting tested yourself that day and then going to the supermarket not a lot worse than what you assume the teacher did !!!

The rules are clear, you shouldn't be leaving the house apart from for a test if you develop symptoms. There are plenty of ways to get food without going out,

If you think about how angry you are at someone who has allegedly been tested being out before the result. Think about how angry you would be if you knew he was living with a positive case and been tested and still went out.

countbackfromten · 15/11/2020 09:02

It does make a difference. Self isolation is a pain but it is a pain for everyone and a way we can keep this virus under control. Please please don’t go out to Tesco, you have no idea who you could spread it to.

GetOffYourHighHorse · 15/11/2020 09:02

Op you have quite rightly had your arse handed to you. What kind of hapless family can't manage on basic supplies for a couple of days and really out of 6 adults not one of you has one friend to drop off a loaf of bread??

I'd say it's time for you all to work on your social skills tbh.

Of course you shouldn't be 'scooting' round tescos.

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Benjispruce2 · 15/11/2020 09:02

Surely you have something to eat until you can get a delivery? Might not be what you want to eat but food to keep you alive! Who runs down their stocks to zero?

lynsey91 · 15/11/2020 09:03

Well too late for you now but this is why it is sensible to have some sort of stock of food. Shopping every 2 or 3 days at the moment is ludicrous.

No way on earth would I shop every 2 to 3 days. Life is too short to shop that often. You just need some space for tins, pasta etc and, if possible, a second freezer.

I always have enough food for at least a month and don't understand why others don't especially now.

WingingWonder · 15/11/2020 09:04

You can deliveroo sainos and also in some areas
Morossons Do a £20 Amazon prime thing on groceries
Put a FB message out- just tested positive and need the shipping can anyone help
DO NOT go to a supermarket and infect people

year5teacher · 15/11/2020 09:04

Sorry, do you expect staff to literally isolate other than going to work? Your anger is totally unreasonable.
They could have picked it up in Tesco because someone with a positive case in their household was there. Smile

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MadameBlobby · 15/11/2020 09:04

@lynsey91

Well too late for you now but this is why it is sensible to have some sort of stock of food. Shopping every 2 or 3 days at the moment is ludicrous.

No way on earth would I shop every 2 to 3 days. Life is too short to shop that often. You just need some space for tins, pasta etc and, if possible, a second freezer.

I always have enough food for at least a month and don't understand why others don't especially now.

Well maybe because they don’t have the space you refer to?
ShalomToYouJackie · 15/11/2020 09:06

DH was coming with me to Tesco so he could go to one end of the shop and I could start at the other, so in and out in 15 minutes instead of 30. Makes sense No

Not really, no. You're meant to stay at home, your son has Covid. Posters have given you tons of solutions which you appear to be ignoring for some reason as you're still deciding whether or not to go to the bloody supermarket. I'm shocked that people can be so selfish. How can you be 'raging' at your sons teachers who went to work and were doing their job when you're CHOOSING to go around infecting people at Tesco.

Lovemusic33 · 15/11/2020 09:07

I don’t think you can blame the staff at school for giving your ds the virus anymore than you can blame yourself for not having enough food in.

Everyone’s well aware there’s a pandemic, chance are the staff caught it from students like your ds who displayed no symptoms, these people are risking their health every day to teach your son so to blame them is a bit harsh?

As a friend or relative to drop so basics off on your doorstep, it doesn’t have to be a full shop as you can get a delivery in a few days. You already have some basics so just get some things to go with them. Many people are in the same situation.

Bvop · 15/11/2020 09:07

Struggling to understand why the OP is getting her household tested, when they don’t have symptoms. I have used the testing website myself, and it’s very clear that tests should be used only for symptomatic cases and those invited for clinical research.

If you answer the questions on the website saying you haven’t got symptoms you then won’t be offered a test - I’m struggling to assemble the facts from the OP.

Lovemusic33 · 15/11/2020 09:08

You could also live on take away for a few nights?

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