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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!

OP posts:
Hellomoonstar · 15/11/2020 09:09

Hi op, call your local council. Our one will give you a code to use so you could get delivery today from Tesco, Morrison’s and one other shop. I found out when dbro had to self isolate (his housemate tested positive) and he had no one to take food to him at university. Luckily his university had made a deal with the local co op who offered to deliver essential food within two hours.
My London council have also said if you can’t get a delivery using their code then they will give you a food box for free. They don’t want people breaking self isolation.

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Bramleyapples13 · 15/11/2020 09:11

I think Amazon deliver Morrisons food now. And they definitely deliver food otherwise.

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OwlOne · 15/11/2020 09:13

I don't know why you're raging!

I hate asking for help to but I'd ring the nearest person to you with a car and ask for bread, soup, milk, eggs, cheese, bananas. You can get by on that.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 15/11/2020 09:13

Which area do you live in? Because I can't believe there is no shop delivering before Wed.
Tesco
Sainsbury's (some do even same day)
ASDA
Deliveroo (in some areas)
UberEats
Morrisons
Iceland
Amazon
Waitrose
M&S
Lidl (through some app)
And few more.

As pps said, you can contact them and explain you are isolating. Most shops will be happy to help.

Sussexroadleyst · 15/11/2020 09:14

I'm more relaxed than a lot of MN but even I definitely wouldn't go to the supermarket when someone in your household has tested positive. Grossly irresponsible.

user1493494961 · 15/11/2020 09:15

I've got a feeling that OP will be 'scooting round Tesco' whatever anyone says.

iamruth · 15/11/2020 09:15

YABU purely for your blame of the staff. I hope you haven’t left the house for any reason at all and you will now keep your son at home forevermore too

arethereanyleftatall · 15/11/2020 09:16

I don't know if you're still reading op, but fwiw....

Friends are everything, for most people. It doesn't matter what's going on in your life, friends are there. They might not be important to you, and that's fine and your prerogative.

But, if you've lived somewhere for 4 years and have made zero friends, then it's time for some self relflection, if you want some friends.

The characteristic traits you have shown on this thread are...
Misdirected bitterness, anger issues, selfishness, entitlement, lack of empathy, inability to take any responsibility or criticism for your own actions.

None of these are positive traits or endear people to you. Maybe you have some great qualities, I'm sure you have. But you need to listen to what people are saying to you on here, you only have one life.

countbackfromten · 15/11/2020 09:16

Your tests might be negative tomorrow but you might get symptoms the next day. That is why currently you can only get a test if you have symptoms but you have to self isolate for 14 days. So the tests you are getting are pointless and a waste of resources

NoWordForFluffy · 15/11/2020 09:17

Are you saying none of you have any local friends at all? That's a little unusual, maybe you should work on that.

I think I might know why this is! 🤔🤔🤔

ClaryFairchild · 15/11/2020 09:17

Please stop raging and instead give some thought to how bloody contagious COVID is.

You could still be incubating the virus, which is why you are asked to isolate for 14 days FROM THE LAST CONTACT WITH THE PERSON WHO TESTED POSITIVE. So not just 14 days, but 14 days from when they are no longer ill.

Don't know about the UK, but in Australia once you test positive, if it's a mild case then the ill person usually isolated for 10 more days.

personwifemum · 15/11/2020 09:19

Wow, can see why cases and deaths are increasing with people like OP

The learning for me is to continue to avoid supermarkets cos of people like OP.

Houseplantmad · 15/11/2020 09:20

DO NOT GO TO TESCO. if you're raging, imagine how others would feeling getting the virus from you with you having knowingly gone shopping likely with the virus. You may think you're being safe but you can't possibly guarantee that. Utterly selfish to even consider it.

Nottherealslimshady · 15/11/2020 09:21

I cant believe you're pissed off that your son caught Covid off a teacher who found out the day after she was with your son that she had Covid. Yet you KNOW Covid is in your household and still want to go to the supermarket!
Hypocrite much?

No. You can't go to the supermarket. Make do on what you have in the house and order takeaway deliveries. It's hardly a surprise, we've been in a pandemic for a while now. Did you not think to plan for this in the past 9 months?

Houseplantmad · 15/11/2020 09:22

And if you're in London, Sainsbury's does deliveries within the hour on a service called Chop Chop in many areas.

SchrodingersUnicorn · 15/11/2020 09:23

Well I'm raging that you're 'raging' at school staff.
If three of them have it, it sounds like they probably caught it from an asymptomatic pupil (since teens are more likely to be asymptomatic this is happening a lot). They are caring for kids, without PPE (the government says it shouldn't be worn in classrooms so blame them for the lack of masks, not the staff who are being put in an awful position by that rule).
Also, one was in Monday, ill later that day, got a test and quick turnaround? How is that their fault?
I assume you will be keeping all your children out of school now.
I'm an ECV teacher. I'm immunocompromised and seriously vulnerable at school. I'm putting myself at risk every day to teach my pupils because I'm the only subject specialist in my school - and I go nowhere else at all. If I got sick, it would be at school. The idea that a parent would be 'raging' at me for being ill having put myself at serious risk to keep their child in school and give them an education is what is making me consider leaving teaching. There's not going to be many teachers left with this arrogant, ungrateful and unkind attitude towards us.

flaviaritt · 15/11/2020 09:24

I think people should stop giving the OP grief about friendships. It’s not helpful and actually, not everyone is the same. Some people are just a bit introverted and that’s fine. There is no rule in life that says you have to make friends.

justaweeone · 15/11/2020 09:24

Is this some kind of joke post??!!Shock

SchrodingersUnicorn · 15/11/2020 09:24

P.S. Don't go to Tesco.

Theultimatecatlady · 15/11/2020 09:24

“ I’m bloody furious that staff have passed it onto vulnerable students”
Hmm
I have no advice for you after that comment. The staff member may well have caught covid from college in the first place. If you or any member of your household were going for a test you should have made sure you had enough provisions in. Simple.

SurreyHillsGirl · 15/11/2020 09:24

@ViralVera I cannot quite believe that you have to ask. Of course you shouldn’t go to Tesco Confused Jesus Christ! Are you always so obtuse

Sirzy · 15/11/2020 09:25

You know the more I think of this thread and the OP and the (thankfully small amount of) people who think she isn’t being unreasonable the more angry I get.

I had 11 year old DS in tears last night because he isn’t allowed to go to school until lockdown is lifted because he is CEV. He doesn’t want to miss his last Christmas in primary school but if people carry on acting like the OP then that’s what will happen because the virus rates won’t be able to drop when people spread it around like this.

LIZS · 15/11/2020 09:26

Can you do Click and Collect from a farm shop or coop if not a supermarket for next few days' supplies and ask someone to pick up/deliver it? Morrisons were doing essentials boxes, M and S are on Local council will have a list of groups of volunteers who may be on standby to help.