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!

If you call your supermarket delivery line they have emergency slots they can allocate to you abs other people with this urgent need

They'll upgrade your account and you'll see slots today

So you’re complaining at staff but want to go to Tesco when you know there is a positive test in your house.

Jeeez

Lots of people saying why isnt everyone (including the OP) prepped but not everyone can either afford to buy extra or have space to store extra food. We shop once a week, and rarely top up during the week but there are days towards shopping day where we definitely couldnt eke out our food for an extra week.(we have extra of some things but not everything)
However we do have a road whatsapp group and I am friends with a lot of my DC friends parents so I'd feel confident I could ask someone to get shopping for us should we need to isolate without having much food in the house. We also have friends from sports clubs that we could ask if really stuck. Our nearest family live 45 min away so def eouldnt rely on them.
I'm surprised that OP says her teen DCs friends are teens and dont drive ....but apparently doesnt know any of their parents...?

Try Iceland’s I can’t get anything else but they usually have slots for next day

Also any school WhatsApp groups they’ve been helpful for some

And in answer to your question about tests, the testing system has at least got a system where essential workers (including teachers) tests get done as a priority to get them back to work. I've had one come back in 13 hours a few weeks ago.

@user1493494961

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

Yep!

Don’t you know if you’re really really quick no one gets infected?

DS2 had to isolate at Uni whist waiting for a friend to have a test. He had no food so he stumped up for a delivery of essentials from Waitrose using Deliveroo.

If a student can come up with a solution that doesn't involve exposing many others to risk, so can an adult.

Like others, I am stunned at your level of rage at the teacher(s) given you are planning to go out when you know there has been a positive test result in your family. Such a hypocrite!

Expensive but Just Eat for a couple of days would be best option

Ummm, if you haven't realised by now - no, do not go to Tesco!

You come across very nasty re your DS's teacher (and teachers are busting a gut and putting themselves at risk on a daily basis at the moment). And none of the examples (e.g. "but I'm allowed to go to a testing site") are comparable to your DH and you entering a supermarket and touching a plethora of surfaces and products, knowing full well there's a distinct possibility you have C-19.

Milk and More do daily early morning doorstep drop offs of loads of stuff (not just milk - bread, eggs, meat, veg etc.) and others above have given many more suggestions.

Mr daughter goes into work every day, unmasked, to teach teenagers like your son. The students in her class are entirely unable to socially distance and also have problems with personal hygiene and controlling it wiping away their own mucus and saliva (never mind then dealing with tissues etc safely)

I worry enough about the risk she's at of getting the virus, but now apparently should she get it, it will be her fault and patents will be raging about her.

Breaks my heart.

I am really sorry but you are having a pop about staff not social distancing yet you are planning to go out likely exposing other CEV (just like your son!) To covid. It beggars belief, it really does!

Phone your council who will have covid hub who can assign someone to collect shopping for you.

You mention your neighbours can’t help you as they are elderly. How does that mean they can’t? They must be shopping for them?

Btw, one of my husbands staff members tested positive so he had to close the business for two weeks, paying staff but having no income into the business. He wasn’t raging because of it, it is one of those things.

You're being incredibly unfair to the college staff who are still having to work in difficult circumstances. You should be grateful that they're enabling your son's college to stay open, not criticising them for catching Covid!

Quick to blame staff for spreading it but you’re happy to go to the supermarket and potentially do the same

Why have you got no emergency supplies? It’s been known since March you may need to isolate.

No one needs to shop every 2/3 days and given you were worried about the virus surely you wouldn’t want to go out that often and mix with others.

Oh, and my friend had a mild temperature at 10pm one night, had a test at 10am the next morning, and got his result (negative fortunately) at 7pm.
So quit with your unfounded assumptions about your son's key worker.

@flaviaritt

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

That’s true, isn’t it? But even with that said, there is very little evidence of it being spread in supermarkets or through brief contacts.

@flaviaritt

Yes I agree that in normal circumstances supermarket shopping is a relatively safe occupation (thank goodness!) It's not zero risk, but it's lower than being in a restaurant or a pub, and a lot lower risk than going to a wedding or the gym for example. The majority of people in there at any one time will normally not be infected, and people don't usually spend a lot of time in close proximity to the same people.

However what we have here is somebody who knows there is a very good chance she and her husband are infected. That immediately makes the supermarket a much less safe place statistically. You or I might be prepared to take our chances on a daily basis, but if we knew there were currently people in store with Covid at that moment would we go in? The odds have shifted, and no we probably wouldn't.

Probably the biggest risk of transmission is through aerosols that we breathe out and can hang in the air for hours. The OP and her DH going in there and very probably exhaling a load of doses that will stay there for a long time is not a good idea. The masks will only do so much.

Add to that that this OP shows little understanding of the virus and how it spreads and the odds get worse still. Add to that her sense of entitlement and complete lack of care as to anyone else's wellbeing and she's a nightmare. Do you think she'll be holding back and socially distancing? I'm afraid I don't. ☹️

milk, eggs, chips, meat and rice/pasta

You can make meals out of these, make do meals. And surely you have a freezer. If you’ve got flour make pancakes.

Just replying to the OPs comments:

The GOVERNMENT have dissuaded use of masks in schools so blame them not the staff.
I had a test one Monday night at 7.30pm and got my results at 1pm Tuesday.
You are legally required to isolate for 14 days and to knowingly go to Tesco with a positive household case is illegal as well as morally wrong.

I am sorry your DS has caught Coronavirus. Use your rage and direct it to the people who have put your family in this position. Write to your MP and ask what the government are doing to make schools safe.

Co op deliver to us the same day within a couple hours,same with Iceland.You could also try just eat/Uber eats to deliver groceries as they do aldi.Just until you get a proper slot via tesco or something.

@Brunt0n

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.

Can't help but laugh 🤣

This reads as a case study on how the virus can spread.
The whole family should have been isolating along with their son, unless he could fully isolate from them which doesn’t sound at all possible.
Only after the test came back positive (waste of test as should all be isolating anyway) they are now isolating. What is it about the incubation period some people don’t understand? You could get a negative test every day for 13 days and then get a positive one on day 14. The fact that the OP is considering nipping into the supermarket whilst in the same journey is getting a load of irrelevant tests is just depressing.

LOL! raging at staff but willing to spread it around tescos! Couldn't make this stuff up

There are options other than spreading covid all over you local fucking Tesco