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!

Oh come ON, can people honestly not think their way through this? In my parents country everyone had to make do and improvise and get by for a few days because the political situation meant the supply chains to shops were interrupted all the time. It didn't matter if you had the money, things weren't on the shelf, and that was just part of life. Now we have Amazon, takeaway, just eat, the list goes on! We're talking about a few days of not having what you'd normally have, to avoid consequences that could be really devastating to someone else. I don't know what to say really.

If you DS goes to a SEN school then you should understand that bubbles really cant exist.
The requirement for high levels of staff mean that you will have supply teachers and TA's coming in. Therapists will break bubbles. Staff in staff room break bubbles. Staff are unable to wear PPE, pupils have no understanding of Sicial Distancing.

12 hours does make a difference though...doesnt it. Your DS has been infected in that time !

You can make meals out of the food you have....order take out! What you want is luxuries like yoghurt!

My DS is CEV in a SEN school and he is only there because school said they would fine me and report to social services if he didnt attend!!!!

Our family same situation OP. We have all tested positive for covid earlier this week, and found ourselves short of food 2 days before a delivery. A lot of the local shops are doing delivery at the moment though, so that’s what we did to carry us over. Bit of a pain as the local prices were way more expensive than supermarkets, but it was a necessary evil and lasted us for the two days until our delivery. We did have lots of offers of help from family and friends too though, but it was easier to use local shops. Hope you all feel better soon. It’s awful isn’t it?

Your local council website should have a covid assistances contact number. Give them a call. This is exactly what they are for.

They can and will send a volunteer shopping for you or arrange an emergency food parcel. It's what they are for.

@flaviaritt

True but it’s more than a touch surprising that out of a household of 6 adults not one of them has anyone they can call on to do them a favour when they are stuck. Or even a neighbour

It is. But that isn’t what I am talking about.

Yeah. I do agree with you on the friends point though:)

Obviously, this is a very stressful situation for you, or any of us!
Try a local facebook group for covid support to get some deliveries.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't go to Tesco while you're isolating, I work in food retail and it's our worst fear. Our vulnerable staff are not given the privilege of shielding any more.

It's a little unreasonable to expect that everything can carry on completely as normal in isolation so you might need to re-evaluate what you eat for a few days. Use up cupboard stuff, invent a few new dishes. You can survive without squash and yoghurts! (Unless it would cause distress to SN son, in which case they would be a priority but certainly not to the extent that you break isolation).

Call the council. Your dh is a key worker so hr might be able to help (our hr team is doing this). And stop being so angry, it’s a virus and lots of people have it.

Morrison's do next day food boxes, also phone your Council Emergency Covid line, they too can assist.

YABVVVU for blaming staff, it could have been passed onto them by an asymptomatic child...you know when they were putting themselves at risk every day caring for your child and many others.

How do you know your son didn't infect his teachers....

@arethereanyleftatall

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.

If the OP does read this, I can see her raging at more.

@iloveeverykindofcat

Oh come ON, can people honestly not think their way through this? In my parents country everyone had to make do and improvise and get by for a few days because the political situation meant the supply chains to shops were interrupted all the time. It didn't matter if you had the money, things weren't on the shelf, and that was just part of life. Now we have Amazon, takeaway, just eat, the list goes on! We're talking about a few days of not having what you'd normally have, to avoid consequences that could be really devastating to someone else. I don't know what to say really.

This. God forbid we ever found ourselves in a war situation or such like. Heaven forbid we have no cereal to eat!

Not read thread

But so baffling that with 6 adults absolutely no one can help you. No friend or neighbour that can pop around anything. Post lock down OP, you, your DH and your children need to start building some relationships locally.

Your freezer presumably has bits?

@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.

Wind your neck in, if you were so concerned about it why did you still send him? And why if you knew your son could have Covid, did you not prearrange to get your shopping ?

If two of you each spend 15 minutes split up in Tesco's covering the entire shop, and if both of you are infectious, you present precisely as much danger as you would if you stick together and spend 30 minutes going round.

Given that your husband works in a massive organisation employing thousands of people, why do you discount that as a source of infection?

None of the DC’s mates have cars. They are teens.

Do you really know none of their parents after four years? In any event one of them may well be prepared to help anyway - I would if it were one of my children's friends.

I’m still amazed that with 6 adults in the house you know absolutely no-one who could help you out, even if it is relative/friend of one your DCs mates

Until you can get delivery for Weds could you....

• ask on a local Facebook board
• go on Amazon for a few bits
• does your local council have a wellbeing hub - I think most do, with volunteers who can help
• any neighbours who could pop a few bits in?

You shouldn't get tested, unless you have symptoms, as you will still need to self isolate for 2 weeks

You shouldn't go to Tesco

I know it is too late now, but this is the second thread I've seen since yesterday where someone is really struggling whilst self isolating, this is a good heads up that everyone should be prepared to have to self isolate (have a few extra supplies/medicines in, have numbers of support helplines handy, set up a network with friends or neighbours to help).

Good luck op, I hope you get something sorted.

The staff probably caught Covid from an asymptomatic child at the college. Also, it's almost impossible to sd from children especially children and young people with additional needs.

If the rest of you don’t have symptoms you shouldn’t be tested. Deliveroo and amazon prime now do groceries same day delivery or go to nhs website and search nhs responders for local volunteers

How can you be fucking raging at college staff for contracting covid by doing their jobs, but you want to knowingly go to a shop when you should be isolating.

haha - you're raging because you think someone at college infected your DS, and now you're blithering on about going round Tesco? You haven't been paying attention if you didn't immediately get the basics in for the next few days.

Mumsnet makes me howl. I am CEV and so always have 4-6 weeks with of food in for me and my family ( 5 adults here) as even pre corona I would often get bugs that would result in pneumonia. I've been called a hoarder, a panic buyer, a drain on society and selfish. Here on the other end of the scale is someday that knows her kid has been in very very close contact with THREE people and actually takes him for as test knowing they will have to isolate and doesn't bother getting any food in. Is furious and so fancies doing the same thing that caused her sons illness without a thought to other CEV people.

Op, people like YOU are the reason I keep so much food in and try to get everything delivered when I need it. You are also critically in prepared and don't seem to care about anybody else. You've booked 5 tests that don't need to be taken AND want two people that could very well be infected to go shopping.

You have no social conscience.

I was going to ask why you had no friends nearby who would help, but your attitude to this gives me the answer.