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!

www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/boxes/everyday-boxes/essentials

Morrisons essential foodbox

I genuinely don’t understand why people (who can afford to obviously) don’t have a few days worth of non-perishable or frozen food stashed away for exactly this reason.

We’ve known since March that exactly this situation could happen to any of us.

Just read all ops post what a fucking nasty attitude.

@womanaf

I genuinely don’t understand why people (who can afford to obviously) don’t have a few days worth of non-perishable or frozen food stashed away for exactly this reason.

We’ve known since March that exactly this situation could happen to any of us.

Yes totally.
Why would anyone not ?

She is panicking about nothing.
Help is out there.
I hate to say this (as I am no fan of Dido Harding, Boris et al), but Track and Trace were actually very good when we had covid.
They rang regualrly and offered practical assistance with shopping as well as providing emotional support.
I'm front line NHS staff, it takes a lot to impress me, but actually Track and Trace were great.
Shame she will probably be out shopping when they call.

The government have been saying for mom tv a to have a supply of food in case you need to self isolate. Why haven’t you bothered doing this?

I bet the OP has shrugged off all the criticism and just gone. Wish we knew where she was so we could make sure to avoid the supermarkets in that area today.

*months

@ViralVera do you have milk & more in your area? You can order cereal, yogurts etc online to be delivered.

Your DCs friends could also buy a few items if you ask them. I know I would have wanted to help my friends out when I was a teenager.

Well Mumsnet saw fit to delete what I think of you OP. Let me rephrase this so that the sphincter police don’t delete my post. As a front line healthcare worker, I am absolutely disgusted with your attitude. You see no problem with going to the supermarket with a positive COVID-19 case in your household. You show no regard for others, only for yourself. You are an utter disgrace

Also 6 adults living together without one friend to help...

Your behaviour is appalling , of course you are putting people and risk despite masks. They only help a bit. I cannot believe how incredibly selfish you are being I really hope you are a troll because I cannot comprehend why you would do this.

Absolutely not. People can be asymptotic and infectious with covid between 2-14 days. That's why we're in this mess. You would be breaking the law going out when the rules are clear. Put out a message on social media...call local supermarkets....finds click and collect where you drive there and have it put into your boot without leaving the car!!! So many options. The virus is airborne and a mask is not the absolute prevention. It helps along with other precautions. You will not be social distancing in a supermarket. Stay home for 14 days like everyone else in this situation

WTF. Get takeaways for a fews days. It won't kill you. Unlike what might happen to the person you infect in Tesco.

Maybe idiots like OP should be vaccinated first to help protect the rest of us.

OP I had 4 hours notice of shielding this time round. It's not like this pandemic is only just happening and we haven't had months to know how to prepare in case of needing to isolate. From the beginning I've ensured we have enough food to last the two weeks, have regular Waitrose slots, contact the local mutual aid group if anything needs collecting locally like health shop items or prescriptions. They have been amazing. Local delis are also delivering as are the butchers. Then there's all the options mentioned by pps.

You need to take responsibility for not being prepared. Brexit might come as a shock to you when supplies are affected. Brexit and a winter in a pandemic could be very problematic fir those not prepared.

Local shop ?

My local one does deliveries

@RelightMyPfizer

Track and Trace will send you a food parcel- ask when they call

Our Co_op is on Deliveroo for basics?

Erm no. Possibly in some areas, but not here.

As a teacher who has had Covid very recently it actually makes me sad that you're 'fucking raging'. It's a pandemic, it happens, staff member May have been tested for basically the same reasons you tested your kid...been in contact, no symptoms but is a key worker so wanted to be sure. No one deliberately goes around infecting the vulnerable...oh, wait...except people living with a confirmed case who 'scoot round Tesco'. Your hypocrisy is laughable.

Our village has an organisation that will deliver to vulnerable families after doing the shop for them. Also food banks etc. Call the local church, they may have some idea, and the local Facebook group often has good ideas.

@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.

I’m trying to find something to say as your rage at this situation gives me the rage. Please calm down, mainly for your own sanity, it’s unlucky, the staff live their own lives & have clearly accidentally picked it up themselves, just as your son has. No one wants Covid and they would be mortified they may have passed it over to students.

Plus it could have been your DH in his key worked job, bringing it home, everyone asymptomatic and passed it on to the teachers. Theories all over the place. You don’t know, you never will, so concentrate on other things to be ‘fucking raging’ at.

This op has made me despair. Its utterly appalling what she is thinking of doing.

@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.

@flaviaritt

Ok so OP gives it to one person in Tesco.

The thing is, they then give it to a few of their close friends/family.

Then each of those people give it to a few people. Then a few more people again. And again, et cetera.

Resulting in hundreds/ thousands of people potentially getting it and dying, and yes, that would be down to one trip to Tesco. This is how viruses work. It started by one person in Wuhan contracting the virus and giving it to one or two people.

It is not hysterical, it's true.

OP is too busy in Tesco to come back to this thread...