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!

Yes, take the next online shopping slot available.

In the meantime

• eat everything in your store cupboards
• get a delivery or two
• anything else (bread, milk) get from Deliveroo coop or M&S

No need to go to shops.

Or, are you on Next Door or a local FB group?

In my area, many people would offer to help in your situation. Especially if it means your family not being in the local supermarket!

You do have options OP.

I have sympathy for an obviously difficult situation but YABU for a number of reasons.

Blaming teachers

Getting a load of tests without symptoms which is pointless and a waste of resources

Considering going the supermarket when you’re meant to be isolating

But doesn’t sound like you want people’s opinions so not sure why you asked.

Hope your son is ok and recovers quickly

CEV people shouldn’t be going to work or school/college if they’re following the guidelines anyway

That is correct and my CEV husband and myself have not been out since March having followed the guidelines to the letter. Also, on advice from doctors, continued to shield in the period between first and second lockdowns. However, the new guidelines state that children of parents who are CEV must go to school. And of course those children come back home each day having mixed with maybe 100/150 other children in their bubble, more if they need transport to get to and from school. Any of the people in their bubble or on their bus/train/taxi can of course go to Tescos, catch it from people such as the OP, and then pass it onto your children. This is the biggest, and in my opinion most difficult, change during this second lockdown - in one paragraph in the shielding letter it says not to go out, in another paragraph it says your children must go to school - though how you physically take them to school without leaving home is not answered! This is why many CEV parents have had to withdraw their children from school.

@Paddingtonjuice

I would say definitely no to going out shopping. There are a lot of vulnerable people in the shops. There are shops delivering groceries on deliveroo and Uber eats. Look at milk and more online. I use them. They are really good. Look at your local Facebook- lots of butchers and grocers will deliver to you. Post on Facebook for a volunteer. Please don’t go out knowing you have covid.

She hasn't got covid.

OP, I too find it hard to believe not one person in your household knows a single person who could get you the basics.

I'm not going to add any practice advice to the many kind and resourceful posters above I'm dumbfounded that an educated woman with a vulnerable child has no insight or self responsibility for others
Your first thought is to go to Tesco, knowing your child has tested positive.
Have you heard of Google? Get on it and think outside the box I have to say, if this is typical of your personality I'm not surprised you are friendless

No you can’t go to the shop.

Book the delivery for Wed. As others have said, are you near Iceland, in my area they usually have next day slots, or morrisons for their set boxes. What about local green grocers or veg box schemes - some do bread/eggs too.

Failing that, Make breakfast and lunches from the food you have in. Order takeaway for tea.

Facebook groups may have volunteers who can help. They only need to get shopping for two- three days if you can get a slot on Wed. Just ask for essentials.

Not sure I understand the logic of you and DH shopping together but splitting up to do half each. Fine it shares the load but in terms of corona..?

Please don’t take possible corona to a supermarket. I would be far more angry about catching it from you than from a teacher trying their best. You can’t say what difference does 12 hours make. Of course it does. 12 hours ago you weren’t SI. Now you are. Am I right that DS was tested with no symptoms? If he had symptoms you should all have been SI already.

No need for the rest of you to get tests if you don’t have symptoms. You could still get it a couple of days later so have to SI for 14 days anyway.

@Storyoftonight well that’s not quite true. She doesn't know If she has covid - but someone in her house does - so it’s fairly likely.

@LadyInParis

I’m reporting this post. I think it’s a wind up I can’t find any other posts from ‘Viral’ Vera .. just weird

Mumsnet have already commented.

Erm isnt the solution to simply order from justeat for a couple of days, until your online shop gets to you?

@AdventureCode
Not everyone could afford to feed 6 adults on takeaway for a few days. That would cost more than the weekly shop.

How can all four of your DC be adults but also be teens? And even if this is vaguely plausible (quadruplets or something), you really have 4 DC who are all 18/19 but none of them at all have friends or colleagues who can drive?

Even if they don't drive, surely they could grab a few pints of milk from a corner shop and walk them to you ffs? Or you could pay for a taxi for them to do a basics shops for you. I find it strange that 6 adults have nobody at all in in their local area they can ask for help.

You said your daughter was in Tesco today/yesterday (while you were waiting for the results of your son's test) - firstly, why, when you thought the risk of your son being infected was high enough to get him a test, and secondly, WHY DIDNT YOU ASK HER TO BUY STUFF THEN? given that you were clearly aware that if your son's test came back positive you'd all have to isolate! Same with your DH going to work - why didn't you suggest he get some stuff on his way home if you thought there was the slightest possibility you'd have to isolate!

People are being harsh on here
a) because you are moaning about your sons teachers and assumed they have infected him, which pisses off anyone who is or knows a teacher or other similar essential worker and how hard they've worked recently
b) because you didn't consider any of the other options open to you and jumped straight to 'lets go to tesco anyway'
c) you are acting as if this is some crazy surprise you couldn't possibly have anticipated rather than a pandemic that has been going on for nine months, at any point during which, any one of the six of you could have caught covid and all had to isolate - why on earth haven't you got enough basics in for this very foreseeable eventuality?
d) sounds like you all eat a ridiculous amount and honestly seem to think you will starve on four days of a basic diet which is insulting to people who have to live on that much, or less, every single day....

@LadyInParis

I’m reporting this post. I think it’s a wind up I can’t find any other posts from ‘Viral’ Vera .. just weird

You don’t need to announce you’re reporting a post unless you want to be deleted for troll hunting.

Ah i must of missed where she said she was short of money, sorry op.

@AdventureCode

Ah i must of missed where she said she was short of money, sorry op.

Probably hoping some MNers open their purses/wallets.

Apologies of it’s already been suggested as I haven’t read the full 29 pages but do Milk&More deliver in your area @ViralVera ? They have a wide range, including fresh fruit and veg

Oh ffs not this tripe again!
No you shouldn't be scooting into any shops
Your whole house needs to self isolate
None of you can go out

What part of self isolating to protect other people don't you get ???????????

Don't know why you're fuming with the staff. You don't know where it came from. It could be from another student who has no symptoms. It could have come from your son first! You never know.

Take some responsibility

Don't go to the supermarket.

I don't condone stockpiling but when things eased in the summer I think that was the opportunity to get in a huge bag of pasta and a few jars of sauce.

Covidiot alert.

@AdventureCode

Ah i must of missed where she said she was short of money, sorry op.

She didn't

If you're really not being goady OP just popped in to add my voice to the many saying of course you can't pop to the supermarket with covid. There are many vulnerable people there relying on people like you to stay at home. Even in medical grade ppe the advice would be exactly the same for those trained in preventing the spread of infectious deseases which you are not.

Comparing the supermarket to going to a testing centre is like apples and oranges. One you stay in your vehicle and only open your window to non vulnerable people in high grade ppe the other is a busy supermarket.

As for the teacher being in school on the day before getting a positive test. Many key workers (myself included) have access to faster testing so a same day result for a teacher is not surprising.