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!

imagine if these kind of attitudes had been prevalent during the second world war.
would we ever have survived.
when i think of how hard my parents worked, and they didn't even have to be here, they were immigrants, and all the sacrifices of the populus.
and now this. it's so disappointing.
come on OP, you can do better than this.

Stay the fuck home and isolate. This is why it’s spreading as people think they can go out. You have food in your house . Make it last while you sort out alternatives. Click and collect or ask a friend.

You're allowed to go for a test because when you have symptoms it is necessary. A lot of the testing centres are for self administering, so you're not having close contact with anyone else and the workers have PPE.
It is not the same as being allowed to just go out.

I dont like it when people are insulting online but I'm finding it very difficult to not ask you if you have some sort of impairment which is causing you to not understand this.

@ViralVera I cant work out jf you are a troll or monumentally daft?

Do you actually have symptoms and need a test? You could become symptomatic in 11 days.

How have you got a test with no symptoms? Have you lied on the website form?

Have test and protect explained to you in very simple basic words what to do? Please ask them to.

STAY AT HOME

If you have symptoms or are told by them to get a test then you drive to the test centre STAY IN THE CAR then go straight home. If you cannot drive you get posted a home test out and they collect it.

TOJ DO NOT GO TO THE SHOPS WHEN
SELF ISOLATING.

Honest to goodness no wonder England had such bad levels if people dont get this.

Well we’re allowed to go out for testing Bajalaluna and the shop is only across the road from there.

Why have you even asked? You seem so set on breaking the guidelines and potentially making people really, really sick.

The only way things are even vaguely manageable for this country, is because we each have an amount of faith that everyone else will do their bit too.
People go to the shops to get their food whilst they are not self isolating because they have the hope or maybe faith that those with symptoms or who should be isolating will keep well away. If you go, you break the system.

Which of the many, many options you have been given are you going to try before risking the lives of strangers?

Stay home for gods sake. Also, someone may have already mentioned it but Deliveroo and UberEats both do groceries these days, and obviously you don’t need to book it in advance.

Hahaha your raging at the staff but your Dh has gone to work and your dd shopping wow. If you need to rage rage at yourself you absolutely selfish family. People like you make me sick. I haven’t seen my dad in months because idiots think even though their infected they can float around wherever the hell they want 😡😡😡

Do not under any circumstances go to Tesco. Ridiculous - particularly after ranting about others.

Everyone should plan for a sudden Covid test and isolation. But that ship has sailed.

You won’t starve, you can order take away and ask for it to be left at the front door. Just eat or deliveroo. Can you ring in an order to a local small shop and ask a taxi to collect it? They did this in our area.

There will be solutions all over your local Facebook.

Don't know where you are but I'm involved in a scheme that gets shopping for people (among other things). Many churches and charities are doing the same. There is help out there in the community.

@dementedpixie you do realise that you can't GET a test unless you display more of one of the three main symptoms?

It's not like you click your fingers and the COVID ovaltine light team descend upon you. I bet you anything if I requested a test right now I would be turned down. I do not have the main symptoms and I have not been around anyone who has tested positive. Use your common sense.

@BlackBucketOfCheese

Your 15 min shopping trip does not make sense.

I’m sure MN is able to provide IP addresses/info to the police when self harm is mentioned, I wonder if it would be possible in this kind of situation?

I am sure the police will appreciate being given an IP address to track because someone is potentially going to tesco

OP you know YABU. I know its shit, but there are many options. At a push, get a few takeaways or something.

Makes no sense to be raging at school staff while being willing to spread it yourself, and knowingly too.

Also, I expect you had to lie to get tests, if there weren't symptoms. Honestly I don't really see the point in the family getting them, given you all have to isolate ayway if one has it.

I forgot Boris said everyone MUST stay at home with symptoms/positive in household except @viralvera cos they are sooooopa doooooopa special and allowed to do what da fuk they want

Evidently you have already decided you're going to do it OP. i really don't know why you bothered to start a thread. I hope to god you don't infect anyone. I don't imagine you'll ever know if you do. God forbid you should go without for a couple of days.

@ViralVera

Well we’re allowed to go out for testing Bajalaluna and the shop is only across the road from there.

Haven’t decided yet though so untwist your knickers.

Have you been to a testing centre before? Very different to going to tescos😂

I drove to the Covid centre, cracked my window, theY posted the test through. All talking was over the phone. I was dandering around the isles touching things.

This really does worry me. Do you honestly not see the difference. Do you think it’s safe becoase it’s across the road?

I hope your husband has more sense, particularly If his workplace is high risk.

if your son is vulnerable like you're claiming he is you should quite easily be able to get assistance, at worst as above says put a message out on fb or call your nearest supermarket

@Frownette people lie though. They just click yes they have a symptom and then it let's them have a test

They will look fucking stupid though if they develop a symptom 4 days layer and need to book another test and get a positive then test and protect will trace it back and be v confused and they will get caught out for bullshitring and wasting tests cos they are too thick to comprehend advice

@frownette dementedpixie was actually saying the exact same thing as you in their post - that none of the rest of the family should be getting tested unless they were showing symptoms. There was a typo that they corrected in the following post.

@BugCatcher879

I forgot Boris said everyone MUST stay at home with symptoms/positive in household except *@viralvera* cos they are sooooopa doooooopa special and allowed to do what da fuk they want

But if you're bloody well waiting until household results are negative of course you're going to do short shop trips to stock up.

I could beg and plead all I wanted but unless I had symptoms I'd be marched off the premises metaphorically. I'm not frontline, I'm not old enough, not bad enough physical underlying issues, no main symptoms.

and poor Tescos; losing all that business as everyone reading this avoids going there for the next few days...

and poor Tescos; losing all that business as everyone reading this avoids going there for the next few days...

MN at its best

I just did the COVID checklist online: I'm not qualified for a test.

If anyone thinks they can waltz up and demand one they are sadly deluded (aside from some regional areas and work).

OP keep updated about what you can get hold of.

Ah sorry to OP and anyone else, I misunderstood, I'm still a bit frazzled at having to stay away from home for a few days until relative's test was negative

Yes I'd just use up whatever is in the cupboard and phone neighbour's or ask any COVID help in your area. It's only a few days.

Asda does express click and collect same day.
Try all supermarkets. Ocado, Waitrose even if you don't use them normally. Iceland and Co-op too.
Try DeliverooTry Morrissons on Prime.
Try getting any food even packets and dry food on Amazon for now.
Try posting on local FB community groups and as someone on there to get you enough to see you through until you can get a delivery all this click and collect anywhere.
Don't go out shopping. That is beyond selfish and stupid.

Absolutely shocking that you insist it’ll be fine to go shopping because you’ll be quick. Have you been asleep all year? 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?

So many people have given you a list of solutions. Refusing them suggests you’re a bit too okay with collateral for the sake of a supermarket trip. Imagine if it was your child who died as a result of someone else’s trip - would you be fine with that? If not, don’t do it yourself.

Can’t believe you’d even consider this. There are some horrible, nasty, selfish (to put it politely) people in this world and you are one of them. As for both you and your DH going into the supermarket... could you honestly be anymore stupid??