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Supermarket when you’re covid positive

521 replies

GemGEmGemster · 15/04/2022 14:33

Not to start a bunfight, I just want to know. Would you go supermarket shopping when you were testing positive?

OP posts:
Threetulips · 15/04/2022 17:36

I don’t know - because people are now working with it, so what difference does it make? I’m also surprised the amount of people positive with no symptoms, before Covid and Granny was ill, you wouldn’t have even considered you may have passed something on to someone else, because you ‘didn’t’ catch it.

That’s the nature of viruses isn’t it?

PizzaCrust · 15/04/2022 17:38

We’ve been in this exact situation recently. We did an online delivery order. Failing that, we would have did a click and collect order (the lockers are outside), or asked someone to do a shop for us.

Id only go in person if I lived somewhere with absolutely 0 options for deliveries and had zero support from friends/family/colleagues. Id exhaust all other options first.

SookieHouseboat · 15/04/2022 17:39

I don’t know - because people are now working with it, so what difference does it make?

Yes, this is the point being missed spectacularly in this thread.

Saucery · 15/04/2022 17:40

A decent public health campaign could have persuaded most people to wear a mask if they were shopping with any sort of Covid/cold symptoms, but thanks to the useless government approach throughout the pandemic, that ship has long since sailed. It could have been a good idea, low-key, no haranguing, no SELFISH IF YOU DON’T WEAR A MASK! adverts.
If I have any symptoms and there aren’t any alternatives available to me like online/ friends or family I’ll put a mask on and go at quiet times, but I’m lucky enough to have those alternatives and not everyone is.

WonderingWanda · 15/04/2022 17:41

I would follow the recommendation to isolate for 5 days. If I had no obvious symptoms after that but was still testing positive then yes I would but not if I had symptoms still. This is the guidance I have been given by the school I work in too.

Fizbosshoes · 15/04/2022 17:42

I don’t know - because people are now working with it, so what difference does it make?

Yes, this is the point being missed spectacularly in this thread.

People with covid might be working in the supermarket? Or for ocado. Or uber eats.

diddl · 15/04/2022 17:42

@TheNumberfaker

No of course not. If you know you have it, stay at home. Can’t believe 1 in 5 have said they would.
I'm sure that most of us who have said that we would mean as an absolute last resort.
RuthW · 15/04/2022 17:42

No

ilovesooty · 15/04/2022 17:44

More of the posters appearing who don't give a toss and have said so before.

Certainly no point in engaging with them.

FinallyHere · 15/04/2022 17:44

Nope

But then I have have been doing online orders for years, long before the pandemic.
I see no advantage to having to pick my own shopping from the shelves, pack and pay for it, carry it home when it could be delivered in crates to my kitchen.

In an ideal world, it would be put away in the right cupboards but meanwhile, online deliveries all the way.

Saucery · 15/04/2022 17:45

Actually, just realised that I did go into a shop with Covid. Tested Negative for 5 days, could have been a cold. I put a mask on though, just in case. I’d have felt awful if I hadn’t and then tested Postive.

ilovesooty · 15/04/2022 17:46

@diddl

Some of those posters undoubtedly don't mean that, unfortunately.

DirkWearsWhiteSocks · 15/04/2022 17:47

Once I realized most of the locals had voted for Brexit I took off the mask and statistically started to make the world a better place.

Sapphireskies · 15/04/2022 17:48

When I had Covid I did it once only because I couldn't any other way and I was masked up hands sanitised stayed away from others only picked up what I was going to buy and in and out fast.

TypicaIMe · 15/04/2022 17:49

I was served by someone in a shop last week who was telling a colleague she was still positive but she'd had it for almost a week so she wasn't going to stay home anymore. DD's school (she's a teacher, not a pupil!) are insisting staff come back on day six if they're not at death's door, positive or not.

Lots of people are having to go to work while positive because if they don't, they don't get paid.

In this climate, if I had to go to a supermarket while positive because I couldn't get an online slot or whatever, I would. I'd take all precautions but yes, I'd go.

CorsicaDreaming · 15/04/2022 17:50

No unless I absolutely had no food in and had nothing to eat otherwise (which seems fairly unlikely tbh). And then I'd be wearing a PPE3 mask. And still feel really bad about it.

But there again that's just me and if I'd ruled the world we would have locked down before February 2020 half term.... and the world may have felt a rather different place.

TypicaIMe · 15/04/2022 17:50

@DirkWearsWhiteSocks

Once I realized most of the locals had voted for Brexit I took off the mask and statistically started to make the world a better place.
I'm a staunch remainer but this is utterly vile.
CorsicaDreaming · 15/04/2022 17:52

@DirkWearsWhiteSocks

Once I realized most of the locals had voted for Brexit I took off the mask and statistically started to make the world a better place.
No you really were not making the world a better place 🤨🙄
Wheresmywoolyjumpers · 15/04/2022 17:53

Yes, this is the point being missed spectacularly in this thread.

Not if you dont yourself and dont think other people should be.

LeftieLucy · 15/04/2022 17:53

I’ve had covid for 2 weeks - for the first week I couldn’t lift my head off of the pillow let alone walk around Tesco.
I’d do everything I could to avoid someone else possibly feeling the same

gogohm · 15/04/2022 17:54

Yes if I had to. Nobody local to help me out. It's irrelevant as it's not occurred.

gogohm · 15/04/2022 17:55

Ps I'm not testing anymore

Snaketime · 15/04/2022 17:56

No I would not. I work in a small shop, I worked all the way through every lockdown and still managed to dodge Covid for the last 2 years. I am currently off work now with it (which means I am not getting paid for this week now, because I only get my basic contracted pay of 4 hours and not the extra hours I had picked up because I am desperate for money) because someone obviously came in whilst I was at work, the time frame fits to me catching it at work, plus I have only gone between home, work and the supermarket before I caught it. All of those saying I went when it was quiet etc it might have been quiet of shoppers but the staff are people too and you don't know wether they are vulnerable or not.

TypicaIMe · 15/04/2022 17:57

@gogohm

Yes if I had to. Nobody local to help me out. It's irrelevant as it's not occurred.
This is it - when we had covid recently we had nobody to ask for help. Luckily we had plenty of food in and ordered takeaways when we felt to crap to cook. Also DD tested positive before me and DH so there were only four days when none of us could leave the house.

If you have no friends or relatives to help you'd have no choice but to go out. Similarly if you couldn't afford the minimum order for an online delivery, you'd have to.

CorsicaDreaming · 15/04/2022 17:59

@SookieHouseboat

I don’t know - because people are now working with it, so what difference does it make?

Yes, this is the point being missed spectacularly in this thread.

@SookieHouseboat

Statistically it does make a difference.

Every covid positive interaction makes it statistically more likely that a further variant will be created that evades the vaccines and is more transmissible and more lethal.

It is still possible this can happen. And every time anyone passes it on and it mutates we are rolling the dice and just gambling on not getting this outcome.

Multiply that by millions of covid positive interactions worldwide and it is a frankly bonkers game of Russian Roulette that the human race are STILL playing with a demonstrably lethal and highly transmissible virus.

The human race always have been a load of lemmings though.