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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:
YvanEhtNiojYvanEhtNioj · 15/04/2022 18:00

@DaleTrimont

No. Absolutely not. I know young, fit people who have been really unwell with the latest variant. My asthmatic friend is very breathless a month on.
Someone with asthma isn't fit.
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/04/2022 18:02

@ilovesooty

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

Certainly no point in engaging with them.

But how will people know if they've got covid? I have hay fever so for months I'll have a runny nose, cough etc. I tested this week as I have some left but won't be able to test every time my hay fever flares up.
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/04/2022 18:03

Someone with asthma isn't fit.

Tell that to Stuart Broad and Paula Radcliffe.

AnxiousSquirrel · 15/04/2022 18:04

@Chooksnroses

I'm very interested in the people who say they would , and I'd like to ask if you would visit a vulnerable relative if you knew or suspected you had Covid?
Depends on if I like that relative or not
SookieHouseboat · 15/04/2022 18:04

@CorsicaDreaming I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said!

Poppins2016 · 15/04/2022 18:06

@TheFairyCaravan

No, in the same way as I wouldn’t go out with Norovirus, or the flu, or Chicken Pox either.
I agree with this... In fact, I've recently isolated due to chickenpox and norovirus... I now have covid (day ten, still symptomatic) and wouldn't wish to pass it on, it's far worse than 'just a cold' like the media is trying to portray. I haven't felt this unwell in years!
GatoradeMeBitch · 15/04/2022 18:07

Wouid you go to the shops with a cold?

Yes we would. I would if I needed to, yet I really didn't appreciate being coughed over by several unmasked people in the supermarket today. Not even covering their mouths. Looks like some of us learned literally nothing about hygienic practices over the past two years.

CorsicaDreaming · 15/04/2022 18:10

[quote SookieHouseboat]@CorsicaDreaming I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said![/quote]

👍😄

AskingforaBaskin · 15/04/2022 18:11

@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 just snorted tea through my nose 😂😂
gogohm · 15/04/2022 18:12

@TypicaIMe

We can't get online deliveries without a few days notice either, no takeaways deliver except a dominos - hardly an option flies than one meal. No Deliveroo, no Uber eats, no Amazon prime Morrisons in our small town

ilovesooty · 15/04/2022 18:15

@PinkSparklyPussyCat I'm talking about people saying either that they have gone out knowingly with Covid, those who openly state that they don't care anyway and those who even seem proud of it.

They've been posting in that vein for months and I pity the people who have to associate with them on any level. Their previous posts indicate that they're not the sort of people I'd want to engage with.

You have persistent hayfever. You're not saying that you just don't care.

Mumwithbaggage · 15/04/2022 18:17

Absolutely not. Have done shopping for others and they have done the same for me. I don't know if the person standing next to me is undergoing chemo right now or has an autoimmune condition.

DietrichandDiMaggio · 15/04/2022 18:20

To all those that are saying no definitely not, the OP said when you are testing positive, which can still be the case well beyond the advised isolation period of 5, or even 10 days.
Are you all really saying you would not leave your house until you have had a negative test, even if that is two weeks or more after the initial positive test? I can't imagine many employers being happy with that.

Scottishnewmum · 15/04/2022 18:23

Never. Imagine you gave it to someone who was immunocompromised or who had a child with cancer or something. You'd have caused their death through your own selfishness.

ilovechocolate07 · 15/04/2022 18:24

I'd avoid if at all possible but if I felt well enough and needed to then yes I would. A year ago I would have said a definite no but we all should still presume that others have it and give then space and wear a mask.

TypicaIMe · 15/04/2022 18:31

@Scottishnewmum

Never. Imagine you gave it to someone who was immunocompromised or who had a child with cancer or something. You'd have caused their death through your own selfishness.
I'm immunosuppressed and I would hope that nobody would be unable to access food or essentials.

It's not selfish to need to eat.

HIVpos · 15/04/2022 18:31

How far do you take the legality piece? Is it immoral for someone with flu to visit a care home? Or for that matter, for someone with HIV not to tell sexual partners about their status, on the basis that their partners have the (imperfect) option of barrier protection, and that the illness is not a death sentence for most now there are treatments?

@OverTheRubicon this isn't really comparable as the vast majority of people who have HIV in the UK are on effective treatment and are zero risk to any sexual partners (with or without condoms).

Where a viral load is detectable, say in someone newly diagnosed, condoms used consistently and correctly are very effective as the virus can't pass through a latex barrier.

HikingforScenery · 15/04/2022 18:31

I think people are forgetting that some people have absolutely no one to “ask to do the shopping for them”.

tomatorich112 · 15/04/2022 18:33

@CorsicaDreaming

The virus has become much less deadly, purely from washing through society.

Yes in theory it could mutate, but it hasn't, it's become much milder.

We can't live in a bubble any longer, more people have died from not receiving NHS care. Children need to go school, people need to work, families need to socialise. We have an economy in tatters.

We have to get on with it now. We can't lockdown forever, if you're still living with such fear then, you have to accept that and isolate yourself.

ThinWomansBrain · 15/04/2022 18:36

personally - probably not, although I live alone, I have a wealth of fast delivery services competing for business in my area, a bunch of very helpful neighbours, and probably a well enough stocked freezer and cupboard that all I'd really need is milk.
I reaslise that not evryone is so fortunate - if I had to go, I would go late at night, wear a mask and use the self checkout till.

Watapalava · 15/04/2022 18:43

Yes I would and I have. I will never test again tho so it won’t be an issue

ThinWomansBrain · 15/04/2022 18:45

forgot to add - I wouldn't pick up every single piece of unwrapped brocoli, examine it what the fuck for? you can see how big it is before you hold it 30cm from your nose FFS and put it back, like the twat in fron of me at sainsbury's this afternoon.
I bought a bag of spinach instead.

RiojaRose · 15/04/2022 18:47

@DietrichandDiMaggio

To all those that are saying no definitely not, the OP said when you are testing positive, which can still be the case well beyond the advised isolation period of 5, or even 10 days. Are you all really saying you would not leave your house until you have had a negative test, even if that is two weeks or more after the initial positive test? I can't imagine many employers being happy with that.
I didn’t go out until I’d had two negative tests 24 hours apart. I was still testing positive until day 12 I think (and still too unwell to work so signed off).

But I had five separate offers from friends and family who were willing to bring me food etc. I think most people who aren’t total arseholes have people nearby who would be willing to help out. People who don’t have willing friends or neighbours might want to ask themselves why.

Memyselfandfood · 15/04/2022 18:57

Absolutely disgusting comments on here. Some people should be ashamed, but clearly won’t be.

TypicaIMe · 15/04/2022 19:00

@HikingforScenery

I think people are forgetting that some people have absolutely no one to “ask to do the shopping for them”.
Exactly.