Page 16 | Supermarket when you’re covid positive

GemGEmGemster · 2022-04-15T13:33:41+00:00

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

Threetulips · 16/04/2022 16:34

Yes I would. Up until I chatted to my sister last week I would have said no

Interesting, so the question is, would you go if you were negative and risk catching it?

hellcatspangle · 16/04/2022 16:34

Only if i was desperate for something and I'd wear a mask/go in the evening when it's quiet.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 16/04/2022 16:41

I wouldn’t necessarily know if I had Covid now though - I don’t go to shops or to work if I don’t feel well enough to, but now I don’t have to test twice a week (am a teacher) and there are no longer free tests available, I’ve got no way of knowing for sure whether I’ve got it or not.

AllOfUsAreDead · 16/04/2022 16:48

[quote TinselTitsAndGlitteryBits]@stayathomer I don't mean something that's uncomfortable for you (of course you're staying at home with D&V, Norovirus... because you feel too ill to leave), just a cold.

Did you ever go out with a cold?[/quote]
But that's not true, people don't stay at home with d&v or norovirus, otherwise it wouldn't spread. They go out to shops and spread it around while still contagious. Even take it into hospitals to the already sick people.

Many people are just gross.

Iorderedyouapancake · 16/04/2022 17:05

@TinselTitsAndGlitteryBits can you please share the evidence for your statement that a cold is just as likely to kill a cev person as covid?

timestheyarechanging · 16/04/2022 17:14

Yes but I don't test anymore so wouldn't know either way. I've had it, my partner has had it (in itu) my adult kids have had it. I've probably got it but I won't test and am looking forward to a lovely family gathering tomorrow.

TypicaIMe · 16/04/2022 17:35

@duskyspringfield

I’ll be swerving Sainsburys from now on then! That’s a bloody shame I do like Sainsburys. Been meaning to try Aldi anyway. Harrumph.

Aldi (and several other retail companies, and schools too) have the same policy.

duffeldaisy · 16/04/2022 18:12

Definitely not. Have you seen the death stats recently?

I wouldn't want to get it myself anyway, despite having no underlying conditions (there's still the risk of long covid, and 1.5 million already have that), so I wouldn't want to give it to anyone and risk that.
A large minority (and growing, thanks to previous cases of covid) have low immunity or underlying problems. Even wearing a ffp2 mask there's still a chance of infecting them, and I don't want to have people's deaths or ongoing chronic illness on my conscience.

duffeldaisy · 16/04/2022 18:13

@timestheyarechanging

Yes but I don't test anymore so wouldn't know either way. I've had it, my partner has had it (in itu) my adult kids have had it. I've probably got it but I won't test and am looking forward to a lovely family gathering tomorrow.

Wow.

Carriecakes80 · 16/04/2022 18:13

No I wouldn't, I would beg someone I know to help me out, there are very few people that can't ask a neighbour/friend/colleague/family to get them something if they are that desperate, and as for the complete numbnuts who says 'You'd do it with a cold'...this is why so many people died...idiotic dappy comments like that, for the millionth time, Covid is not a cold. My mate did not die of a cold, he left his kids behind because of covid.
Jesus.

waterhorse123 · 16/04/2022 18:22

Those who said they would go out and do the shopping while positive - what about the little old lady you meet who has other health issues that you pass it on to? What about the check out worker/shelf stacker you pass it on to who has a chronically sick child or parent at home and you give it to them and they die?
Such a selfish attitute and goes to prove that when I'm out and see people wearing masks out and about they probably do have covid (as I suspected) and are out anyway. I'm still wearing a mask if I have to go in a shop and I wish everybody else was too. And I heartily wish everyone with anything remotely like covid - a cold or flu for example - would stay at home and NOT spread it. My husband shouldn't even get a cold because of his health issues, and there are selfish people out there not giving a damn because they're 'all right Jack' because they have no other health issues and aren't bothered if they catch it.

Patchbatch · 16/04/2022 18:28

@waterhorse123

Those who said they would go out and do the shopping while positive - what about the little old lady you meet who has other health issues that you pass it on to? What about the check out worker/shelf stacker you pass it on to who has a chronically sick child or parent at home and you give it to them and they die? Such a selfish attitute and goes to prove that when I'm out and see people wearing masks out and about they probably do have covid (as I suspected) and are out anyway. I'm still wearing a mask if I have to go in a shop and I wish everybody else was too. And I heartily wish everyone with anything remotely like covid - a cold or flu for example - would stay at home and NOT spread it. My husband shouldn't even get a cold because of his health issues, and there are selfish people out there not giving a damn because they're 'all right Jack' because they have no other health issues and aren't bothered if they catch it.

I think the main point is most people won't know they have it now as testing is no longer free

Loudhousefun · 16/04/2022 18:33

Not testing here anymore so wouldn’t know if I did, if obviously unwell I would not go anywhere anyway

dondon23 · 16/04/2022 18:38

No, I think that would be selfish and irresponsible.
You might feel ok you could potentially pass it on to someone who's extremely vulnerable

LifesTooShortForYourNonsense · 16/04/2022 18:39

I currently have covid. I’m lucky I can order food. Not taking kids out, they can’t have friends over, I can’t see my parents - We still have to protect the old and vulnerable. As throughout the whole pandemic, it’s just selfish not to.

I’m pretty sure I caught covid at a fully-masked school easter assembly, so it may help to stop the spread but it is never full protection.

Maltester71 · 16/04/2022 18:39

I’d get a delivery.

If desperate, I’d wear an FFp3 mask and stay away from people

AnnieSnap · 16/04/2022 18:40

No, absolutely not. I care about other people!

TheKeatingFive · 16/04/2022 18:40

And I heartily wish everyone with anything remotely like covid - a cold or flu for example - would stay at home and NOT spread it.

A significant proportion of flu infections are asymptomatic, so people are and have always been unwittingly spreading them around. We've never tested for a disease to the extent we have for covid.

duffeldaisy · 16/04/2022 18:42

[quote tomatorich112]@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.[/quote]
Just to correct you - the virus hasn't become much milder. It's because so many people are now vaccinated, particularly in older groups, that deaths have dropped. The virus now can still be deadly to vulnerable people (and would be far moreso if most of the population didn't have vaccines), and is far more contagious than the original version.

The way we cut long covid cases and deaths is by -
-stopping it getting too serious if we get it (with vaccines)
-stopping spreading it, especially to those who have weakened immunity or are extra vulnerable (with isolating when symptomatic, testing before meeting others indoors, wearing masks, and ventilating indoor spaces as well as possible).

TypicaIMe · 16/04/2022 18:42

@AnnieSnap

No, absolutely not. I care about other people!

Presumably you'll care that people need to eat, then?

TypicaIMe · 16/04/2022 18:44

@waterhorse123

Those who said they would go out and do the shopping while positive - what about the little old lady you meet who has other health issues that you pass it on to? What about the check out worker/shelf stacker you pass it on to who has a chronically sick child or parent at home and you give it to them and they die? Such a selfish attitute and goes to prove that when I'm out and see people wearing masks out and about they probably do have covid (as I suspected) and are out anyway. I'm still wearing a mask if I have to go in a shop and I wish everybody else was too. And I heartily wish everyone with anything remotely like covid - a cold or flu for example - would stay at home and NOT spread it. My husband shouldn't even get a cold because of his health issues, and there are selfish people out there not giving a damn because they're 'all right Jack' because they have no other health issues and aren't bothered if they catch it.

That shelf stacker may well be in work with covid, as per company policy.

I'm CEV, I've had covid five times, I recognise that people need to eat and can't always rely on people to help them or get/afford online deliveries.

mussymummy · 16/04/2022 18:48

No way don't be so fuckibg selfish that why you can order a supermarket delivery. I have cancer as does a close family member and its because of assholes with that mentality that makes us wary to go out

Sistanotcista · 16/04/2022 18:50

Well, it’s not illegal (assuming the rules are the same where you are). It is irresponsible though. I wouldn’t, but appreciate that some have no choice.

Fluff3 · 16/04/2022 18:52

As an NHS nurse working on the wards, no I wouldnt, people who go out knowing they have Covid are, in my opinion very selfish. This pandemic is far from over for the NHS. The hospitals are still full of Covid patients and people who are knowingly going out after testing positive are making this situation worse.

Violinist64 · 16/04/2022 18:54

I had Covid last week. I was relieved it was the last week of term as I was able to do about half my music teaching online but cried off the rest as the worst symptom for me was the overwhelming exhaustion. I still get fatigued very easily. I would not have considered going to a supermarket even if I was asymptomatic. As it was, I did not feel well enough anyway. Fortunately my husband was a few days ahead of me and testing negative by the time we needed shopping. I tested positive for ten days, at which point I rang the Covid helpline, 119. I was told that after ten days I was not considered infectious and could come out of isolation. Apparently some people can test positive for up to ninety days. I was probably far more infectious in the few days before when I was testing negative and had an important hospital appointment, collecting my new glasses and going to music exams, where l was accompanying. I deliberately took LFTs before these events. I do agree with those who say that we are at the point where we have to live with it and it is a case of when rather than if for most of us. Omicron seems to be a much milder version, thankfully. I have had proper flu and felt far worse with that and that is still a killer to the vulnerable. In fact, I am one of many who think that Covid was in this country by the end of 2019 as I had the really nasty strange virus that many others reported. The biggest symptom was the feeling of the chest being squeezed and as I am a lifelong sufferer of asthma was very frightening. It was far worse than the “official” Covid l had last week.