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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:
jokalyn · 17/04/2022 05:00

@WildCoasts no it was an outdoor block of toilets. I looked but couldn't find any contact for anyone maintaining them

grapewines · 17/04/2022 05:08

Not knowingly, no.

bakey9 · 17/04/2022 05:46

I have covid now and no way would I go anywhere, but my dad went to the shops for us yesterday and my friends or neighbours would drop off stuff if I needed anything.

Aleenazainana · 17/04/2022 07:56

I wouldn’t go. I would like to think that people care about those that are vulnerable. I am an unpaid cater looking after my sister who has just had a bone marrow transplant and is extremely vulnerable. I am often worried about picking up a virus and bringing it back home. We have to make sure we are all well so that we can look after her. It would be so dangerous for her as she no immunity. She is at high risk of infection. It could be fatal for her.
We have to test all the time. Wear masks constantly wash our hands.
So please stay inside as you could just be walking past and the covid virus could jump onto my clothes or I could pick it up and take it back home. 😓

CarmenThePanda · 17/04/2022 08:13

Not unless I was on day 9 or 10, and I would wear a mask.

aprilsunshine777 · 17/04/2022 08:37

No, I absolutely wouldn't. If I had it, I'd isolate still. But I know many people have been going out still when they have it.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 17/04/2022 09:22

@Remmy123

Nearly everyone I know didn't even have it as bad as a cold.

I do not thjnk it's easy to pass on in a large supermarket (with mask on)

Do you really not know how contagious omicron is (ncluding the newish sub variant )? Hmm
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/04/2022 09:28

It amazes me how many people are so clueless about shopping deliveries. It's all very well to say 'get a delivery' but not everyone can afford the minimum £40 spend plus delivery fee! Also if you live rurally not everywhere has deliveries from supermarkets or Deliveroo.

Lovemusic33 · 17/04/2022 09:32

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

It amazes me how many people are so clueless about shopping deliveries. It's all very well to say 'get a delivery' but not everyone can afford the minimum £40 spend plus delivery fee! Also if you live rurally not everywhere has deliveries from supermarkets or Deliveroo.
Agreed, we came down with covid last weekend, I had no food in, managed to eventually book a delivery slot but minimum order was £40 and it was a more expensive supermarket as the others were fully booked or don’t deliver to us (rural area). We don’t have deliveroo or anything similar here, can’t even get a take away from anywhere. I managed to do a £40 order but totally forgot about Easter and assumed I would be covid free by the end of the week. I’m not covid free, we have no food and couldn’t get another delivery as everything’s booked up because of Easter, so we have super noodles for Easter dinner 😬.
User0610134049 · 17/04/2022 09:33

I suspect that the people who would, wouldn’t have tested in the first place

siblingrevelryagain · 17/04/2022 09:37

I suspect a lot of the “I would but I’d wear a mask” brigade have spent the last two years saying there’s no evidence that a mask stops transmission.....

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 17/04/2022 09:38

@siblingrevelryagain

I suspect a lot of the “I would but I’d wear a mask” brigade have spent the last two years saying there’s no evidence that a mask stops transmission.....
Grin
ArcheryAnnie · 17/04/2022 09:40

Absolutely not. Selfish and unfair on other people.

Lillylinbin · 17/04/2022 09:46

You do what you need to do. We are all vaccinated now and it’s now as mild as a common cold.

Fizbosshoes · 17/04/2022 09:58

It amazes me how many people are so clueless about shopping deliveries. It's all very well to say 'get a delivery' but not everyone can afford the minimum £40 spend plus delivery fee! Also if you live rurally not everywhere has deliveries from supermarkets or Deliveroo.

Lack of available choices = selfish, though in lots of people's opinions.

Jellywellyfish · 17/04/2022 09:59

Definitely not. Could be highly vulnerable people around you. Order online or get family/friends to drop supplies off until you test negative.

ArcheryAnnie · 17/04/2022 10:01

@Lillylinbin

You do what you need to do. We are all vaccinated now and it’s now as mild as a common cold.
I'm triple-jabbed and am still off work six weeks after catching covid for the second time. I'm in near-constant pain. You are astonishingly ignorant.
TypicaIMe · 17/04/2022 10:01

@Fizbosshoes

It amazes me how many people are so clueless about shopping deliveries. It's all very well to say 'get a delivery' but not everyone can afford the minimum £40 spend plus delivery fee! Also if you live rurally not everywhere has deliveries from supermarkets or Deliveroo.

Lack of available choices = selfish, though in lots of people's opinions.

Exactly.
Madhairday · 17/04/2022 10:16

@Imlovinglife

Just about everyone has had it by now.

Anyone who is scared, they should be the ones at home, not you. We've spent enough time tiptoeing around the old/the ill/ the "CEV"/the hysterical and its time for the pendulum to swing back.

Just go.

Why the inverted commas around 'CEV'? Why the attitude of hate against vulnerable people? This kind of attitude mystifies me and upsets me as one of those CEV people you seem to so disdain.

OP no I wouldn't. My super fit DH has Covid at the moment and is struggling to breathe, he's really ill with it. I'm avoiding going out to crowded places even as a close contact because I care about vulnerable people.

I do understand though that some people would need to for whatever reason, and if they could choose a quiet time and wear a mask at least that's something.

But in general people I know are still isolating.

Homerlovesdonuts · 17/04/2022 11:05

Yes, but why are you testing is the main question. No need to any longer, life is supposed to be back to normal now after heavy cold epidemic.

SuziQuattrosFatNan · 17/04/2022 11:32

@Madhairday

the "CEV"

Do you regard CEV people in the same way you do the Loch Ness monster, or ghosts?

AnnieSnap · 17/04/2022 13:14

@Homerlovesdonuts

Yes, but why are you testing is the main question. No need to any longer, life is supposed to be back to normal now after heavy cold epidemic.
Because not everyone is prepared to ignore the science or even the information coming from medics caring for those currently critically ill, or dying from Covid FFS! 🙄
ilovesooty · 17/04/2022 13:49

I'm sure @Imlovinglife would be less bored if she had a close relative or child who was CEV. Oh I forgot - the inverted commas mean these people don't exist, or they're hysterical. Disgusting posts.

lljkk · 17/04/2022 14:47

@SookieHouseboat

I don’t think some posters are getting it. There will soon be NO WAY to tell if you have covid. You could have it without one symptom, you’ll never know now.
Covid is becoming another strain of common cold... most flu infections are asymptomatic, too. So people go to supermarket with flu all the time and long have done that. Ditto many mild bugs.

I'd not test OP, is truth of matter.

mum61 · 17/04/2022 14:56

@GemGEmGemster
No,i wouldn't knowingly go to a supermarket with an infectious disease .
most people can survive a week or so without physically doing a supermarket shop.