How are most people contracting covid-19?

[FreierFall]

Is it on public transport, in hospitals, care homes, supermarkets? Is there any data on this? I bet it's not from walking within 2 m of someone in the street!

Or from the packaging on shopping or letters.

Guessing of course, but my money would be on public transport and in the viral soup of supermarkets

i hate supermarket shopping

perhaps it is at work
on public transport.

wash your hands

After my trip to Tescos yesterday, I'm willing to bet it's the supermarkets. Even with the queuing to get in, the one way system, the signs it was almost impossible to distance. I'll stick with my small local shop for now? Even though it means shopping more often

I think I may have had this in March. I had reason to go on a train journey that involved four changes. It was a hellish journey with lots of people. It was for work and I was less than impressed. I did everything I could to sanitise hands, not touch anything.

Whether it was coronavirus or not I'm not sure but whatever it was I caught on that journey

I'm interested in the answer too, my area doesn't have many cases so I don't see how a main reason can be from supermarkets or there wouldn't be such differences between the regions. The per capita supermarket trips probably doesn't vary much across the country yet the per capita number of cases of CV is hugely different.

I think I have it now and the most probable causes are supermarket and deliveries (including pizza delivery).

I think I contracted it at a Boots pharmacy or at a small supermarket on Good Friday. Symptoms (I now realise they were symptoms- not cough or fever but headache and sore eyes) started on the Tuesday morning, and I’d only been out once in 3 weeks.

Could have been the gaggle of 7 shop assistants who surrounded me and my son in an otherwise empty Boots? Or the basket in the supermarket? Or the man who refused to give way on the pavement (I had a buggy, he was stood in the middle) then coughed as I passed. Or my near neighbour who’s been coughing for weeks and whose son came into my garden to collect a football.

Who knows. What I do know is however stupidly I caught it, its absolutely nobody’s fault that I did, except governments for fucking off quarantining, contact tracing, and letting this thing take hold.

So, no-one knows for definite where they contracted it (if what they have/had is Covid-19) so how the heck are the Government expected to do contact tracing? They can only use info provided by the person with symptoms.

I work in a supermarket in a rural area(reasonably low numbers). None of the staff have had symptoms or have been diagnosed. So I can't see supermarket as being the top reason. I think working in the NHS on the front line is the most likely way.

My dad caught it on a plane coming back from Spain on 13 March. The fella beside him was coughing for all of the 2 and a half hour flight. My mum has symptoms and is awaiting testing from the HSE as she will be having radiotherapy for breast cancer. She caught it from my dad as they have been cocooning since they got back to Ireland.

Working in care homes and NHS. Living in care homes and being in hospital. How many people live in care homes in the UK? Must be a sizeable number. They must all be at serious risk.

I was thinking about this the other day. We are now too far into lockdown to be blaming pre-lockdown behaviour. I decided it must be mainly people who are still having to go out to work. It seems unlikely that it is from contact in shops (with people in the main trying to social distance) or indirect transmissions via packaging/gates etc.

Would be interested to know if anyone has actually identified the source of new cases.

I had it a few weeks ago and I’m confident I caught it in a supermarket. The woman behind me at the check outs (before social distancing) was coughing so much I felt really uncomfortable being close to her and bang I came down with it a few days / a week later. I wasn’t tested as didn’t go to hospital but I was very unwell for 2.5 weeks to the point I contacted 111 and they said they were confident I had it. Who knows.

My ds has had it we think, he became ill nearly 3 weeks ago and it made him feel really rough for 13 days, he works up in London, is classed as a keyworker and was using the bus, train and tube. I have a suspicion it was from public transport, but obviously could have been a shop.

Supermarket staff are not dropping like flies so I think that supermarkets are not as bad as people make out. Hospitals and care homes will be a massive risk. I think most of it in the community is people not actually socially distancing.

In the early days of lockdown several families on our street would stand on the road each evening , parents wod chat at a "safe" distance and kids would play at a "safe" disttance, only the distance got less and less. One little boy was coughing with a "cold". Last week several children had a "cold", this week their families are all down w COVID.

I went to Tesco today. Despite their best efforts, 1 coronapositive person in there would easily have infected others.

Using petrol pumps, cash machines, shopping in supermarkets, queuing for the post office, chemist, park benches, packaging, post etc....
This awful virus literally spreads from people, surfaces and everyday objects, doors, lift buttons etc.
Very early on I was advised to assume that outside your own home, this can be picked up from anybody or anything.

It's not really meaningful to include hospitals and care homes in the places where people contract it, that's both obvious and not of any help to members of the public who want to know how to reduce their risk. If say public transport is a big issue we need to know that to target measures around that once lockdown is lifted, any kind of scatter gun approach is a waste of effort and won't maximise the overall safety of the population.

90% of people who think they have it don’t have it.

For us, think it was from the school. We all came down with it at similar times so only place I can think we all were was the school run.

I’m pretty sure I got mine at work.
I’m a bit of a hermit otherwise and I drive so wouldn’t be public transport.

My neighbour caught it when he went into hospital for something else

I'd put money on it being in supermarkets. Until today any time I've been shopping is been good, reduced number of people in the store, good distancing. But in Asda today it was hell. Really busy shop, although there was a security guard they didn't seem to be restricting numbers, arrows on the floors which must people seemed to be ignoring, and it didn't seem as if anyone had heard of social distancing. I won't be back there

I'd hazard a guess and say it's due to people flouting lockdown and not social distancing.

One neighbour is a key worker, supermarket and full time is having regular close contact with another neighbour who can't work from home, full time worker too.

This lax attitude is a great way for transmission to still be rife and judging by the amount of posts on MN, my area is not the only place it's happening.