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Has anyone contracted CV since lockdown, observing all rules, and not know where you got it?

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KenDodd · 04/05/2020 23:32

Or well, two weeks after lockdown started to allow for incubation period. If you have, is it a confirmed case? And how much have you been going out and to where?

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KenDodd · 05/05/2020 12:47

Anyone?

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Burpalot · 05/05/2020 12:49

I don't know of anyone. Heard someone did get it though and could only put it down to a Tesco trip www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stay-home-warns-dad-after-21820429

TheGreatWave · 05/05/2020 13:09

I have only been to the shops, so no real idea of how or when.

(Have symptoms that could possibly be covid-19)

trappedsincesundaymorn · 05/05/2020 13:12

My mum did. She hadn't been out of the house since mid-February. My dad has had no symptoms despite being her main carer at the time. It's a complete mystery as to where she could have picked it up from as the few people that visited before lockdown also had no symptoms before or since.

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KenDodd · 05/05/2020 13:13

Have you had a test?

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NaturalBornWoman · 05/05/2020 13:15

I haven’t been out at all since March 19 and I have a cold. I have no idea how it’s possible to have caught anything other than from shopping deliveries which I clean or quarantine.

EarlGreywithLemon · 05/05/2020 13:30

@NaturalBornWoman, any chance it’s hayfever?

Flymetothetoon · 05/05/2020 13:31

@Naturalbornwoman could be hay fever ? Lots of hay fever symptoms mirror those of the common cold.

Flymetothetoon · 05/05/2020 13:31

Cross post with Earl!

Micah · 05/05/2020 13:39

I have only been to the shops, so no real idea of how or when

At a guess, when you went to the shops?

There is no way to completely clean or quarantine anything unless you have a hospital grade sterile door lock, and scrub like a surgeon before and after touching anything.

Precautions will reduce your chances of catching anything, but not eliminate it completely.

When you clean your delivery, for example, you have to touch it to clean it. Bring your hand near your face, even in gloves, and bingo....

I worked in a sterile cell culture for years. We had high flow hoods, uv light sterilisers, chlorox bleach to clean everything, everything was autoclaved, hands washed with 100% alcohol....

It still wasn’t a big surprise when a virus, bacteria or fungus got in and contaminated everything. It only takes one cell...

MissusMaker · 05/05/2020 13:57

DS who is 7 years old possibly had it. He had been completely at home since schools close, apart from daily socially distanced exercise - which we take seriously, avoiding crowds, crossing the street to avoid people etc. 3 weeks into lockdown he suddenly developed a severe persistent cough. We are at a loss as to where he picked it up, don't know if it was CV or not. Our household isolated for 2 miserable weeks; no one else developed any symptoms and DS never had a temp or anything other than an extremely nasty cough. The cough lasted 3 weeks.

If would be amazing to know he did have it, he is in the medically vulnerable (not shielding) group and it would be such a relief! But unless mass antibody testing occurs then we won't know.

NaturalBornWoman · 05/05/2020 14:25

@EarlGreywithLemon and @Flymetothetoon I wondered about hay fever but I’m not a sufferer usually. I know the pollen was supposed to have been very high but I would have thought it had dropped by now? Also not just nasal congestion and sore eyes but very sore throat and headache, slightly raised temperature and feeling quite unwell. I do feel like I’ve got a pretty bad cold virus. As I’ve never had hay fever I don’t know what fits?

Walnutwhipster · 05/05/2020 14:29

My brother. He broke his ankle just before lockdown. His wife has been to local shops occasionally but wearing a mask and gloves and doing everything else as advised. She thinks she probably had it with no symptoms and passed it on.

DateandTime · 05/05/2020 14:40

No, but I do have a cold despite not having been in contact with anyone to catch it. I'm starting to think I must be a hayfever sufferer, although I've never thought so before.

The only people I know IRL who have had it, one works in a care home and the other is her husband.

EarlGreywithLemon · 05/05/2020 15:31

@NaturalBornWoman, yes, the temperature and the very sore throat don’t sound like hayfever.
I, my DH and baby DD haven’t left the house in weeks and have sanitised the shopping, but we’ve all had runny noses and baby DD is coughing a little bit. Either it’s hayfever (not sufferers normally) or a mild cold...

Nameofchanges · 05/05/2020 15:34

I live in a city and don’t know anyone that has caught the virus.

TheDrsDocMartens · 05/05/2020 15:41

DS and I have had something but dh is working and potentially visiting covid houses (has PPE and showers etc when he comes home). So if we’ve caught something it’s only via him or from parcel or shopping

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/05/2020 15:41

I get hay-fever and always have sore eyes and often a sore throat. I don't get a temperature with it but have found the weather very changeable recently and sometimes find myself too hot and need to shed a layer - not the same as actually having a temperature.

Iwalkinmyclothing · 05/05/2020 15:46

NOT c19, but ds1 has not left the house for coming up 3 weeks now and has developed a cold. No one else in the house has a cold. I don't know whether this means ds1 is lying and has been sneaking out at night (possible), or whether one of us has picked up a cold virus we are already immune to and given it to him without realising we've had it (don't know whether that's possible) or whether colds just spontaneously occur (pretty sure that is not possible).

Friendsofmine · 05/05/2020 15:58

I thought I had as since being redeployed into admin have been home but it was hayfever!

SeriouslySoDoneIn · 05/05/2020 16:04

No but all four of us have come down with a cold and buggered if we know where it’s come from either. Don’t go out at all unless it’s to the shop once a week (and we go early enough that the shop is still empty!) We do have all the windows open a fair bit though

coronaornona · 05/05/2020 16:30

Pretty sure I have it. The only places I've been are supermarkets.

Fortunately my symptoms are mild despite being in an increased risk group, it seems to be easing off now.

LynetteScavo · 05/05/2020 16:36

I know someone who is shielding has become very ill this week. They say they haven't been out and everything has been delivered (I totally believe this as it would be normal for them) but it does make me wonder it they've had a visitor and if so how close they were.

Friendsofmine · 05/05/2020 17:28

Perhaps they didn't wash their (delivered) shopping?

heylittlehenwhenwhenwhen · 05/05/2020 18:31

I have only been to the shops, so no real idea of how or when

Seriously?

I have seen several threads where people have stated categorically that they haven't left the house.......... apart from school, the shops, a trip to the park. So they have left the house, and/or they live with people who are also going outside to work or to drop off shopping or to pick up a prescription.

Don’t go out at all unless it’s to the shop once a week

Well then you do go out.