If you've had it, where did you catch it?

[dullmiserablepeople]

I've just read another thread where someone was stressed on an outdoor walk seeing people touching gates, brushing past her etc. The responses were that the risk outdoors is very low, and that the real risks are in care homes, hospitals etc.
So I'm curious as to people's experiences on here.
I work in healthcare. The (very) few people at work who've had it seem to have had DC's with symptoms first. One friend had it, but had no idea where she got it from.

Where did you (or think you you did) catch CV?

I thought I had it in March, along with DD. Don't know where from, maybe she got it at sixth form college or I got it from work. I only work with 7 people though and have my own office and none of my colleagues were ill so likely from my DD. Or maybe from shops?

However, I tested positive 10 days ago after going for a test because the Zoe app suggested I should as I have hayfever symptoms. If I did have it 10 days ago (fairly symptom-less apart from runny nose and sneezing which I don't think are even symptoms?) then I have NO idea where I got it. Currently WFH or 1 day a week in an empty office and have been doing ASDA click and collect. So if I did have it recently then off a surface I imagine in a local shop doing top up milk/bread shopping.

I think though that my positive test last week could have been left over virus fragments from March when I felt properly ill and so did DD, but of course there were no tests then.

Guess I'll never know.

@Tootletum thanks for that - interesting, I expect there's lots of research being done why age 9!

My uncle had it early into lockdown (confirmed by a test). He can only have got it from the supermarket as he’s retired and hasn’t been anywhere else or had visitors.

@AnyFucker

Moderate - 4-5days literally unable to get out of bed, still get breathless 2 months later.

Not that mild then, huh

Shall we do a completely non-scientific study on which blood group you are? To see if reports about A group tending to catch it and O group not are reflective of MN experiences?
I haven't caught it (or no symptoms) group O negative.

@Northernsoulover - Munich salt-celler. I'll look that up, but if they were sitting at adjacent tables then that's prolonged proximity.

So I think our family have all had it. I probably got off a work colleague after being in China together (he had symptoms first) in January. One of my kids was ill at the same time. Then just before lockdown my husband got it along with most of his team and was ill for about 6 weeks and still has headaches/tingling now. At the same time other child was ill. In both children cases lasted a couple of days and were much milder than ours.

This is an interesting thread.

Adults catching it from kids although ‘children don’t transmit it....’

My friend caught it at Gatwick Airport, or possibly nursery where she works. But had it 2 weeks after coming back from abroad so possibly from Spain. (pre-lockdown)

One good friend was in Spain so thinks he caught it there and then he passed it on to another 4 people in the family when he got back.

One person who I know of and who died had flown back from Spain the week before.

The other caught it from his wife who is a nurse in the NHS. She was ok. He spent 6 weeks in IC.

@GoldenOmber

Suspected not confirmed (classic symptoms no test), but I think most likely place I caught it was packed commuter trains. Lots of people coughing there in the couple of weeks before lockdown.

I couldn't get on a train in the weeks/months before lockdown without having people around coughing and sniffling away in the carriage. Happens every winter but it seemed more prevalent in the build up to lockdown.

I had a virus in March right before lockdown, but whether it was Covid or one of the other myriad of shit going around I wouldn't know.

I do think a lot of virus originate in schools though. Kids are germ factories and pick up all kinds, parent(s) catch it and then take it to work because in the UK people are terrified of having a sick day (or just don't get sick pay). On overcrowded public transport and air conditioned offices viruses just go round and round at the best of times. Let alone during a pandemic.

Teacher, had it (mildly) first week of lockdown (undiagnosed but all symptoms, never previously ill in 25 yrs of teaching) only in contact with school students and staff prior to that.

The people I know with confirmed cases (positive test) are all nurses or living/working in China.

We can’t be sure, but we were ill for a month to 6 weeks after seeing the Stereophonics in Manchester, mid March.

From colleagues who had been to a business trip to Wuhan (business has factories there).

The only person I know who has had a confirmed case caught it from her paramedic husband

Close friend caught from her 7 year old dd who caught it at school ( on an ehcp)

From work (supermarket) can't have been anywhere else because I didn't leave the house for any other reason (didn't go for a daily walk as have a big garden and was fine in that)

One I know got it from their two year old who was taken to A and E. Both parents contracted it afterwards.

I think it was on a commuter train or gym (I got ill a couple of weeks before lockdown). Not work or school run, as far as I can tell.

A dear friend caught it and died after getting a taxi to a routine GP appointment before lockdown.

My BIL caught it from the airport, he was travelling for work around Europe fortnightly up until March. Very mild symptoms and passed it on to one DC but not the other.

A friend believes he caught it from his wife who is a Headteacher as this was in lockdown and he hadn’t left the house / garden in a month. Ended up in hospital but thankfully has made a full recovery.

Hmmm. So the thing that worries me here is how many people claim to have caught it off children at school/nursery.

In fairness though OPs question invites people that think they have caught it off DCs to report here, so whilst its interesting it's sort of biased as well.

I don't know. I got it just before lockdown. Possibly from hospital visiting. Possibly from Tesco. Possibly from the house of someone who had died (cause unknown - body was still there - I keep arriving before the undertakers) when collecting her cats. Conceivably from just about anywhere as my voluntary work brings me into contact with a large number of people in their homes and in the vet clinic.