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Caught Covid outside? :(

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 10:14

My husband has been working from home for months.
We don’t go to a supermarket we have food delivered and we always wipe it down.

Since lockdown began the only places we have been is for a walk.

I take my DS for a walk to our local park most days. (Only a baby so we don’t use the play area)

On Tuesday I met up with a friend and we went for a walk around a local lake.
It was quite busy but I never had close contact with anyone.
A few runners did run past quite close though.

Me and my friend distanced the whole time.

Before our walk we visited the cafe for a takeaway coffee. It’s all done outside so we didn’t have to go in.

I did drink from a disposable coffee cup but sanitised my hands when I’d finished, washed hands when I got home.

This morning I’ve got a sore throat and a tickly cough. 😖
I’ve ordered a test.

OP posts:
NotAKaren · 21/11/2020 15:18

Passer by Blush

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 15:21

@islockdownoveryet

Nah I'm not buying this all the runners came closer to you than your friend how ? It was a split second unless they coughed or sneezed in that split second the possibility is extremely slim . I pass multiple people out running and they move to left or right and I run the other side . I probably pass someone in 1 second or less but I'm always more than 2 metres away . I think your being paranoid or not entirely honest .
@islockdownoveryet

Believe what you like. I have no reason to lie. 🤷🏻‍♀️

My friend and I walked on opposite sides of the path the whole way around the lake.
It’s a huge lake and took us 50 minutes to walk around.

Other people walked between us when they passed, so yes, passers by were closer to me than my friend.

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PrivateD00r · 21/11/2020 15:24

OP you seem annoyed with the runners, but what choice did they have when you and your friend were taking up the whole path? I am sure that was very irritating for the runners. I expect they were annoyed at being forced into going so close to you.

Anyway, you are clearly very unlucky to have caught something despite how careful you have been. Fingers crossed that it isn't covid and that you feel much better soon!

ittakes2 · 21/11/2020 15:29

This happens to me often - it could be you are slightly allergic to a tree pollen in the park.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 15:33

@PrivateD00r

OP you seem annoyed with the runners, but what choice did they have when you and your friend were taking up the whole path? I am sure that was very irritating for the runners.

The path was plenty big enough for my friend and I to walk at opposite sides and any how, other people were walking at both sides so the runners weren’t just put out by me and my friend.

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Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 15:34

Well there you go then. Is the path was that big then it’s highly unlikely they passed COVID to you. Stop blaming them.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 15:38

@Nicknacky

Well there you go then. Is the path was that big then it’s highly unlikely they passed COVID to you. Stop blaming them.
@Nicknacky

So instead I should blame my poor friend who only had a baby 8 weeks ago and has barely left the house.

I’m not blaming anyone. But whatever I have got has to have come from that walk and it’s really unlikely to have come from my friend and even the coffee cup.

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WhoopsSomethingWentWrong · 21/11/2020 15:40

You know sore throats can be bacterial as well as viral, yes?

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 15:41

You don’t need to “blame” anyone🤷🏻‍♀️.

  1. You don’t even know you have COVID.
  1. It’s a virus. You can pick it up anywhere. As you can other viruses.
  1. Does it really actually matter where you picked up whatever it is?
MadameBlobby · 21/11/2020 15:41

What’s the point in all this worrying about it OP? You’ve probably got a cold and if you’ve got Covid you can’t do anything about it anyway. Try and stop worrying and relax. Hope you feel better soon.

PrivateD00r · 21/11/2020 15:42

OP I was honestly on your side until you were so rude about the runners. And your last post is weird to be honest. It needs to stop being a blame game. I am currently recovering from covid and haven't given any thought to blaming anyone on giving it to me. At the end of the day, you forced the runners to have to run between you and your friend, that is not their fault, please stop blaming them.

islockdownoveryet · 21/11/2020 15:49

I'm not saying I don't believe you .
I'm saying it's unlikely that you will catch it with what you've said or it's not the whole truth as in your were closer to your friend than what you think or possibly you or your dh have had some sort of contact with someone else no matter how brief .
You really need to let others pass though not 1 person on one side other or the other side as how else can runners or pedestrians pass you by going in the middle . If you say the path was big enough I see no reason for anyone to get close to you unless they had no option .
Always move to one side to let others pass .
Anyway like I say based on what you've said I can't see how you would of caught it from someone. If you were concerned that runners were close then you should move away to allow them to pass .
In all honesty I've ran since March and I've never come close enough to a pedestrian for someone to suggest I would of passed Covid on .
I suspect Track and trace wouldn't even consider it but would consider your friend who you were with .
Anyway enough with the blame wait for your results, I'm trying to make you see the chance is slim but you seam so convinced you've caught it from a runner.

Lucidas · 21/11/2020 15:51

It’s like having a massive group of friends discussing how and why your contraception could have failed when you haven’t even had a positive pregnancy test result. You just feel a bit funny.

MadameBlobby · 21/11/2020 15:52

But the runners and passers by were closer than my friend ever got!

The clue is in the words “passers by”. Honestly the chances of you getting Covid off someone walking or running past are tiny. They’ve been saying this since the very start of all this! Jesus I’ve never heard such a song and dance over a mild sore throat. I get them all the time and random sneezes, tickles etc and I don’t go anywhere either. Take a lemsip and suck a Locket and be done with it!

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 15:52

I think your paranoia is taking over here.

Wishforanishwishdiash · 21/11/2020 15:53

In my house we had fevers and sore throats this week and it was not Covid.

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 15:59

@PrivateD00r

OP I was honestly on your side until you were so rude about the runners

I’m not trying to be rude about runners.

But as you will see from PP, I have been slated for distancing from my friend on a path that was wide enough for us to do so.

At no point did anyone ever have to ask us to move so they could pass. It was wide enough.
Yet runners still ran past me and who we’re definitely not 2m away.
And it’s not because my friend was at the other side of the path because other people were at the other side too.

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Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 16:02

What do you expect the runners to do?

ScribblingPixie · 21/11/2020 16:07

I think you are going to be fine, OP. Several times this autumn my OH have had sore throats, or a snuffle & I've thought that it's impossible we've caught anything. Sure enough, we've been fine & assumed it was an old-fashioned chill or maybe a bit of allergy.

cologne4711 · 21/11/2020 16:09

whatever I have got has to have come from that walk and it’s really unlikely to have come from my friend and even the coffee cup

Have you actually tested positive for covid yet?

it is vanishingly unlikely that you have caught it outside.

As for runners, why does the speed that your legs move at give you priority on paths? If you see someone coming towards you, you go single file, whether you are walking or running. There were massive debates about this during lockdown one, and I found middle aged couples who refused to unjoin their hips far more annoying than any runners. Back then we weren't sure how covid spreads but now we know there is little evidence that it spreads outside and even if you pass at less than 2m or even 1m you are not going to give someone the virus in the split second it takes to pass them.

Also if you walk 2m apart from someone then someone will have to go through the middle to pass.

The sore throat may just be from being indoors so much. I've had loads of sore throats this year, no idea why. And do stop wiping down your food, the virus doesn't spread that way, either.

midgebabe · 21/11/2020 16:10

Where on earth is there. 4m wide path ?
Most people will naturally run in the middle, if you are your friend are apart and expectvthe runner to also be 2m from both of you that's a motorway not path!

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 16:12

And if you are walking around a huge lake then every so often glance back and be aware of your surrounds. Then you would see the runners coming

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Threelittlegins · 21/11/2020 16:28

@cologne4711

And do stop wiping down your food, the virus doesn't spread that way, either.

But yet people on here are saying that I could likely have caught it (if my test is positive) from the coffee cup?

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Lucindainthesky · 21/11/2020 16:35

I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse OP. It doesn't matter whether the coffee was a takeaway one or not, my point was the time it takes to drink a coffee with somebody constitutes prolonged contact.

Nicknacky · 21/11/2020 16:39

Op, I really don’t think this level of paranoia is healthy. Not going anywhere apart from a walk, washing down shopping and obsessing over a sore throat.

It’s not healthy to be this worried unless you have severe conditions.