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WARNING. Covid can spread very easily, an example - Hope it helps

89 replies

MG2020 · 20/12/2020 10:54

Just posted on another thread and I thought I'd give people a heads up to those that want to stay safe and keep others safe.

Someone we know was a fool and took a lift with a workmate as their other half was using the car. This person shared a car trip to work for 7 minutes max.Both of the fools did not wear a mask or open a window.
The driver then rang the person we knew a couple of days latter telling her that they had been diagonsed with Covid as their husband had it and that's why she took the test. So the person we know took the test and got a postive result.

This person is 65, working, no other medical problems. 7 days in from sharing the car they have no symptoms which is good. But you can become ill on the 10th/11th day from what I read or it gets worse.

As it's been a week and no symptoms, things are looking up.

I hope this thread helps and you are now more aware how easy Covid passes from person to person in an enclosed environment within a few minutes and both had no symptoms.

It is scary but hopefully taking precations, not sharing a car with strangers and when you do wear a mask, open windows, talk as little as possible and keep journeys small as possible may hopefully help all.

OP posts:
DishRanAwayWithTheSpoon · 20/12/2020 13:25

If they are work colleagues it could easily have spread throughout their work. They realistically could have caught it anywhere. You cannot tell where you caught your covid from. Although spending 7 minutes together in a tight, unventilated, enclosed space does seem a fairly high risk activity.

@MzHz am I right in thinking you wont allow your DH to see his children until they have been vaccinated? Which they wont be because they are a child?

LaetenturCoeli · 20/12/2020 13:26

Talk about a complete non-event.

CrochetOrBust · 20/12/2020 13:27

@Vivana

This is why I don't get why taxi drivers don't have to wear a mask and passangers do.
I wouldn’t wear a mask when driving - I’ve never managed to stop my glasses steaming up.
yellowmaoampinball · 20/12/2020 13:29

You say yourself they 'were a fool' so you acknowledge there was a clear risk in what they were doing? I opened this thinking it would be someone who has been nowhere but to the supermarket once for an essentials shop and still caught it, not someone who did something clearly risky and took no mitigating action either...

Vivana · 20/12/2020 13:30

CrochetOrBust

Yes that's a good point

TimeQuest01 · 20/12/2020 13:32

@ThroughThickAndThin01

That’s not an example confused. Nothing has happened.

That’s what I thought. I have re read it 3 times thinking I had missed something.

BananaPop2020 · 20/12/2020 13:34

Thanks OP for an insight into absolutely.... nothing

nannybeach · 20/12/2020 13:39

No singing along with the car radio then, cannot be proved where they caught it

ImPrincessAurora · 20/12/2020 13:40

Breaking news. Stop the press. COVID is contagious.

Thanks so much OP. If only we’d known this before now.

EurosprogBauble · 20/12/2020 13:42

So had both of those people been absolutely nowhere else apart from in the car?

I'm guessing not as you said it was a workmate.

You also said that this person's other half was using the car. What were they using the car for and where had they been?

HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 20/12/2020 13:43

Exactly what are you sharing that’s not known or wasn’t in guidance?
A car share,unventilated car,close proximity,no masks well for sure sure that’ll do it,

TheRubyRedshoes · 20/12/2020 13:45

Find hungry in agree, this is now a new level of risk.

I know people who weren't absolutely sticklers on the rules the 1st time around, to the letter! And yet they don't open windows because they fear drafts more.

DishRanAwayWithTheSpoon · 20/12/2020 13:48

Also I wouldnt really call it scary

2 people caught covid feom being in close proximity and were both okay.

MaxNormal · 20/12/2020 13:51

Well that was a really non-scary anecdote. But... thanks?

IcedPurple · 20/12/2020 13:54

Hope it helps

Not in the slightest.

WorraLiberty · 20/12/2020 13:57

@MaxNormal

Well that was a really non-scary anecdote. But... thanks?
Yeah, it's like the mildest public service announcement ever Xmas Confused
userxx · 20/12/2020 13:58

Righto 🙄

yossell · 20/12/2020 13:58

Well, this changes everything.

nosswith · 20/12/2020 14:04

If you did not know this already you have not been reading much about Covid 19.

justasking111 · 20/12/2020 14:06

@titchy

How on earth do you know that it was that 7 minute journey that was responsible for the transmission? Why not the corner shop, the workplace, the bus stop, the postman. Hmm
This!!!!
FindHungrySamurai · 20/12/2020 14:07

If it was the corner shop the bus stop or the postman then that’s way more scary.

Nunoftheother · 20/12/2020 14:11

And in other news, bears shit in the woods.

You do realise this is Mumsnet, not Idiotsnet?

Skipsurvey · 20/12/2020 14:11

or the Bangladeshi binman, true story from a colleague

RosePetalss · 20/12/2020 14:15

Sorry but that doesn’t prove anything.

Could have been caught from anywhere seeming as they were both going to work it shows they were still out and about.

There has been many cases where 1 member of the family has covid and none of the other members in the household have caught it.

dizzydizzydizzy · 20/12/2020 14:16

Conversely, I had a ride in a car with a friend who 2 days later tested positive, and I didn’t catch it.

We both wore masks, sat diagonally opposite each other and had all windows open. Easy!