Where are people catching it?

[ilkleymoorbartat]

Presumably people in Tier 4 are hardly using public transport, the buses in London are empty. Schools are off, pubs are closed. Everyone I know is obeying the rules, possibly going for outside walks with one other person. Where is this massive spread coming from?

Schools and hospitals and also probably the groups of teens spotted around our shopping mall that are obviously not household groups, saw loads in the last week

My DF late 80’s caught it in hospital. My friend caught it because she was mixing her extended family. All of them went down with it bar one member.

"If anyone vulnerable is still going out and about due to necessity, would recommend these for the month of Jan:

www.medisave.co.uk/ffp2-moulded-cup-face-mask.html"

Is it not the case you need to be fitted for these and there Class 111 PPE fluid resistant medical mask actually safer?

My local sainsburys was heaving today, plenty of ‘exempt’ customers in store.

Virtually everyone on this thread "from work"
On another thread "all those selfish bastards spreading it by meeting their parents/2 friends in their lounge"

The two cases I've heard of in the last few weeks have been hospital.

School, back gate and park.

Schools, hospitals, shops, mixing households, public transport.

This new strain is highly contagious.

I would imagine with how relaxed shops are now compared to March/April and the number of shops open as 'essential' - combined with more people shopping as weather is shit.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

How is it nasty?
I'm hoping the poster doesn't eat her/his words.

If i had said, i hope you catch it, [which i didnt] that's completely different and nasty.

So wind your neck in.

A friend caught it on his shift at a factory. 5 of them caught it on the same shift and he passed it to 2 others in his family. They had been so careful, which shows anyone can get it.

Supermarkets

11 staff and 37 children in our local school tested positive in the 5 days since school ended. At an average family size of 4 ( although mine is 7) assuming they all catch off each other that is 192 cases in one school outbreak in less than a week. Remind me how many schools do we have in the UK again??

School for me.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum I agree. Nasty and uncalled for.

People on mumsnet seem to assume just because they are SAHM or WFH that everyone is. Surely is not hard to realise that in order for you to sit at home with WiFi, gas, electricity, water, food, deliveries, post, online& telephony services etc etc millions of people are having to go out to work to facilitate this.

Outbreak at my local supermarket here - sounds like half the staff caught it :-(

Mainly supermarkets.
If MN is anything to go by.
There was a thread not so long ago where people were bragging how they no longer use the sanitizer stations to wipe down triollies and how they don't bother using the hand sanitizer either!

Well quite a few of my friends are still visiting other households. Somebody I know got it and the only
Place they had been was shopping

Friend of mine has just tested positive. The only place she’s been to is work. They appear to have had some sort of super spreader event. Lots of people on that shift got it.

Big call centre type environment, well spread out (4m plus) amd everyone wearing masks.

They’ve been told it’s probably the new variant and that with the new one it will spread even when distanced. We’re in a tier 3 area but the worker who they think they got it from lives in a tier 4.

Local factory wiped a big ruck of people out. Then their family.

Primary schools- got few TA friends who caught b4 Xmas.

High school- buses, kids congregating after school.

Big groups of teenagers, idiots not wearing masks.

Are masks and distance working for the new variant? It used to be 15 mins near someone who had it. Has that changed?

work passing it onto family via bubbles. hardly any school infections round here

My Dad (73) tested positive on the 23rd. He and Mum have not been to the shops since March, stayed in their tiny village (16 houses). My Mum is a chronic asthmatic, so they have been very careful. We have visited to drop things off, popped them in the garage, waved and left. Everything is delivered to their garage and then they go get it a couple of hours later.

My Dad however walks the dog every day, and he loved a socially distanced chats with fellow villagers walking their dogs. He’s a little hard of hearing so people need to speak quite loudly for him to hear them. And that’s how we think he’s got it, because it’s the only thing he’s done that involves other people. Mum started coughing this morning, so now crapping myself frankly. Has been a lesson to us to wear masks outside now as well.

From school children