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Where are people contracting covid

177 replies

England101 · 02/01/2021 21:56

I work in the NHS treating patients with Covid I wear a face shield, face mask, gloves and apron. I wash my hands, change my clothes as soon as I get home and wear new clean clothes everyday l only go out for work and shopping. I use zoom to socialise and I’ve taken this time to learn ( webinars) and start yoga. lf i do go out I wear a mask, regularly sanitise my hands and sanitise any products like post that comes into my home. I do this because I’ve seen the terrible effects of Covid and I’ve NEVER had covid ( I have access to 2 home tests per week).

A few friends of mine who have been WFH or furloughed since March have managed to contract COVID in the last few weeks/months. They with live along or with a partner (also WFH or furloughed) some other very small children ( ie not in nursery or school) so I don’t understand how they have contracted the virus. Are they not adhering to the rules? Do they not wash their hands? Any thoughts?

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StarCat2020 · 02/01/2021 23:03

Surely if you treat patients in the NHS then you know how viruses work?

Polkadotties · 02/01/2021 23:06

My OHs aunt died after catching it in hospital so I’m guessing one of your infected colleagues gave it to her.

WellFiddleMyDiddlyDee · 02/01/2021 23:07

I know 3 people all with positive results in the last week. I know all 3 of them well. They haven’t seen each other (they don’t know each other). The only place any of them had been was food shopping. One had been to a coffee shop for a take away. That’s it. No Xmas mixing. Nothing.

EnglishGirlApproximately · 02/01/2021 23:12

Everyone i know who's has Covid has kept to the rules, but has been very sociable when allowed. So took full advantage of Eat out to help out, went shopping to large shopping centres, overseas holidays to places with travel corridors etc. So not breaking the rules, but definitely not being extremely cautious either.

VashtaNerada · 02/01/2021 23:13

Supermarket? I’m a teacher and I caught mine from school.

JimmyTheBrave · 02/01/2021 23:15

The people I know that have contracted it have caught it from school and passed it to family members.

NailsNeedDoing · 02/01/2021 23:16

Maybe, knowing that you work with covid patients, your friends aren’t entirely honest with you if they’ve ever broken the rules.

Randomrebel · 02/01/2021 23:19

@polkadotties same with my dad who was admitted to hospital in March and caught Covid whilst in there and he died.

OP a friend of mine caught covid from visiting her mum who thought she had a cold but it turned out she’d caught covid from her grandson (before he had any symptoms). A young lad working and going out socialising with his mates (around the time the pubs reopened and eat out to help out was on the go). My friend passed it to two of her children and her partner. They all git off relatively lightly but her partner nearly died. My friend is very easy going and loves to socialise. She’s fit and healthy and didn’t think it would affect her as our area had very few cases so I doubt she would have wore a mask when visiting her mum or changing her clothes etc.

Lots of people in and out of each others houses around our way grandparents, children and grandchildren. People with school age kids are making arrangements fir their kids to meet up thinking either covid is a lie or they are somehow immune to it.

Cismyfatarse · 02/01/2021 23:20

I know people who have caught it in Lidl.

My son is convinced he got it from the air vents to the flat below as the occupant there had it and my son got it a few days later. Weirdly, neither of them spread it to their own flatmates.

DD's friend got it from casual sex / snogging they think.

Ladydowntheroad · 02/01/2021 23:23

From my daughter who got it at primary school

frustrationcentral · 02/01/2021 23:25

DS1 tested positive on Tuesday, there is no obvious place that he got it from (knows no one with it) , and the week before had barely left the house. So no idea!

OneMoreForExtra · 02/01/2021 23:27

My son brought it home from school disguised as a tummy bug and gave it to 3 of us

screamingchild · 02/01/2021 23:46

I've been following the rules but I caught COVID from pupil in my class.
My grandad caught it whilst in hospital and died.

TillysMum02 · 02/01/2021 23:51

One staff member ( non food retail) has just caught it.....assume from our workplace..... with 90 colleagues we are now waiting to drop one by one. This is our first case

Stressedmummyof4 · 02/01/2021 23:53

@Polkadotties I don't really think it's fair to say a colleague of the op have it to them Thanks.

I recon our nurses and doctors are trying their utmost to keep our lives ones safe and alive.

Weather they have brought it in or indeed another patient has brought it into the ward, I believe it would certainly be no ones intention.

I say all this after loosing a loved one in hospital recently so it's not that I'm blind sighted as not being in that position.

OP I would just like to take this opportunity to say thank you for your hard work and compassion and I do truly hope that once all this is over you get a good break to have with your family x

BananaPop2020 · 02/01/2021 23:55

I caught it from my Police Officer husband

SunInTheSkyYouKnowHowIFeel · 03/01/2021 00:00

I really don't know why you are asking thus question Op? Even if people follow all the rules to the letter there are loads of places people can catch it from... school, work, supermarket. Wearing a mask and keeping your hands clean isn't 100% going to stop you catching it? It baffles me that you work for the NHS and needed to ask this question.

yuyubooboo · 03/01/2021 00:04

I got it from operating on a patient in the middle of the night who's swab done immediately in a&e an hour before had come back falsely negative. Because he was negative we couldn't wear an FFP3 and subsequently all of us operating (3 of us as it was complex) were later covid positive. Is that good enough for you OP?

yuyubooboo · 03/01/2021 00:05

Oh, and I did 3 lateral flows before a PCR, they were all negative so I doubt those home test kits are amazing either

OppsUpsSide · 03/01/2021 00:08

There is data available on this you know...
Highest rated (via track and trace data, so who knows how reliable that is!) was supermarkets, then secondary school, then primary school. This didn’t include cross infection within family homes which I think is the highest rating off all.
(Before anyone asks, no I don’t have a link but you can Google it, it was data released by the government or ONS I think)

Glitterblue · 03/01/2021 00:09

I bet a lot of people are getting it from supermarkets. I was waiting to get into the cheese today and there was a woman touching so many things - she picked up 6 tubs of cottage cheese, held them against her chest while poking around at other things on the shelf then PUT THEM ALL BACK!! Then she was pulling things forward and examining them and pushing them back again and she'd already been so close to me at the carrots that she was touching against my arm.

bluedomino · 03/01/2021 00:10

My Police officer partner tested positive on the 28th, I tested positive on the 1st. Police have a paper mask which isn't great whilst you are trying to arrest people. Their offices are not cleaned properly. The entire code has now tested positive. Boss asked could they work from home after they have tested positive! I cannot believe the Police are not being vaccinated, they haven't got enough people to patrol now. I expect NHS office staff and Police office staff will be vaccinated before the Police on the frontline. I think you are clueless OP, how are they supposed to socially distance from someone who has slit their wrists or is trying to jump from a bridge? You may find pride comes before a fall and despite your careful handwashing you may catch it and never know how.

MrsBlobby43 · 03/01/2021 00:11

From school as I'm a teacher. Only now we've all had it in my department have they decided we're allowed to wear PPE!

noonaah · 03/01/2021 00:12

I got it from my husband who got it at his workplace.

Mads006 · 03/01/2021 00:13

I love how everyone seems to think they are certain about how the caught it ... hilarious. None of you can be 🤷‍♀️🤣

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