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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?

OP posts:
Prokupatuscrakedatus · 03/01/2021 00:14

The one person I know who got it and died from it (though very ill and old) got it in hospital where he was for sth unrelated.

lydia7986 · 03/01/2021 00:15

Of the people I know who’ve had it in this wave, they have caught it from:

  • Carers coming into their home
  • Their children who caught it at school
  • Colleagues at work (it’s an office where they sit at least 2m apart but are still breathing the same air all day everyday)
  • Trips to the supermarket
RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 03/01/2021 00:15

Schools and workplaces, and through family links to those going to schools and workplaces.

lydia7986 · 03/01/2021 00:20

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

No, but most people who are following the rules and having no social contact with others can make an educated guess.

If you don’t have kids going to school, you get your food delivered, and your only interaction with other people is at your workplace, then you can be pretty sure you got it there. Especially if one of your colleagues tests positive 5 days before you do.

While if you work at home, and only your kids are mixing with other people, all day at school, then you can be pretty sure you got if from them.

There’s no need to sneer at people.

Mads006 · 03/01/2021 00:21

That’s the point though ... it’s a guess .

LimitIsUp · 03/01/2021 00:22

No idea where my 18 year old dd contracted Covid, possibly from work but apparently nobody else tested positive at work.

I resent the insinuation that people must have done something amiss to contract covid

lydia7986 · 03/01/2021 00:23

It’s an educated guess based on an extremely limited number of options and a trail of evidence (e.g. other students at your kids’ school or your colleagues at your workplace testing positive).

EngineeringFix · 03/01/2021 00:24

I know of two people who caught it in hospital.

Mads006 · 03/01/2021 00:25

@LimitIsUp

No idea where my 18 year old dd contracted Covid, possibly from work but apparently nobody else tested positive at work.

I resent the insinuation that people must have done something amiss to contract covid

Exactly the point I’m trying to make here by noting that people can never be sure where they’ve got it from. Agree.
Motnight · 03/01/2021 00:26

Op are you deliberately being goady?

Mads006 · 03/01/2021 00:27

@LimitIsUp

No idea where my 18 year old dd contracted Covid, possibly from work but apparently nobody else tested positive at work.

I resent the insinuation that people must have done something amiss to contract covid

Understand your point... but an educated guess is still a guess. Given so many people are supposedly asymptomstic I don’t know how people think they can be so sure. Also don’t like the ‘blame’ that often comes as a result of these guesses .
Mads006 · 03/01/2021 00:29

Apologies the above was actually meant to be a reply to Lydias comment 👍

amber763 · 03/01/2021 00:38

@Glitterblue

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.
This!
middleager · 03/01/2021 00:41

School!

LimitIsUp · 03/01/2021 00:46

I suggested supermarkets as a major hub for transmissions months ago and was ridiculed but it seems they are implicated in 18% of infections according to the track and trace data referenced upthread

middleager · 03/01/2021 00:47

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

Yes we can. My son only went to school. He sat by a child who had Covid and was sent in after a positive test.

We Wfh and had groceries delivered more than 2 weeks previously. Hardly a Sherlock style mystery.

Hilarious Hmm

Jinglingmod · 03/01/2021 00:51

Every person I know who's had it since the autumn has caught it in school (and I mean tens and tens of people across dozens of schools) or from working in the NHS.

Every person I know who caught it in the first wave was much older and so I assume just from being out and about before the first lockdown.

I don't know anyone who had it during the summer.

Barton10 · 03/01/2021 00:53

I went into my local town today to pick up a prescription and there were groups of teenage girls around the make up stands and hanging around town. None of them socially distanced or correctly wearing masks. Definitely more than one household too. Closing schools won’t reduce cases if parents don’t keep their children at home. They will all be hanging around town next week. Also lots of families in the supermarket today. No need for 2 adults to take their children shopping. Until people follow the rules there will not be an end to it.

SparklingGin · 03/01/2021 01:17

Hospital, my friend who was suffering from cancer contracted COVID from a nurse on her ward.

NovemberR · 03/01/2021 02:18

School.

I now know approximately 30 odd people who have tested positive. ALL caught from school. They are either staff or their DC brought it home.

VashtaNerada · 03/01/2021 05:27

I love how everyone seems to think they are certain about how the caught it ... hilarious. None of you can be
A lot of people won’t know where they caught it but those of us who are fairly certain either,
a) only visited one place in the week leading up to illness, or
b) had multiple cases in our place of work etc.
That’s how people can be fairly sure.

ChristmasCovid · 03/01/2021 06:05

I ‘attempt’ to do contact tracing.. the vast majority of people at the moment have only been to the supermarket/work.

However I don’t think that the minority that might be braking the rules are going to admit to household mixing/parties etc...

user1498572889 · 03/01/2021 06:06

My daughter and son in law got it from their children.

custardbear · 03/01/2021 06:28

Most people I know are doctors snd got it from work. Know of a few who got it through school route too

inquietant · 03/01/2021 06:32

I'm really Hmm Angry about this type of post.

Basically you're blaming the public for catching covid. Maybe you're just a better person than everyone else and that's why you haven't caught it?.

Interestingly the government push this line a lot when they have been caught out being negligent/incompetent.

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