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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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WonderfulWinde · 03/01/2021 08:24

Ambulance staff who treated my father.

User158340 · 03/01/2021 08:24

@EnglishGirlApproximately

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.
This is why the have such a terrible death rate and cases are still so bad. Not because people aren't following the rules but because the rules have been so lax and daft ideas like eat iut to help out and encouraging foreign travel.
Skipsurvey · 03/01/2021 08:24

plenty of hospital staff are off currently, either off sick, or self isolating. where did they get it?

HappyNewYear2021 · 03/01/2021 08:25

Well locally a care home and the hospital are shown as having a few cases. Community transmission lowered. Schools shut since 17th. Social gathering over Christmas may lead to more cases though

notevenat20 · 03/01/2021 08:25

My friend caught it from her gp appointment!

HappyNewYear2021 · 03/01/2021 08:27

@ILookAtTheFloor

I'll hold my hands up here. A lot of my family have had it- on my husband's side.

We weren't following the rules. All of MIL's 4 children visited her regularly, with their respective partners and children. MIL was widowed this year and it's been a tough time for everyone.

MIL caught it from one of them (who doesn't not wfh) and it spread in the family. My household were lucky, we isolated and tested negative. We were the only household that escaped it. We broke the rules and paid the price for it. I believe others are doing the same.

At least you are honest. I think similar but people don't want to say they have been mixing.
HappyNewYear2021 · 03/01/2021 08:34

@CeeJay81

I find it odd that people talk about supermarkets being hot spots. Neither me or any of my colleagues have had it. I think many people arent telling the truth and are meeting up with people but not saying and catching it elsewhere and saying the only place they've been is the supermarket. I'm sure people do catch it there but not as much as these studies suggest.
100% I am aware of a couple of people who say they are following guidelines but actually mix with several households.... not everyone is truthful. Fortunately, it is fairly low in this area so they have been lucky so far
userxx · 03/01/2021 08:34

The local Aldi but people need to shop so what can you do. I wonder if going forward we'll have this blaming and shaming mentality about other viruses and colds.

Remmy123 · 03/01/2021 08:34

Most people (unless catching it from a relative) cannot be sure where they caught it from.

Teachers assume they got it from school but couid easily get it from a supermarket.

faithfulbird20 · 03/01/2021 08:37

A teacher I know caught it from another member of staff in school. She decided to come into school whilst waiting on her result. People can't be trusted.

PandemicPalava · 03/01/2021 08:39

My friend was diagnosed recently and has been nowhere as she has been having chemo. Her husband goes to the shop, that's it

PandemicPalava · 03/01/2021 08:40

Sorry, I should say she finished chemo a while ago but does go to the hospital for appointments, so maybe there, or the food shop. No idea

Skipsurvey · 03/01/2021 08:41

the shops, not just supermarkets, were heaving just before christmas.
and even if you do meet up with people outside it can still be transmitted.
i have always worried about this attitude towards those who get the virus. the blaming and shaming.

carlaCox · 03/01/2021 08:43

I think people seem to have forgotten that the reason going to the supermarket or the post office or sending kids to school is allowed is not because it's "safe" but because society would break down if we didn't.

My mum constantly whinges about people breaking the rules and putting people at risk but "pops out to the shops" pretty much every day just to get a couple of potatoes or a tin of beans. She seems to think that because she's got a mask on and it's "allowed" then she can't contract or spread coronavirus. I think this is a common misconception.

CarlottaValdez · 03/01/2021 08:43

I don’t think I’ve had it but I’m working still and have to get the train for an hour each way and a tube. So if/ when I do it won’t be a mystery

lockeddownandcrazy · 03/01/2021 08:44

One I know is police officer, so from work is most probable. Two most likely from supermarkets as thats the only place they had been.

RickOShay · 03/01/2021 08:45

Fil caught it in hospital and died. There have been a couple of cases in the dcs’ schools, dd had to self isolate. Locally none from the small supermarket or shops.
We are now in Tier 4 and cases are rising fast.

dottypees · 03/01/2021 08:45

I'm pretty sure it's been established that the only reason the supermarkets rate so highly on the track and trace is because people who've likely caught it elsewhere have ALSO been to the supermarket. It doesn't mean that many people have caught it there (in fact they said it was unlikely because you only walk past people briefly most of the time)

Skipsurvey · 03/01/2021 08:46

at one point they said it was being spread in households,
but how did it get into the household?

catfeets · 03/01/2021 08:48

I only know one person who has it and it was caught in hospital. They were then discharged into a nursing home despite 2 current positive tests and without telling anyone he was still positive. The NHS put 100 nursing home patients plus numerous carers and their families at risk of catching it. He was also shipped around to various hospitals for treatments for various ailments so will have been in contact with many hospital/ambulance staff and patients.

I've seen many people breaching the rules (ie partying in neighbours houses over Xmas and new year) so I'm guessing that's how a lot of cases are caught - the idiotic 'it'll probably be fine so I'll do what I want ' stance.

DrDreReturns · 03/01/2021 08:49

I either got it from the supermarket (I was wearing a mask!) or one of the kids brought it home from school and gave it to me. This was late November. The supermarket was the only place I'd been in the preceding two weeks.

LimitIsUp · 03/01/2021 08:51

@Goslowlysideways

Several teacher friends have got it from school. Other friends don't know but it must be the supermarket because they've been no where else. Is that ok?
According to some posters on this thread, your 'supermarket only' friend is a bare faced liar. She's been to a rave on the quiet Hmm
Bluntness100 · 03/01/2021 08:51

Looking at the demographics, school kids have been getting it and passing it on. Predominantly secondary school kids. They then infect their parents, who then infect someone else.

The issue is many many people don’t have symptoms. And then when you do, there is a lag between being contagious and then getting symptoms. So people are not as careful during that period. They see someone, don’t wear their mask, get too close, for too long. And so it goes.

I doubt it’s the supermarket, not unless you’re getting too close to people and someone isn’t wearing a mask. It is also not air vents, as they have proven although it travels through vents it isn’t live.

It’s in offices, homes, visiting family, public transport, talking to a friend or neighbour. It’s transmitted the way it was also transmitted.

If you look at the stats, in the initial strain it was a fifty fifty if you caught it, after spending a certain amount of time with someone. I think it was twenty mins. Now with the 56 percent more contagious, then you’ve only about a twenty percent chance you won’t catch it.

So it’s really people not having symptoms, not knowing they have it, either at all ever, or for the first three or four days, and passing it on, during that period.

Is it rule breaking, in thinking about it, yes for many that will be the case, for others it will be just not being carefu.

Kid comes home from school infected, no symptoms, passes it to parents, parents go to work, passes it to colleagues, because they don’t socially distance properly, aren’t careful with their masks, and they do it before anyone knows they have it, or goes to see granny, and think they are fine as they don’t feel ill. They develop symptoms two or three days after they are contagious, and in that period, they pass it on.

weepingwillow22 · 03/01/2021 08:52

I caught it from my son who caught it from his special needs school before Christmas. There is no social distancing there and over half the teachers are currently infected.

Crazycatlady123 · 03/01/2021 08:53

My 3 yo who got it from the childminder

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