Where are people contracting covid

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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?

You are doing all you can't to protect your self at work. Not everyone is.

Or is able to. The NHS people I know who see patients at clinic appointments are spacing out appointments more so they can do adequate cleaning between patients. That's impossible to do in a school. You can do SOME cleaning, and often schools are getting the kids to do it themselves eg wipe computers down, but really, is that going to be the same as an adult doing it using proper equipment?

Neighbour is in icu with it. The only contact she has is with carers in her home. She wore a mask and gloves for each visit.

@carlaCox

If essential shops aren't spreading the virus then why would the government feel the need to close non-essential shops? It doesn't make any sense.

Non essential shops are closed as so many people go shopping as a pastime. If clothes shops were open, city centres would be rammed with people looking for bargains. It makes perfect sense to keep the non essential shops closed.

Supermarkets have to stay open or else we’d all starve. Vastly fewer people go supermarket shopping for a hobby so the risk of transmission is significantly lower

I work in healthcare and see a lot of shielding patients who claim to have not been out since March. What they really mean is they haven’t been ‘out out’. They discount their weekly shopping trip, filling the car with petrol, popping out to the local shop etc, etc.

My best mate is a nurse on a covid ward and has worked there since March.
She caught the virus a week before Christmas. Better now thank god, and she went back to work yesterday. It’s chaos she says.

@Mads006

The only indoor place I have been in over a week is the supermarket so if I get sick it's easy to say, 10 days ago I went to Homebase, just dp and I normally and wfh but currently have 2 young ladies with us as university is out, but they are barely leaving their bedrooms unless nagged!

Worse than it’s ever been and going to get a lot worse.

We are in East Anglia Tier 4.

We did everything we could. My 3 year old is in nursery as I go out to work. He picked up covid in nursery. We know this, as we'd been contacted to say his bubble had broken, and he was the first to start. Myself, husband and daughter all caught it from 3 year old.

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

You can make a pretty good guess though of where (not how) you caught it. EG, my friend who WFH, left his house, got into his car and drove to the supermarket. Entered supermarket. Left with shopping, straight back to car and home- private drive. So the only feasible way he could have caught it was through the supermarket, as he'd literally been on his property, in his car and in the supermarket in a 2 week period (so he says, anyway, but he is quite a homebody and enjoys solitude). Lives alone.

We were in centre Parcs in a packed pool at the beginning of March just before lockdown. The advice was to "wash your hands" 😩 the whole family was so poorly including my two asthmatic toddlers.

@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.

My daughter works in a supermarket - she said yesterday 50 of the staff there are currently off either positive or self isolating due to known contact (a lot of them are related to each other - so for example one who has tested positive has caused three off because it is an teenage son who lives at home with his parents, all work in the supermarket - not sure which one was positive)

I am dubious about the supermarket thing. I have a Sainsbury’s local near me and I know the staff well, not one of them has had it.
People just aren’t going to say, I went round to my mates to track and trace are they. They think they might be fined.
I haven’t known anyone who has had it for months. We are in a town with high numbers, however it’s all on one side of town (opposite to me). I used to work in a school there so I am glad I don’t just now.
I am worried that DH and I did have it a month ago , we had bad stomachs and felt rough. But it wasn’t the right symptoms to test, so who knows.

I've had the feeling of being at fault for contracting covid. A couple of colleagues who managed to avoid the outbreak in work saying things like "oh we were really careful so we didn't catch it".

Never mind that I am immunosuppressed and as careful as I could possibly be. Probably more susceptible to it.

As if a thin paper mask guarantees you won't get it 🙄

My dm was quite happy popping into waitrose, where it is quieter. but now I have suggested she stays away. she is 2 weeks post first stage of the vaccination.

I can believe people catch it from the supermarket. Not from being close to people but from touching things that other people have touched. And then touching their phones, keys, purses etc before washing their hands. It’s practically impossible not to especially using a self serve till.

But on the other hand when I’ve spoken to people who have “only been to the supermarket “ when you press them, they haven’t really. They’ve seen their grandchildren, kids are at school, went to the Dentist, saw their support bubble etc etc

Did you see the post preceding yours Sew?

when i look at the website showing the positive cases, towns are divided into 3 or more, yet they are simply divided by their home address, it does not mean that people are literally in their homes 24 hours a day, they go to school/work/shopping out doors etc.,

In the first lock down, the people I knew who caught Covid were mostly essential workers- going into work each day. Now it affects whole households most with school or nursery age children.

In my part of leafy north London there are groups of parents and children on what are clearly pre-arranged social gatherings in the playgrounds. No social distancing. I guess they think the rules don't apply to them.

Also when we were in tier 3 and swimming pools were open, there were large groups of families meeting there with toddlers, so groups of around 10 in total all v close together. I would take DD just me and her to try and keep her swimming practice up but kept our distance from others in the pool.

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Sorry posted too soon. I imagine those kind of large groups don't help

@BananaPop2020

I caught it from my Police Officer husband

Me too

@Medra I was not even remotely surprised, I thought it was predictable.

Caught it from ds1 who caught it at school.

My friend's mum caught it in hospital after being in for 3 weeks. They have apologised to her.

A nurse I know caught it when on shift and a man pulled down her facemask and spat in her face.

The only other people I know who have had it, caught it from contact, from people just not being careful enough, because cases are low here and people don't give a shit and are mixing like nothing is happening.