AIBU to suggest that all these people that THINK they KNOW where they caught covid from, simply can’t .

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Because they can say ‘I caught it from someone who tested positive a few days before ‘ or whatever ... but they may well have passed it on to that person in the first place. That’s surely the whole point in all these rules cos you can’t ‘see’ or be certain how it spreads 🤷‍♀️ AIBU?

I'm sure some people have limited contacts, so it can be quite straightforward to work out where they caught it.

I caught Covid back in early March when I went to the hospital for an endoscopy. I hadn't left the house for the 10 days prior to that and DP had been working from home.
It's entirely possible to know when/where you caught it.

@KrisAkabusi

I'm sure some people have limited contacts, so it can be quite straightforward to work out where they caught it.

this for me

in the past 10 days ive hardly left the house so if i were to have symptons and test positive i could pretty much pin point where i caught it

Yes it really irritates me. In some circumstances, yes you probably can work it out, but usually not. I've seen comments here about how a child going to school gave it to their relative who then died -- discounting that others in the household were going to work, the supermarket, out for exercise etc.

Some people can.
For example in April I wasn't leaving the house at all, even for exercise (I have anxiety and was scared). DP is a key worker and tested positive. I then caught it. So I'm 100% certain I got it from him.
I get your point that some people assume when they perhaps shouldn't as they've been to other places and seen other people.

It depends on how well you are obeying the rules, and whether you are going above and beyond what they require.

If you live alone and you have not been outside in a few weeks, except for a trip to the supermarket a week ago, it's highly likely to assume you got it on that trip.

If you've been seeing x, y and z, going out for a run every day or had the family round for Christmas, it's impossible to identify which of your contacts passed it to you because even if someone has subsequently tested positive, someone else might be symptomless.

Well I guess you’re referring to the UK but people in other countries can and we go on this site too, I don’t think there’s been a single case in Australia over the pandemic where they can’t track the source. For instance in Australia a recent Sydney cluster started from an airport transport worker who was taking a covid positive family into airport quarantine got it from the family (unusual), he passed it on to a colleague, who stopped by at the bottle shop just before Christmas then passed it to the person serving him/her now any customer who went to the bottle shop over the course of about 5 days has to isolate for 14 days and get tested. So in some countries it can definitely be traced.

Timings of symptoms will normally enabled you to be reasonably confident whether X caught it from Y or vice verse.

If you haven’t been anywhere else then of course it’s perfectly possible to say where you caught it.

@m0use

Yes it really irritates me. In some circumstances, yes you probably can work it out, but usually not. I've seen comments here about how a child going to school gave it to their relative who then died -- discounting that others in the household were going to work, the supermarket, out for exercise etc.

It's also the balance of probability. Did I catch it when social distancing in the shop with my mask (worn before I leave the car and removed once home) washed hands, did I catch it exercising alone in the forest, did I catch it at work where an office for fifty now has 8 people working who all wear masks or did my child who is in a bubble of 280 without masks or SD bring it home....

I had been for a wedding dress appointment where a shop assistant was handing me dresses etc. After that I completely isolated as I was going home to parents for Christmas. Symptoms started 7 days later. I can't guarantee it wasn't from somewhere else but that fitting seems pretty likely (and having been bloody ill I'm quite annoyed at myself for going, that's my vanity doing me in).

"I'm sure some people have limited contacts, so it can be quite straightforward to work out where they caught it."

If we get it will almost certainly have got in through ds being at school. We wfh, have no social contacts and although we could catch it through grocery delivery or someone 10m away outside it is statistically unlikely.

Dsis almost certainly got hers on the covid ward she works on.

Morning, everyone. We've moved this thread over to the Coronavirus topic now.