If you did mix over Christmas

[Jenasaurus]

Is there anyone now unwell as a result? The number of cases today is daunting and deaths are over 1000, the timeline would correspond with it being the Christmas period it would have been caught. I was thinking about this and wondering if anyone is aware that someone they saw over christmas is now unwell as a result?

@Sertchgi123 you direct quoted me!!!!! Hence why I got so defensive.

With lying and backtracking like that you should work for the Government.

@Sertchgi123

My original comment wasn't aimed at her but don't let that stop people enjoying a witch hunt.

It’s not a witch hunt, you quoted her and said ‘Yes play that card’ in relation to her dying father.

Nope. I have a sinus infection so had a covid test yesterday as I'd had temp.

My mum is and NHS worker but not front line. She did lateral flow as required and is also OK (I know they are not perfect accuracy wise) no one else is ill. Tbh I really don't think we'd be asymptomatic as my whole family seem to get ill from colds.

Not saying this makes mass mixing fine. Just sharing my experience.

witch hunt 😂

Patients are being discharged from hospital (after other illnesses, operations etc) without being tested for Covid. They then have to be in close contact with another family member or carer whilst they are still recovering and need help with basic tasks. The family member then catches it, and passes it on whilst shopping, going to the chemist etc. Community transmission underway.
Covid tests need to be done as a requirement for discharge, but they are not. They just need the bed space. The family member/carer is very likely to catch it whilst driving the patient home from hospital.
This happened to my parents. Very frightening for my mum having to isolate at home on her own after my dad was rushed back into hospital in an ambulance after collapsing with Covid at home. We didn't know if she would collapse too and no one would be able to contact her. Luckily her symptoms didn't worsen. Scary story I know, but its very upsetting that people are still bring discharged into the community with Covid.

All those adamant that people caught it in the supermarket, rather than household mixing, are you going to stop going there then?

@CarriesFlower82 so sorry you felt you had to break rules to see your dad. You are allowed to see people who are at end of life, cautiously, so you've done nothing wrong. 💐

Yes mixed with family for 3/4 days

Entire family went for test day before and all fine currently

@PrincessBuggerPants

All those adamant that people caught it in the supermarket, rather than household mixing, are you going to stop going there then?

Exactly

@Sertchgi123

Those that did mix make my blood boil.

Some were allowed to mix so your blood will just have to boil

I would like to think (ever the optimist) that the numbers will start to flatten off now we are two weeks away from when the schools broke up for Christmas and they started to bring in tougher tiers in the South East. There is a bit of a delay in the reporting so any Christmas mixing spike won’t be until the weekend and early next week. I think lots of people didn’t mix so there may not be much of a spike.

It does read as though you are looking for horror stories op to say I told you so. We saw someone on Christmas Day and none of us has Covid.

My family of 6, my sisters family of 4 and my parent.

Apart from my mum visiting the shops to buy the food with a mask, my sister working as a hairdresser in PPE and me going in for one hour to work also in a mask and visor the rest of our group isolated before Xmas.

None of us are ill.

@Pastanred

Yes mixed with family for 3/4 days

Entire family went for test day before and all fine currently

Where did you all get PCR tests with such a quick turnaround and how much were they?

We didn’t mix. Telling comments from two A&E consultants...

@UghNotThisAgain36

Two cases at my mums work from Christmas (huge supermarket) have resulted in over 100 people being off work isolating due to Test & Trace.

We saw noone over Christmas. We've basically been in isolation since 18th December (bar DP who lives alone & in our bubble and DC have been to their Dads as permitted). No illness here whatsoever.

Wonder if that is because they all had their phones in their lockers and the test & trace app picked it up.

We mixed as a family. All isolated as much as possible beforehand and no one is ill.

I was terrified as mum having chemo but she was desperate for us to go as it may also have been her last.

Can't say it was the most relaxed Christmas visit and it's only now we are post it and well I've relaxed.

The surge is from the more successful transmission of the new strain.

Christmas mixing will contribute but the current situation is the new strain.

In answer to OP yes I mixed at Xmas and no one is ill in our family.

@Sertchgi123 I spent the day with terminally ill FIL - you going to have a go at me as well.

I absolutely don’t regret it, we had a lovely day - other deaths other than COVID matter too

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady

Has it been long enough for today's deaths to be caused by Xmas mixing though?

I thought we wouldn't see that until the end of the month.

This is more in line with when cases started to rise early December in London and the South East.

The reports coming out now of people in media all seem to have contracted it first 2 weeks of December and died xmas/NY.

So yes you are probably right.

Stayed at my boyfriend's with him and his kids. They had seen their mum and gran that morning. No one is ill.

We mixed with one other household and no-one is ill as of yet. Neither household really mixed with anyone (but two or three of us had been shopping) for over a week beforehand, but probably just luck.

*Not shopping together, the two households didn't mix until Christmas.

We saw both sets of parents, sister & her family and we are all fine.
DD still in nursery and DS now home learning.

To the poster who visited their terminally ill parent - I salute you!

I say that as someone who is self declared
the most over super cautious I know. So much so to the annoyance of many in my circles. However with luck I have so far correctly predicted and “foreseen” many of the past year’s pandemic development once it initially escaped the source country and entered Europe.

The only very few absolutely acceptable exception make that a required compulsory expectation - is to mandate every possible opportunity for the very ill to be afforded the upmost dignity and respect in their final days, weeks, months or year irrespective of the pandemic to spend irreversible precious time with family before their time. Naturally if possible take a precautionary test first. Even if tested positive make that journey just to see your terminally ill parent between a glass screen in an adjoining room. This is one of the lasting tearful tragedies of human suffering we have been blasé hardened to - from news media as initially reposted from Italy etc.

May your father see many more Christmas festivities! You are all very brave.

It’s the genuine Covidiots who although knowingly think their collective actions are inconsequential.

Hypothetically if it was you with limited time remaining - would you not wish to see your family and live ones despite the pandemic?

I know of an 80 year old, spent Christmas Day with his son. Son tested positive Boxing Day, 80 year tested positive early Jan. So far he's fine (cross fingers and touch wood).