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If you did mix over Christmas

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Jenasaurus · 06/01/2021 16:24

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?

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PrincessNutNuts · 06/01/2021 23:51

If you saw someone who was infected but symptomless on Christmas Day then you could be infected but symptomless now,

Nobody will know that anyone's got it until someone gets symptoms and gets tested.

But all of you could be spreading it

And when someone further along the chain of transmission - maybe your husband's workmate's dad. Or your children's teacher's husband - gets symptoms and a test, Test and Trace will just ring up the people they live with. They won't back trace to your Christmas Day.

PrincessNutNuts · 07/01/2021 00:04

@TramaDollface

Haven’t read the thread because I’m pissed basically but ... I do think they don’t release the deaths at the most accurate time, the 1000 deaths today being announced is about making is take it seriously
The seven day average is 679 today but it's going to go up over the next three weeks.

It was 493 a week ago.

Smashedavacado · 07/01/2021 00:11

DH tested on 23rd and positive test arrived 9pm Christmas Day. Will always be thankful I "nagged" him into have the test after just one night of high temperature. We cancelled my DM coming for Christmas lunch. She spent it alone for the first time ever. DS & myself both caught it - DM did not!

Umbongoumbongo999 · 07/01/2021 00:15

I mixed with one household plus my mum who is in my support bubble. We are all ok, but my family and I all had lateral flow tests on Christmas eve so felt we were making our mixing as safe as possible

FancySomeChips · 07/01/2021 00:17

No not at all. Dog walks around my local area only.

Bluewho2 · 07/01/2021 00:20

DH tested positive Xmas day and passed it to me. He picked it up from work despite wearing full PPE, it's was inevitable really.

Have had a friend say to us, "I guess mixing over Xmas wasn't worth it then". We haven't mixed at all. I haven't seen my parents since July, he hasn't seen his family since September, and even then it was brief and distanced.

The real kicker? DH's extended family of 4 households are all in a fake childcare / support bubble, all mixed over Xmas and are all well. Hmm

ThatsNotTheTeaHunty · 07/01/2021 00:48

Nope.
My BIL came down to stay with PIL's over Christmas and went to the pub with his friends, runs etc and now tested positive. Beyond selfish and irresponsible.

Sorrycantreadtest · 07/01/2021 07:35

We didn't mix at all as we went into tier 4 the weekend before Christmas and we had to cancel plans to see our adult dcs. I then had to isolate anyway as a pupil I work with at school had a positive test. Our EA supplied two tests for all member of education staff and we had to take one at the start of the Christmas break and one at the end. Mine were 'inconclusive' followed by negative. We were also told very clearly that anyone who became infected as a result of breaking the rules, would be subject to disciplinary measures.
Several people at work got infected by partners or dcs who brought it into the household. One has been bereaved.

Nonamesavail · 07/01/2021 07:39

Saw brother on Xmas day. No one is ill.

herechickchickchickchick · 07/01/2021 07:41

Yep, husband brought it home from work, I got it, baby got it, mother got it, my dad and sister didn't

FuckOffBorisYouTwat · 07/01/2021 07:44

My neighbour told me yesterday that his brother and sister all met up on Xmas day and all of them have covid. Luckily no one badly. He decided not to go as wife vulnerable so thank fuck he didn't.

2020BogOff · 07/01/2021 07:50

Love all the blaming going on.

DH picked it up just prior to xmas. He works like millions of other people have to do.

Didn't see anyone over the Xmas period but yes he tested positive as he came down with symptoms.

I guess lots of those blaming the Xmas day 'mixing' live in a nice bubble where they don't have to go out to work or shop or see anyone.

haggistramp · 07/01/2021 08:09

Yes we mixed, no cases of covid. Dh is a key worker and his work means that social distancing/wearing mask isn't possible. Increased workloads for the last 9 months have meant dh working 60+ hours a week. There was an outbreak in his work end of November and whilst dh didn't catch it he had to isolate. A lof of people in his work were asymptomatic and were only found to be positive because his work finally rolled out compulsory testing. It leaves a bitter taste when you see vast swathes of people getting 80% furlough for months on end whilst you have to work and the first instance of having to take time off due to covid and all we were entitled to was ssp. So yeah, we made the decision to enjoy Xmas.

Sorrycantreadtest · 07/01/2021 08:15

@2020BogOff

I have to work, in a school, and have had to isolate due to children testing positive within my bubble. But, as both dh and I are CV, apart from me working, we don't go anywhere or see anyone. Yes, we do shopping online. Frankly, of is as far from 'nice' as you can get. I bate not seeing my dcs, my dgc, my elderly mum. But quite apart from the risk to myself from working in a school, I cannot take the risk of passing it on to anyone else. I last saw my mum in person last March. Video calls are not the same. MIL is terminally I'll, and due to other circumstances around her care, DH cannot see her and may not see her again. It is not a 'nice bubble' by any stretch of the imagination. So do I feel cross about the people I know who have been merrily posting pictures on social media showing their
rule-breaking Christmas gatherings? Absolutely I do, because those people are part of the reason why we are still in this mess.

2020BogOff · 07/01/2021 08:23

Well I didn't see anyone over Xmas. Apart from my DH I haven't met up with anyone else for many weeks and that was a socially distanced walk with one other.

But I can't get myself worked up by people wanting some company one day in a year because they aren't allowed to at any other time.

Sorrycantreadtest · 07/01/2021 11:13

We saw no-one over Christmas. We have seen no-one for months, apart from those I have to see at work. I am afraid I do get annoyed at people who think they can mix for one day and then end up spreading the virus around.

mistletoeandsigh · 07/01/2021 11:24

We were tier 4 and didn't see anyone. We got it anyway.

donewithitalltodayandxmas · 07/01/2021 21:08

@PrincessNutNuts but we could pick it up from work , shops anywhere and pass it on if you look at it like that? Also in my family that mixed actually none of us had to work etc for 10 days after as we had holiday and plenty food.
But the reality is anyone could catch it anywhere and spread it unknowingly , my dh has to go in multiple houses a day , he wears ppe to protect the homeowners bit they aren't so he could pick it up and bring it home , take it on to a shop all unknowingly, but no one is telling him not to work

donewithitalltodayandxmas · 07/01/2021 21:14

Also don't forget a couple places were tier 1 at xmas so could meet indoors on more than just xmas within the rule.
People are too judgemental on here unfortunately anyone can have it and not know and pass on unknowingly , that could be caught from work , school , supermarkets a hospital appt , anything.
Some people mixed at xmas because maybe that is what they needed to do , to get through this.
The numbers were huge before xmas as well and people were still doing all the things they are allowed which may of been risky.

Crakeandoryx · 07/01/2021 21:16

My mil came but she's our household bubble. That's it. The numbers in my area are rocketing at the moment we've gone from 180 to in the 600's since Christmas. It's scary

PrincessNutNuts · 07/01/2021 21:23

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@PrincessNutNuts but we could pick it up from work , shops anywhere and pass it on if you look at it like that? Also in my family that mixed actually none of us had to work etc for 10 days after as we had holiday and plenty food.
But the reality is anyone could catch it anywhere and spread it unknowingly , my dh has to go in multiple houses a day , he wears ppe to protect the homeowners bit they aren't so he could pick it up and bring it home , take it on to a shop all unknowingly, but no one is telling him not to work [/quote]
Yes of course.

Can and do.

Most people catch it at home, work or school.

Any prolonged contact indoors with other humans is a high risk covid zone isn't it?

That's why people have been told to only go to work if they can't work from home.

newnameswhothis · 07/01/2021 21:26

My aunt had her 3 grown up children, partners and teen's in her house

14 of them in total Hmm

newnameswhothis · 07/01/2021 21:27

Sorry posted too soon

8 of them tested positive on the 2nd of Jan lucky no serious symptoms so far

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Jenasaurus · 07/01/2021 21:29

@Ninkanink

We mixed. All fine.

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Just seen this, thank you
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PrincessNutNuts · 07/01/2021 21:30

@mistletoeandsigh

We were tier 4 and didn't see anyone. We got it anyway.
Sad