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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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ScrambledSmegs · 06/01/2021 17:11

DH has a colleague whose wife took their kids and stayed with big extended family over Christmas. They now all (including colleague, who didn't mix) have Covid. Think there's a big marital rift brewing as he is furious.

We went nowhere, saw no one. It was fine.

55larry · 06/01/2021 17:11

I went to my dd on Christmas Day and have now got COVID. Dgs 3 was in contact with his childminder whose son had a cold the previous week and who passed it to his mum who was positive. Dgs was coughing so he was tested but his result arrived saying he was negative. We now wonder if he was a false negative.

I feel as if I have a cold and only had a test because I was asked to by the Zoe COVID app.

MarshaBradyo · 06/01/2021 17:11

No mixing here but was wondering this too

movingonup20 · 06/01/2021 17:11

No but then we weren't stupid beforehand

CottonHeadedNinyMuggins · 06/01/2021 17:13

Nope, haven't mixed with family since Feb 2020 other than one day when my brother came with nephew the day after he'd had a negative test result returned in July (shielder). We were only 'allowed' out of shielding come August and then November we were shielded again and now there's the third.

One/two years of video chats, text, emails, calls and WhatsApp chats is worth (hopefully) decades of life 😊

Not saying the above to preach or upset people, it's just how life has been this last 12 m. I want nothing more than to sod it all and go cuddle my baby (now not so baby at 19m as we've missed most his life) nephew and never let him go again but his mum is a gp, he goes to nursery and my brother is a keyworker so not wise.

Musicaltheatremum · 06/01/2021 17:13

@GameSetMatch I have shingles too seems quite mild on the skin but I've had high temperatures so had a covid test yesterday. May not get results until Friday as I work for NHS so they take longer. My colleague also has had shingles too. She was last at work on 31dt Dec and me 24th Dec we didn't see each other from 21st.

I've had my first vaccine on 21/12
Had my son on Christmas day he'd been isolating for 2 weeks and had negative swab

Partner saw his parents Christmas day and we saw them last Saturday (care needs as they are 93 and 95) so could have caught it from them but timing not in line with this.

CottonHeadedNinyMuggins · 06/01/2021 17:13

(if I ever have another video call when all this goes back to normal it'll be too soon 😂😂)

mightbealittlebitmad · 06/01/2021 17:14

Saw the in-laws, no illness and my husband and youngest child definitely don't have it. Child was tested at the weekend due to a chesty cough just to make sure before he went back to nursery. Husband tested the next day at work as routine, negative.

In laws to my knowledge are fine and that includes SIL who my MIL saw after us. Only thing I've been feeling is very tired because my sleeping has gone to pot again.

Ninkanink · 06/01/2021 17:14

We mixed. All fine.

(@Jenasaurus BIWI’s got a Low carb bootcamp starting on Monday next week. It’s great for health and weightless - not as low as kept but still very effective. There’s a sign up thread running, if you’re interested.)

whatswithtodaytoday · 06/01/2021 17:14

We didn't mix, but I do know of one family which did and now are sick. It looks like the kids must have bought it home from school without being ill - the parents haven't been anywhere and got sick just after Christmas. Hoping their grandma, who they had Christmas with, is ok...

aliloandabanana · 06/01/2021 17:14

Nope. We've reached the 10 days that we would have had to isolate and no one is ill. Most of us haven't been in contact with anyone else so no real opportunity to pass it on if asymptomatic either. So, if we develop it now it is unlikely to have been due to Christmas mixing. Probably not what you wanted to hear.

MarkRuffaloCrumble · 06/01/2021 17:16

My DP just had to isolate as his DB visited on Xmas day and then got a positive result 2 days later. DB’s kids came down with it the following week but DP, his DC and other family members that were also there seem to have got away with it.

Quite glad I didn’t spend Xmas day with him after that not that I’ve been anywhere for 10 days anyway

Bluntness100 · 06/01/2021 17:16

These deaths are not from Xmas op, they are from before. It’s generally three weeks from catching to death. God even writing that is awful.

So we won’t see the Xmas deaths for another week or so.

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 06/01/2021 17:16

62,322 cases today. 4x higher than start of Dec.

More than 30,000 in hospital, 50% more cases in hospital today than on Christmas Day.

Daily deaths, 7 day average about 700, 40%
Higher than CD.

BBC Nick Triggle

Shmithecat2 · 06/01/2021 17:17

I spent Xmas with one other household as per the rules. All fine.

Extended family of mine directly mixed 4 households (3 of those 4 households are co parenting with ex partners from separate households) on Xmas/Boxing day, and 1 person from each of the original 4 have tested positive since, 1 of them admitted to hospital. Fuming Angry.

OrangePlumGrape · 06/01/2021 17:19

We didn’t bother mixing as didn’t want to make the decision about whose parents we did and didn’t see etc. DC are in school and DH is still out at work so we are pretty germy and tend to avoid people tbh. I don’t know anybody who has it at the moment. I don’t know many people who have had it in general despite living in an area with very high cases. A neighbour has but he works on a covid ward so he expected to tbh, there have been a few cases at school now and two cases of colleagues who live in the city I work in but nobody in the immediate family / friendship group here luckily.

CaramelCup · 06/01/2021 17:19

One of My DH’s employees mixed in the 3 family rule Xmas day and by 27th/29th 14 family members tested positive.

Doilooklikeatourist · 06/01/2021 17:20

DS came back here from where he lives the other end of the country , luckily he travelled on the Thursday before everything changed on the Saturday
First class rail ticket , so carriage not crowded
We did go and see the inlaws on Christmas morning for a coffee ( and a glass of champagne for me , as I wasn't driving ! )
DS travelled back first class again , on 30th December
All kept well

emmathedilemma · 06/01/2021 17:21

I spent 2 nights with my extended household friend. We see each other most weekends but are both at pretty low risk of catching it due to working arrangements and not having kids at school / nursery etc.

poptartsarefood · 06/01/2021 17:22

We mixed with in laws and all got covid. I was furious as wanted to give it a miss this year, but got outvoted. We're all out the other end now and most of us were asymptomatic. Still irritating as completely avoidable, but in a weird way glad its done.

yearinyearout · 06/01/2021 17:23

We did mix, but only with my parents, after all isolating for ten days prior. None of us are unwell.

However, I know of five local households who now have covid after mixing indoors over Christmas (mainly their young adult dc mixing with each other)

shiningstar2 · 06/01/2021 17:23

Dh and I, with dm who is in our bubble, had the one legal day ...Christmas day ...with dd and her husband and 2 kids. So two families. No illness but we were very careful. My dgs had a cold so my daughter had him tested on 23rd. Test came back negative. They had all stayed at home for the week before they saw us. We also followed advice regarding keeping windows open for air flow.

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 06/01/2021 17:24

@Jenasaurus

25th Dec - (10 days later is 4th Jan) so not far off
Nick Triggle saying these numbers are showing some of the Christmas mingling
StillGardening · 06/01/2021 17:24

In the SW and they showed graphs on BBC spotlight last night that showed cases in Cornwall and Devon shot up from 17th Dec. So I don’t think it’s necessarily the Christmas rules driving the increase but the movement of returning Uni students and those coming here for holidays. Probably it just wasn’t a good idea to relax rules after such a large amount of movement. Uni kids had to be able to come home though. People coming to be in their second homes I have less time for...

Kazzyhoward · 06/01/2021 17:24

We only had MIL for Christmas Day. We've been shielding since March anyway. We made sure MIL had been isolating fo the 2 weeks beforehand.

OH's sister wanted her to go to theirs for Boxing Day. She was going to go, but we told her not to. They had a house full (as normal). Her children and their partners (and children) would be there, and they'd all been to work, school, etc. Caused quite a family argument, but we were adament that MIL shouldn't risk going to theirs.

How right we were. They've nearly all come down with covid. No apology or acceptance from sister of course who is in complete denial and blaming everyone else, sayings it's just a coincidence and they all got it elsewhere.

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