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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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Jenasaurus · 06/01/2021 17:25

@GameSetMatch

We went to my parents, so far everyone is covid free, although I’ve got shingles which apparently MAY be a sign I’ve had silent covid but I’m doubtful.
Thats interesting, I have had shingles now for the last 2 months, it was painful but now its numb (all on one side - wont say where :) I didnt know it could be a sign of silent covid. I think its more to do with me being run down as its connected to chicken pox isnt it?
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Lindtballsrock · 06/01/2021 17:27

We didn’t mix on Christmas Day but my friend did and now both her sisters, one brother, one brother in law and her grandad all have COVID. She says she’s not sure if they all caught it on Christmas Day but the timeline suggests they did.

LouLou789 · 06/01/2021 17:28

My youngest son came as we are his bubble and he lives on his own. The other kids have their own families. We were Tier 2 at the time. When he arrived he stripped off in the hall and had an immediate shower while I washed all his clothes. We had the windows open for his whole visit. When he went off on Boxing Day to meet a friend we had prearranged he wouldn’t come back here but go home after that. No one been ill, thank heavens.

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 06/01/2021 17:28

@PoppiesinOctober

I thought Christmas mixing was with one other family only?

No. The three households rule was still in place, but just for Christmas day only instead.

Depends where you live.
Springfern · 06/01/2021 17:31

Ffs...This thread

You do realise Primark/gyms/beauty salons/schools etc were also open over Christmas

YouCanWorkItOut · 06/01/2021 17:31

Mum and dad came over Xmas eve- Boxing Day. No one got ill, nobody got or passed on COVID. My brother (who lives with me), me and the kids have all been lateral flow tested since.

Chickychickydodah · 06/01/2021 17:31

Had daughter, her bf and 2 gk round all day. No problems all well 👍🏻😀

MonsterKidz · 06/01/2021 17:32

It’s too early for the mixing on Christmas day to be causing deaths but not too early for cases from it.

We had my parents and sisters (from the same household) on xmas day for a couple of hours.
No one is ill so far

cathyandclare · 06/01/2021 17:32

We mixed within the Tier 3 rules. Everyone had 2 X LF tests in the week before ( bought privately ) apart from elderly ILs who we were protecting. All fine so far.

AdoraBell · 06/01/2021 17:32

We didn’t visit in-laws, mainly because SIL who still lives with FIL never takes notice of advice and restrictions that don’t suit what she wants to do. So when Kent, where they live, had no mixing households she left 87yr old FIL alone to visit her boyfriend for a week. Then after the current lockdown was announced she drove from the town they live in to a pretty village to go for a walk, because you can go out.

DH is seriously worried about his father, MIL passed away 2 years ago, he can’t sleep because of the stress of waiting for FIL to be infected.

He was planning to visit until Kent was put into a higher tier. I was relived because it meant if SIL had caught COVID and spread it around the house we would have been in a bigger risk.

Sorry to offload here, I didn’t realise how much I needed to say that.

My friend is isolated at her boyfriend’s currently because his daughter got a positive test, but she’s a front line worker and got caught it at work.

PrincessBuggerPants · 06/01/2021 17:32

People who did this and know it resulted in Covid cases won't be admitting it to themselves though will they.

I know a GP who has dealt with several cases of elderly patients testing positive, who mixed with family over Xmas (in Tier 4) and claim they didn't know they weren't supposed to.

People are in complete denial… when it suits them.

edwinbear · 06/01/2021 17:33

We went to in laws, we tested negative beforehand. Nobody is unwell.

iwishiwasatcentralperk · 06/01/2021 17:35

We were 12 on Christmas Day, 3 household bubbles, comprising 5 different houses. Completely within the law. One person is a NHS worker who is tested twice weekly.

To date nobody is ill but we are a rural area with low cases, although the numbers locally are rising. I have not mixed with anyone else since Christmas.

Jinglingandnotmingling · 06/01/2021 17:35

We didn’t see anyone. Three people so far in DH’s office have tested positive in the last few days - he has to keep going in, which is worrying.

Belladonna12 · 06/01/2021 17:37

@Springfern

Ffs...This thread

You do realise Primark/gyms/beauty salons/schools etc were also open over Christmas

School shut on the 17th .
NaToth · 06/01/2021 17:37

I was in hospital on Christmas Day until quite late, so we mixed on Boxing Day (I know, I know) with adult DC, all of whom have had COVID, as have we. All fine.

However, for the first time since March, I do know quite a few people who had it over Christmas or have it now, but they're all OK, including one very elderly relative in a care home.

danadas · 06/01/2021 17:37

Yes. We mixed two households for two hours in a Tier 3 area and all 6 of us have now tested positive. We all went for testing on the 23rd too before we mixed!

Emufakes · 06/01/2021 17:39

No but we isolated before and also had tests

slidingdrawers · 06/01/2021 17:39

Most families we know of remained well within the rules. One family did not. An individual who was 4 days into SI due to close contact at work mixed with four other households on Christmas DayConfused. Around a third from that gathering became positive as the 'SI' individual started to feel unwell on Boxing Day/pre-symptomatic on day of mixing. What a twit.

oakleaffy · 06/01/2021 17:39

No, DS and I stayed in isolation, but he went to his Dad's on Boxing Day. {Half Sibling there}..So far none of us have symptoms..But I feel oddly headachey and ''Dull'' today.

Superdyke66 · 06/01/2021 17:40

No household mixing over Christmas in my family. But while looking at post-Christmas data, bear in mind that it may not all be down to Christmas itself. Students also came home & will have mixed with old friends. My son met up with a friend on a park bench, as per rules. Mostly wearing a mask. Took it off for a while & bingo, caught Covid from him, as did at least one other friend who saw the same friend on another occasion. The rules should’ve been tightened up earlier.

GooodMythicalMorning · 06/01/2021 17:41

We didnt. We got it from Tesco. only place we went.

Vintagevixen · 06/01/2021 17:41

The 1000 deaths announced today are not by date of death but date of reporting. So not all of the 1000 died yesterday - there can be significant lags so you cant infer definitively from it re. xmas.

Some deaths can be weeks old - the rolling average by date of death is around 600 at present, I'm hearing around 23% of those announced today were backdated.

zafferana · 06/01/2021 17:42

We saw no one, but I saw on FB that old uni friend and her DH saw her two sisters and their families and her mum on Christmas Day. Now eight of them have got Covid, including all three couples and two of the DC.

mam0918 · 06/01/2021 17:42

We didnt but we never do anyway (xmas was litrally no different for us this year, just us and our kids at home).

We are a small family of only 14 members, my whole family is made up of just 5 households (1 is a single household thats bubbled with another) and 2 households are shielding because they are high risk and have shielded all year so really even if we did meet up it would be max. of 9 people from 3 houses.

Even with how small our family is its lucky we didnt though because a few days after xmas one house was diagnosed covid positive.