How are people still catching the virus?

[Baileysforchristmas]

Numbers are still so high, are people catching it from supermarkets? Does 2 metres apart still stop you catching it? Are you still pretty safe outside if you stay at least 2 metres apart?

The only place me or my family could catch it is at work. We can't work from home.

Kids at home, no bubbles or socialising, food delivered.

Seriously test and trace isn’t helpful here either. Some people are waiting 5 days for test results, meanwhile their contacts aren’t isolating

Everywhere I see workmen, delivery drivers, construction workers, postmen usually in the 25-50 age group not wearing masks, not social distancing, sharing vehicles. I bet they rarely wash their hands too.
People are still going to work with obvious Covid symptoms while they wait for test results. I know of four people doing this locally, this week.

The only people I know who have had it work in a hospital.

While I think outdoors is relatively low risk it may be worth wearing masks anyway with the new variant. I live in flats so have to put one on to get in and out of the building. I'm passing neighbours in small hallways and narrow stairs. It seems a bit daft to be pulling it off once I get to a wider bit of pavement and that's what people are doing aren't they. Easier/safer to get used to leaving it alone.

It was so cold today I was actually glad to have it on.

the people I know who got it recently got it

• from work (nurse on covid ward),
• supermarket (elderly neighbours who only leave the house for shipping, no social contact otherwise)
• in hospital as inpatient
• relative with covid

Loads of people are still having to go to
Work

Work being made to go in
School because far too many have places
At nursery

@benedicto where did you get that figure from a survey of 1000 or something as I know more who didn't mix than did, but I know of a lot of people who have to go to work and mix with others and general public

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@benedicto where did you get that figure from a survey of 1000 or something as I know more who didn't mix than did, but I know of a lot of people who have to go to work and mix with others and general public [/quote]
I do agree with you about work and mixing with the general public - I posted the same just before the Christmas post.

@Swishswish26

Secondary schools have been closed for almost four weeks. They only opened to keyworkers on Monday so I really don’t think we can still blame schools. I would guess there is a lot of non-compliance. People aren’t as scared as they were back in March. For the most part, they have seen family and friends catch the virus and recover quickly with only very mild symptoms, if any which is why we now have Whitty telling us to ‘Stay Home’ .

We had all over 300 of our secondary kids in on Monday to test them ahead of public exams this week. We were ready - the DfE testing portal was not. No one got tested. We couldn't test any of them and although we kept to strict bubble distancing, each bubble is a year group...

So really from posts on here then a lot of the public can not be trusted so we do need a tighter lockdown ?

I think people think the rules make them safe but all they do is minimise risk .

@donewithitalltodayandxmas

www.itv.com/news/2021-01-08/covid-christmas-mixing-peak-and-uk-daily-vaccine-target-tracker-heres-what-next-week-will-bring

Some 44% of adults in England, Scotland and Wales said they met up to two other households on December 25, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Goes onto say:

"Taking into consideration the lag between infection, hospitalisation and death, the UK is seeing the consequences of increased Christmas mixing playing out now and into next week."

We also still have about 30% in of based on key workers and vulnerable. The primary school where I'm a governor has nearly half...

The last time I went out of the house was the 24th of December I'm on my 6th day recovering from covid. I tested positive earlier this week I always wear a mask and didn't mix with any extended family over Christmas yet I still got it this new mutation is spreading like wild fire

@ftb30

I am in Essex. We've been tier 4 for weeks and now in lockdown. There's been no change. Shops and roads still busy and lots of people socialising outdoors. It's nothing like March lockdown

Me too, I drove home from work through Leigh on Sea today past honestly hundreds of people milling around with takeaway coffee's. I don't see as many people there in the summer, and every bench had a good few people on it. It felt a bit surreal like on a normal winter's day I'd be wondering what's the occasion to draw that many people. I remember in March no one could sit on a bench anywhere because it's not exercise, if you walked past someone one of you would be in the (deserted) road to give the other a wide berth. People are not worried now the only change is that children can't access school.

@benedicto but they haven't asked the whole uk have they and they don't mention where they get that figure from , like how many they asked.

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@benedicto but they haven't asked the whole uk have they and they don't mention where they get that figure from , like how many they asked. [/quote]
I trust the ONS - it is a highly reliable source.

And no statistics ask the whole country.

If you don't believe data from the Office for National Statistics then you won't believe any data

@benedicto i find it strange that they are blaming the cAses on 29/30th on xmas mixing seeing as that would if been 25th so 4/5 days before so people would of got symptoms and tested and results back within 4 days ?? Maybe a few but not all , and are we not given figures and they included tests sometimes from days before ?

The current positive cases coming through are from Christmas/NY mixing.

@Gwenhwyfar

The figures speak for themselves. STAY AT HOME is what we are being asked to do. Or else we'd be asked to STAY AT HOME or GO AND DO WHAT YOU LIKE OUTSIDE. We are not. It's people not doing what they are told. I suggest you are one of them as you just want to argue and make excuses.

essential retail needs to be tightened up

i'm in non food retail and we sell home items among essentials. its a joke. people come out to browse, bring the family too. just for somewhere to go and to buy something nice for the house. they dont need to be out

places like b&m,home bargains etc should not be allowed to accommodate browsing like that