If you have/have had covid recently, where do you think you got it from?

[Catplanter]

Just that really. Am hearing all these stories about people who haven't been anywhere but have somehow got it etc. I know a fair few people who have had it but it's been pretty obvious where they picked it up (work, public transport, school and so on). I'm kind of freaking out about even leaving my flat at all at the moment!

Somebody I know has just tested positive with their local supermarket being the only place they could of caught it.

I was recently told to isolate by the app after being in close contact with somebody and traced it back to my local supermarket.

School (work place)

My neighbours have have covid at the moment. They were isolating over Xmas from 19th December as (one of the kids school bubbles burst) and only went shopping on New Year’s Eve, then both adults started with symptoms on 3rd January. On 6th January the wife was admitted to hospital and is now in ICU. They either caught it from their child who had it asymptomatically or the supermarket on news year’s eve

@GandalfTheNoble

I care for my parents. My parents hadn't been out for months (CEV) and nor have I (also CEV). On line shopping / wfh / seen no friends / no school age friends.

I believe my dad got it from one set of the 5 sets of paramedics who came to assist him.

He died.

I’m so sorry. I know of several paramedics in hospital with it at the moment. All were meticulous with their PPE so it’s unlikely all of them failed but more likely it’s not a good enough defence against getting covid now it has mutated.

DS either picked it up from primary school or after school club at end of term. He had symptoms over Christmas now all the family have it.

Definitely hospital for us.

This thread is making me question whether to send DC back to nursery when it opens tomorrow...

We all had it over Christmas and DD 3 brought it home from secondary school as she had symptoms first .
I work in a pharmacy but sure it was her from school as many other families we know have also had it .

Friends caught it from their cleaner, they didn’t keep distance, wear masks or open windows when they were in and they were WFH. People don’t seem to get that any interaction, like deliveries, etc could be risky.

Do we really think it's possible to get it from a delivery? I mean, obviously anything is possible, but if you wash your hands and don't touch your face it's pretty unlikely isn't it?

@Rainbowshine

Friends caught it from their cleaner, they didn’t keep distance, wear masks or open windows when they were in and they were WFH. People don’t seem to get that any interaction, like deliveries, etc could be risky.

Receiving a delivery isn’t anything like having your cleaner round and inside your house for presumably hours at a time.

@EltonMess can I please ask how you were able to trace it back to the supermarket? I didn’t think the app told you where the contact had happened?

Well if the delivery driver is huffing and puffing in your face and you breathe in (not all drivers seem to get social distancing around here) then there’s a risk. Yes it’s lower than the cleaners coming in, for sure. My (admittedly badly made) point is that people say that they haven’t done anything that could have exposed them but the reality is that they probably have but it didn’t register as such. This is why people should act as if they have it.

Either work (school) or children’s school.

The sister nursing home to the one I work at is dealing with an outbreak right now.

The team who came in to vaccinate the residents passed it on to several of them . None of the actual care staff have it (tested 3 times weekly), it’s only residents who consented to the jab.

The vaccination team going round the care homes is only tested once a week using the LAMP tests and do not have PCRs which are more reliable. They have been doing hundreds of residents in homes locally per day since the AstraZeneca was approved. Some of these were Covid positive homes. And so it spreads. It’s heartbreaking.

@ProudAuntie76 that is almost criminally negligent

Probably supermarket in between Xmas and new year or from an unavoidable emergency trip to A&E.

[quote Porcupineintherough]@ProudAuntie76 that is almost criminally negligent [/quote]
So was having known Covid positive cases dumped on us in the middle of the night by paramedics who refused to leave back in April/May. It happened three times. Some of our residents died as a result, two of our staff never fully recovered and we never got a formal apology from the Trust or Ambulance Service who were verbally abusive to the staff who begged them to take the residents (distressed dementia patients) back. We weren’t the only home locally it happened to.

I cannot begin to describe how awful and genuinely criminally negligent our government has been towards health and social care and how disgusting some of the bed clearing tactics have been.

The person I know with a positive result thinks they caught it in the supermarket. I am aware that they, at times, have visited a garden centre, but I think the last time was before Christmas. They do also go on walks. Wfh, as is partner, and no kids.

Another relative, partner and child who attends uni all contracted it. They shop on-line and only the child leaves the home.

The other most recent cases I know of are;

Lady in her 80s who spent Christmas with family - DIL is a hairdresser, GC is around 6 with SEN in a SEN School and cannot social distance. She was going to her church regularly, refusing to social distance and mixing with other households quite closely (hugging people at church etc). She’s been a bit of a super spreader and still monitoring the fall out from that.

Beautician on FB locally another superspreader. Tested positive on Christmas Day having been doing nails till midnight the night before. Obviously from her it’s done the rounds.

*@ProudAuntie76

So was having known Covid positive cases dumped on us in the middle of the night by paramedics who refused to leave back in April/May. It happened three times..
That is disgusting. I would have refused to do this though if I was a paramedic.

Some of our residents died as a result, two of our staff never fully recovered and we never got a formal apology from the Trust or Ambulance Service who were verbally abusive to the staff who begged them to take the residents (distressed dementia patients) back.
The paramedics are the people at fault here. There was no reason for them to be abusive. That is down to their personality/character. I am pretty sure the Govt would not advise paramedics to abuse anyone.

I cannot begin to describe how awful and genuinely criminally negligent our government has been towards health and social care and how disgusting some of the bed clearing tactics have been.
What about Hospital trusts, CEOs, managers staff on wards?Where is their responsibility in this? They seem quite involved normally making decisions about discharging people from their hospitals.

[quote Calmandmeasured1]*@ProudAuntie76

So was having known Covid positive cases dumped on us in the middle of the night by paramedics who refused to leave back in April/May. It happened three times..
That is disgusting. I would have refused to do this though if I was a paramedic.

Some of our residents died as a result, two of our staff never fully recovered and we never got a formal apology from the Trust or Ambulance Service who were verbally abusive to the staff who begged them to take the residents (distressed dementia patients) back.
The paramedics are the people at fault here. There was no reason for them to be abusive. That is down to their personality/character. I am pretty sure the Govt would not advise paramedics to abuse anyone.

I cannot begin to describe how awful and genuinely criminally negligent our government has been towards health and social care and how disgusting some of the bed clearing tactics have been.
What about Hospital trusts, CEOs, managers staff on wards?Where is their responsibility in this? They seem quite involved normally making decisions about discharging people from their hospitals.[/quote]
Yes, that last sentence about the bed clearing tactics was aimed out our Trust, bed managers etc...however, we were told that they were “acting on government policy” and, to be fair, the guidelines were that residents didn’t need a Covid test prior to being readmitted back to homes following medical treatment back in March/April/May. But we also had cases of known positive cases sent back to us, in one case with an old negative test (from the resident being in our care) waves in staff member’s face as “proof” the resident was Covid negative when they’d had their positive result come through on the ward hours before. And yes, that’s all the hospital’s fault but after a lengthy enquiry the end “apology” was... “well, errors happen don’t they?”.

I tested positive yesterday. The only places I have been in the past two weeks are work and the supermarket. It could be either really. There has been cases in the building I work in, different office, but shared toilets/kitchen/coffee machine.

When people are weighing up whether they got or from their children at school/ workplace or the supermarket. Where do we think is most likely?

I know of 2 people who caught it in care homes, 1 person who caught it at a business lunch, several who caught it in 2 factories and 1 person who thinks it was the supermarket.