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I don’t understand this

55 replies

Itllpass · 02/02/2021 00:13

There are a number of threads here where the op or a family member has tested positive but they haven’t left the house except for a walk. That too as the op says is within there own family circle. Grocery by delivery- this really concerns me as this is pretty much how we are carrying on and i believed that we are at a low risk of catching Covid. Where or how are these posters catching it? Is there a chance if you catching it if you walk past a person? In open air? Doesn’t seem plausible 😳

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WouldstrokeTomHardy · 02/02/2021 00:15

I'd plump for either very, very unlucky or lying bastards

DicklessWonder · 02/02/2021 00:17

The new variants are thought to be far more virulent outdoors.

PlanDeRaccordement · 02/02/2021 00:19

Every item delivered to your door can potentially be carrying Covid.m

PlanDeRaccordement · 02/02/2021 00:22

That’s how US soldiers genocided many Native American tribes. Delivered blankets laced with small pox during the winter to the tribes they’d trapped and were starving in reservations...started many small pox epidemics that way.

TryingNotToPanicOverCovid · 02/02/2021 00:23

Im not a lying bastard. We've been so careful (didnt send kids to school beg january /had supermarket deliveries, avoided indoor spaces etc) . I am completely puzzled as I had hought I'd get it via kids from school if anywhere and as I have it now it wasn't that.

I think exerciss still outweighs the tiny risk. We walked everyday so I think that must be it. When I looked there was no evidence of transmission from surfaces.

I would wear a mask outdoors now if i didnt have it.

On the plus side I think I have it milder than I expected to so mahbe lower viral load!?

WouldstrokeTomHardy · 02/02/2021 00:33

Eh?

HalfPastThree · 02/02/2021 00:42

My tin hat theory is that it travels in vast clouds in the air, like pollen. Most people won’t catch it but some people are particularly susceptible at particular times. And unless they’re in the middle of nowhere, they’d get it whatever they did.

Flaxmeadow · 02/02/2021 00:46

That’s how US soldiers genocided many Native American tribes. Delivered blankets laced with small pox during the winter to the tribes they’d trapped and were starving in reservations...started many small pox epidemics that way.

This, as an act of genocide, was debunked years ago.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 02/02/2021 00:54

If they haven't been out except for walks and shopping is delivered. Then I think the answer is simple.

Amazon Grin They are keeping us in lockdown so we have no choice but to order more and more stuff 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 02/02/2021 00:56

It's going to be an absolute bugger if all those idiots burning down 5G masts were right🤦‍♀️😉😁

SingANewSongChickenTikka · 02/02/2021 05:32

It’s perfectly possible to catch it from deliveries or passing people outside. Unlucky for sure, but the mitigation factors like social distancing and being outside just lower the risk, they don’t remove it.

inquietant · 02/02/2021 06:01

@SingANewSongChickenTikka

It’s perfectly possible to catch it from deliveries or passing people outside. Unlucky for sure, but the mitigation factors like social distancing and being outside just lower the risk, they don’t remove it.
Yes this is what I was going to say - the new variant is easier to catch, so I'm being more vigilant about two metres outside, I used to be less bothered.
HereComesATractor · 02/02/2021 06:05

“ i believed that we are at a low risk of catching Covid”

You are. But it’s low risk, not no risk. Some people who are doing what you are doing are going to catch it. And when cases are high it will be more proportionally than when they are lower.

TibetanTerrier · 02/02/2021 06:23

@PlanDeRaccordement

That’s how US soldiers genocided many Native American tribes. Delivered blankets laced with small pox during the winter to the tribes they’d trapped and were starving in reservations...started many small pox epidemics that way.
It was mainly the European settling forces - including the British - that distributed the 'smallpox blankets' to the Native Americans.
justwanttoknow21 · 02/02/2021 06:34

OP I don't understand either and the thread about how people are catching it and so many people saying they don't leave the house, has been massively triggering for my covid anxiety. I don't know how else to protect myself if I can even get it from not going anywhere ! So are we saying people get it from going on walks outside then ? If it's not from amazon packages or food delivery? I wipe everything down and discard packages and wash my hands etc- every single time for that reason. But I thought I was being OTT and that this mode of transmission is very very very unlikely. But you come in MN and learn that actually most people don't go anywhere and are still getting it. I don't get it. I also don't get why you'd be so so likely to get it from the supermarket if people wear masks and socially distance. Unless there are loads of people not wearing masks, how does it transmit ?

OverTheRainbow88 · 02/02/2021 06:43

People usually say they haven’t been anywhere, and turns out their kids go to school, they go super market shopping and work in an office

RudeAF · 02/02/2021 06:46

There was someone on a thread saying they had no idea either. Then casually dropped in their husband was a doctor or something.

ProfYaffle · 02/02/2021 06:54

Colleague at work is a similar, has 'no idea' where she could have caught covid but she has 1 dc at nursery, 1 at school, husband is going out to work and she has a childcare bubble with her parents one of whom is still working.

justwanttoknow21 · 02/02/2021 06:58

On the contrary of people catching it while hibernating - all the people I know in real life who've had covid, didn't even pass it on to anyone in their household. So the MN representation makes no sense.

turnitonagain · 02/02/2021 07:02

They’re not being completely honest about their outside contacts. Even saying they never left home and only took deliveries - did they interact with the driver? Did they both have masks on in that interaction?

And yes the ones whose DCs are in school or childcare as if there’s a magical force field around the nursery.

HereComesATractor · 02/02/2021 07:19

It is lowering risks, not eliminating risks. Some people will catch it under these circumstances because they are not existing in an aseptic environment (nor should they). Fewer than those who have more contact with others, but some still will catch it. It’s not a moral failing or not trying hard enough - it is just a virus doing what a virus does

SilverGlitterBaubles · 02/02/2021 07:21

The virus is airborne, not all masks are effective and many are worn incorrectly, people do not respect social distancing while out walking or in supermarkets, the new variants are more transmissible.

justwanttoknow21 · 02/02/2021 07:22

It just seems so strange to catch it just from walking past someone ? Doesn't the test and trace app need you to be near someone for over 5 minutes or something like that before it will flag you as having been in close contact ?

iveturnedintoachip · 02/02/2021 07:27

I surprised I haven't caught it, still doing some work in office. 2 Colleague had it but didn't pass it on, separate occasions.

TryingNotToPanicOverCovid · 02/02/2021 07:28

I think often people will the say "oh yes apart from school/work/just my bubble.."

We havent had any of those things at all. However we have walked everyday - and tmin areas where there are other people. We kept a distance (my anxiety) but on most paths its not possible to cross at 2meters. I think I must have been statistically unlucky.