Where did you catch it?

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I have a CEV son and so far as a family we have avoided catching it, the kids are still home schooling and DS still limits his activities (quite contentedly). The only people I know who actually caught it worked in medical settings. If you dont mind my asking and you actually know, where did you catch it? Have there been any official statistics released?

From my school age daughter.

From my/DH office in 2020 the day before lockdown

Most people I know believe they got it from their kids

From a holiday park in the uk

From my DH who happened to be walking through the Royal Festival Hall in March 2020 when it was hosting the International Women’s Conference. Plane loads of Italians 😊.

At work (a school).

Most people I know have caught it either at work or out socialising in pubs etc. DS caught it off his GF who caught it off her good friend.

The only odd one is someone who caught it in the first lock down while claiming not to go out or see anyone. I'm pretty sure she must have had a sneaky meeting with her BF.

Im guessing the kids then caught it from school?

We've done stuff out and about. But there's stuff we haven't done since the start of the pandemic eg gone swimming or to the cinema. I've got friends who do these things without incident so I suppose I'm starting to wonder if the main risks are actually schools and hospitals

Mumblechum0 I'm guessing that was prior to masks too 😖

out socialising in pubs etc
See this is something that I also think about. Are restaurant in the etc? Are restaurants and pubs equally risky

From my DP who works in an office that currently have 12 people off with covid and don't give a shit.

I caught it from dh who caught it during a weekend away with a few friends. We suspect he caught it from one of them during the car journey as we later found out one was ill during the trip and didn't test. Ds caught it from a friend he was with in the pub and then gave it to his brother.

I don't know many people who have had it. Of the ones that have, a few got it in March 2020, when they were caught unawares and caught it through their usual socialising, working or travelling.

Of the people who've caught it since, a couple got it from adult DC who brought it back from an illegal party last year "must have been the supermarket", and everyone else caught it when they had to go into hospital for something unrelated - went in negative, came out infected.

DD from being in a car (for about an hour) with someone who subsequently tested positive.

Must have been via children’s school as we weren’t going to shops or anything at the time.

At a series of work conferences or train travel all in one week. That was March 2020.

This time round it was from my son via school.

From my thoughtful DH who went to an England football match with many 1000s of others 🤦🏼‍♀️

School (DD brought it home). In fact pretty much every adult I know who's had it, it started with school age children in the last 3 months.

School. I'm a teacher

My DP has it now and we think he got it from Murrayfield this Sunday passed at the rugby.

Weird thing is we drove down, three hours there and back and also the time at stadium, with two other people. Neither myself or those two other people have caught it. I went for a PCR on Thursday and negative and still showing up negative lateral flows

From my in laws who were at our house doing childcare while partner and I were on holiday. We came back and FIL was ill. They went home 3 hours after we arrived home, he tested positive the next day.

We assumed they caught it from our child, who had covid positive children at her birthday party the week before (we found out while we were on holiday, too late to do anything). Her school has child cases in every class and 2 teachers off. BUT, our child has tested negative on PCR x 2 and LFT x 10 since then. No symptoms. Both partner and I have it. He hugged his dad, I didn't. He got it 4 days before me. I assume I got it from him.

Either in a supermarket (masked, social distancing) or from teaching in a classroom which was a bit of a tight fit and containing a child who tested positive the next day. My head refuses to believe it could be the latter and insists that there is no community transmission in the classrooms.

From my toddler who caught it from my mother (we are all living together at the mo). She thinks she caught it at the library story time where she was in an enclosed space and the only one wearing a mask. We'll never know for certain.

At work. School

I'd like to be able to see the route of infection like they have in the last scene of Contagion.

DH brought it home from work, last January. Young lad in the office enjoyed his Christmas & new year without any shits for anyone else.

Took down 12 in the office. And god knows how many extended family members. Quite a lot we’re very unwell, even the young ones.

Fortunately DH and I were mostly asymptotic.

Thank you. It's hard with DS assessing the risk. Particularly for DD(15). She very vocally doesn't want "to kill her brother" but at the same time I know theres a few bits coming up that she would very like to do. This helps me recalibrate a sensible balance, especially as government guidelines is rubbish.

I hope that those who have caught it havent suffered too badly.

We've done stuff out and about. But there's stuff we haven't done since the start of the pandemic eg gone swimming or to the cinema. I've got friends who do these things without incident so I suppose I'm starting to wonder if the main risks are actually schools and hospitals-
One of my work colleagues caught it in the summer holidays. Her child contracted it at a swimming lesson. The swimming teacher had it. Many families who attended the swimming lesson contracted it (all families were friendly with each other) and passed it on to grandparents, etc.
I think anywhere you have fairly close contact without masks is somewhere you’re likely to catch it.