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Where did you catch it?

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Caramellatteplease · 13/11/2021 18:50

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?

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Sugarandtime · 13/11/2021 21:32

@Caramellatteplease

positive test result within 10 minutes of arriving in hospital after a fall That one is very puzzling. I wonder if she had had a medical appointment previously she had forgotten about/not mentioned.

Offices, buses, hospitals and schools... I'm wondering if DD might risk the cinema in a mask

No definitely no appointments, she never left the house at all. I was there standing outside when the ambulance staff tended to her after her fall. I would even have to speak to her through a closed door which wasn’t easy.

It really is one of life’s apparent mysteries

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 13/11/2021 21:44

@Caramellatteplease

The more I read the more shocked I am we have done nothing to mitigate the spread of covid in school
We've been repeatedly told that it doesn't spread in schools. Quite often by posters on here. Now that it's the only place it's going properly mad, and child cases can't be hidden amongst the rest of the graphs, suddenly everyone is happy to admit that 'of course it transmits in schools'. Just because it wasn't moving as quickly as it was in care homes, didn't mean it wasn't moving.
HundredMilesAnHour · 13/11/2021 21:46

I caught it in the office (investment bank) as soon as distancing rules between desks were removed (previously no-one was allowed to sit next to you or opposite you). I found out later that the guy opposite me thought he had a cold. It wasn't a cold and within a few days, 3 of us tested positive. I have long Covid and haven't worked for 2 months now. Not best pleased, to say the least.

OnceBitten25 · 13/11/2021 21:49

Caught it at work. Am a nurse

JKDinomum · 13/11/2021 21:51

No idea, but I think we must have caught it while away on holiday camping. We were in the New Forest and mostly outside, so probably either in the indoor swimming pool (or the ridiculous queue to get into it - Covid rules meant they limited numbers of people in the actual pool but they made you queue up inside the building where nobody was wearing masks....) or from the campsite toilets maybe. The odd thing is my two younger kids went everywhere that me and my eldest went during the 10 days before we tested positive, but they didn't get it (they also didn't subsequently catch it from us).

I suspect a lot of people have no idea really where they caught it, especially if they've had it since restrictions have been lifted.

Meercatmama · 13/11/2021 21:53

Caught at school (primary) for the second time this week. Previous time in the first outbreak at school. This time thanks to two jabs not so bad as was laid up in bed the first time for two weeks. Part of the job now days

DooDahDah · 13/11/2021 21:59

DH is working from home, and the only time he left was to do the school run, so low risk, outdoors but he still managed to catch it despite being double jabbed....He felt grotty on the Wednesday but no classic covid symptoms....he kindly passed it on to the rest of us a few days later.

JKDinomum · 13/11/2021 22:04

@manolantern
It does seem very hit and miss. We must have caught it from a random encounter because nobody we know had it that we could have caught it from them. And yet people who didn't catch it from us include: my friend and her two kids who spent the evening inside a tent with us, my two kids who had shared water bottles with us, lived in the house with us, and whose meals I cooked while positive, and my parents, who had my daughter staying over night the night before the day she tested positive.

Soootired12 · 13/11/2021 22:04

My dd caught it at a playground. My DP from work, not medical related but customer facing. My dd2 and I caught it off my nephew, who caught it from school. Dd1 and dp were fine, dd2 and I were quite poorly.

L0ndonGirl · 13/11/2021 22:14

My 11yr old dd caught it at school the week after half term, and shared it with the rest of us the past few days. I guess you never really know, but 2 classmates had been away for half term, and were apparently coughing and sneezing all week, but saying they’d done loads of tests which were all negative. 🤷‍♀️

greenlynx · 13/11/2021 22:33

@Caramellatteplease
We’ve been at our local cinema several times since August and I thought that the whole experience was very safe. We went at less popular and more expensive time so there were not many people. Our screen was nearly empty. I wore mask in the toilet and cafe area but DD didn’t, she’s CV but struggles in mask, however she’s vaccinated which helps I suppose.

My relative got Covid in the office, gave it to his wife and child. He actually saw his parents the day before at the car park briefly, they all were in masks so nothing happened. They were not vaccinated at that point.

A couple of friends were unwell in March 2020 after traveling and it looked very much like Covid.
One’s got it at work (hospital) but again it was last year before vaccination.

Bobholll · 13/11/2021 22:55

I’ve had covid twice. One I caught from removal men moving house last winter. And I’ve just had it. I caught it from a kids birthday party in a well ventilated hall. Most people I know have caught it from school, parties, socialising, the theatre.. to be honest, you could literally catch it anywhere. None of my family caught it from me despite living together in a house & not isolating from each other at all 🤷🏼‍♀️ I have young kids, we hugged, kissed, shared beds, all the usual looking after kids stuff!

Scarby9 · 13/11/2021 23:05

Of the people I know who have had it:

At school, school, school, school...(lots)

From their school or nusery aged child or grandchild (who presumably caught it at school or nursery!)

At a medical students reunion (8 out of 15 of them)

In hospital

In a care home

FrangipaniBlue · 13/11/2021 23:49

DS13 caught it from a friend at school, the friend caught it on an organised bus trip to a footie match.

I caught it at a party/function last weekend. 35/40 people in a private room having a meal (no dancing/close contact really), 15 of us so far have it.

DH has worked throughout and been in and out of peoples houses due to job but so far has managed to avoid it!

FindingMeno · 13/11/2021 23:52

School or public transport is my best guess.

SirVixofVixHall · 13/11/2021 23:57

My dd caught it on a residential trip with other teenagers, and DH caught it from her. I managed not to catch it, same with my other child.
Of the people I know who’ve had it, many caught it from their DC, and others caught it in work settings.

Spikeyball · 14/11/2021 07:06

People I know caught it at work (HCP), from school ( no one else in house caught it) and from a friend ( worked with covid patients for 18 months but never caught it that way).

firef1y · 14/11/2021 07:20

Sorry but all of you saying you definitely caught it from this place or that, you just can't be certain where you caught it, in just the same way that you can't be certain who you caught a cold off.

You can have a very high suspicion that's where you caught it, but unless you spent every other moment of the preceeding 10days sealed in a bubble with absolutely zero contact with anyone else you can't be certain.

walksen · 14/11/2021 07:26

"suddenly everyone is happy to admit that 'of course it transmits in schools'."

Plenty of people still point to the fact that cases drop a week or two before half term or holidays as evidence cases aren't driven by schools, ignoring the fact that that is usually because people have plans so most kids off school are suddenly at home with a cold, tonsilitis, or done other generic illness in the hope that symptoms clear up on a few days so that half term holiday plans etc aren't ruined.

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Caramellatteplease · 14/11/2021 07:26

You can have a very high suspicion

In the absence of proper research I'll take people's suspicions. Peoples suspicions a running on distinct lines

It's a fairly safe bet if you're slowly watching it go round an office or school. I remember with Norovirus one day it would be one person, the next the two people either side and so on.

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Robin233 · 14/11/2021 07:29

Of the people I know:
Mil - hospital
Neighbour- hospital
Friend - on plane back from holiday
Sil and family- kids birthdays party
Friend - from socialising x lots of family.
Dh's work colleague from his wife's school (ta).
I know of at least 4 others who have no idea where it came from.

Robin233 · 14/11/2021 07:31

And:
Friend - work (hospital)
Friend- football in London
Friend- the races

BigSandyBalls2015 · 14/11/2021 07:47

I do think some people just aren’t as susceptible to it … it’s a weird virus. DH has it but nobody else in the house caught it, despite the fact he carried on as normal, didn’t stay in one room.

DD has worked in retail during the whole pandemic, went to nightclubs and festivals when they reopened and even shared a drink with a friend who subsequently tested positive … she still didn’t get it.

Onegingerhead · 14/11/2021 08:19

From husband who is most likely brought it from pub.

Nomorefuckstogive · 14/11/2021 08:35

@firef1y

Sorry but all of you saying you definitely caught it from this place or that, you just can't be certain where you caught it, in just the same way that you can't be certain who you caught a cold off.

You can have a very high suspicion that's where you caught it, but unless you spent every other moment of the preceeding 10days sealed in a bubble with absolutely zero contact with anyone else you can't be certain.

If contacts at work/school test positive prior to you developing symptoms and you’ve spent time with them, you can be fairly certain.
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