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Where do you think you caught it?

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Bunnyfuller · 27/12/2021 18:55

Over the last week I’ve heard of so many people getting Covid. Obviously over the last 2 years there have been huge numbers.

We don’t think we’ve had it in this house. I WFH full-time, 2 teenage children school/college, 1 with a part time job, husband works full time for the police. We do adhere to masks etc, but also eat out regularly, supermarkets etc. We don’t meet up with friends much and our families are overseas/100s and 100s of miles away.

Is it just luck or are we doing something different (I’m thinking the socialising)? If you’ve had it/have it right now, how do you think you picked it up?

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JealousOfDDsOodie · 27/12/2021 20:49

@Queenie6655 - yep.

We did enjoy it for the most part...maybe it was just the day we went but it was FULL of pissed up, half-naked, swearing, barging, foul-mouthed (mostly) travellers. By 5pm!! Not an experience I'd like to repeat to be honest.

Silverchamber · 27/12/2021 20:52

I'm a teacher. Caught it from work, huge high school. I then passed it on to my own two kids. We have had to isolate since 23rd.

KCee30 · 27/12/2021 20:56

We managed to avoid it until the last couple weeks. We don't socialise much. Dp caught it at work off someone who thought they 'just had a cold' and then I caught it off dp.

SellFridges · 27/12/2021 20:58

I do think there is something in the “more susceptible” theory. We have two primary age kids (one in Y6 where easily 80% of the class have now had it), have not been especially cautious, have been to gigs, festivals, parties, football etc as long as has been allowed. We do regularly test (at least twice a week) and we do work from home. We’ve not had it, nor had to PCR for symptoms since Sept 2020. Adults are fully vaccinated but only in line with our age group. I assume our immune systems are just reasonably robust and have been boosted sufficiently by our vaccinations.

That said, I’m fully expecting to catch it at the panto this week and frankly would rather catch it there than via school.

ShakespearesSisters · 27/12/2021 21:18

I had an antibody test this Jan that was negative. I've been doing LTF at least 2x per week since then. More if I've been somewhere risky. I'm not overly careful but do mask up and gel hands before entering shops, I never stopped that. I have to wear a mask all day for work sitting in a small unventilated room with patients for 15-20 mins within a meter of them. My kids have been classed as close contacts at school a few times, PCR and subsequent LTF for 10 days negative each time.
I think I'm in category 4. Me, kids and husband are rarely ill. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

bettertimesarecomingnow · 27/12/2021 21:24

At our wedding!

worriedatthemoment · 27/12/2021 22:00

I think most can only guess where they got it
Just because a child on your dc table had it doesn't mean they def got ot from them, maybe they got it off another child in playground , maybe your child was the asymptomatic carrier and gave it to the other child which then prompted a test
Not many can be totally sure

JealousOfDDsOodie · 27/12/2021 22:08

@bettertimesarecomingnow oh nooo! When was your wedding?

LittleBabyCheeses · 27/12/2021 22:14

@SellFridges

I do think there is something in the “more susceptible” theory. We have two primary age kids (one in Y6 where easily 80% of the class have now had it), have not been especially cautious, have been to gigs, festivals, parties, football etc as long as has been allowed. We do regularly test (at least twice a week) and we do work from home. We’ve not had it, nor had to PCR for symptoms since Sept 2020. Adults are fully vaccinated but only in line with our age group. I assume our immune systems are just reasonably robust and have been boosted sufficiently by our vaccinations.

That said, I’m fully expecting to catch it at the panto this week and frankly would rather catch it there than via school.

I would have said exactly the same. 3 kids (2 primary aged, 1 at nursery). DH commutes into London. I work out of the house, with vulnerable adults. My mum is an intensive care nurse. We’ve all continued with our hobbies and social lives as much as we’ve been allowed to. No hint of a positive test amongst us… until last week!
Timeturnerplease · 27/12/2021 22:18

The vast majority of people I know have caught it via a school or nursery - but then again, most people I know are either teachers like me or have nursery/school age children.

Weirdly, our household seems to have avoided it entirely - despite me being a teacher, DP working in people’s houses and DD1 being at nursery/with grandparents, one of whom works in a shop.

The poor children I taught last year have now been subjected to their third wave in their class, with some children testing positive during each chunk of infections. Last December two parents of my class were hospitalised with covid, and one of them ventilated. Why on earth didn’t I catch it, but the vast majority of the children and/or their families did?

Lessofallthisunpleasantness · 27/12/2021 22:19

Lunch party or pub or daughter who got it from friend or her boyfriend. To be honest don't know...... Suddenly in the last week it just seemed to be everywhere. Not been ill but have loved the opportunity to lounge around the house!! Getting a bit bored now though.

Icequeen01 · 27/12/2021 22:20

I work in a tiny SEN school and 13 out of 15 staff caught it just before we broke up. It didn't come from the kids but from a member of staff.

troppibambini6 · 27/12/2021 22:26

I caught it from my best friend who came over for dinner and proceeded to tell me she'd had an awful bug. She felt the worst she'd ever felt and had been in bed for five days.
Pcr was negative though so not Covid. She later told me that she hadn't actually tested til about a week after symptoms had started. Hmm
I was really ill, followed by my son testing positive. Two days after we finished isolating my dd tested positive so pretty much the whole of November in isolation.

Ifartglitterybaubles · 27/12/2021 22:30

Dh caught it from work, we've all caught it from him.

AyeEee123 · 27/12/2021 22:32

From my school age children.

Nocutenamesleft · 27/12/2021 22:33

Weirdly. I’ve been thinking this too

So I spent 4 days solidly with a friend. She came with me and spent around 15 mins with 3 of my other friends. In the same room. Sort of thing.

3 days later she comes down with covid. I was SURE I would get it. But nope. Though the 3 friends who were in the same room as her for 15 mins. All caught it. So why didn’t I?!? I was vaccinated and the others were not. So I think that’s why I didn’t get it.

Anyway. I’ve been round lots of people who’ve got it. But I ‘touch wood’. Haven’t had it. I’ve also spent a substantial amount of time in hospital and never caught it.

Signoramarella · 27/12/2021 22:37

From year 7s st school definitely

ButteryNuts · 27/12/2021 22:48

From work, I assume, as there was an outbreak at the time, but odd since I didn't actually have any contact with that department. From handles perhaps?

Every other member of my household caught it months earlier and despite living together and them making no effort to isolate I didn't catch it then, so it's fickle!

Narutocrazyfox · 27/12/2021 23:00

From DC from school - this is where most of the people I know who've had it recently have got it from.

Cheermonger · 27/12/2021 23:01

Ironically I’m sure I caught it at my booster jab appointment- we were queued indoors for an hour. I tested positive a week later. Was mild though so probably the actual best ever time to catch it!

ShiftingSands21 · 27/12/2021 23:23

I’m pretty sure my vaccines must have done some heavy lifting as have come into contact with so
many people that statistically I think there’s just no way I haven’t come into contact with any actual infectious virus. There has also been improbably few cases in DDs nursery with just 3 ever in the whole pandemic so surely there has been some asymptomatic covid there. In Feb 2020 before things kicked off big time and before anyone knew it was a symptom DH lost his sense of smell and we thought it was super weird and he was quite worried about it. I don’t really know what to think.

justasking111 · 27/12/2021 23:34

DS had it twice at university. We care for five grandchildren after school, sleepovers, etc they've had colds etc as they do, neither of us have caught it so far.

Read an interesting study that if you have asthma, eczema, your immune system is in permanent overdrive so covid gets knocked back

Tanfastic · 27/12/2021 23:45

@DsRevision

My theory is that those who seem to have missed it fall into 3 camps

  1. the ultra cautious - still not going to shops etc

  2. those who don’t have school age kids and don’t have to go out to work.

  3. those who are acting normally, working etc But I think these ( like you) have actually had it. Either early on before testing was available or they were asymptomatic

I fall into the last camp and haven't had it but get tested twice a week with work and had antibody tests all negative. I haven't had pcr's though when I've had usual coughs and colds so maybe I have had it and lft tests and saliva tests through work just haven't picked it up.
tillyandmilly · 27/12/2021 23:51

Queenie6655

Yes chav filled - I went to it and thought the same!

jenkel · 27/12/2021 23:56

Cinema, first time I’ve been since covid, so Daniel Craig gave me Covid big 😁