Where did you catch covid?

Where did you catch covid?

Poll: Where did you catch covid?

Total Members Polled: 63

Work: 16%
Social event Friends: 8%
Social event Family: 3%
Kids: 16%
Hospital: 2%
Pub: 6%
Public Transport: 6%
Other (Explain in comments): 13%
No idea: 30%
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Discussion

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

61 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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mike9009

7,610 posts

250 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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No idea. Had been on holiday in rural Dorset. Could have been from a pub, shop, ferry, etc. Didn't have close contact with anyone except wife and kids who did not catch it.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

61 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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I've had it twice, first time was probably a site visit for work (construction site) and second time was my other half who caught it at work (youth sports coach).

Soft Top

1,468 posts

225 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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Other: Supermarket 4 days before Christmas 2020. Luckily we were on our own like everyone and it was the only place we had been.

We both succumbed on Christmas Day. Managed to get through dinner but were in bed by 6pm and woke up still feeling rather ill so off for PCR’s on Boxing Day.

Ouroboros

2,371 posts

46 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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mike9009 said:
Didn't have close contact with anyone except wife and kids who did not catch it.
How do you know?

bristolbaron

5,091 posts

219 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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It’s difficult to say. I tested positive this week, after spending Christmas Day with family. My brother was positive before christmas, but tested negative on LFT’s on the 23&24th so was free after 7 days as per new guidelines. In theory then not from him, but I did spend three hours sat next to him!

Other than that I’d not spent significant amounts of time in anyone else’s company, certainly none that have since tested positive.

I currently still have no symptoms, had I not tested for work I’d be none the wiser.

sherman

13,844 posts

222 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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Im just starting isolation

I work in a pub, get there by public transport, live near the hospital, seen family that was unwell(non covid) recently, was in a shopping centre the day before symptoms started and have 2 family living with me who have been out and about over christmas so its no real suprise I have covid now.

Only saving grace is Im in isolation until the 9th and the on holiday 10-16th january.

Edited by sherman on Saturday 1st January 23:35

JonnyWhitters

796 posts

89 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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Other…

Outdoor walk with family at the start of last year.

mike9009

7,610 posts

250 months

Sunday 2nd January 2022
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Ouroboros said:
mike9009 said:
Didn't have close contact with anyone except wife and kids who did not catch it.
How do you know?
A fair question. And maybe my language was a bit clumsy. Maybe prolonged(> 1 minute) close contact is more accurate. Both pubs we ate outside at a table, but I did go inside once. Most of the shops I was outside with the dog, except a supermarket for about 15 minutes and a gift shop which allowed dogs.... Still no idea though.....

DaffyT4

163 posts

146 months

Sunday 2nd January 2022
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We live in a small village and have been using the local pub once or twice a week since July. It's a proper old pub, doesn't do food and we all stand around at the bar chatting and behaving like it's 2019. Mostly the same group of people and no sign of Covid all year.

27th Dec they held a quiz and there were a few locals who had family visiting for Christmas that came along with them. We both woke up with coldlike symptoms on 29th and tests came back positive. Very quickly it became clear that almost everyone in the pub that night was testing positive on the 29th/30th. No idea who, but the assumption is one of the visitors arrived in the village with it and it the pub was the perfect spreading event. As a follow up, I'm not aware of anyone who has been properly ill with it, even the older ones, and for most it's just been a mild cold for a day or two.

The moral of the story I guess is that if the pub had been closed and/or visitors had been banned we wouldn't have got it but on the other hand none of us got ill enough to have warranted that sort of action.

shirt

23,520 posts

208 months

Sunday 2nd January 2022
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Other:

I got it in June from my ex girlfriend. It was actually the weekend we broke up and we then spent isolation together. Very weird alright.

AJB88

13,445 posts

178 months

Sunday 2nd January 2022
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Really not sure, presume at the gym as I had only been at the gym/swimming before getting a positive on the 25th.

Chicken_Satay

2,350 posts

211 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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Seems like an utterly stupid question to ask. There's absolutely no way of anybody knowing where they caught it from. It'd be just pure guess work.

Ouroboros

2,371 posts

46 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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Chicken_Satay said:
Seems like an utterly stupid question to ask. There's absolutely no way of anybody knowing where they caught it from. It'd be just pure guess work.
yes, it is where you think you got it.

Sheets Tabuer

19,648 posts

222 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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I've not had it, apart from some weird thing I had new year 2019.

Feel left out.

survivalist

5,872 posts

197 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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Voted no idea. Not really changed any behaviour that I didn’t have to (aside from things outside of my control). also didn’t feel unwell, but did lose taste and smell for a while. Combined with the children reporting the same assume we’ve all had it at some point.

Actually, did get ill in March 2020, but there weren’t any tests back then.

Green1man

555 posts

95 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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Had it late in November. I don’t really see many people other than family, none of whom had it at a similar time. Only other possible place is Supermarket but masks were only brought back in (compulsory) a few weeks before that having not been using masks for 6 months or so.

I do wonder if it was Omicron which was just been talked about at the time I got it, but unless it was widespread in uk weeks before officially thought then seems unlikely.

marksx

5,121 posts

197 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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How can anyone be really sure?

p4cks

7,017 posts

206 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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Stag do in Blackpool. Could definitely have been worse

DaveH23

3,296 posts

177 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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From a friend at a local food festival.

Same friend got it from a lad he works with and shares a van with all day.