Thanks all. Hopefully they will all be well soon and hopefully myself and hubby won`t fall victim to it. My son was here last Friday but I`m thinking he may not have been positive back then, he certainly had no symptoms and seemed fit as a fiddle. His wife was the first to become ill on Monday, he fell ill yesterday, as did the oldest girl.
I hope they all recover fully and quickly soon, Vienna.
Don't forget that just because they've had it, it doesn't mean that they can't pass it on to you even if they've tested negative. My friend is a hospital secretary who picks up a lot of gossip. There's apparently a circular doing the rounds asking nursing staff to please stop telling people that once they've had it they can't pass it as a consultant caught one nurse telling a patient that ex-Covid sufferers no longer have to worry about passing it on.
Apart from the obvious that if someone who's had it can still pass the virus on by close contact just by touching an infected object, they can also become re-infected and asymptomatic and directly pass it on again.
The thing about this virus is that it's so unpredictable. Yes, they could let it run and hope that herd immunity is acquired (looking a lot less likely now that people are losing their antibodies), but not everyone has a mild form. Neither can they outrightly say youngsters will have a mild form as it's rare but can still kill them. Worst of all is the NHS being badly affected again. ITU beds are filling up and wards are starting to get shifted to Covid patients that are ill enough to need hospital treatment.
We all know this just as we are all fed up with restrictions. I'm more fed up with the people that are unwilling to respect other peoples' wishes to social distance and wear a mask. My OH went into M&S for food thinking that fewer people would shop there. Big mistake! The biggest mask offenders were older women, closely followed by men wearing chin slings. The women, however, were pushing past him and one in the queue was standing close enough to touch, no mask, no exemption materials. OH asked her to stand back and put her mask on (she was twirling it in her hand like a child). The abuse he had off her and the two women (unrelated as far as he could tell) was off the charts. The checkout lady just looked away.
This makes my blood boil. If I catch it I'm likely to become very ill or, like flu, it'll trigger a relapse I probably won't recover from. I'm getting to the point now that I'm sick of the whingers. I've not been out apart from two necessary appointments since February. Just shut the f*** up, wear your mask and keep your space!
I live in a very rural community. I personally know under ten people who have actually tested positive and two of those died (I didn't know either very well, just enough to say hello if I passed them in the village). I've had depression, felt suicidal and self-harmed a few times but I do not want to die from Covid, thanks.
If any of you have had the misfortune to have come across these idiots that come to close for comfort complain to the store managers. They're supposed to ensure their customers' safety. There's usually a 'How did we do' survey on the back of your receipt. Make use of it.
We should all be writing to our MPs asking them to get involved and ask retailers to employ some of the thousands that have lost their jobs as store marshalls to enforce safety. And if customers abuse staff or others they should be removed from store. My unpleasant ex-neighbour was banned from town shops for a year for shoplifting. They should bring in measures like this to make sure the customers that that want to be kept safe are kept safe.
I hope all my friends on here and their families stay safe and well.
