Apparently people who do a weekly shop are the likeliest to get covid

JaneJudge

I'm pretty sure you can't catch it in Waitrose

Even if you have a home delivery?
(That sounds like giving birth)

What about B&Q? There was a couple (quite elderly) blocking the aisle and just gazing for ages at something I wanted to look at - if I'd had a trolley I could have nudged them out of the way.

I think if someone has not been out for 2 years, they are already in a bad enough 'state' as it is.

This is one of the main reasons we need to start a phased return to normal. We are in danger of a full scale epidemic of people with mental problems, where the dangers of COVID are more than balanced by the damage being done to people's mental health.

MOnicaI am not in a state. I said about the unnecessary rubbish the papers spout and it might cause anxiety in some and make them nervous going out. My neighbour has not been out for nearly 2 years because of his age and he doesn't want to get Covid and there are others like him. I wouldn't say these people have got into a "state". I still go out shopping, for coffee with my friends, but I take care when I do. I've been asked to wear a mask, wash hands, etc and I got jabs to give me peace of mind, which it has done.

I heard there’s a pandemic.
I do wonder what it takes for folk to stay at home and keep safe and not boast about going out shopping several times a week. No one needs to shop several times every week. Particularly in pandemic times.

i shop one or two times a week and have done since the start of covid, i do not wear a mask as the first couple of times i got into such a state that it brought on seizures due to epilepsy. i am very careful always use sanitizers and ask nicely if someone gets to close, i use the same supermarket as i can get around quickly as i know where everything is. i do a big shop every two months so i usualy only need the basics plus fresh fruit and veg. i test myself twice a week and ever to test kits when i went into hospital. i have been very lucky not to have got covid. i think people can go out as long as they are very careful.

but going to ikea and sitting on their sofas is like staying at home isn't it. An hour in one of their living rooms, a quick bite to eat in their cafe and then a lie down on one of their beds. Buy some candles on the way out and some mini daims and it's day out at home

Keep going M0nica, some of us are getting it. You might want to join our "banging your head against a wall" club?

THIS REPORT DID NOT SAY YOU WERE IN DANGER OF GETTING COVID IN SUPERMARKETS.

IT SIMPLY LISTED THE PLACES THAT THOSE WHO GOT COVID WERE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE VISITED THAN THOSE WHO DID NOT GET COVID. IT INLUDED SHOPPING (OF ALL KINDS, BUT NOWHERE MENTIONS SUPERMARKETS), PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC PLACES. SPORTS FIXTURES.

GENERALLY IT SHOWED THAT THOSE WHO GOT OUT AND ABOUT AND MIXED WITH MORE PEOPLE WERE MORE LIKELY TO GET COVID THAN THOSE WHO STAYED AT HOME.

Please try and read and understand what reports actually say, as distinct to what the papers say they said, before rubbishing them.

Kathy73

JaneJudge

I'm pretty sure you can't catch it in Waitrose

. Oh, no, dear, absolutely not

Not sure about that…quite a lot of yummy mummies with four wheel drives badly parked outside and nit wearing masks….

I’ve done a weekly shop all the way through and still here.

JaneJudge

I'm pretty sure you can't catch it in Waitrose

. Oh, no, dear, absolutely not

I'm pretty sure you can't catch it in Waitrose

More scaremongering from papers? Says who? Going o crowded areas sans mask and commuting I would have thought were highest risk? We nip to the shops several times a week quick in/quick out! Neither of us had it but we HAVE been vaxxed X 3 is that possibility for reason never had it? We regularly latflo for our hobbies so we know. As for wiping stuff down? I didn't know the old "you get vd from door handles and toilet seats " rules were still believed by anyone with half an education?

Full house!

Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Modelling doesn't work.
With/from.
Nosocomial infection.
How many people in ICU are unvaccinated?
How many made bad health decisions?

Covered everything there, I think...

I shop weekly in a supermarket and, in between, in my local corner shop. I wear a mask because it's either compulsory, as currently, or requested and I'm triple jabbed. I take part in group sports activities several times a week (karate). I have never yet had covid, unless totally asymptomatically and therefore unknowingly.

Whoever said it, (Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli) "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.", it's definitely still true. The ones that annoy me the most are those worst case scenario forecasts that use the vague terms could, may and might, and those that quote deaths with but not specifically from Covid (BBC/ITV/Sky news spring to mind). This is all naked scaremongering.

Tell us how many of those were hospitalised for other conditions, caught covid while there and what those original conditions were. How many in ITU are morbidly obese?. How many with preventable lung conditions e.g. smokers. How many unvaccinated? That sort of information might make people take steps to improve their lifestyle and their health and get things back to normal.

Grace read the post above yours. The survey did not say those who used shops were more susceptible to catching COVID, nor did it say that people picked the disease there.

It merely said that those who caught COVID were more likely to have been out and about more than those who didn't catch it.

What about the shop workers of which I was one until recently? Wouldn’t they be more susceptible than a once a week shopper?

Alioop You are getting into a state quite unnecessarily.

The report comes from a reputable university and if people read it carefully they would find that it does not say ^ people who do a weekly food-shop are in the highest risk category to catch COVID^

Nowhere does the study say anything about where people picked up the virus.

All it says is that among their sample, those who got COVID were more likely to have gone shopping in the previous week than those who didn't. It does not say that they picked up COVID in a supermarket. Apart from the fact that shopping covers a wide range of activities, in a wide range of environments. I went shopping in 5 different shops/markets last week. Only one was a supermarket. Many in the sample who didn't get COVID, probably shopped online.

Those in the sample who got COVID were generally leading much more active lives, going to the pub, restaurants, the theatre, travelling on public transport etc than those who didn't get it, which is obvious if you think about it.

But I will emphasis again. This study did NOT say that people who shopped at supermarkets were at a greater risk of picking up COVID there.

I’ve not had covid....yet. I shop once a week. It’s quite often very quiet. All the people I know who’ve had covid, trace it back to a school or hospital.

Don’t know where this info has come from. Probably the same place that said LFT’s are being withdrawn!

We were told in British Columbia that it was one of the safer things,of course taking the usual precautions.

Some papers are coming up with all this twaddle that's not all correct, do they not understand it could cause bad anxiety in some people. I sanitise my hands, wear a mask, clean my trolley and I go at 9am when not many are about. I'm also triple jabbed, so to me I can't do much more or I'll just become a hermit. I like to pick my own fruit and veg in the supermarket and maybe notice something different to have for dinner so I shall be going for my food shopping as usual.

Ongoing and difficult problem with them regarding a refund in voucher form.

Skydancer, when doing long distance by train I purposely selected a seat near the carriage door. There was a constant slight change of air each time the door opened and particularly so at station stops. Nothing scientific here as even the brain read can see but it was my 'thinking'. An aside is to beware of using Lumo. I have an tingling

I must be doomed then because I work in a shop / post office that’s really busy . I would take these statistics with a pinch of salt lol

So as I shop 3/4 times / week I’m ok then! What nonsense!