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

I'm not in the least concerned over my weekly shop. I visit at off peak times, do all the sanitising/mask wearing and don't handle goods unless I intend to buy them. I use self serve tills so no one else handles my shopping. If I catch covid after all that, well, it was meant to be.

Grantanow

Perhaps buy a better newspaper like The Guardian and supplement that with Channel 4 News?

It’s very amusing when people recommend reading the Guardianista claiming it to be honest and factual. It just panders to the left wing prejudices and is every bit as biased as the Mail. Their readership are blinded to the facts.

Are people who shop weekly more likely to be in full time employment and therefore more likely to be traveling to work and mixing?

It might be partly dependent on where you shop. We shop regularly in quiet supermarkets and have done all through this pandemic, avoiding crowded times.

However, we once went to a huge Tesco superstore (post-lockdown) and it was like a rugby scrum. There were masses of people wandering around, mainly unmasked, no distancing whatsoever. Possibly the result of people desperate to get out post lockdown, and would also have been before Christmas. We left very quickly and went back to our nice quiet little Sainsbury.

rosie1959

Grantanow

Perhaps buy a better newspaper like The Guardian and supplement that with Channel 4 News?

Very rarely buy a newspaper as they can be read on line so you can get an overall view. You wouldn’t get that by just reading the Guardian

Actually you do because the Guardian has people with a wide range of political views writing for it.

I've had a peek at next week's headlines

Apparently people who shop in the supermarket may spend more than those who shop online.

Do the Mail give a source for their information?

I do one supermarket shop a week, but buy vegetables in the local market (outside) and meat and bread from local farm shops.

I wear a mask in the shop. I used to wear gloves, but have stopped doing that. I take the food straight into the house and unpack it and put it away.

rosie1959

highlanddreams you can get delivery from Sainsbury’s for £1 if you are flexible about the timing. Our chemist will deliver your prescription

Thanks but only Tesco deliver here as we're about 70 miles from the city. Our wee chemist used to deliver at the beginning the posties used to bring them, it was great but I think RM stopped them. They have some volunteer that still do it for vulnerable groups, which is good of them. I'm sure I'll be ok just scooting in and out of there at opening time once a month while masking up and sanitising my hands.

The truth is, very few people can be absolutely certain where they caught it from. Even if you catch it from someone else in your household, assuming there’s more than just 2 of you, there’s chance that another member of the family had it without symptoms. This makes finding the origin of each infection hard, it’s very much a guessing game.

When Test & Trace contact you, they’ll ask about your recent activity/contacts etc. The majority of adults will have been in a shop that week. It doesn’t mean that that’s where they caught it, but I’m assuming the system ‘ticks’ it as a potential exposure point. Shopping is always going to feature highly on the list of ‘what did you do in the days before you tested positive’, because it’s one of the few things we all have in common.

I haven’t actually been in a large supermarket since the beginning of the pandemic. Apart from 2 trips to Aldi for Christmas Faye and I have never caught Covid so it must be true lol

The survey is reported in the Daily Telegraph as well and is a study made by UCL(University College, London).

Researchers surveyed 10,000 people to find out what they were doing on a weekly basis from September to November. During that time 900 of them were diagnosed with COVID.

They found that travelling by bus increased your chance of getting Covid by 30%, travelling by taxi +19%, by train +18%, tube +/-0.

There was no evidence of extra risk from going to the theatre, cinema, concert or sports event, nor from visiting hairdresser or other beauty care facility.

However, going to arestaurant or cafe increased your risk by 29%, visiting a pub or similar facility more than twice a week +28%, going to a party 27%, the same increased risk as going to the gym.

They no where mention supermarket visits, just say that 'shopping' doubles the risk of getting the disease.

Now shopping covers a wide variety of transactions and includes visiting supermarkets, but also visiting every other kind of retail outlet, from £ shops to Vintage clothes shops. What proportion of shopping events are supermarket visits, I am not sure.

I do a weekly supermarket trip. I also go to an outdoor market and this week went to Superdrug, Holland & Barrett and a sewing shop. The supermarket shop was only one of 5 shopping units I visited.

Remember, they are not investigating where or how someone picked up COVID. Merely listing the activities they were more likely to have taken part in if they caught it, compared with those that didn't

Not True....

Jerseygal

Not True....

What's not true???????

It’s another of those interesting surveys. It’s a puzzle for those among us who have shopped and worked all the way through.

I find it curious that no increase in infection was found by travelling by tube. People all packed in together and many not wearing a mask. Their research seems seriously flawed to come up with that.

The 900 people who contracted Covid most likely took part in several of the activities mentioned, so it’s impossible to know that shopping is more likely to result in infection than travelling by bus if both cause an increase in Covid infections.

maddyone
I said above: Remember, they ( the researchers) are not investigating where or how someone picked up COVID. Merely listing the activities they were more likely to have taken part in if they caught it, compared with those that didn't

There can always be anomalies

Should have added;

This does not mean that people did not get COVID, even though they were travelling on the tube, only that those who got COVID did not travel on the tube more frequently than those that didn't.

People really need to read and understand exactly what the researchers did and exactly what their results are actually saying. It is rare for a media report to do so. They are ofen written from press releases released by the relevant university press office and I know from DS, who is a university academic, that the reearchers often get no sight and have no opportunity to change press releases that talk arrant nonsense.

Not necessarily reliable sources then? ?

Alegrias1

I went and had a look at the study on which this is based. I tend not to agree with the cries of rubbish as the headlines are usually based on good solid research which the press decide to interpret as they see fit.

What I learnt:

Those who went shopping once a week have the highest chance of catching Covid.

Those who went shopping more than once a week have a much reduced chance of catching Covid compared to those who go once a week.

So probably, there are other complicating factors at play and the people who go shopping exactly once a week are exposing themselves to other risk factors as well.

As you were.

What I learnt:
The newspapers make up random headlines with absolutely no base at all.
Their “research” is usually on about 4 people and on about a quarter of what they actually say.

As they say, don’t let the facts get in the at of a good story.

I think there’s a real problem with parts of the press coming up with attention-grabbing headlines like this. It might be true, it might not but, unless it’s backed by reference to peer-reviewed research, I would not pay it too much attention. Having said that, I haven’t done my regular supermarket shop in person for nearly 2 years! Have saved hours of my life ?

I'm amazed by how few people are sanitising their hands either before or after going into the shop, and how few are cleaning their trolleys which the supermarkets don't appear to be doing now.

Claickbait headlines, I'd say. What about those who commute to work and back? Or Custom er Care employees?

didn`t someone , somewhere, say we need to learn to live with this virus? so that includes listening/reading these reviews??

good grief!

Must be why all those people who worked in supermarkets died in their thousands ?

I doubt this story. There are many other forms of proximity than shopping.