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

If it's any help I think doing internet shopping has done wonders for my mental health. I get supermarket rage

I've had my shopping delivered for many years. I never enjoyed going into supermarkets anyway. Still, the silly headlines make little sense. Those who still do a 'weekly shop' probably socialise a lot more too - as they like being surrounded by people, even crowds.

I'd have thought that hospitals are to be avoided - as I've heard of so many people who've caught it there!

Oh dear me. We go at least twice a week, sometimes three. We have been doing this since it all began!

No choice here as there are no supermarket deliveries in rural France.

JaneJudge

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

What about M & S?

Ali08

I saw that, too. But immediately thought, "But if you get your shopping delivered, aren't you at the same, or higher, risk because those people delivering it have been in contact with lord-who-knows-what and could still pass it on to us!!
So, take your chances either way, or die of starvation!

I have hardly been into a supermarket for years. How do you work out that people who have home deliveries are at the same or higher risk?

The masked delivery drivers leave the shopping on my step and stand back. I then transfer everything to bags I keep by the door.

There is almost no risk of a driver passing on infection to me. If the drivers are infected, particles will be breathed out and fall to the ground outside or disappear into the atmosphere. As an additional precaution, I wash my hands after I've handled my shopping.

It depends what time and day you shop. Sometimes the shops are full, sometimes empty. I avoid weekends because they are so crowded but if you shop here on,say, Tuesday, the shops are not crowded, very empty in fact. If you are really concerned you can shop either very early in the morning or late at night. You could shoot peas down the aisles, no one there.

I really believe some people want this pandemic to continue with all the drama, scaremongering and unnecessary lockdowns.
The papers print a load of tosh that’s been padded out with ridiculous “facts”, I no longer read anything with a COVID headline.
I do a weekly shop, I sanitise my hands first then as soon as as I’m in my car then wash hands with soap and water when home, in the meantime I keep my hands away from my face.
Why don’t we all just use some basic common sense?

Yesterday morning I did an in-store shop at my local Sainsburys. Monday morning has been my preferred week shopping day since I retired some eleven years ago. Went weekly right through the Lockdown times.

Having now got rid of my car - I use home deliveries most weeks but do enjoy a mooch round the supermarket once a month - buses take me there and back again.

I was astonished at how empty this Supermarket was now. Really very few customers in there Definitely nodnger of catching anything, never came anywhere close to anyone else. However, I do now have concerns as to how mosubstainable it is to keep these very large buildings operating if customers are now not going in to the them. Sure weekends may be different....BUT that will not be enough.

The town I live in has so many Supermarkets - most of them very large. Think it will not be many years before we see these closing down. Will be more economic for these companies just to have cheaper to run large warehouses for home deliveries.

Within the next decade I can see many people bemoaning the fact that they can no longer into any supermarket and those [properties will all be turned into flats/housing sites. Will be too late then, so perhaps people want to keep these facilities they should start to use them.

Sago

I really believe some people want this pandemic to continue with all the drama, scaremongering and unnecessary lockdowns.
The papers print a load of tosh that’s been padded out with ridiculous “facts”, I no longer read anything with a COVID headline.
I do a weekly shop, I sanitise my hands first then as soon as as I’m in my car then wash hands with soap and water when home, in the meantime I keep my hands away from my face.
Why don’t we all just use some basic common sense?

How do you work out that some people want this pandemic to continue (apart from those making a profit from dodgy contracts)?

Most people want it to stop or, at least, be controlled. How can you protect yourself and others, if you don't take any notice of anything with a Covid headline?

Just stick to reputable sources. Unfortunately, "common sense" isn't very reliable.

Just for you MOnica.

Well, I could see this in certain circumstances. I refuse to shop in certain stores because it would appear there are fewer precautions (trollies you have to put a coin in so touching two trollies), no cleaner fit the trollies, crowded shop with long queues at check out, too many people without masks on, poor store lay out that you have to be in close proximity of the people in the queue just to get past in the aisles.

We have three food stores in our town, there is only one I am comfortable shopping in. They still have someone cleaning the trollies and will take your trolley so as not to get mixed up with those not yet sanitised. Hand sanitiser at the door and at the check out, cashier wipes the card key pad, they do not allow queues to build up. They’ll have people you wait outside and put more staff on tills. For some reason, it is very very rare to see anyone not wearing a mask in this shop.

But like any situation, where there is more opportunity for something to happen, the more likely it will. The more times you go out, the more opportunities to catch covid, the more people with whom you’re in close proximity, the greater the chance to catch it.

Catch Covid in M+S?
growstuff have very dare you?
I shop almost every week in my little, local M+S and didn’t get Covid. Well not from there anyway

I sometimes wonder how they would fill the news space without Covid. I suppose they would discover more death and destruction somewhere. There’s always the weather of course.

Sago

I really believe some people want this pandemic to continue with all the drama, scaremongering and unnecessary lockdowns.
The papers print a load of tosh that’s been padded out with ridiculous “facts”, I no longer read anything with a COVID headline.
I do a weekly shop, I sanitise my hands first then as soon as as I’m in my car then wash hands with soap and water when home, in the meantime I keep my hands away from my face.
Why don’t we all just use some basic common sense?

Sago
I couldn’t agree more ?
We have a friends and neighbours get together once a month where is established that it’s a covid free zone.
We have a covid box. Like the swear boxes ?

maddyone

Catch Covid in M+S?
growstuff have very dare you?
I shop almost every week in my little, local M+S and didn’t get Covid. Well not from there anyway

Oh, I'm fairly sure that you can still get it at M&S, though not just any Covid, obviously.

MerylSteeep I wish we had such a group, it still seems to be a major topic of conversation everywhere we go here in E.Yorkshire.
I am tired of all the scaremongering, our local rag (reach PLC) has ridiculous articles daily on how doomed we all are.
We are not doomed, NHS staff have not deserted hospitals to jab the public, food is not running out, nor is power, funeral directors have never been overwhelmed and there is no reason why every public and private sector employee cannot get back to work in an office.

That time has passed sago. There is absolutely no need for me to return to the office, much more efficient to do admin side at home, my client work is face to face obviously. Most companies I know are looking at a mix of home/office working.