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BlueSky

Hetty very worrying that your poor elderly neighbour still caught Covid despite shielding. If it is in the air then there is no escape.

No, it's not "in the air". The elderly neighbour must have touched something contaminated by virus or been a little too close to somebody and forgotten about it. I assume she's had deliveries of some sort, even if shielding.

All viruses are quite fragile. They're not like bacteria, which can reproduce on their own, but will disappear quite quickly without a host. They have to hook up to a receptor to cause damage. They will circulate in an enclosed space for some hours, but then they disperse and become ineffective.

Suzy3

I have to shield and live on my own I have ms is there anyone else on here living alone

Yes, I live on my own and have underlying health problems and mobility issues. I'd love to be able to go out, but not when so many people just do as they want.

Nanna58

Err Growstuff, if 66 million people went for a walk on their own they would be.... oh yes, on their own!!!!

No, they wouldn't because they'd keep bumping into other people.

if 66 million people went for a walk on their own
Thought this was the beginning of a very difficult maths problem

growstuff

BlueSky

Hetty very worrying that your poor elderly neighbour still caught Covid despite shielding. If it is in the air then there is no escape.

No, it's not "in the air". The elderly neighbour must have touched something contaminated by virus or been a little too close to somebody and forgotten about it. I assume she's had deliveries of some sort, even if shielding.

All viruses are quite fragile. They're not like bacteria, which can reproduce on their own, but will disappear quite quickly without a host. They have to hook up to a receptor to cause damage. They will circulate in an enclosed space for some hours, but then they disperse and become ineffective.

Someone on Facebook who works in a supermarket says they’re concerned about supermarkets staying open because their s is suffering greatly from staff shortages due to covid. I’m going to be even more careful about deliveries in future even though I do quarantine everything. The man who delivers fruit and vegetables from a local shop was wearing two masks the other day, something he hasn’t done before. I noticed that some news reporters on tv were wearing two masks as well. There was talk at the start of the pandemic about catching the virus via your eyes but this isn’t mentioned any more. If the new variant is more contagious could this be a cause of more infections?

Hetty58

Oh dear!

Guess who will be the first to complain, when they're told, by ambulance crew, that they won't be going to hospital? (Like my poor neighbour, too old, 85, chances of survival too low.)

She hadn't been out at all since February, shopping delivered, no visitors - still, she caught it.

She did a lot of gardening, though, so we assume it drifted on the air from a neighbour - or possibly from a delivery.

Still, some people always think that they know better, don't they? (There really is no such thing as 'Covid secure')

Hetty58 did your neighbour actually have a positive covid test or just symptoms?
I'm afraid I can't believe that any ambulance crew would take the decision to not take someone to hospital because their survival rate was low. Paramedics really don't make that decision. They would however not take someone of 85 to hospital if they hadn't had a covid test and there was a chance it was just a cold, because they mght pick up covid in the hospital.

I think common sense is key , if you walk your dog away from the masses I feel personally that twice a day would be fine.
It’s not the same as the some of the things I’ve seen 25 deep in the park with all the kids mingling, then they go back home , then the parents go to the super market , mix mix mix...
lone pet walking better

No, it's not "in the air". The elderly neighbour must have touched something contaminated by virus or been a little too close to somebody and forgotten about it. I assume she's had deliveries of some sort, even if shielding.

All viruses are quite fragile. They're not like bacteria, which can reproduce on their own, but will disappear quite quickly without a host. They have to hook up to a receptor to cause damage. They will circulate in an enclosed space for some hours, but then they disperse and become ineffective.

I doubt, too, that the 85 year old neighbour caught the virus from thin air - it is not possible.
Even catching a cold is not possible without encountering a virus somehow.

If she had not been to a test centre and had a positive Covid test it may well not be the virus so she would be at more risk going in an ambulance to a hospital where there is Covid than staying at home in the warm.

She may be getting muddled - I dud wonder if she has a UTI which could make her feel very unwell and can cause confusion in which case she needs antibiotics.
I hope someone is looking out for her.

The ambulance people will not make the decision about possible survival chances and refuse to take a patient to hospital.
There must be another reason.