DOOM: Supermarkets Are Dangerous

[darmstadt]

I actually got my first contact app warning last week and the only place I had been that day was...a supermarket

"Household fewer than five - 1.2%"

But none for "Household 5 or more". So absolutely NO-ONE broke the rules.

Typical ignorant media spouting figures to fill space without even understanding things.

All that tells us is that 18% of people who were contacted went shopping in a supermarket.

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[SueEllen]

I actually got my first contact app warning last week and the only place I had been that day was...a supermarket

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When we had the first wave and lockdown in England I kept hearing people say the only place their OAP parent went was to the supermarket, including those independent ones, but they caught Covid and died....

[ladymuck]

I saw that as well and thought

Coronavirus: Study says dog owners have 78% higher risk of infection | Daily Mail Online

Edited to say: I didn't see it in the Fail but that's the first link I've found.

I didn't see it in the Fail either. Might have been the Slaver

[Mordac]

I actually got my first contact app warning last week and the only place I had been that day was...a supermarket

Sent from my 5g carrier pigeon

Don't take your phone to the supermarket? Works a treat for me...

[Paralytic]

Don't take your phone to the supermarket? Works a treat for me...

Don't tell the media headline writers that - we'd be told that shopping without your mobile makes you resistant to Covid.

[Gibbon]

There was some study in Spain that revealed dog walkers are more likely to contract COVID. I can't remember where I saw it which is a bit rubbish.

dog walkers = dogging and so that is explained!

[Paddy]

When we had the first wave and lockdown in England I kept hearing people say the only place their OAP parent went was to the supermarket, including those independent ones, but they caught Covid and died....

Supermarkets are a risk but most supermarkets have very good ventilation and if one is sensible, then it's a quick in and out job using a mask and sanitiser; not much risk there. Covid victims are usually as a result of long term exposure (about an hour or more) with an infected person or carrier. The best research and detective work on this was done in South Korea. One incident found that a couple got infected after sitting in the same seats in church that were occupied by an infected couple an hour earlier.

Coming back to the "OAP parent went... to the supermarket..." No doubt OAP was visited long time by family members who may carry Covid and was infected in that manner. People do not want to admit they they maybe the carriers of something that kills their own kin. After a family or other visit, everything has to be sanitised or disinfected, opening windows is a good start.

BTW, airline travel is very risky especially on newer aircraft. New aircraft do not have full fresh air ventilation in order to save fuel.

This makes an interesting read...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...-korea-church/

[vetran]

dog walkers = dogging and so that is explained!

Must have missed that when I was a dog owner.

[Gibbon]

Must have missed that when I was a dog owner.

You have to walk it......

[AtW]

Lower rates in Waitrose, which is nice...