Posted on 11/19/2020 9:08:01 PM PST by blueplum
Supermarkets have remained open during both national lockdowns and new data collated by Public Health England (PHE) from the NHS Test and Trace App has revealed that shops are the most frequent Covid exposure setting...They looked at the contacts of those who had caught the virus and retraced the steps of 128,808 people who tested positive.
Of those who tested positive, it was found that 18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket...
It was revealed that 12.7 per cent of those who tested positive had attended secondary school and 10.1 per cent had attended a primary school...[however, pre-school accounted for only 1.6%]
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
How open have UK restaurants and bars been? How many people have been frequenting them versus going to supermarkets? Particularly among the most vulnerable?
This is seriously a “my ass!” “fact”.
From day one I have rebelliously been going out nearly every damn day, going to ~whatever~ was open, every chance I got, just because, and the grocery store was the most frequent place I went.
Yet here I am.
Bullspit!
Fine!
Everybody avoid the grocery store.
More stuff for me and I don’t have to look at you!
:D
Wow!! Where’s my supermarket gift card, for winning? :-)
Now, you’ll have to go back to the medical clinics :- /
Honestly....this grocery store story is bunk. I’ve seen the same employees, at my grocery store(s), for months. They are ALL fine.
My grocery store was going overboard with that crap, that is USELESS unless you literally marinate the carts in it for 30 minutes.
Then, they switched from the liquid sprays to some kind of vicious toxic gel crap that burns my hands, even if I try to wash it off ASAP.
I think they’re all just half-assing now, thank God.
Crazy Marshalls, though, goes through the entire “sanitation routine” after every single person checks out.
Their earlier report was it was not a ‘hotspot’ for covid- said it was ‘hard to get covid from supermakets and off packages” etc-
On other breaking news, Egg yolks are now bad for you and real butter is not once again
Why not?
People in the UK go the supermarket more often than people in the U.S.
How does that figure in the figures? Who knows?
You are OK. I am very tired after two weeks of studying minute details of Michigan vote data.
“18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket”
Well just damn. It’s not like most of us are out checking our traps and deer hunting instead of going to frickin Safeway.
These jackasses are going to try to shut down supermarkets soon. Wouldn’t surprise me. The goal is 2 mile bread lines and everyone equally suffering, after all.
As the disease has become political and the statisticians are hired by the government in power we do not know SH-t about the spread and danger of the disease. Oddly we do but those numbers are never published.
It is a bad disease but not catastrophic. It has killed millions will kill more millions until herd immunity and the vaccine is available in mass.
Our lock downs and mask policy are mostly bull. Oddly the mask is moderately effective if you are coughing and thus prevents airsoled virus particles. Otherwise it is worthless.
Why, that’s impossible! Everyone at my supermarket wears a face diaper. Some even wear a full face shield on top of it!
If every business is closed, except food and fuel businesses, and no money flows into the system because of losses of employment, eventually food and fuel businesses will close as well ..... except for those persons that are selected to be exempt .... or wealthy enough to be not broken by the initial collapse
I love the plexiglas shields most businesses, including groceries, have hung up. They are about, as my dad would have said, as useless as t__s on a boar hog. In no way, shape or form do they offer any protection against anything, especially when the cashier comes out from behind them to check a price, put a bag into a cart, etc. I scrupulously wipe down my cart with the provided sanitizer and wipe, don’t buy anything I can’t peel, stay at least 6’ away from other people if possible, and wash my hands thoroughly upon reaching home, after removing my street shoes at the door. I have Type 2 diabetes, so I have to be pretty careful.
No kidding, it’s the only business still open.
“Only off the Food Trucks!”
No, you must go to the farm.
Correct! The classic "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy!
(Having said that: There could be a loose correlation and, consequently, a slight causative effect.)
Regards,
Things are changing in the U.K. - but their supermarkets are generally smaller, the shopping carts and shopping baskets they provide are dinky compared to their U.S. counterparts, you'll rarely find "economy-size" packages, and the Britons don't generally have giant SUVs and pick-up trucks into which they can load an 18-week supply of groceries. Further, when they get home, they have only tiny refrigerators, cupboards, and pantries into which to place everything.
Regards,
I’ve found my caught COVID in the frozen fish section. Watch out for the bones.
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