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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Someone from my son's college tested positive. We've not been contacted so are not in the (immediate) contact group so it's attend as normal - deep cleansed the college over weekend.
Apparently customers are being nasty to Sainsburys' staff as if it were there fault there are no loo rolls. We buy ours from Costco. Just can't understand the panic. Yes we buy pasta in large volumes because I don't go to Costco that often but it keeps.
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Not as simple as that. It is the network of contacts that occurred in the previous 2 weeks. A passes it to B, C, D, etc, and they each pass it on to others and so on. Then there is the issue of indirect transference via contact with contaminated surfaces.
If everybody works under the assumption that they might be carrying it, and they take precautions to avoid potentially giving it to others, then it will calm down.
As far as banning large gatherings, eg sports events, the issue is not just when X gets the bug and gets seriously ill or dies, but they go on to spread it to others around their home area. One of those instances where doing something prematurely is far better than doing it too late.