[quote wanderings]@DWPmisery1972 I'm not pleased about the Queen thing either. It's the next stage in the great "keep the plebs in line" plan: "look them in the eyes" and "keep to the rules to stop the spread" was so last month.
Here's one which would have me pilloried "over there", and even here, I hesitate to mention it. I do intend to have the vax when Saint Boris's merry men pull their finger out and offer it to the under 50's, but I'm now facing a bit of a moral dilemma regarding testing. I'm doing a job where regular testing is "voluntary, but strongly recommended". I really want to refuse testing as a matter of principle: not against my employer, but against the government. So far I have not taken a test once, and I spent a fair bit of time since March working as a key worker. I feel that by taking a test, I am supporting the government's oppressive regime, which I don't want to do; and if I test positive, perhaps falsely, everyone in my household would have to self-isolate; and I wouldn't be at all surprised if testing positive just once has long-term implications: not in health, but on paper, i.e. once a Covid, always a Covid. But perhaps I am being extremely selfish in thinking this, even by AD standards.[/quote]
I completely understand and was going to ask what people are doing about older DC going back to school and testing.
I work in a school and am doing the 2x weekly testing. I really wanted to refuse on principle but didn't want to cause any problems in my school where SLT are lovely and supportive. I also want to do anything that helps schools be open and stay open and, on a personal level, quite like the reassurance (possibly false I realise) as I work quite closely with pupils. I hate the precedent though of testing for anything in order to be able to go to work. It's certainly a tricky one.