Do people really think that this winter they will be able to turn up to work, or send kids to school, with runny noses and sniffles that they have self-diagnosed as "just a cold"?
Yes. We are right now - toddler DD brought home a cold from nursery. She had a snotty nose, no temp (both no sign of a temp in her mood, or on the thermometer), no cough. DH and I now have it and feel the same as we have with every other cold. First sign of a temperature or cough (likely for me, I have asthma and get a cough with every cold) and we'll isolate and test. Just like we did when I had a fever due to mastitis and no other symptoms. But for now, life continues, just like it has for every other family at nursery who have the same cold - no isolations, no positive tests.
I figure we have maybe one decent shot of accurately testing a two year old. Aside from not wanting to waste resources, I'm not going to waste that chance of testing unnecessarily.
I've had the test three times. Two extremely uncomfortable, especially the nose swab. One ok, but it was the one I administered myself and it was the one that was inconclusive, presumably because I didn't do it properly.
OP, I wouldn't even consider testing your circumstances.
People are forgetting here that it's not just a snotty nose out of any context! The OP said she had her DD had a sore throat first. THAT is a symptom even if it's mild.
And a symptom of every cold I've ever had.