To want testing to be fair?!

[taxxigirl]

My friend (stay at home mum) and her toddler daughter in Midlands tier 1 city. Tested 11am today, results 7.30 pm.

Me (secondary school subject lead teacher) and my primary school aged child in southern tier 1 city.
Tested 10am yesterday, no results.

It's about to be three full days off school for this lazy layabout teacher who is desperate to be at work.

I doubt they care what your job is.

My ds was tested yesterday and no result yet either. It's very stressful, not least because DD is missing school too and won't be able to return until the result comes in. I'd like her not to miss her last day before half term.
I know it's not a long time really, but it is when you feel anxious about your children's well-being.

It's not a long time, no. And 3 days surely isn't a lot even for my y10 and y11 to be missing. But with everyone up in arms about students missing school because of isolation, surely they want the teachers there?

It just blows my mind that it can be so different in different areas.

Of course it isn't fair. Life isn't fucking fair. Covid isn't fucking fair.

That a fat, orange, over 70 twat recovers quickly from Covid isn't fucking fair

Locking down kids at less risk from Covid that anything else isn't fair.

Live isn't fucking fair - how have you got to adulthood without realising this is unreal

Years and years before Covid I told my kids 'Life isn't fair, get over it'

Get real

They do care what your job is, teachers are supposed to be a priority for testing,

when you are tested you don't put what your occupation is on the test so how can they know what you do

You do put your occupation on the initial request for a test though. DS had to list his employer

Get real 🤣

Hopefully you hear soon OP.

Absolutely nothing about this pandemic is fucking fair

So the lab used to process her test should just down tools until the lab your test is at catches up? How, precisely, do you suggest they make it “fair”? Track the relative importance of each test, monitor the time each test is taking, realise a SAHM’s test has overtaken that of a teacher and ship yours to the Midlands to overtake it back?

Obviously ideally certain people would be prioritised but I’d say hers was unusually fast and just a fluke, lucky her.

I'm guessing that the difference is down to how many people are being tested in your respective areas and the lab that is in your area is busier. Not a lot anyone can do about it.

Did you stamp your foot when you wrote that OP ? 😂😂😂😂

@purringpaws

Did you stamp your foot when you wrote that OP ? 😂😂😂😂

I absolutely did. I am having a full on strop about this - mostly from the angle of some press and people claiming teachers have had six months off and been doing nothing and now I want to be in work, I'm not sick, and I can't go to work.

I appreciate yes I'm just having a toddler tantrum about this and thanks to those who've given me a slight reality check. However I WANT MY RESULTS DAMMIT.

😀 maybe lying down in a supermarket aisle might help?

(Hope the results come through soon! I get the importance for you as a teacher. )

Testing is fair. You’ve both had tests free at point of use.

The results have probably gone to different laboratories with different numbers of staff, different working and different turnaround times. That is just life and has nothing to do with being fair.

Do you think they should withhold all results to the speed of the slowest test centre? 😂

Key workers are meant to get prioritised in the lab queue aren't they?

But not to the point which puts other tests beyond the effective window.

So I suppose it all comes down to how busy each lab is

@taxxigirl

If it makes you feel better mine took 48 hours and I'm in a midlands tier 2 city. Tested 4pm Saturday results 12.30pm Monday.

@MaskingForIt

Testing is fair. You’ve both had tests free at point of use.

The results have probably gone to different laboratories with different numbers of staff, different working and different turnaround times. That is just life and has nothing to do with being fair.

Do you think they should withhold all results to the speed of the slowest test centre? 😂

I don't think they should be slowed down to the slowest, no. I do think that consideration of whether the person is actively costing the government money by being at home - I think my school pays around £200 a day for supply teachers.

I'd happily pay for the test if it made it possible for me to be at work.

OP ignore the idiotic comments. Of course it would make more sense if doctors/nurses/teachers's (and others' in important roles) tests were prioritised. Society cannot continue to operate withut these people. It's madness to have them sitting at home.

@AnneLovesGilbert

Why do you say that? I thought key workers were supposed to be prioritised. If they're not they obviously should be.

Key workers are supposed to be prioritised and you do add your job when you apply for the test. We had a test done at 6pm on Wednesday and still don’t have results. They did say it’s now up to a ‘48 hour wait’ though rather than 24 hours a month ago when we were tested. We didn’t get the results back in 24 hours last time either, it took 36 hours.

Even if a person isn't a key worker, there's a decent chance that they live with one - it's not only the person being tested who can't go to work. This system needs to be quick or you won't have people choosing to get tested at the onset of symptoms. They will wait a few days to see if they recover and that means tracing their contacts and their families self isolating, will all be slowed down. There will be additional days or weeks of infected people just passing it on.

My test results, also low risk area, took three days.