To lie about covid symptoms to get a pcr?

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DS was sent home from school yesterday, due to having sore eyes. He's at his dad's but his dad said he seemed fine and today he was fine when he got up and his eyes weren't sore.

His dad then said that he went to sleep this afternoon (which is very unusual) he's also not had any dinner as he told my ex he isn't hungry and he feels sick. Apparently, his LFT was negative.

Will we BU to lie about symptoms? His symptoms are very unusual but I'm pretty sure tiredness is on the list. He doesn't have any of the main symptoms though!

There are a lot of strange bugs at the moment with kids. Both my nephew and daughter have had aching bones/sinuses/headache problem over the last week and nephew ended up at A&E as couldn't see a GP and was inconsolable with pain. Both tested negative on PCR. It is obviously the sensible thing to test and school is pushing you to so you do have to fudge symptoms but not everything is Covid.

Agreeing with pp to get him tested. The more people test, the better as it gives confirmation of positive cases so you can isolate if necessary.
We live in an area with many cases and are being offered tests left right and centre. There’s no shortage and testing is encouraged

No. If he is positive it will mean his whole class has to isolate causing massive butt ache and financial hardship for many families

Manchester council put this up on Facebook today.
I would test just to be on the safe side.

At this stage, it would be utter madness to test for this. We will never get out of this hell if people keep testing for every mild little symptom which can be attributed to so many different things.

What is your thinking behind this?

No. If he is positive it will mean his whole class has to isolate causing massive butt ache and financial hardship for many families

And having Covid spread around the class and to the corresponding families and beyond won’t? I don’t think it works according to the ‘don’t acknowledge it and it’ll fuck off’ rules. I admit though, I am no scientist.

@OppsUpsSide

At this stage, it would be utter madness to test for this. We will never get out of this hell if people keep testing for every mild little symptom which can be attributed to so many different things.

What is your thinking behind this?

The thinking, which I totally disagree with, is that the more positive results we get every day, the more likely restrictions will be kept in place and the more people end up having to self isolate for no or minimal symptom. Some people believe it is better to not test and just get on with it than to get a positive result and have the household and any close contacts isolate.

I think you should test, and isolate if it comes up positive and just in general be responsible to limit transmission.

@m0therofdragons

My Dh hasn’t ever had hay fever but suddenly at 41 he’s now got seasonal asthma/hay fever. Pollen is really high and affecting lots of concern too round here. Have you tried piraton? I can’t imagine asking for a pcr for this, I find that a strange response. That said, if you’re concerned then you can test, I just wouldn’t put a child through it unless I really felt it necessary (dc have all had at least one pcr each with one having had 2 so I’m not against them).

No, we haven't tried piraton. He's told my ex that his eyes aren't sore now, my ex did say that DS also felt sick a lot at the weekend (he was there last weekend) but he was fine after a while and he didn't actually feel unwell so he still sent him to school. DS is in secondary school, so he does get tested weekly (if we remember!).

@Yubaba that's worrying my daughter and nephew had most of those yet tested negative 🤔