Page 7 | AIBU - to think that PCR results are being tampered with?

GingerbreadandJellytots · 18/12/2021 11:28

It must be really stressful walking around thinking everything is a conspiracy theory.

Original poster

tuesdayschild17 · 18/12/2021 11:28

Okay, I take on board all of these comments. I am just feeling very unwell and frustrated. I feel very stupid for what I’ve posted. I don’t know how to delete this thread. If someone could please help me delete it, I would appreciate it. Thank you all for bringing me a dose of reality.

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balboacoffee · 18/12/2021 11:28

@tuesdayschild17

A week ago, COVID symptoms hit me like a bus. I developed a high temperature, muscle aches, a dry cough, headache and within a couple of days I couldn’t smell at all. I’m talking stick your head in the dog food bowl and still nothing!!

I have had appalling night sweats as well and have heard this is common for the Omicron. I honestly have not felt this unwell for years.

I took a home PCR test and have just had the results and they’re negative! I followed the instructions religiously and made sure I really swabbed my throat/nose properly. I’d gamble large sums of money I had/still have COVID.

Does anyone feel that there are accuracy failures in the PCRs we aren’t being told about? Or that even worse the government may be trying to suppress the number of positives that happen in this huge wave of Covid crashing down on the UK?

Has anyone else had a negative PCR but been sure they have COVID?

The government will never make things like this look better. They want it all to be the highest numbers for as long as possible. The same way they tampered with the amount of people who died of Covid or died with Covid to make like the numbers were sky high. So no they won't be tampering with results. You probably have the flu that has been around longer than Covid but people seem to have forgot.

Unsure33 · 18/12/2021 11:32

To the poster who says the government needs to educate people , no they don’t. They have never said all the tests are 100% accurate.

It’s a numbers game .

Even if you only caught 50% of the people with covid it’s would stop those 50% from spreading it.

Especially with the new variant that would be significant numbers . And prevent us all getting it at once .

We are never going to stop the spread and even if it’s a mild illness some will end up needing medical intervention of some kind so the testing is just common sense even if it is not 100% accurate.

For example a work colleague got pinged in the car park as he arrived to work this week . Collected his stuff went home did a test and he was positive. If he had not been pinged and did the test about 15 other people in his office would have been exposed .

It’s numbers all about the numbers .

Unsure33 · 18/12/2021 11:37

@balboacoffee

Why would a conservative government , who allegedly are only concerned about business and money , want to deliberately make the figures look higher ?

And you don’t need to look at those hospital figures , you literally look at excess deaths for the year . They are readily available for every European country .

Plus people do die of two things ? Who are you to know better than the doctors . So someone could be ill with pneumonia or cancer and then they get covid and die ? They may have survived without covid so why not put it on the certificate.

I would love to see the explanation for your logic.

blueflowersinthesnow · 18/12/2021 11:38

You sound a bit paranoid OP.

housemaus · 18/12/2021 11:43

DH has covid (confirmed by PCR and lateral flows). He almost definitely caught it from something on Sunday as we haven't really been anywhere and others there have since tested positive.

He was just tired and achy for a couple of days before we lateral flowed (and then got a PCR) because he developed night sweats and a cough, so no trying to distance from one another. I've now got the exact same symptoms but about 2 days behind him (exhausted, aching, night sweats cough, high temp).

My lateral flows and PCR have been negative.

It's weird! It would make perfect sense that I have whatever he has, given it onsetting 2 days for me after he caught it, with the same symptoms, and he has confirmed covid. But for whatever reason, mine apparently isn't. I'm a pro at the tests now as I've had to do them for work so I don't think that it's that I've done it wrong.

I find it frustrating, too, OP. If it is covid and just isn't showing up on a test for me yet, I wish it bloody would because my isolation is going to be forever if it suddenly decides to (and Christmas with family will be cancelled). If it's not, I'd genuinely wonder whether DH had a false positive (although I know they're very unlikely) because it seems so unlikely that we've almost concurrently developed the same symptoms in the exact same order, me 2 days after he did, which was 2 days after he went to an event with people who've since also tested positive for covid.

lljkk · 18/12/2021 11:53

DS has mild cold symptoms, has had them for ~ 1 week

He had a pre-flight PCR (negative)

3 (negative) tests over 4 days while away (paid for by rich host in foreign country, not party to OP's conspiracy)

2 day PCR arrives today

Not just covid, Other viruses are available!!

MrsBobDylan · 18/12/2021 13:19

Four of our family caught Covid (confirmed by lateral flow and PCR tests).

DH had multiple negative LF and PCR test. He had the WORST. COVID. EVER.

Transpires, man flu is still as deadly as it ever was

buzzandwoodyallday · 18/12/2021 19:00

I've had your symptoms twice this year and both times tested negative for covid. I expect I just had some other virus though tbh, not that there's a conspiracy with the test results.... that's just my opinion though.

Boombastic22 · 18/12/2021 19:03

OP definitely do another test. Certainly hearing anecdotally that this omicron covid taking a while to show up in tests. Surprised it’s not hitting the news

insideoutsider · 18/12/2021 19:15

All symptoms of tuberculosis

my8thMNusername · 18/12/2021 19:16

@EllieSattler

93k positive cases yesterday but you think they tampered with yours

other respiratory viruses are available

😆

WhenISnappedAndFarted · 18/12/2021 19:21

I've had the exact same symptoms this week and also got a negative. Tampering hasn't crossed my mind but false negative has, or flu.

blackcurrantjam · 18/12/2021 19:22

I feel absolutely godawful but PCR and lft negative. Think it's flu/nasty cold cough virus

Booklover3 · 18/12/2021 19:22

Same here OP

Moutarde · 18/12/2021 19:25

@tuesdayschild17

A week ago, COVID symptoms hit me like a bus. I developed a high temperature, muscle aches, a dry cough, headache and within a couple of days I couldn’t smell at all. I’m talking stick your head in the dog food bowl and still nothing!!

I have had appalling night sweats as well and have heard this is common for the Omicron. I honestly have not felt this unwell for years.

I took a home PCR test and have just had the results and they’re negative! I followed the instructions religiously and made sure I really swabbed my throat/nose properly. I’d gamble large sums of money I had/still have COVID.

Does anyone feel that there are accuracy failures in the PCRs we aren’t being told about? Or that even worse the government may be trying to suppress the number of positives that happen in this huge wave of Covid crashing down on the UK?

Has anyone else had a negative PCR but been sure they have COVID?

Blimey.

You're an idiot.

As if Boris and his thunderingly useless set of cunts could organise this!

Talipesmum · 18/12/2021 20:36

OP, have you tested again? It could be something else, or it could be a false negative. If I were you I’d keep doing LFTs and take another PCR test.

Emerald5hamrock · 18/12/2021 22:23

Most people in my circle have had a bad cold/chest infection this year after or before contacting covid.

littlebilliie · 19/12/2021 11:06

@tuesdayschild17

A week ago, COVID symptoms hit me like a bus. I developed a high temperature, muscle aches, a dry cough, headache and within a couple of days I couldn’t smell at all. I’m talking stick your head in the dog food bowl and still nothing!!

I have had appalling night sweats as well and have heard this is common for the Omicron. I honestly have not felt this unwell for years.

I took a home PCR test and have just had the results and they’re negative! I followed the instructions religiously and made sure I really swabbed my throat/nose properly. I’d gamble large sums of money I had/still have COVID.

Does anyone feel that there are accuracy failures in the PCRs we aren’t being told about? Or that even worse the government may be trying to suppress the number of positives that happen in this huge wave of Covid crashing down on the UK?

Has anyone else had a negative PCR but been sure they have COVID?

I was I'll for 7 weeks with a upper respiratory virus. No Covid and no high infection markers, there are some horrible viruses around

Torina · 19/12/2021 12:17

No test is 100% accurate. You might just have a lower viral load that's more difficult to detect.