Testing/isolation/money

[frozendaisy]

I know it's crude to talk money but will keep it brief.

So testing, from what I can make out testing is pointless unless you are showing symptoms and then only within 5 days, yes?

Otherwise if you live with someone with symptoms there is no point getting tested, in fact it could create a false sense of security, you have to self-isolate for 14 days unless you show symptoms, then you get a test or test of other comes back negative.

So, and I am using the family option here, so if you have children parents will need to be off work for all coughs and temperatures for the foreseeable. Until negative test.

So back to money. This is unsustainable.

So if tests are left for just symptomatic folk would there be enough? And that would mean fewer days off for all? (Assuming not a positive test clearly understand that changes matters).

So asymptomatic adults say whom live alone can carry on in blissful ignorance. How do you test an asymptomatic person? Or do they not she'd enough virus? Because surely people who catch Covid-19 out and about would notice a hot coughing individual?