How many people have you heard of that have had positive covid result yet haven't even had the test?

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I was in a club loo last night and got talking to a lady. She was saying she thinks the mask business is a waste of time and then told me about 3 people she knows who had positive covid results yet hadn't even gone for the test. All had booked the test. 2 were in a long queue and gave up. 1 felt poorly so didn't go. All got a message saying their results were positive. I've heard of others too.

Just wondered how many more have had this happen? Bit worrying imo.

I've heard this exact same story from 2 people who don't know each other. Both posted on FB that a friend's aunts, cats, hairdresser had this experience. Wording is exactly the same. It's bollocks

actual people; 0

friend of a friends dog walker a few.

There are no hour long ques when you go by the way, you have an appointment time.

Are we playing seven degrees of conspiracy bullshit again?

Not heard of that happening to anyone.

In recent times everyone I know personally who booked a test have had the test done. So far every one of them have been negative.

Why would anyone join a queue to be tested and then decide not to bother? That aspect alone would make me question the validity of the story. They'd already done the 'hard' bit by getting a test appointment and getting all the way over to it.

A parent at my dc school overslept and missed the appointment (was genuinely fatigued couldn't wake up) got a positive result the next day

not this again! fake news.

I didn’t think clubs were open?
Anyhow, sounds like an absolute load of rubbish.

@3littlewords the most unbeleivable bit of that is that someone got the results the next day. Why would the government set up a fake testing system then make themselves look incompetent by making it hard to get a test and leaving people waiting days for a result due to back logs?

If she didn't go to the testing center then her qr code was never used and her information was never linked to a test barcode.

I mean, I'm sure it happens occasionally due to administration errors but it's not some kind of epic plan to push up the positive result statistics.

Well, if it does happen to be true good. At least they aren't getting false positives.

If they have symptoms (which is why they booked the test) they should be isolating anyway.

And at the testing centre the QR code is not scanned until the test sample has been bagged and handed over.

What about home tests?

Yes op it happened to my best friends mothers brothers second cousin twice removed. I know this is true because I read it on Facebook.

@funkypolar you register the barcode yourself on the website for a home test.

😂😂

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A lady who thinks that's masks are a waste of times claims to have had a positive result for a test she never had...
A likely story

2 people I know - didn’t actually have a test yet both received a text saying they were positive
Not sure why you’d book a text and not go tho

When dealing with government systems, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. I'm sure this has happened - they've had someone else's test results. There was an article on BBC Wales the other day about someone who'd had a while tranche of test results texted to them by mistake.

It's always someone someone knows. Weird

I thought clubs were closed?

I'd just like to know where this club is and how late it's open? I'm jealous as the days of casually chatting in the loo seems a distant memory right now!

long queues

Wasn't lady it was her friends. 1 workmate.

One in ten tests in my area are positive - we are a high risk area.
How odd that this happened all 3 of them in your story.