Wearing a wristband to identify you’ve tested negative

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www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-negative-tests-wristbands-uk-government-b1720960.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1605090403

Good or bad idea? How would you feel about wearing a wristband?

Like a heat sensitive band that changes colour as you get hot...

I think they will need a way for people to prove they have been vaccinated.

Well the traditional way used to be a vaccination certificate...

I know such a document might trigger cries of horror from many these days but FWIW an as an example vaccination for Yellow fever, and very importantly carriage of the certificate when travelling is still an a requirement for some roles with some UK employers, for example in the travel /transport sector....

I hasten to add I'm really not keen on the wristband idea but the idea of having to prove you've been vaccinated is not something new.

Considering you can have a negative test today, then test positive tomorrow I think it's idiotic.

Can I have one on my other wrist to confirm that I've applied my hemorrhoid cream too?

Or maybe I'll pass.

You do wonder whether the people writing this stuff have ever met the public.

Absolutely pointless and some disgusting ideas in this post.

A small bit of critical thinking says why this isnt a good idea.

OP, BI didn't come up with the idea.

This is literally the story line from Contagion with Kate Winslet 😂

That list of bullet points is nothing more than a list of how to get people to listen to the government regardless of what they announce - encourage compliance by using people they are more likely to not suspect of ulterior motives to tell them what to do, use emotive phrases, make people believe they are getting something for nothing to improve test rates and make the government look more proactive...

No point as a negative test doesn’t mean the virus will avoid them after the test.

Passports being noted with the vaccine for travel purposes would work.

Disagree with rewards for testing unless part of a study so lots of time given up.

If we don’t vaccinate under fifty bit tricky re travel and passports stamped. Unless everyone lets under fifty off hook globally

Taken from the ‘Meme’ thread.

Very bad idea - yellow stars next

Fucking horrendous idea.

Ways of distinguishing “non infected” people to allow them freedom
Police having powers to enter homes on hearsay of “infected” people gathering
New laws giving powers to detain people if “infected”

This all seems a bit too familiar to me.

We are sleepwalking into a dictatorship.

Is this a joke.

You could catch covid seconds after the swab was taken. Utterly pointless.

@Bwlch

Is this a joke.

You could catch covid seconds after the swab was taken. Utterly pointless.

Agree.

Also with a 90% vaccination, any wristband/certificate is pretty useless also since 10% of those wristbands/certificates will be inaccurate and worthless - except for the external value put on them by numpties.

Apparently you can buy negative covid tests online, so guess the black market in covid corruption will just expand to meet the demand that this kind of external signalling of being 'safe' generates.

Unless a vaccine is 100% or unless they can train to avoid anyone with a negative test result, this ideology is at best misleading and dangerous, at worse creates second-class citizens and a massive black market to cheat the system.

• train the virus

Ridiculous because even when you get what people are calling a negative result, you are really being told covid19 was UNDETECTED, not a dead cert negative

Buy tests online? @JustBidenMyTime

Is that a swabbed test to post off, or a code from a test?

@GreyishDays
I don't know how it works! I am a law-abiding middle-aged Mum!
I just hear it from the teenagers.
There's a market for everything. Positive tests, negative tests - people will always be on the make!

I should clarify that I wasn’t wanting to buy one! Just being nosey.

what a ridiculous idea. How do you even see a wristband in winter?

Fakes / Dupes / Ebay.

Makes no sense.

@Marmite27

Are they going to give out yellow stars too

That’s exactly what I was thinking reading this. Made me feel quite sick

Absolutely bloody not.

Yes yellow stars and a sign saying unclean for those with a positive test.