How could they do this??

[InsideNo7]

N/C because this is a bit outing.
I work in a frontline job where we get tested weekly.

I’ve just been told that a test I handed in ten days ago is positive!
In that time I’ve stayed overnight with my parents (I’m a single adult so am in their bubble), have met friends for coffee and lunch (it was my birthday this week) and done an extra shift in another hospital in another tier.

I’m so angry, I would have done none of this if I’d known. I’ve had no symptoms so would have never known if I didn’t have regular tests. I’ve put so many people at risk.

I’m just here to rant, I feel like they haven’t upheld their end of the deal.

@InsideNo7

Sorry *@DraftDodger* I don’t really understand your point. I’ve only answered to point out I’m not in a lockdown area, to posters presuming that I am. And as for ways to see people, you’re right. And I did them. Thanks anyway.

Sorry, this wasn't aimed at you! Just at the ones going on about how people think the world ends at England over and over again, rather than just pointing it out as you did.

Well I don't know what we'd do without people like you OP, you've done your very best and stuck to the rules. My DD lives alone, it's hard.

OP, don’t beat yourself up about it, it’s not your fault, you had no symptoms and if you were not a frontline worker you would not have been tested at all.

My mum is tested weekly and one of her colleagues tested positive a couple weeks ago, she had no symptoms, they work in a care home and no one else came does with it, she retested and it came back negative so was possibly a false positive. Tests should only take 48 hours to c9me back, ten days is not on.

@TheCrowsHaveEyes

It's not that odd that people assumed OP was in lockdown. More than two million Scots are in Level 4 restrictions which are equivalent to an English lockdown.

But you know what they say about assuming

And I'd think if we are going to make assumptions the fact OP is worried about the risk as she's FL worker and said she's been to x places - that actually it's because she can.

FL workers have seen the truth of covid. None of them will do more than the bare minimum to survive MH wise right now.

Of course we are in lockdown in Scotland - the rules for Tier 4 are virtually indistinguishable from lockdown in England.

It simply suits Sturgeon's propaganda to not use the word lockdown.

But not everywhere in scotland is tier 4, I’m tier 4 and there are far more places open than there was first time

You are not alone, OP. OH is also tested weekly as part of his job - best performance has been 48 hours, 3 days is more common, he has had a couple take over a week. Fortunately all negative - but a couple of other staff members have tested positive and been at work in the days before the result came back.

Op you have done nothing wrong and shouldn't feel bad at all. You should be allowed to live your life within the rules whatever job you do. Hope erylne is ok.

hope since you were asymptomatic your parents/friends will be ok op

YANBU they've made your test almost completely pointless. A local school recently did mass random testing and found one positive case (the student was asymptomatic and had no known contacts with covid so like you obviously not their fault at all). The turn around was less than a day. The student and their contacts obviously went home to isolate and probably prevented lots of outbreaks in the school and wider community.

The OPs parents are only in their 60s. That is not old. Stop the ageist comments.

@Coffeeandcocopops obviously I know they are at a higher risk than I am (30s) but you are right, they’d be raging if they knew . Dad was riding his horse 6 days a week until April- he’s definitely fitter than me!

@cdtaylornats she could be in Edinburgh which is tier 2

@Coffeeandcocopops

The OPs parents are only in their 60s. That is not old. Stop the ageist comments.

60 is old enough to get the bus pass in many places. Risk is higher in your 60s. In the Uk, I think 70 is considered the vulnerable age, but it's not something that happens on your 70th birthday, is it? I think some countries define it from 65.

I am in Edinburgh, it is tier 3. Establishments open until 6, no alcohol served, 2 households allowed to meet.

@Gwenhwyfar my parents are not dottled, they understand their risk as well as anybody. My dad is still working (from home mainly). They have made the choice to continue to see me - in fact they want me to move in! But I didn’t, because I was worried about the increased risk to them if I did. So I continue to go straight to my own flat during the week.
But then you think that because I’m a healthcare worker I should have no human contact outside work for up to a year, so we are unlikely to agree on this.

Meh, I took 3 tests in 1 day. 1 positive 2 negative. I don't trust the tests.

@cdtaylornats

Of course we are in lockdown in Scotland - the rules for Tier 4 are virtually indistinguishable from lockdown in England.

It simply suits Sturgeon's propaganda to not use the word lockdown.

Certain areas of Scotland are in full lockdown, many people in Scotland, me included are not in lockdown. Just as England does not make up the UK, the central belt does not define Scotland.

There must have been some kind of failing. If it is any conciliation, the latest research from Imperial College London (the place usually in favour or Armageddon predictions so definitely not one to play risk down) indicates that asymptomatic carriers of the virus are virtually un-infectious - just over 3%. So the chances of you having passed in to anyone are very small. I know it doesn't change the upset and shock when you are trying to be responsible and have been let down, but I hope it helps.

OP my household in a testing trial scheme and were all tested weekly.
I got a positive test about a month ago.
It took 7 days to notify me!!!!
Everyone else in household tested negative and 10 days later we all tested negative. So either I had it asymptomatically and no one else got it or it was a false positive.
As part of the trial we were told if we tested positive we'd get an antibody test but I haven't been offered one yet.

As you are asymptomatic, it apparently is less likely to spread so hopefully no one you mixed with will have caught it, none of this is your fault, you did the test as you do regularly, the fact it was 10 days to pass on the result is not your fault.

It's absolutely awful that you have been put at risk. But it does make me smile a little thinking about the datix that your upper managers are coming in to tomorrow!

Also those who say that health care professionals shouldn't be seeing others are delusional. There was evidence published in 2017 showing that nurses are 4x more likely to commit suicide than any other profession. That was well before the horror of nursing through this year. Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly said that it would be best for the virus for everyone to stay at home but the exceptions are put in place to stop social isolation especially for people living alone. I work with a lot of young single girls and they have been taking on extra shifts because they are going home to an empty flat and have no one to talk out their day with. They are at breaking point from an extremely challenging year.

@Jent13c indeed about the Datix- am I allowed to put “shower of shite” in a Datix, do you think?

Certain areas of Scotland are in full lockdown, many people in Scotland, me included are not in lockdown. Just as England does not make up the UK, the central belt does not define Scotland

Quite. Tier 2 here and have been throughout!

OP I feel for you, not a fair situation to be put in at all.

Probably a false positive. The tests are useless