Yes or No Answers Only. If regular asymptomatic testing is recommended for all adults will you test twice a week?

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No.

No

Yes, provided the swabs get delivered and collected

No

Yes, have been for a few weeks now as have DCs in school.

No, although maybe if there was a follow-up PCR before being told to isolate.

@flipflopping

I've been testing weekly since last summer as am on a vaccine trial. I'm now also doing the LFHs we've been asked to do.

I don't understand why anyone wouldn't.

Your life must be lovely if you can't understand some people not being able to afford 2 weeks of no income.

Yes am doing so now

Yes, I already am.

@flipflopping

I've been testing weekly since last summer as am on a vaccine trial. I'm now also doing the LFHs we've been asked to do.

I don't understand why anyone wouldn't.

Because they're self-employed. Because they only get SSP. Because they're on zero hour contract.

Can you genuinely not understand that people can't afford to be off work all the time, especially if they have no symptoms and feel absolutely fine?

@UserTwice No child in school, mine is an adult and doesnt live with me. When I leave the house it's for places where it's easily possible to be 2 metres from anyone, most of the time more than that. Why waste money on tests?

Yes

The WHO said “test test test” at the outset and were just catching up now!

@MarinPrime

Yes, provided the swabs get delivered and collected

They get delivered then you do them at home so no need to send anywhere

Yes

I am a TA so on shit money. I test myself and my kids. We have a moral duty too!!

@Kitcat122

I am a TA so on shit money. I test myself and my kids. We have a moral duty too!!

But as an employee, your job is protected and you have access to sick pay if you have to isolate.

The self-employed don't have those luxuries.

@Kitcat122

You have to ask?

Yes.

@dingit

I don't get it. Why do they need healthy people to test. Someone explain.

Do you really need someone to explain this to you?

Yes

Yes

I’m self employed. I’m testing twice a week. I probably average about minimum wage, so not well paid at all. However if I gave COVID to one of the children in my care and they passed it on to a parent/grandparent who ended up in hospital, I would never, ever forgive myself. It’s my moral duty to do everything I can not to pass it on.

@Sunflowersandbuttercups not if my children are positive or have to isolate then it's unpaid.

No

Already do and happy to carry on as long as necessary.

[quote Kitcat122]@Sunflowersandbuttercups not if my children are positive or have to isolate then it's unpaid.[/quote]
You still have the security of a job to go back to, though.

If I isolate and cancel on my clients for 10 days, they'll just find someone else and my business will fold.

Who people are so short sighted. "I can't afford to take time off due to a positive asymptomatic result". So you would rather spread it around so more people are off for two weeks? Or what if you catch it and are actually sick for several weeks because someone else didn't want to do testing? Allowing asymptomatic cases to spread will just prolong restrictions.