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, absolutely.

Yes. Of course

What springs to mind with this is how many millions of tests will need to be manufactured and how much plastic will that result in??

@CrunchyCarrot

What springs to mind with this is how many millions of tests will need to be manufactured and how much plastic will that result in??

Doesn’t matter @CrunchyCarrot. Caring about the environment is sooo 2019 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Caring about the environment is sooo 2019 🤷🏻‍♀️

I am so out of touch.

@CrunchyCarrot

What springs to mind with this is how many millions of tests will need to be manufactured and how much plastic will that result in??

You can only care about COVID now. Nothing else matters anymore, remember?!

NO. That was easy.

Yes. I test every time I volunteer at the vaccination centre anyway.

There would be no cost to me if I tested positive though. I WFH and my employer is very relaxed about taking time off sick. The only cost would be to DS, who would have to miss school.

Yes, I'm NHS so have to do this twice a week to protect others who don't care enough to do it to protect me

No

Lots of my positive asymptomatic students have shared it with their family members so I think you can transmit when you asymptomatic.

No.

Cost would be phenomenal. Latest available figures show cost to government is £4 per test (ex factory). With 50m adults in the UK that is £400m per week (£1.7bn/month, £20bn/year). The cost of distributing and administering the scheme could easily treble this cost.

@QueenOfTheDoubleWide

Yes, I'm NHS so have to do this twice a week to protect others who don't care enough to do it to protect me

Surely you've had 2 doses of the vaccine by now that protects you from serious illness. Every NHS worker I know has had both, even staff who don't come into any contact with patients.

@QueenOfTheDoubleWide

Yes, I'm NHS so have to do this twice a week to protect others who don't care enough to do it to protect me

Maybe the people you proclaim to not care about you are not testing because they care more about their livelihood and business that puts food on the table and pays their bills, rather than pointless virtue signalling

Yes. Why wouldn't you?

@AppleBlueBerryPie If vaccine status started to not count for anything in the UK take up would drop off a cliff.

Yes, already do this for my husband's job.

[quote MercyBooth]@AppleBlueBerryPie If vaccine status started to not count for anything in the UK take up would drop off a cliff.[/quote]
Do you think? I'm having the vaccine when it's offered as I haven't had Covid. It's the coercion that makes me hesitate as it's such an effective vaccine I don't understand why it needs such a push. I'm not testing but vaccination is an incredible development. Although I'm not getting dd done until there's longer term safety data.

@Sundances

Weird! people saying no - these must be all the people who are actually quite enjoying lock down.

Yes from me

There could be more pandemics, there could be more dangerous viruses.

I think it will be because people can’t afford the time off work tbh

Yes

I understand the time off work thing but if you get a positive test you are spreading to your fellow co-workers and clients anyway so are just creating more problems.

@Poorlykitten

I understand the time off work thing but if you get a positive test you are spreading to your fellow co-workers and clients anyway so are just creating more problems.

Then the government need to sort out a proper payment system for people isolating. If that had been done from the start, we’d likely have been out of this mess quicker.

yes

@Helloandhappyday

Yes. Why wouldn't you?

At the moment I rarely go anywhere, and both me and DH have had our first vaccine. At some point we need to swing the balance from just testing everyone to relying on the vaccine to hopefully do what it needs to do.