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

[GCSE2024]

No.

Yes (already am)

Yes

Yes. Of course.

No. Surely most will be false positives

No

yes

No.
Who would pay for them?

No

I don't do weekly smear tests, pregnancy tests or any other testing just in-case.

50% of the population is already vaccinated and rising rapidly, reducing spread and severity. By mid-summer it will be reduced to just anothe cold/ flu and continued disruption to life and all these society ruining measures will be unjustifiable.

As a temporary measure, I can understand why high risk occupations are using them.as the vaccine rolls out.

Yes. Catch cases early. Lateral flow tests have around a 96% specificity. Around 50 in every 10000 tests are false positives. With confirmatory PCR tests this would be negated. Current case rates are around 5000 per day, so in a week 175 people out of 35000 would be false positives. And the number of extra cases caught would be of great benefit.

Nope.

@RampantIvy

Yes. Why wouldn't you?

Why would you?

No, I don’t (it is recommended here) though I’m ashamed to admit it. I’m on a zero hours contract and not even eligible for SSP. I’ve lost 11 weeks of work so far this pandemic due to isolation and can’t afford more.
If they were directly offered to me I’d feel guilty enough to take them, but I can’t bring myself to actively seek out tests.
My two dc do have twice weekly LFTs for school though, which I consented to.

Yes.

Why do you ask @GCSE2024?

But all of those people with false positives and their contacts would lose money/work from self isolation for no reason.

There is also an argument that false negatives are high and people will relax thinking they are negative and cause more spread.

Yeah, I’ll be happy to once they develop a reliable rapid test and sort out a way that people can afford repeated self isolations.

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.

In principle yes but depends on how and where.

Currently my local council is encouraging all adults to get tested in the next two weeks but to get to the test centres used for this I would either need to take a bus or walk over an hour (as I don't have a car). So no thanks, not going to do that.

Yes we have a lft place at the end of the road

No

Yes and have been since dc went back to school

Yes. Already do.

No

Depending on where. At home, yes. I'm on zero hours contract so if it is in working hours I don't want to lose more money. Can't go in evenings or early morning as have 2 small dc and a dh who works away a lot.

Yes