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

[GCSE2024]

No.

No. I've done enough for the greater good; ie everyone except me.

@52andblue parent kits have been advised by the government, it's not up to the schools to advise. The link is here, you can get free test kits sent to your home.

www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests

Yes, and already have been.

It takes two minutes, doesn’t hurt, and might be helpful is getting us out of this shit show.

Yes

@JovialNickname

No. I've done enough for the greater good; ie everyone except me.

This is how I feel, I’m tired of making constant sacrifices (both personally and my young family).

So the answer is No

Yes.

While I can see the argument for not testing because it might identify an asymptotic case which then means isolating and income loss etc- unless all of your contacts are also not testing, you might have to isolate anyway. You could pass it to a colleague who is testing regardless, will test positive and if the timeframe works out you'll have to isolate too.

I'd personally rather know, and hopefully minimise how many people I potentially pass it to.

Regularly not regardless!

@Blue565 would you do it if it would mean you can live normally again with just the tests?

@huggzy

Yes.

While I can see the argument for not testing because it might identify an asymptotic case which then means isolating and income loss etc- unless all of your contacts are also not testing, you might have to isolate anyway. You could pass it to a colleague who is testing regardless, will test positive and if the timeframe works out you'll have to isolate too.

I'd personally rather know, and hopefully minimise how many people I potentially pass it to.

I don't have colleagues and the only person I have contact with is DH, who also works alone.

I have no need or desire to test when I have no symptoms and am at very little risk.

No. They're just not accurate enough to actually do any good!

Yes. Already doing it

No because the lateral flow tests are so inaccurate.

Roll out home tests with a reliability in the high ninety percents and we'll do them. Until then this is a phenomenal waste of time and money.

Yes.

Seems like a great solution to keep cases low and allow us to get back to normal. We should have been doing this ages ago.

No, I’m fed up with extra shit and have been vaccinated. And I won’t be wearing a mask outdoors at school pick up in the summer either if cases around here remain non existent.

Yes - already do

Exactly.

Ops that was meant to quote the comment about already sacrificing enough as a family for the greater good.

We are bottom of the pile for vaccinations and pretty much everything else. I’m done with telling my children they can’t play with their friends on the odd sunny day or we can’t pop into nanny’s. I’m not testing for the greater good too.

NO

No. I can’t afford for myself and DH to be off work on SSP for two weeks again.

I definitely will if they send me the kits to do at home, but I probably wouldn’t go to a centre twice a week, no. As a family we are doing literally nothing so I would be more at risk going out to get tested that regularly!

No.

No

No

Neither are kids

Vulnerable vaccinated so I’m not isolating my kids for a flu type illness which is pretty much what it’ll be reduced to with vaccination

@Spillanelle

Yes.

Seems like a great solution to keep cases low and allow us to get back to normal. We should have been doing this ages ago.

Why on earth do you think it'll get us back to normal? Vaccinating half the adult population hasn't, wearing masks hasn't, taking a wrecking ball to the economy and our rights hasn't, what suggestion has there been that increased testing will allow us to live normally? They've said it could be years before that. Why do people still believe that compliance will result in normal life returning after a year of being promised it's just around the corner? Remember if you give up Christmas you can see your family at Easter? Remember masks meant things could reopen? Remember schools would stay open...broken promise after broken promise. Time for some resistance.

No