Anyone else not going to test children anymore

[Baileysforchristmas]

My daughter is 15, she said none of her friends are testing anymore. Why should I make her test twice a week now? All it will do is stop her going to school and us getting on with our lives, it will also stop her bubble going to school and she will get blamed. My daughter didn’t go to school for 3 months while flights were coming into the country from other parts of the world which could do as they please. Why should I take the risk of putting my daughter’s life on hold, also the more we test the more the numbers go up, Europe’s not testing secondary school children twice a week so obviously their numbers won’t be showing as high.

I have, in these Covid times, and throughout life.

Have you really though? People’s true motivations are often not fully known to themselves.

it’s not being asked of adults.

Many jobs require twice weekly lfts (of the people I know and off the top of my head that would include - teaching and support staff in schools, several shops, early years settings, cafes, banks, care homes, health workers, volunteers...) and all families with children at school are eligible for lfts and encouraged to test twice weekly.

Many jobs require twice weekly lfts (of the people I know and off the top of my head that would include - teaching and support staff in schools, several shops, early years settings, cafes, banks, care homes, health workers, volunteers...) and all families with children at school are eligible for lfts and encouraged to test twice weekly

So not a blanket ask, no.

By the way it was this bit that I was saying was not 100% true
The people who were in danger of losing their jobs, businesses, homes and mental health due to the lockdown were against the lockdown. Meanwhile the people who were more scared of covid than the impact of lockdown were in favor of the lockdown. They might have disguised their fear with "wanting to protect the vulnerable", but it was just that, a disguise

Op do you mean LFT in secondary?

Primary don’t do it do they?

Or when isolating

I do wonder what will happen after everything opens up

No not a blanket ask, but many professions which involve mixing with the public, oh and a requirement before entering many events, theatres etc

Yes LFT in secondary schools.

Fair enough. We’ve finished now (yr11) which I’m kind of glad about as it’s bad enough dealing with primary.

@TheKeatingFive

Many jobs require twice weekly lfts (of the people I know and off the top of my head that would include - teaching and support staff in schools, several shops, early years settings, cafes, banks, care homes, health workers, volunteers...) and all families with children at school are eligible for lfts and encouraged to test twice weekly

So not a blanket ask, no.

In my opinion it should be expected in all settings where people have direct contact with others.

@ilovesooty I agree if everyone did it I wouldn’t have a problem with it, it’s the fact you are penalised for doing the right thing, different rules for different people. How many football fans in London tested before they left their homes and travelled to London, I’m guessing a small percentage.

How many football fans in London tested before they left their homes and travelled to London, I’m guessing a small percentage.
For those in the stadiums? Double vaccination or negative LFTs were a requirement to get in.

No the 20,000 outside the stadium

Never have, never will.

In my opinion it should be expected in all settings where people have direct contact with others.

But it isn’t.

Key to all of this actually working is the belief that everyone’s in it together. This disappeared pretty quickly and willingness to make sacrifices went with it.

@TheKeatingFive exactly and there lies the problem.

Well unfortunately there is little that can be done about that, same as people going to mass protests (somehow I don't think the anti lockdown posters would have been big fans of testing before going!)
Personally I think it's up to me to do the right thing, and hope my teenagers want to do the right thing...but others don't and there is not much I can do about that (it won't stop me trying to do the right thing though)

I don’t blame people for feeling like this

People are getting freedoms but not flowing through to children

@HazeyJaneII

How many football fans in London tested before they left their homes and travelled to London, I’m guessing a small percentage. For those in the stadiums? Double vaccination or negative LFTs were a requirement to get in.

Wasn’t a negative pcr test a condition of being able to fly back into the uk? And aren’t pcr tests supposed to be more reliable than lateral flow tests?

Because it worked really well in containing the spread from those returning from India didn’t it?

So we won’t get hold of this unless everyone tests, otherwise it doesn’t work. Half the population carry on the other half are continually self isolating.

@Baileysforchristmas

So we won’t get hold of this unless everyone tests, otherwise it doesn’t work. Half the population carry on the other half are continually self isolating.

Exactly

Huge benefit and cost

@Baileysforchristmas

So we won’t get hold of this unless everyone tests, otherwise it doesn’t work. Half the population carry on the other half are continually self isolating.

Yes you’re right! And it goes on and on and on...