To ask if you would get tested for covid

[Hiyanice]

If you had the main symptoms. Just had a conversation with a friend who told me she wouldn’t if she had mild symptoms. I’m shocked by how selfish she would be as she’s always seemed so caring.

Yes I would and I have, even with mild symptoms.

I'm not that surprised by your friends response, a lot more people seem to not be bothered by it and feel like 'we just have to get on with it'

I would test now if I thought I had any chance of having covid but then my work would not be impacted by isolating and now contacts don't need to isolate it has become 'easier' to test without affecting income for most.

I would yes, I live with a CEV relative so would need to know.

At the moment yeah because I’m about to have a baby so for hospital appointments etc I’d need to know.

But going forward? No, most of us are double jabbed now. Can’t keep testing forever for what’s probably going to be a mild illness. They are going to phase out testing.

It's coming up to winter - normally if I felt ill at this time of year I'd just keep an eye on myself and get better assuming it was flu, going forward I won't be COVID testing every time I have a sniffle - it just isn't realistic! I understood all of the testing at the start of the pandemic but 18months in, the majority of the country double jabbed / antibodies etc at some point it has to stop or be phased out.

Absolutely. I even tested my DD because she felt ‘achy’ … not even one of the main symptoms. So glad I did - turns out she was positive. And in turn gave it to me and DH. None of us have ‘the main symptoms’ but DH and I are quite unwell with a bad cold / flu.

If I hadn’t have tested her she would have spent time with her grandmother and DH would have spent time with his CV parents in his ‘48 hours before contagious’ stage.

Thankfully, since learning she was positive we didn’t visit anyone and therefore have not passed it on.

Selfish if people don’t. You just don’t know who you are passing it to and who else they could pass too.

The LFT are easy to do. As are the PCRs. They are free. Why wouldn’t you?!

Worth noting also - both DH and I are double jabbed and feel completely floored by it.

Don’t think because you are double jabbed you won’t feel ill ….

Isn't everyone supposed to be testing twice a week?

Or am I behind the times again ?

I am double vaxxed and have had covid. My son has just had covid and none of the rest of us caught it.

On that basis I would do a LFT unless I had one of the three main symptoms. Otherwise I could be getting a PCR every month. The more we start to mix again the more bugs I have picked up. None of which have been covid. I'm still fairly sure if I was capable of catching it I would have got it from my son as I took no precautions at all and disnt catch it. If I was a year post covid maybe I would.

Mildness wouldnt come into. Covid was mild for me. But I had the main symptoms

Being double jabbed doesn't mean you won't catch it, and it can still be severe.
I would, yes, and did when I started with a cough months ago (I was positive). Maybe testing will be phased out, but it hasn't been yet so until then, I will.

Yes I would.

All our first symptoms were nausea and vertigo.

But I'm not testing for the next 3 months now we've all had it.

There's no such thing as a Covid-19 test.
PCRs and LFTs pick up coronaviruses OP.
It's been 19 months and you still don't know this.
We're truly fucked in stuck in a perpetual cycle of BS aren't we.

*and stuck

Yes, she may well be being selfish. However I have heard of many people doing multiple isolation's, loosing business and generally having constant disruption which is causing constant personal upheaval.

So when you dig deeper with some and see what they have actually been through then I can empathise that they just cant keep doing the right thing as they are at breaking point with the impact it has on them and they need to put their own lives in order.

It's not the right attitude to have, however I can understand how they have just had enough. Some however are just being pigheaded and selfish.

This discussion is about to become purely hypothetical if what I undestand from health researchers quoted by Dr John Campbellon YouTube yesterday.

Routine testing is about to abandoned, save for people requiring hospitalisation. It is accepted that COVID is about to become endemic, if it isn’t already, so we will have to take what precautions we think necessary and accept we will have to learn to live with it. Those adults who choose to remain unvaccinated might have to think again

Absolutely. My daughter goes to school and if I had it she'd probably too so wouldn't want her spreading it!
A friend said she wouldn't test as it would mean her son couldn't participate in his sport - I said nothing but was amazed at how selfish this was. Then again, her other son went to Spain twice and didn't isolate at all on his return.

I would if I felt unwell but tbh I’m getting fed up of the whole testing now . Some people have excepted this is the way of life testing twice a week I know some testing daily . It’s not for me unless I have to but I’m double jabbed and I’ve already had Covid .

What are the ‘main symptoms’ even supposed to be now exactly, with the delta?

I had a nasty cold a few weeks back. Three negative LFs but I couldn’t even get a PCR as I didn’t meet the criteria for covid symptoms and they didn’t have any PCRs available in my area unless I lied to get one so I didn’t bother. There are still other colds and viruses available.

I also wasn’t going to get paid to isolate.

Yes. In fact I tested when felt poorly but not with the usual symptoms. Like PP, it’s a good thing I did as I had covid (even tho double jabbed) and it meant I wasn’t spreading it around.

Others in my household caught it from me but as far as I know, that’s all. I’d have felt very guilty if I hadn’t bothered to test asap and had passed it on.

No, I've only tested once.

I don’t think you’ll get many people admitting to it on here but I think a lot of people would need to think about it first