@Covidworries
You can not possibly know that your cough isnt covid, you are choosing to ignore the requirement to test. Do you routinly choose to ignore things like the requirement to wear seatbelts?
In the spring testing prob wint be a requirement but that isnt relevent to now when IT IS A requirement.
Ive not lost the plot im annoyed with people thinking the rules dont apply to them . Do you think CEV families dont have money worries.
Not testing and ignoring symptoms(Yes there are more symptoms than the 3 required to test but there are 3 that require testing and people cant even follow that. )
Is going to result in cases rising quicker than NHS can cope with.
This means more opperations will be cancelled, this means more people wont get cancer diagnosis quick enough. This means that more people will die or become very ill both of covid and other illness that could be treated in normal times.
Someone i know well is currently ill in hospital the staff are over run, they could note update the next of kin for over 24 hrs because they dont have time. This is the start of october covid cases are growing, postponed treatments are becoming life threatening and winter illness are also going to happen. You can pretend we can get back to normal but you are only fooling yourself....
Yes the government are responsible but what can they do when people wont even comply with the tiny regulations in place now.
@Covidworries You do know that the government requirements are to test a ‘new, continuous’ cough or ‘3 or more episodes of coughing in 24 hours’, right?
Likewise, it’s to test a ‘high’ fever.
The extra words are important. As other posters have put, further up, COVID (can be) a REALLY nasty disease - even if you’re double vaccinated.
Thus, adults who are coughing with COVID are ‘continuously’ coughing due to lung inflammation. They’re not going ‘cough cough’ once to clear their throat. They’re not having a short bout of coughing first thing in a morning. They’re, in some cases, unable to sleep and vomiting with the severity of their cough. Hence the ‘continuous’ and ‘episodes’ bit of the description.
Moreover, as COVID is worse in adults, many young children are asymptomatic carriers. The ones who do have symptoms often have high fever or diarrhoea - not coughing.
There’s also context. If everyone in a household, including multiple CV adults, have the common cold, and a toddler in the house is snotty and coughing, and no one in the household is a known close contact of a COVID case - what is the likelihood that toddler has COVID?
The idea that you would PCR test that toddler is absurd. In fact, it’s worse than that. PCR tests need to be done by qualified lab professionals and there is a maximum number you can complete in a day. Thus, every time you PCR test a toddler or small child who very obviously doesn’t have COVID, you are slowing down the testing of someone who does have COVID.
If you want to stop COVID spreading through schools, you need a government who doesn’t send kids into schools when everyone in their household has tested positive for COVID. Needless to say, if the adults in our house have COVID, I’m not sending my older son into school - regardless of what the government says.