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Wondering if anyone hasn’t been tested for covid yet?

105 replies

NotSure1542 · 04/10/2021 21:56

I haven’t done a single test since the start of the pandemic and some people find it strange I haven’t. Surely can’t be the only one? Haven’t done lateral flow or PCR…

OP posts:
BelindaCinder · 04/10/2021 21:58

Quite a few retired folk haven’t.

Gotthetshirt23 · 04/10/2021 21:59

No tests so far

Wolfiefan · 04/10/2021 21:59

Me neither. But I was shielding and don’t work.

Gotthetshirt23 · 04/10/2021 21:59

And I'm not retired

dementedpixie · 04/10/2021 22:00

I've done a handful of lateral flow. Ds does them for school
None of the 4 of us have had PCR tests

enjoyingscience · 04/10/2021 22:00

No NHS ones (PCR), but we have to flow test for work and we went on holiday.

RightOnTheEdge · 04/10/2021 22:01

I've never had a Covid test.

RedRiverShore · 04/10/2021 22:03

I haven't, I'm retired so wouldn't bother, I don't need someT&T bod to harass me about isolating, I'm quite capable of doing that without their intervention

Tomnooktoldmeto · 04/10/2021 22:03

We haven’t, I’m CEV. And stayed at home through the worst, DH has been working from home so no contact, DD attends an Internet school so has also been home all the way through

DS has been at school when it’s open but has been very risk averse as he is CV, has done regular lateral flows all negative as he was double vaccinated early, in all the time he’s been pinged once last week and had his first PCR luckily negative

Vindo · 04/10/2021 22:04

Done plenty of lateral flow tests for work, but never needed a PCR.

Fordian · 04/10/2021 22:06

I've done one single saliva test.

8Sense8 · 04/10/2021 22:08

I've not needed a PCR yet. I've done lots of LF tests though.

Theendoftheworldisnigh · 04/10/2021 22:10

None. Work from home.

KTyoupigeon · 04/10/2021 22:14

Only done one PCR before admitted to cardiac unit last June. I have a CV daughter who is bedbound so I’ve been shielding and being very careful since March last year!

Katie517 · 04/10/2021 22:38

Only to go into hospital for a c section and 2 lateral flows for a holiday. I’m never ill so haven’t had symptoms worth testing for. My one year old started nursery last month but thankfully they aren’t insisting on tests for every little sniffle so we have had no need to do one.

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 04/10/2021 22:47

1 lateral flow test the other day as Covid is going around my daughters class. Won't bother doing one again, double jabbed and I'm pretty sure I didn't manage to do it correctly anyway.....

Hairyfriend · 04/10/2021 22:49

Neither DH or I have, but we don't have children.

toffeeshock · 04/10/2021 22:50

I haven’t either.

Beansontoast45 · 04/10/2021 22:51

Me neither

Mantlemoose · 04/10/2021 22:52

Two but only because I was having medical procedures and it was required but apart from that nothing.

Oldgoat2021 · 04/10/2021 22:53

I've only once had a Covid test, last summer. I stuck it too far up my nose and fainted. I fell backwards, knocking over the chair behind me, and came round on the floor.

I'm a guy and I live alone and don't have kids.

I was hoping they'd have invented a saliva test by now! I definitely feel reluctant to attempt it again.

MooseBeTimeForSummer · 04/10/2021 22:55

I’ve not had one. Didn’t even get asked to take one before hip surgery a year ago. DS has had one and DH had to have them weekly, but he was participating in a testing program with his employer.

steppemum · 04/10/2021 22:56

loads of lateral flow, never done a PCR

AnnaSW1 · 04/10/2021 23:03

I haven't. And I not old .

AnnaSW1 · 04/10/2021 23:04

I've been working from home since covid