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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…

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Kenworthington · 05/10/2021 15:44

*home ffs!

XenoBitch · 05/10/2021 18:19

I don't think anyone is bragging or boasting about not ever doing a test. OP asked a question and people answered. TBH, constant LFTs is nothing to feel morally superior about when you see the amount of plastic waste they generate.

Orangelover · 05/10/2021 20:31

Plenty of lateral flows for work but not a PCR. Not one whiff of a symptom here. And I'm a nurse who's looked after a fair few covid patients (although not full time on a covid ward). I've almost convinced myself I'm immune to it Grin That could be total rubbish but it makes me feel better anyway.

Jessicabrassica · 05/10/2021 20:40

DD had covid (caught at a festival, picked up on routine lft because she was asymptomatic) so I did a pcr.

I lft regularly because I work for the NHS. I also lft if I'm going to meet people I care about because I don't want to carry it and spread it accidentally.
I'm honestly shocked at the number of people who don't...

XenoBitch · 05/10/2021 20:44

@Jessicabrassica

DD had covid (caught at a festival, picked up on routine lft because she was asymptomatic) so I did a pcr. I lft regularly because I work for the NHS. I also lft if I'm going to meet people I care about because I don't want to carry it and spread it accidentally. I'm honestly shocked at the number of people who don't...
I live alone and am in my house for 23 and a half hours of each day (I walk my dog and go to the shops for those other 30 mins).
Mynameismargot · 05/10/2021 20:55

@nordica

The government recommendation ages ago was for everyone to do a LTF twice a week to pick up pre- and asymptomatic cases and to protect everyone. There's nothing to be proud of if you've never taken a test. How have you never attended an appointment or event where it was needed, or decided with friends or family for everyone to test before meeting as a group?
Not everyone live in the UK. LFTs were never recommended at all where I live so I've never taken one. If I had symptoms I would get a pcr test as is recommended where I live but I've never had symptoms.
JaceLancs · 05/10/2021 21:57

Neither lateral flow or PCR for me

pourmeanotherglass · 05/10/2021 22:06

DH hasnt, he is retired. Ive done many.

Thesearmsofmine · 05/10/2021 22:06

I haven’t done a LFT or PCR. I am a sahm and my dc are home educated, so we are fairly low risk in that sense. Two of my dc have done a pcr when they had sunptoms(negative) and DH does LFT twice a week for work

goldenrachita · 06/10/2021 00:04

I haven't. I would only get a test for an illness if the result of the test had significance for my medical treatment. I can't see myself testing for a disease if I had no symptoms of it- before 2020 peoppe would think you were mad....

The only other possibility I suppose, given current times, if forced into it, which hasn't happened.

Such a lot of environmental wastage, as a previous poster said. We really don't need more discarded plastics.

EffOrf · 06/10/2021 04:19

Some taking loads of tests will no doubt be on other threads moaning and berating people for using a wet wipe when they are throwing away loads of plastic every week using test kits

porites · 06/10/2021 06:22

No tests of any type.

I WFH and don't have children.

Live in a rural area.

I haven't travelled or been to any large events.

anonymousanne · 06/10/2021 06:52

Nope. Not don't one. I'm rarely ill so never had reason to suspend I need to do one.

AlexaShutUp · 06/10/2021 07:42

@goldenrachita

I haven't. I would only get a test for an illness if the result of the test had significance for my medical treatment. I can't see myself testing for a disease if I had no symptoms of it- before 2020 peoppe would think you were mad....

The only other possibility I suppose, given current times, if forced into it, which hasn't happened.

Such a lot of environmental wastage, as a previous poster said. We really don't need more discarded plastics.

I think that's fair enough as long as you aren't going anywhere/seeing people etc. I admire you for living like a hermit in order to save the planet, but personally, I would struggle with that level of isolation.

I am assuming, of course, that you aren't saying protect the planet but sod the people who live on it, and spreading the virus around without a care in the world?

EileenGC · 06/10/2021 07:51

I can't see myself testing for a disease if I had no symptoms of it- before 2020 peoppe would think you were mad....

The problem is that you can still spread that disease, even if you don’t have any symptoms. Others might develop the symptoms and be severely affected by them. I don’t test so I know I don’t have it - I test so I know I’m not spreading it around and therefore need to restrain from my normal social interactions. (I do agree, it would’ve sounded mad 2 years ago).

That said, I hate the amount of plastic it generates too. Where I live, home LFT aren’t valid so we need to go to official testing stations when we need a test. At least over there they receive swabs and the little test thingies in industrial quantities, and not everything is singled wrapped in about 5 layers of plastic.

lockdownmadnessdotcom · 06/10/2021 08:48

Me neither. I should have done one in Guernsey last week but DH did one and we took the view that if he was negative, so was I. And he'd been up to London shortly before our visit and I'd been sat at home working, so he was much more likely to have caught it than I was.

The good thing is though, we now have LFTs left over that are made by Siemens, they give a result in 15 minutes and can be used if you have symptoms. Pity the NHS ones aren't as good.

KingsleyShacklebolt · 06/10/2021 09:34

@NotSure1542

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…
I have only done one PCR - and that is because it was a requirement for a day's work on a film set, not because I had symptoms.

Never had a LFT test. DH hasn't had any tests either.

pommedeterre · 06/10/2021 11:33

I counted for ds today on the way back from his 3rd PCR. I have done 22 PCRs - 13 for ONS, 5 for travel, 3 for close contact and 1 because I had bad gastro issues and suspected covid. All 22 negative!

Have done more LFTs than I can remember/count.

SlamLikeAGuitar · 06/10/2021 11:39

No tests for me either.
In March last year, me, DH and all 3 DCs were really poorly with horrible flu-like symptoms. But at that point, people were only being tested if they were admitted to hospital. So we just did the required isolation period as a family and that was that. No one has had so much as a sniffle since, so have had no reason to test. Only DH has been testing himself regularly as it’s a requirement for his job

BakingOfTheFoodCats · 06/10/2021 11:45

I’ve never tested and haven’t had the vaccine.

BakingOfTheFoodCats · 06/10/2021 11:46

My children have never been tested either

DaisyWaldron · 06/10/2021 11:52

I have children at school and work in a public-facing job with several colleagues who are carers for CEV relatives, so I've been doing 2 LFTs a week since last December. I've never had a PCR as a close contact, but have had two because of cough symptoms. I also take part in the ZOE research project and gave taken several other PCR tests and one antibody test through that.

Kevinishot · 06/10/2021 13:38

Not tested here either. Would if I was asked to but haven’t been remotely ill & no-one has asked me to. I am self employed & stand to lose a lot of money if I have to take 10 days off work for something I’m not even ill for, so I won’t test unless I think I actually have it.
Call me selfish all you like, but I know I’m not the only one who can’t take that kind of pay cut.

onetwothreeadventure · 06/10/2021 13:51

I had my first test two weeks ago (an antigen test pre-travel) and did a lateral flow yesterday before I saw my DM for the first time since getting back.

My kids have had way too many to count but I wfh so I'd only PCR if they had a positive test or I had symptoms.

redimpulse · 06/10/2021 16:51

@BakingOfTheFoodCats

I’ve never tested and haven’t had the vaccine.
Same here.
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