Are anyone else's kids getting distressed with all the testing?

[musicalfrog]

Our LA has asked that all children ages 2 and up are LF tested twice weekly.

My child age 8 hates getting tested, we've done it about 5 times in as many weeks due to symptoms and close contacts, every time it's been negative. I really don't want to put my kids through it any more. Anyone else feeling the same?

@Steelesauce

Just do it when they're asleep, why the drama?

Christ 🙄

I imagine it would be quite dramatic actually, when the child woke up to find an invasive test being performed on him/her and started flailing around.

@HesterShaw1 I agree! If I tested my two when asleep they would definitely wake up and be traumatised! Probably never want to fall asleep again 😅

Summed up beautifully by @RedToothBrush

I can't understand the mentality of distressing children over this
I think it's people feeling guilty that they have distressed their children unnecessarily and are now trying to justify it so making out to themselves it's not that bad for all children if you just put the time in

@hestershaw1 none of my 3 have ever woken up. Its a cotton bud up the nose. Fuss over nothing, it really is. I've seen grown women gagging all over the shop and making such a fuss. Its a simple test.

[quote Steelesauce]@hestershaw1 none of my 3 have ever woken up. Its a cotton bud up the nose. Fuss over nothing, it really is. I've seen grown women gagging all over the shop and making such a fuss. Its a simple test.[/quote]
Good job all children are exactly the same and all sleep as deeply as each other then isn’t it?
One of my children wakes up when I open the bedroom door.

That sounds horrifying! Imagine they jolted forward in an upright position when you had it stuck up their nose

The sleep idea sounds pretty bad. Even the pp might baulk at that being done to them.

[quote Steelesauce]@hestershaw1 none of my 3 have ever woken up. Its a cotton bud up the nose. Fuss over nothing, it really is. I've seen grown women gagging all over the shop and making such a fuss. Its a simple test.[/quote]
I find it astonishing again and again the genuine lack of empathy displayed on MN particularly with regard to Covid. The assumption that because you find something so, then everyone else should too, and if they don't then they are making a silly fuss. I'm a grown adult and if I woke up to find someone putting a swab up my nose without my knowledge, I would freak out. Why would all children act like yours?

It's the same mentality which drives people to sneer at those people unhappy about wearing face coverings, or those who found lockdown difficult. Guess what - NOT EVERYONE IS LIKE YOU.

And who the fuck can help a gag reflex?

I don't know how you guys are doing your tests but I've never had a single issue, awake or asleep. Gentle hand on the forhead is all it takes. Theyre probably used to me doing it on myself and I make no fuss. Theyre currently tested daily after being exposed to covid and as my brother almost died last year and is still on permanent oxygen, we take no chances in this house of passing covid around.

Just don't test.

Testing young kids is horrendous. Other countries have much kinder tests, eg saliva testing or lollipop testing. I don't know why it government think it's ok to keep up the invasive testing rather than switching to one of these.
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I don't understand why they don't have saliva testing yet.

My 4 year old would far rather wear a mask all day (and has many times when necessary) than take a LFT but the latter is recommended and the former seemingly frowned upon as somehow damaging to the child.

Makes no sense.

@theemperorhasnoclothes

I don't understand why they don't have saliva testing yet.

My 4 year old would far rather wear a mask all day (and has many times when necessary) than take a LFT but the latter is recommended and the former seemingly frowned upon as somehow damaging to the child.

Makes no sense.

Agree - we bought the wrong tests when we bought all those LFTs

Don't do it. We stopped testing months ago unless we have symptoms.

I've only tested my 4 year old when she's had symptoms and that was a pcr. I wouldn't do lf tests on her

I don't understand why they don't have saliva testing yet

They do, it's not widely available though, it was one of the first tests my ds did at uni last year. No eating / drinking for an hour beforehand and you have to get a surprising amount of saliva in the tube.

I know I'll get flamed for this but it amazes me how much fuss people can make about a cotton bud up the nose for ten seconds!

My DC is clinically vulnerable and could die because your child can't have ten seconds of discomfort

[quote Lostinacloud]**@DumplingsAndStew* and @TheChip*, I’m not suggesting covid will disappear if everybody stopped testing. However, perhaps there would be the opportunity to get away from the endless doom and scaremongering and threat of new restrictions and closures always looming around the corner. It really is time to put covid into perspective. It’s never going away, it is 99% survivable in most cases and for those who are vulnerable there is huge awareness and of course the vaccines.[/quote]
Completely agree @Lostinacloud .

The statistics posted by Wannadance speaks volumes.

@Lostinacloud

If we all just said no and stopped testing we’d get out of this crap faster. Only symptomatic unwell people need testing on arrival at a healthcare facility to check if that’s what making them ill do they can receive the appropriate treatment. For everyone else, it’s just a bug like most others and if you feel ill you’ll naturally want to stay in bed and away from others anyway. I’m sick of it, we all coped before when there were viruses with 99% survival rates roaming the lands, with the addition of vaccines for the vulnerable, it really is time we regained our collective common sense and decided risk for ourselves.

This 100 times over

@millymollymandypandy

I know I'll get flamed for this but it amazes me how much fuss people can make about a cotton bud up the nose for ten seconds!

My DC is clinically vulnerable and could die because your child can't have ten seconds of discomfort

No. People don't die because people refuse to stick cotton buds up their nose.

@millymollymandypandy

I know I'll get flamed for this but it amazes me how much fuss people can make about a cotton bud up the nose for ten seconds!

My DC is clinically vulnerable and could die because your child can't have ten seconds of discomfort

It's sad that your child is vulnerable, however it's no reason why other children should be distressed. Other children aren't to blame.

@Steelesauce

Just do it when they're asleep, why the drama?

Someone did that with a different part of my body once. It's called assault. I woke up while his hand was invading my body and kicked the bastard hard in the face. Ever heard of consent?

Not a great example of bodily autonomy to set to children is it, even if it is allegedly for the greater good

People are testing young children?

There are people who see no problem with that?

What on earth have we come to?