100 lateral flows

[Donatella]

I've just done my 100th lateral flow test - I do them for work and we have our own portal to report them rather than using the NHS one, it lists them all and kindly tells me how many I've done and my compliance (100% 😇). I remember last year when I got my first kit, being surprised that they thought we would still be doing them 12 weeks later - little did I know! Have to say I'm getting a little fed up with it now (although there's still a little moment when I check it where I feel the butterflies as I wonder if this will be the positive one!). I wonder how much longer they will ask us to be doing this?

(there isn't much point to this post, I just wanted to mark my own personal milestone)

I'm probably there now too. I don't log them anywhere anymore though. The day it was positive was completely expected.

You've just reminded me I need to do mine before bed.
I usually do it in the morning, then throw it in the front cubby hole in the car to 'cook' on the first leg of my journey to work. There's a layby where I check it - I would be completely staggered to find it positive.

I don’t log mine and probably won’t bother doing them anymore, given that my 2 DC currently have Covid and all LFTs have been negative I can’t see the point.

I was just going out the door at 6.30am when I remembered to check the one I'd just done. PCR at 8am.

Ah, my LFTs were positive until day 10 of isolation. Then negative again.

I have to have lft every shift and we HAVE to register everyone and also a pcr every week. It's definitely wearing thin now.

@Mattiejoy

I have to have lft every shift and we HAVE to register everyone and also a pcr every week. It's definitely wearing thin now.

I bet it is! That seems like overkill, is it a care home? I'm NHS, we do twice a week, no PCRs unless symptoms or positive LFT. I do see the point as quite a few colleagues have tested positive without symptoms (as has my daughter) so would have been in work infecting others if they hadn't been testing, but it is annoying.

All that jumps out at me is the environmental cost!!
I have to test for work twice a week and the only time I had a positive it turned out to be false.
We were told from the off they weren't reliable and in my case, this was proven to be correct

I must be almost there too. Been doing them twice a week since March.
I don't like the new style nose only swabs, the swab is too big for my nostril.

So much plastic.

I got a bit complacent about doing them twice weekly and tested but didnt log them if they were negative.

They did prove their worth when I felt under the weather with a bad headache but none of the 3 classic symptoms. The positive was still a huge surprise but it stopped me swanning off to huge christening with covid.

I know it's a pain, but if lots of people only log it when get a positive, won't that push up the rate artificially?

Maybe. But we weren't asked to log them if negative at work as our personal purpose for taking them wasn't the statistics. We just needed to stop people turning up for work if they were positive and didn't know.

Doesn't it tell you to in the instruction booklet? Maybe you have different LFT kits, but I saw another thread on this and an astonishing number of people were sure the instructions said nothing about registering results, down to posting photos of the booklet where you could see it was on the next page that they had apparently managed not to see. I acknowledge you might have a completely different kit and be part of a completely different process.

2x LFT and a PCR every week for work here too, definitely getting boring now

I suppose needs must but all that plastic!

I'm doing them too.