Anyone else no longer testing WITHOUT symptoms?

[Throwawayy]

I know I'll get the typical "so selfish how COULD you" type posts but is anyone else no longer testing when they have no symptoms?

I've had PCRs a few times with colds and things this year and have done LFTs too. I've ran out though now and I don't intend on getting more right now and will go for a PCR if I have symptoms.

If someone I was meeting asked, I'd do one. But other than that I feel like no longer testing when I feel fine.

I only test if I have symptoms or if I'm about to spend time with my 87 year old grandma.

@LouScot

I'm regularly testing without symptoms, yes, as that's what the Scottish Government advice is - test every time you're going to be in contact with people from another household - even if it's just the supermarket- so for many people this means daily testing just now.

And as this poster so eloquently demonstrates, there are lots of people hanging off Ms Sturgeon's every word, desperate to do her bidding.

The world doesn’t need anymore Covid cases - a far greater impact on world than LFTs

Are you sure about that?

@bloodywhitecat

Haven't left the house in a week but still testing every 48 hours.

What an utter waste of time and money.

Also LFT testing is not "free". If might not cost us money as end consumers but who do you think is paying for the tests to be delivered to your door or available free to pick up?

Santa Claus?

@SpideySenseTingles

I only test if I have symptoms or if I'm about to spend time with my 87 year old grandma.

Because your grandma is more important than mine?

Do you want your A&E department open, your bins collected, bus to run and supermarket shelves stocked?

Yes, which is why we need to stop the ridiculousness of having perfectly well people stuck at home for 7 days.

@Dreamstate

I'm still wondering where these 5000 deaths a day are? Oops another prediction that didn't come true! Just like their stupid delta death predictions didn't either

You don't sound very bright.

This thread shows many people lack a social conscience.

Yes, which is why we need to stop the ridiculousness of having perfectly well people stuck at home for 7 days.

I agree with this. Covid isn't going anywhere.

@MarshmallowFondant If you had bothered to read on further you would've seen that I explained that DH is terminally ill and the world and his wife are in and out of our house at the moment.

Might be different depending where in the UK you are. Scottish guidance is to test a minimum of twice per week without symptoms plus additional tests if you're going anywhere with crowds or where you know there will be vulnerable/elderly

Most people I know how tested positive picked it up by a routine lft with no symptoms so quite scary if most people aren't tbh.

Sending covid positive staff to look after sick people in nhs is probably not a good idea… already sick people will catch covid from staff delaying recovery. Care home residents who catch it in hospital will have delayed discharges. Nhs will freeze up.

Yes, which is why we need to stop the ridiculousness of having perfectly well people stuck at home for 7 days

But a well asymptomatic person could infect 40 more people in a few days - better one off than all off

@LoannaJumley

This thread shows many people lack a social conscience.

If people are limiting testing as part of their efforts to reduce their plastic waste, I think that shows a great social conscience. The impact the wanton use of plastic in richer nations is having on some of the most vulnerable communities in the world is widely available to learn about, for anyone with enough of a social conscience to care.

@LoannaJumley

This thread shows many people lack a social conscience.

It certainly does.

@loannaJumley well bor did the so called experts who made these predictions, so what does that make you, not so bright either. Looks like we all aren't so bright

I'm LF testing at the moment as seeing various elderly family .

But when we had covid the LFs never showed it at any point for either of us so I don't generally test.

My approach is to stay in if I feel unwell, and pcr dd when she does cos of school

As a result I'm drowning in LF kits sent home from school!

@multivac I'm actually in the "so mentally ill that testing more than twice a week would send me into a debilitating OCD spiral" camp, thanks for asking. Constant checking was part of my symptoms before COVID, for other diseases, and I absolutely know that asymptomatic testing every day would send me over the edge. I'm pretty sure a non zero number of people have also developed health anxiety over the last couple of years & I'm frankly worried that the health anxiety mindset is being encouraged and enabled because I can see it playing out in so many people's logic on here.

@Dreamstate

I'm still wondering where these 5000 deaths a day are? Oops another prediction that didn't come true! Just like their stupid delta death predictions didn't either

According to Worldometer, the United States peak deaths was in January 2021 with under 4500 a day. This is in a country with a population 5 times that of the UK in the early days of the vaccine rollout.

So why would it be reasonable to expect UK deaths when over half the over 12s have received at least three doses of vaccine, to reach 5000 per day?

I've never tested, I bet people wouldn't be so eager to test if they had to pay for them

I'm fairly low risk because I wfh and live alone, so I only test if I've been doing something relatively risky, and am then going to do something that will bring me into close (indoor) contact with people. So, the last time I did one was after a trip to the cinema and before I went to help out with a group packing pre-Christmas hampers for disadvantaged people. I'm going by train to a bigger city in the next couple of days, and I'll probably test after that and before our NYE gathering, if that goes ahead.

I do for work - 3 lft per week and 1 pcr every week

Never have done asymptomatic testing but it’s looking tempting if I could, by relentlessly hunting for Covid, eventually find it and get 7-10 days off of work.