Who's done with routinely testing?

[LifesTooShortYOLO]

A lot of people I've spoken to lately have all said they are done with doing lateral flows twice a week and aren't testing anymore as life needs to get back to normal we can't test for ever.
I have to agree...
Last week we did a random lateral flow on DS 5 as we were aware the school had lots of kids with Covid and it came up positive. He is completely asymptomatic and we wouldn't have know he had it if we hadn't of tested.
It got me thinking, who are the mugs here the people testing and 'looking for something' that otherwise wouldn't be aware was there or the people who are not testing so long as they feel well and carrying on with their life. Ignorance is bliss they say.
I can bet a lot of parents aren't testing their kids at school if they appear well and I can't blame them.
So honestly, if you don't work in healthcare and have to test for your job are you routinely still testing with lateral flows if you feel well??

Sorry @elliehamster are you actually, honestly saying that there is no such thing as an airborne virus? That no virus's not just Covid, but none at all are transmitted through the aerosolisation of respiratory particles?

Please cite your sources.

I do them twice a week. As a church officer, I am obliged to, and the timings mean that the same tests work for my vaccination volunteering.

@elliehamster

I have never tested.

The government have been instrumental in helping the majority to believe that viruses float through the air and attach themselves to an oblivious victim, who will then have a good chance of getting ill. All those that took biology lessons in school will know that viruses are non living, that they are strands of protein found within cells. We do not breathe out viruses because we do not exhale cells. One day I’m hoping people will open their eyes and realise that we have been fooled into believing that illness is entirely arbritary and there’s nothing we can do about it except wear flimsy cotton over our nose/mouths which breed bacteria spectacularly well and can cause illness. Viruses? They are in our bodies the whole time. The only way to get a new virus within our body is to have it injected in there. I am well aware there will be vitriol towards me but don’t shoot the messenger.

So how did my entire family come down with it one after the other over Christmas? Genuinely interested to know.

How did people hundreds of years ago get viruses before injections were invented? How do newborn babies get viruses before their immunisations?

Never have and never will.

I never have, and certainly won't start.

I definitely won't test my kids without symptoms. There's loads in their school, but nobody is Ill - just loads of adults and kids sat at home for no reason 🤷

I work in a school so have to test daily to keep schools open for your Dd to go back to. So even though it's very boring yes.

I don't see something that takes a couple of minutes is that huge a burden??

We always did things that reduce risk (like wear seatbelts) why is this any different??

While I totally understand the reasons for regular testing, these two points don’t really add to them.

The test itself isn’t a burden no, but that’s not what people want to avoid. They want to avoid isolation, a potentially significant loss of income etc that come from a positive test.

Similarly with a seatbelt, there are no negatives there - no one loses a week’s income because they put a seatbelt on.

@SaltySeaAir most of my colleagues off with it aren't dangerously ill by any means but are feeling pretty crap. When you work in school and are on your 2nd or third infection it's not much fun. In fact I'm done with working in school now given my notice, had enough.

I’m done with it though would test if I felt unwell

Yes, I'm still testing as my son works in a large school where it's still rife and I don't want to be responsible for passing it on to anyone if I catch it and don't have symptoms.
Seems like common sense to me.
Stopping testing doesn't make it go away, just puts vulnerable people at risk.

Never done this.

All those that took biology lessons in school will know that viruses are non living, that they are strands of protein found within cells. We do not breathe out viruses because we do not exhale cells.

This is entirely incorrect @elliehamster

Would maybe take it up with whoever was conducting your bio lessons at school

Free lateral flow tests will be scrapped from July according to inews and others news sources so I can’t see many people continuing with them beyond then anyway apart from maybe people who continue to get them free at work. They apparently cost £30 for a pack of 7

The only way to get a new virus within our body is to have it injected in there.

Urm, and a query, so how do you think ~400 million people worldwide have had SARS-COV-2 @elliehamster? They've all been injected?

And how about flu, herpes, rhinovirus etc?

[quote user1471509171]@SaltySeaAir most of my colleagues off with it aren't dangerously ill by any means but are feeling pretty crap. When you work in school and are on your 2nd or third infection it's not much fun. In fact I'm done with working in school now given my notice, had enough.[/quote]
I'm sorry to hear that, but then they probably have symptoms and would have tested. I equally know plenty of teachers who are home with no symptoms at all, only picked up because they keep testing.

Sick teachers and children should of course stay at home, in they same way they should with any other illness. If one thing comes out of covid I hope it's the stupid 100% attendance awards.

[quote Waxonwaxoff0]@CafeCremeMerci it's a huge burden for people who don't get paid for isolating and can't afford to have time off work when they're asymptomatic.[/quote]
@Waxonwaxoff0

But that has nothing to do with the OP's whine about just not wanting to bother anymore & to pretend covid doesn't exist.

aren't testing anymore as life needs to get back to normal we can't test for ever.

@Waxonwaxoff0

But that's not what this thread is about, it's about people who just can't be bothered doing the tests,

@Sparklingbrook

My cousin tested positive on a LFT this morning at 7am. She had been testing daily because of things that she was doing. The test she did yesterday afternoon was negative. So it's really difficult to know when it flicked from one to the other. Could she have been infectious last night?

She'll likely have been infectious 48 hours before her positive test result, but her viral load may not have been very high, so hopefully she hasn't infected anyone.

@Neverfittedin85

We'll not test anymore unless seeing a vulnerable person

Your sons teacher could be vulnerable, anyone you meet could be vulnerable. We don't wear big badges saying 'I'm vulnerable'. We aren't paid to stay home either. But apparently that's ok because we don't matter.

Not at fixed times but still testing before meeting people especially elderly relative (eg did one Boxing Day before the relative came to visit).

DS had stomach ache and unexpectedly came up positive on LFT a week ago, DH and I followed with cold symptoms and positive PCRs mid-week.

We've been doing twice weekly testing for a year now. It's enabled my DCs to continue attending activities when classmates have tested positive and meant DC1's infection was caught quickly. They're both willing to continue testing and with their two teacher parents now unwell with covid, are daily testing.

My colleagues and I have been daily testing for well over a fortnight now. I teach in a primary PRU and the children there aren't testing. Had they been, perhaps fewer of the staff would currently be unwell with covid to the extent that one of the classes has had to close as there are no staff left to cover. Since the start of term we've had children who are obviously unwell, with symptoms, but parents don't want to isolate so testing isn't happening. A couple of them have had a day or two off school and then return, still not right.

I work in a school. I have to send the result of every test to my head teacher.

@SickAndTiredAgain

I don't see something that takes a couple of minutes is that huge a burden??

We always did things that reduce risk (like wear seatbelts) why is this any different??

While I totally understand the reasons for regular testing, these two points don’t really add to them.

The test itself isn’t a burden no, but that’s not what people want to avoid. They want to avoid isolation, a potentially significant loss of income etc that come from a positive test.

Similarly with a seatbelt, there are no negatives there - no one loses a week’s income because they put a seatbelt on.

But that's not the point the OP was making, the point she was making was that she couldn't be bothered doing the tests.

@SickAndTiredAgain