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Where do you get LFT from now?

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Sw1ft · 05/07/2022 06:24

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PurpleDaisies · 05/07/2022 16:59

No , pre pandemic you would be sensible and not visit if you had a sore throat or felt under the weather. They’re not forgotten, it’s about being mindful of any illness.

We are not pre pandemic any more. Covid is circulating widely again. Many people can carry and pass it on asymptomatically. There is a test available which you can choose to pay for. I thought I’d said somewhere I wouldn’t visit if it was feeling ill but it looks like I forgot that.

What used to happen pre pandemic isn’t relevant. We’re dealing with the situation as it is now.

umpkj · 05/07/2022 17:24

I have loads of lfts and only test because I am interested if I finally got covid. So far I have been negative.

Watapalava · 05/07/2022 20:12

I may start selling mine 😂

I have about 20 boxes that the kids were given from school

thats over 100 tests I could make a weeks shop there!

Starlightstarbright1 · 05/07/2022 20:23

Some of us in healthcare as still required to test twice a week...so we are definitely advised not too.

x2boys · 05/07/2022 21:17

Icequeen01 · 05/07/2022 07:08

I don't give a damn what "they" say about testing. I work in a tiny residential SEN school. Who looks after the kids if all the staff are ill? I am currently testing daily as my DH has Covid and I don't want it to take it into school.

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Why are school not providing them?
I would expect my sons special to provide them if they had an outbreak lots of the the kids are CEV.

x2boys · 05/07/2022 21:17

Why are school not providing them?
I would expect my sons special to provide them if they had an outbreak lots of the the kids are CEV.

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ElspethBoomingHowsen · 05/07/2022 21:32

I got some yesterday from the .gov website. I tested positive after I caught it from a patient at work. I just had to tick the box that said working in healthcare/nhs and the box arrived today.

Gingernaut · 05/07/2022 21:36

Aldi and Iceland have them by the tills.

£2 for a single and £10 for 5

Icequeen01 · 05/07/2022 22:22

@x2boys because our children are not CEV but they are SEN/SEMH traumatised children. We were going under in LFTs a year ago but now the DfE no longer provide them to schools.

MissMarpleRocks · 06/07/2022 06:31

My parent is in hospital & as there is a covid outbreak in the area all visitors have been asked to test before they visit. Some of the wards have been closed due to the outbreak.

easyday · 06/07/2022 07:29

M child has about two dozen leftover from school - back when they were supposed to test a couple times a week.

PlopPlop · 06/07/2022 07:34

GerryAtrick · 05/07/2022 09:09

It's a belief system now, with it's own rituals and ceremonies and indisputable dogma. Most of the followers are moaning about the price of milk going up and yet, they are scrabbling round trying to find test kits to buy.

The most fervent of them would probably spend their last fiver on testing kits rather than food.

I test before seeing my friend who would either have life saving complication from catching covid or die.

£2 for a test to go round her house for a cup of tea isn’t exactly breaking the bank, would cost me significantly more to attend her funeral

PlopPlop · 06/07/2022 07:35

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