Parents want me to do and kids to do covid test before visiting

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AIBU for being a bit put out by this?
My brother is also visiting and he's really cautious about covid so it could be driven by him. There is no talk of them doing one.
AIBU to be a bit miffed?

Early stages of pregnancy

There are probably more dead from the lockdown, isolation and the jab than from covid itself. I've not seen any evidence that medical staff have suffered excessive deaths from working with covid, apart from the very overweight staff. The ramification for children is horrendous, the medical provision needs investigating for gross misconduct, have you seen that latest statistics for the increase in mental health illness in young people, all for a jab that was not only unnecessary for the vast majority of the population, but also dangerous for many. The risk was probably worth taking the jab for if you were fat and/or had comorbid health issues.

The "probably" is carrying quite lot of weight.

Care to back this assumption up with some actual official figures, @Tygger?

Dear Luz please do your own research, in the same way that I've done mine, try the Sceptics forum for a start, you're welcome🤗

That's cute. I think i'll stick to peer-reviewed scientific articles though.

@Tygger@Tygger

Wow, still posting so much unsubstantiated codswallop, some of it dangerous misinformation re use of ivermectin to treat covid.
See link, please read and learn:
www.cochrane.org/CD015017/INFECTN_ivermectin-preventing-and-treating-covid-19
And: www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19

Leaving aside the hilarious ‘probably’, even if that first sentence is true, it doesn’t follow that lockdown was a bad thing overall. You’d have to balance the deaths avoided by lockdown. In fact it wouldn’t be that surprising, especially if you looked at a country imposing a strict lockdown, if you found that, during a particular period of lockdown, more harm was caused by the lockdown than Covid. Because that was kind of the point; you impose one harm to avoid a greater one.

Stop me if I’m getting too logical for you.

So you get your "facts" from the FDA? Who are funded by and in bed with big pharma, you should know that there's only been one big winner in this covid nonsense and that's big pharma.

The FDA is only part-funded by US pharmaceutical companies, less than half to be precise. As for the claim that it is 'in bed with' them, I'd want to see clear evidence of that – do you have any?

In the UK, AstraZeneca made their Covid vaccine available at cost so there was no profit at all to the company and in fact their share price went down during the pandemic so it's hard to translate into being a 'big winner'.

So where do you get your 'facts' from @Tygger?

The Sceptics forum that she so has so kindly directed me to when I asked for proper official figures. Of course. 🤡

lockdown was a bad thing overall. You’d have to balance the deaths avoided by lockdown

Lockdown was bad as it protected the sick and elderly at the expense of the young and healthy.

There are ways to protect the elderly without locking down the younger generations, broad strokes outlined in the Great Barrington Declaration

And what makes the Great Barrington Declaration right?

It’s something that can be implemented without locking down the entire country?

Unless you prefer to do nothing at all?

I would be miffed. My DD and DH have just had flu (negative for covid) and they were both way, way worse than when they had covid. Covid is not the only bug going around, so you could test and the kids could be negative but have something potentially worse brewing, like flu or strep A. So it feels pointless.

Also, as a cover teacher I am exposed to 105 germ ridden children all breathing on me every week; none of them are regularly testing for my benefit so it feels a bit odd when people are still requesting it TBH.

If @Tygger is an example of someone who follows and believes in the The Great Barrington Declaration not sure that gives me much comfort in it

I came to the conclusion many years ago that if you want to try and stay healthy in the winter, it's best to avoid contact with young children, avoid public transport and hospital, ideally move to a warm country, sadly much of the above is not an option for many people.

"Too much laundry", but sadly laking in "enough commonsense"😏

It doesn’t matter what any individual thinks. It’s obvious lockdowns don’t work—even China couldn’t manage them
in the end, and those were real fucking brutal lockdowns 🤷‍♀️

What do you mean? There's no such thing as an asymptomatic cold or flu, but there is such a thing as asymptomatic covid. Genuinely confused by your post

Asymptomatic flu and asymptomatic colds both exist.

You're right, I stand corrected