Why Would You Volunteer For A Covid Test?

[dave50]

All these tests that are being carried out, are people just volunteering to have them done or is there a reason, are they being requested to? Why would anyone risk volunteering to have one without good reason with the risk of being told to self idolate for 10 days? There is no way I am ever having a test, can't see the point, I've been vaccinated. It's only due to more testing that the infection count is rising, making the paranoid even more paranoid, its self defeating.

[youngmafbog]

Agreed TTT.

[eve1974]

I’m a mix in between the covid believers n the covid deniers.

I believe it exists. I believe it kills (some) people.

I don’t believe the fear is justifiable. I don’t believe lockdowns of the healthy are required.

I do believe the vulnerable ought to be allowed (and paid to) to isolate.

I believe SOME hospitals are indeed overrun (I too know people in nhs and have heard first hand) Whilst others are almost empty.


I believe the governments across the world have some bigger agenda (not sure what)

I believe some people (eg pharmaceutical co’s) are making big money out of this. Whilst others (the small independent businesses) are losing their livelihoods.

I am a slight conspiracy theorist in that I believe covid was man made and released (accidentally or on purpose I’m not sure).

I’m not sure I trust the vac but i had it anyway.


Now that it’s out there tho it is being used to the advantage of some (big pharma) and to do away with the middle classes (slowly, first step).

The Rich will get richer, the middle class will become poorer


Quite a long reply lol and now (some) of you may think I’m unhinged!

[andy-hughes]

danny - // AH //how many of the nation are going to feel motivated to comply?//
Surely to not comply would be cutting off their noses to spite their faces? Covid is still out there. //

You are quite correct, on both points.

But this is the public we are talking about here.

And if you think common sense and a survival instinct are going to win over outrage and anger, then I suggest you don't know the public very well!!

[Peter Pedant]

well if you haven't done covid 101
then read a few of my posts

reason to volunteer - to help other people as well as oneself

to avoid being so dumb ( dumber than dumbarton and that's pretty dumb) as to endanger other people

to scotch the idea that you can be vaccinated and a carrier

to be a very rare ( 8/2000) case of being able to get it despite vsccinated

to name but a few

jerky things that endanger people
1.be a limo driver wiv foreigners and NOT get vaccinated despite being over 60
getting it and going on working

2.being a working girl in Oz and receiving foreign visitors and going on working despite feeling crap

sydney is locked down now for 14 d cost a few billion
instead of two weeks wages for tw people

[Peter Pedant]

// I’m a mix in between the covid believers n the covid deniers.//

jesus I'm not - the deniers are dying like flies arent they?

1957 polio jab - it has all been done before. Jonas Salk was vilified over his polio jab and hit back with
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2621481-the-survival-of-the-wisest

only the dumb and dumber dont get vaccinated

[rowanwitch]

The best rationale for mass testing is to pick up new variants as they arise, if you have a positive lateral flow test you then need to do a pcr test. If that is positive it then goes for typing. As a variant that isn't affected by the vaccine is the biggest threat get used to living with restrictions it is unlikely we are going fully back to the old normal any time soon.

[eve1974]

The deniers are not dying like flies tho. They seem no worse off than those who are paranoid.

[Canary42]

While I respect your opinion 10ClarionSt, I sincerely hope you don't end up gasping for breath as you drown in your own bodily fluids (which is basically what happens with Covid).

Me, I prefer not to gamble.

And what advantage have the State gained from their recommendations/measures? If anything they gained by failing to take any action in the early days which eliminated vast swathes of pension-claiming elderly, thereby denting the future public spending bill - more money available for Con's Cronies.

[fiveleaves]

I feel that I have nothing to gain and everything to lose from taking a Covid test. I am double vaccinated and I cant do the 10 day self isolation stuff.
They were trying to give away on the seafront where i live last weekend. I politely declined

[bobbinwales]

Yes , your free to go to work and infect one or many others and possibly see them very ill or die

[bobbinwales]

And of course fiveleaves youd be happy for workmates who may be positive but failed to declare it to infect you

[Buenchico]

I've been using lateral flow tests twice a week since they were first made available to the general public. The fact that I'm double vaccinated doesn't mean that I can't still contract Covid-19, possibly asymptomatically, and then pass it on to others. I regard it as important that I, and others like me, should do the very best to reduce the spread of Covid-19. (I also volunteered for a PCR test when everyone in our small town was encouraged to do so because of a short-term high incidence of the Delta variant in this area).

I'd obviously prefer not to end up having to self-isolate but, as I was in the 'shielding' group for most of last year (due to chemotherapy at that time), it wouldn't be a new experience for me. I've always got sufficient canned and frozen food, together with UHT milk etc, in the house to last me for several weeks anyway.

[New Judge]

//Yes , your free to go to work and infect one or many others and possibly see them very ill or die//

Well, Bobbin, that point of view might (only might, mind you) have been pertinent a year ago. It is not now. If you have your finger on the pulse as you say, you will know all of this:

The average number of daily deaths is 17 - about one in a hundred of deaths from all causes. So 99 people out of a hundred die every day from something else - very possibly something that has remained undiagnosed or untreated because of the measures taken to combat Covid.

On top of that is hospital admissions. In the first three weeks of June there were 164,715 new cases reported. In that same period 4,136 people were admitted to hospital and 225 people died. So, of the new cases, 1 in 40 people were admitted to hospital and 1 in 730 of them died. Of course any death or serious illness is tragic. But these numbers are now simply "noise" among the illness and death that occurs every day of every year.

These figures of course ignore entirely the fact that the number of infections is considerably understated because many people contract the disease but are not tested. If they were included the incidence of serious illness and death would be even lower.

The vaccine has broken the correlation between infections, serious illness and deaths. Of course there is a possibility that a variant will emerge that is vaccine resistant. But unless and until that happens, the country cannot continue under damaging restrictions "just in case."