free lateral flow tests could end in weeks.

[Jedi boro]

Rumoured plans suggest that as well as reducing the isolation days period this regime are also planning that free lateral flow tests could end in weeks.

they just don’t care do they.

at this rate we really will be a global outlier.

 

[Warwickboro]

Here come the pelters, but perhaps its time to test with symptoms only. This is here forever and we can't do 2 million tests a day forever, that money could go towards feeding children or helping with heating bills (not that this government would ever do that).

 

[Maccarone]

Do we just learn tk live with covid?

 

[Jedi boro]

So the rest of the world is wrong then ???

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

This 'symptoms only' rhetoric needs to stop. You're still spreading it.

 

[Warwickboro]

There isn't access to free lateral flows across the rest of the world, we test more per head than anywhere. And yes maybe the world has got this wrong. I'm just saying the billions invested in testing health individuals and particularly kids, could be used for free meals outside of ter time, and helping with up coming fuel poverty, seems senseless to spend billions on testing healthy people on a daily basis. Test when you have symptoms

 

[Warwickboro]

This 'symptoms only' rhetoric needs to stop. You're still spreading it.

OK, as I say, its here for ever, we will all be spreading it and other virus for as long as we live.

 

[Warwickboro]

I think the different opinions on this can't be overcome, we all agree its been a horrible 2 years and can't wait for this to be over, we just don't agree on how it should be dealt with

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

OK, as I say, its here for ever, we will all be spreading it and other virus for as long as we live.

Is it here for ever?

 

[newusername]

They are definitely trying to float the idea that we should get used to 150 odd deaths a day.

End mass jabs and live with Covid, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce

Dr Clive Dix says we should treat the virus like flu

www.theguardian.com

 

[ChrisTheRed]

Covid bedwetters will be out in force on this thread.

How long should we go on blindly testing for something that isn't going to go anywhere?

I can count on one hand the amount of lateral flows I've taken anyway.

My life and health experiences have taught me that what's meant for you will not pass you by and I've witnessed many households where all but one person has tested positive and that one person never caught it and had multiple negative tests of all descriptions.

 

[BoroFur]

the billions invested in testing health individuals and particularly kids, could be used for free meals outside of ter time, and helping with up coming fuel poverty

'Could' being the operative word there.
It's not Tory ideology to help those less fortunate than themselves. If you're elbows are not sharp enough, tough, is the Tory mantra.

 

[S7DiscoDown]

Just said on sky that this 'isn't happing' . They will continue to roll out free testing.

The are discussing reducing the isolation period from 7 to 5 days to get people 'working'. I think that's fair enough.

I'm due back to work on Wednesday....thank god. I've had enough of isolating already.

 

[Warwickboro]

Where i stan on this is as follows.
Reqind 1 year and this was drastically serious, but now, the impending fuel crisis and the April price cap is far more serious, and funds should be diverted to helping low income families deal with that.

 

[Warwickboro]

'Could' being the operative word there.
It's not Tory ideology to help those less fortunate than themselves. If you're elbows are not sharp enough, tough, is the Tory mantra.

Very true, they'd spend it on refurbishments and lobbying most likely

 

[magic]

So the rest of the world is wrong then ???

Define rest of the world please?? Does it include Sweden, Florida and Texas??

 

[Jonny Ingbar]

Given that we're in the first wave of this varient, which is far more virilant than other varients, that there's a danger that the NHS will be overwhelmed and that no one is actually sure what the risk is, then testing is absolutely necessary.

But given the sheer number of infections, then it's likely that we have the most natural immunity than at any other point, plus once this wave is over we will have a much more accurate understanding of the risk and impact.

I do wonder thought whether the government are just interested in keeping the figures down, rather than actual cases, given their policy changes over the last week.

 

[Jedi boro]

If you think this is motivated by anything other than money

yes because I always want to follow Texas caring approach to universal health care.

I’ve just come back from the states and I was masked up from the minute I left he house to pretty much all day

in cabs
On trains
In shops
COVID pass to get in restaurant

so don’t make out that there’s no testing in the us as there is.

 

[Jedi boro]

Given that we're in the first wave of this varient, which is far more virilant than other varients, that there's a danger that the NHS will be overwhelmed and that no one is actually sure what the risk is, then testing is absolutely necessary.

But given the sheer number of infections, then it's likely that we have the most natural immunity than at any other point, plus once this wave is over we will have a much more accurate understanding of the risk and impact.

I do wonder thought whether the government are just interested in keeping the figures down, rather than actual cases, given their policy changes over the last week.

Let the bodies pile high

 

[Jedi boro]

what's meant for you will not pass you by

Wow what an attitude that is