Just thinking

[charles]

my granson caught it early in thenyear - at school. YHe appears to be fine. Friend down the road has got it, somehow his wife is still clear.

[Brian]

Really?

We certainly never thought that was obvious and talking to people in a similar situation- retired- they haven?t reported negative results.

I suspect the same is true generally, making any analysis of positive results vs number of tests nonsense. Plus how many kits are sitting unused in cupboards?

Plus, tricks to get a positive LF test have been circulating among school pupils for months. A positive test means time at home, possibly for a whole class or more in some schools even now. I doubt it is limited to schools and children.

[Steve Walker]

I know a number of colleagues at work that have had it - including two in their twenties, who were quite bad (not bad enough for hospitalisation) for a fortnight. Plenty of children at my sons' school have had it. The brother of the Principal Engineer at work died of it, as did the mother of a friend.

I also know many people that know no-one who has had it. Clearly experiences vary greatly.

[Richard]

Really. Are you illiterate?

Are they all illiterate? Fucking morons.

Which is why reporting negatives is *important*.

And that excuses your inability to function as a responsible individual?

[charles]

Section 6 (page 16) of the NHS leaflet.: You should report your positive, negative or void results to the NHS.

and the page goes on to describe how to do that.

[nightjar]

+1

I was just being cautious after a family gathering.

[nightjar]

I think that comes under RTFM

[John Brown]

And f***ed air circulation systems which mean that covid spreads via aerosols in them regardless of what they do with PPE and furious hand washing etc.

You were more likely

And no way to fix the f***ed air circulation systems in hospitals.

[John Brown]

It's very far from clear that those with a normal T-cell response never get serious disease with covid. And they are clearly very capable of infecting others. That?s how covid went wild, those who weren't obviously infected infecting lots of others in high risk situations.

[Andy Burns]

Are they? I was under the impression that hospitals had become almost "visitorless" these days?

[Brian]

Oh dear.

The only (abusive) moronic illiterate I see is you.

[Brian]

Perhaps there are different kits.

[Richard]

Perhaps you are simply too lazy to read. People like you cost the nation far too much.

[alan_m]

at my local hospital, for reasons other than Covid, and during lockdown it was one named visitor for a maximum of an hour and for a pre-arranged timeslot.

[Andy Burns]

I think it says MUST rather than SHOULD, not that I've reported either negative result of the two tests I have done.