Why test? To see if people are positive. Why? So they don't infect the vulnerable. Why? Since vaccines it's no worse than flu for most vulnerable. My head aches.

JK2006 wrote:
Why test? To see if people are positive. Why? So they don't infect the vulnerable. Why? Since vaccines it's no worse than flu for most vulnerable. My head aches.

Because something like only one percent of the population is fully protected with the second dose so far.

I don't know what the point of testing at school is though, because they are not isolating other pupils unless they have symptoms.

Honey wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Why test? To see if people are positive. Why? So they don't infect the vulnerable. Why? Since vaccines it's no worse than flu for most vulnerable. My head aches.

Because something like only one percent of the population is fully protected with the second dose so far.

I don't know what the point of testing at school is though, because they are not isolating other pupils unless they have symptoms.

But no one is dying Honey to any number that is statistically significant. All the variants they test for are only at the worst fractionally more infectious, not more dangerous. Hospitals are fine, spring is here and vaccines. Covid is no more a worry this winter than flu. It is over. It is bonkers and a waste of money we don't have to keep looking for Covid in the healthy.

Here in Germany, Aldi started selling rapid antigen test kits (EUR 25) on Saturday. There was a huge queue waiting for my local store to open at 7am.

But why? If you don't have symptoms, you don't need a test. If you do have symptoms, you shouldn't be in Aldi. D'oh!

Test to monitor number of Covid cases and for Covid variants. Test to check state of people arriving in a country. Sounds reasonable for now. Later it may be decided internationally to class Covid types in the same response level as flu and colds.
All we can hope for is a rational assessment in the days to come. It is now no longer an unknown.

Wyot wrote:
Honey wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Why test? To see if people are positive. Why? So they don't infect the vulnerable. Why? Since vaccines it's no worse than flu for most vulnerable. My head aches.

Because something like only one percent of the population is fully protected with the second dose so far.

I don't know what the point of testing at school is though, because they are not isolating other pupils unless they have symptoms.

But no one is dying Honey to any number that is statistically significant. All the variants they test for are only at the worst fractionally more infectious, not more dangerous. Hospitals are fine, spring is here and vaccines. Covid is no more a worry this winter than flu. It is over. It is bonkers and a waste of money we don't have to keep looking for Covid in the healthy.

Not significant statistically, but cases (and deaths) are "high" in my area with an R rate of just under one, so bound to go up if you stick a heap of snotty children in an unventilated room, and then it goes on and on and on.

They can either test or not test. I don't care either way. But if schools are safe, as they say, why all the testing? and if they don't use the tests to protect the pupils (from the thing they said was safe) why bother with the test at all?
Why are they acting as if the tests work properly.

I would appreciate it if they tried harder to make their bollocks appear sensible.

Kantilever wrote:
Here in Germany, Aldi started selling rapid antigen test kits (EUR 25) on Saturday. There was a huge queue waiting for my local store to open at 7am.

But why? If you don't have symptoms, you don't need a test. If you do have symptoms, you shouldn't be in Aldi. D'oh!

It has all gone beyond reason Kantilever; it is a quasi-religion now.

They seem to actually want us to be locked down, for some reason, so if we do somehow wipe covid out, they will probably try to stamp out ingrown toenails and lock us down for that.

Honey wrote:
They seem to actually want us to be locked down, for some reason, so if we do somehow wipe covid out, they will probably try to stamp out ingrown toenails and lock us down for that.

They are following the data except when the data shows lockdowns should be lifted.

Happy days in the UK...