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MK Council have been giving them out to anyone who turned up at the Central Library for a couple of weeks now. We have two packs of seven tests in each. Whilst the Lateral Flow Tests are not perfect I think it's a good thing to have them readily available because it might persuade some to have  a test who otherwise wouldn't. 

David

Is your library open?

In the Spanish news yesterday it was reported, a German doctor has been dishing out covid negative result certificates at €80 a pop to all those Germans wanting to return home after the Easter break, without even carrying out any testing, so although i am all for testing it does raise the question as to how valid the certificates that are  being used are, and how long will it be before people just become complacent and not bother, until the next wave i guess.

Had the Gkids round yesterday and they said that dipping the tester in Coca Cola provides a positive result, but Fat Check says this is not so, but they did say that lots of kids were not bothering with testing now, ours have to, Dad is a docotor, mum a nurse, but there will be thousands of kids that just do not bother, or are not doing it correctly

Hi DK, I was going to reply to AD post as whilst it looks like a positive move I wonder if it will have the effect that is being aimed for?

Having been restricted for over 12 months now I would expect that someone getting a positive result will be not be too keen on the requirement then to self isolate-with their family-and as a result may not bother to test or ignore the result.

If you throw in the level of mis-diagnosis that's reported as well-I visit a number of care related premises and their anecdotal reports are of a system,lateral flow tests, they have little faith in-and I wonder what the outcomes will be?

On the other hand will we see social distancing being ignored as "I am OK, I tested negative".

We are only human and I would expect more willingness to accept a negative, rather than a positive, result!

We've not been able to access them locally unless we are part of the designated group that can ask for them, there is only one distribution point twenty miles away.

Whether the majority will have the time or inclination to use them on a regular basis remains to be seen but it might help track the virus or find hot spots as time goes on.

I hope the vaccine roll out for the next age group gets under way soon, we seem to be stuck at present and testing is only a part solution.

Test kits could be useful to have on hand to test yourself after you have been to public spaces or intend to go where you would come into contact with people.e.g. medical appontments.

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Seems that Boris will announce today that everyone will be asked to take a lateral flow test twice a week for the foreseeable and that there will be a variety of ways of getting the kits including being posted to you.

Boris can ask people to take a test as often as the science says is necessary but as Brue says

"Whether the majority will have the time or inclination to use them on a regular basis remains to be seen but it might help track the virus or find hot spots as time goes on."

If my Gkids are to believed, already it is failing in schools, not that we have seen an upsurge in cases, but it would appear a large majority of children are not taking it seriously especially as they are expected to do them at home now, and as we still have a significant percentage of the population who either dont think covid-19 exists or dont want to be vaccinated then there is always going to be a credability problem, but lets think positive and hope the vaccination really will come to our rescue.

but lets think positive and hope the vaccination really will come to our rescue.

Well there have been no cases in the over 70s here in the last 3 weeks However overall the number of cases is bucking the national trend and is slowly rising.

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