Does anyone test for Covid anymore?

You cant police other people.

Our family tests if they have some symptoms, and were going to meet up.
None of us want to spread it to others.

I spend a bit of time with more elderly people.
No way do I want them to catch it. So again, would test.

Hi dragonfly I'm sorry you've had Covid 3 times! Bummer.

I recently had a "bad cold" that started with an intense sore throat on the first day only.

I rested and stayed indoors and took Vut C and Zinc etc and only when it was improving did I think "Hm, I wonder whether that was Covid?" (I've never had it). My point is, must we now test for every "cold"? Genuine question.

Many people are not testing, including friends of mine. When I went to the surgery for my 'Flu jab, the waiting room was full of coughing sneezy people. Not one was wearing a mask (I was!) I wear a mask every time I leave the house. I'd rather not, but seeing as others are spreading their germs round........

The injection doesn't prevent you getting it.
It alerts the immune system so you are more able to fight it off.

I tested for covid and was positive when my son was supposedly visiting us from the US for 5 days (before a week in Spain with friends).
😕
He stayed in a hotel and then with a friend in the end ... and I saw him outside for a coffee.

People are going to work and traveling about with this and it makes me cross. I don't spread holds and glue about either.

No... Not worth it.

"Holds and glue"
Colds and 'flu!

I would if I had symptoms I wouldn’t want to pass it on to family or friends I have babies in the family.

I've started wearing a mask on buses as they can be packed and the windows are no longer opened now it is colder.. nobody I know seems to test though there are numerous colds and sore throats about.. I didn't test last time I had a fluey type illness but I also didn't go out for a few days..

DH and I have had it twice in the last 18 months. We tested each time and isolated. I don't think it is at all responsible to not test and to risk passing it to other people.

There is, according to people I follow on twitter, a new and more lethal variant around which the NHS appears to be getting serious about...

We tested when feeling ropy after going to a funeral but no I don’t think people do tend to test anymore they come down with symptoms and just call it a bad cold.
I can understand that, after all most people get it mildly and you do have to pay for tests. Would always test when going to see an elderly friend of ours whom we visit sometimes because she was shielding during covid and we mix a lot with the GCs.
In cases like that I think people should either take a test or mask up when visiting 🤔

The situation now, as we all know, is that covid is not going away.
Now it’s here, we have to live with it and behave in the same way as we would if we had flu. In other words, stay at home until we feel better.

I have had covid twice despite having all the jabs offered to me, and I can say that even though I had it ‘mildly’ ( in that I didn’t remotely need hospital treatment) I felt pretty rough and I knew before I tested that it was more than a cold.

I therefore stayed at home, keeping away from people just as most of us would do with flu.

NotSpaghetti

"Holds and glue"
Colds and 'flu!

I would test if I had symptoms and I’d expect DH to do so too. My family will stay away if they have symptoms, but unsure if they would test.
If I was unlucky enough to get Covid again, I would isolate until I felt better and tested negative.

My daughter is a frontline worker in the NHS and she doesn’t have to test if she’s unwell. As long as she feels well enough she can go to work. Last week she and her 4year old were very under the weather with coughs and both had a day off work and school. Although beginning to feel better she tested (negative) before coming to us at the weekend. Her dad was due a minor op this week and she was worried about passing anything to the “oldies”. In the event they were lots better by the time they came to ours but I did appreciate her concern, her description not so much!

Visgir1

No... Not worth it.

So if you think it's not worth it do you keep away from elderly family members etc if you think you may have covid?

I have seen tests for flu at Tesco I think it’s possible to buy just one. I hadn’t know such a test existed.
Sometimes it is useful to know, so you can take more care.
I have received both Covid and Flu vaccines.

It’s difficult. We no longer know the statistics. We don’t know how many people die OF it now rather than die WITH it. I think people should be encouraged to wear masks on public transport. I also think food handlers should wear them irrespective of Covid.

As for not going to work - well some people haven’t got that luxury. I suppose there are always masks, - I’ve seen a fair few people wearing them.😷

I tested when I was ill a few days after my flu/covid vax. It must just have been a severe reaction, though I did test again when DH was ill a few days later.
As Sparklefizz said, when we went for our vaccines at the docs the queue was full of coughs and colds. I was surprised they were still giving the vaccines when people were already unwell.

When I run out of my current stock, I’ve tests, I probably won’t bother.

I recently had Covid, I tested although I was certain I had it. My SIL was at work a couple of weeks before I had it and starting vomiting and felt terrible, His boss said to him to test as they had a load of test kits in the office. He was positive, subsequently my daughter and 5 month old grandson caught it and were very poorly. I had to help look after granddaughter who didn’t get it.
Then 2 weeks later I had it and felt really poorly, 3 days vomiting, terrible headaches, and muscle aches. Didn’t test negative for 10 days.

I would still test if I felt unwell but I have had Covid twice with zero symptoms so unless I constantly test I would not know if I had it or not.

Nope. It is no longer required where I work even though it is an organisation caring for, among others, clinically vulnerable old people.

There have been zero problems. Nobody has been diagnosed with covid amongst our clients.

There were no problems "during" the pandemic either when we were testing like billyo.

I have heard that PCR tests are not very good anyway and often pick up other similar viruses. Sounds like a money-making doobry to me.

I don't test but if I have an infection I stay at home for at least 5 days. Nobody wants covid but they don't want colds and flu either.

AGAA4

I don't test but if I have an infection I stay at home for at least 5 days. Nobody wants covid but they don't want colds and flu either.

Doing that, and wearing masks are two of the reasons there was less flu around during the Covid epidemic.
A checkout assistant in Booths was lamenting the loss of screens when I was there yesterday. She enjoyed not being coughed and sneezed over.