Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Hancock is just a useful idiot at this point and doesn't realise he is just fodder to sacrifice to any future enquiry

I hope they can find a compromise rather than go for forcing it on them which I think will be disastrous for everyone

This time I’m genuinely worried that a large number of the local businesses I love won’t make it out the other side.

What. A. Fucking. Mess.

More dots required. Many more.

I still can’t believe Andy burnham has managed to unite everyone behind him. What a hero.

Top lad.

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Haha

Imaginez que cela se passe ici

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54535358

Got a letter inviting my household to join the ONS Covid Infection Survey – I know a few people on here are already part of it, is it worth signing up?

Pros - Weekly covid tests and an antibody test with results, plus a voucher.
Cons - I've not been filled with confidence that anything official that's related to covid is going to be anything other than a shitshow

Our first test was last Thursday, we haven't had the results or voucher yet.

But as we're in the house anyway it's very low effort. _we're both from academic backgrounds so know its difficult and important for people to be part of studies and we would have done it without the voucher.

Plus you can always opt out if you find it too frustrating

Definitely. If it goes to completion then it'll be ~£400 of vouchers per person.

Only takes 15 minutes per test, and it's just a throat/nasal swab and not the full on nasopharyngeal swab.

You might even get picked for the extra antibody/antigen blood tests although you won't get told those results at all. Of the people on here I'm not sure anyone has been picked for the antibody part.

(You don't really get told the swab test results. I guess you'd be contacted if you were positive but I only know my negative test results because the letters they send my GP eventually appear as scanned documents on my medical record I can view online. Takes ages though, I had my last test on 6th October and the letter still hasn't appeared.)

If you find the idea of receiving a large quantity of vouchers a bit distasteful then use them to buy things you would have bought anyway and donate the equivalent amount to charity. (Which is pretty much what we're doing.)

It seems well run, the Government haven't fucked this up yet (although I guess the ONS study is at the mercy of the UK's testing infrastructure.)

Do it

Free tests, vouchers and helping trace the disease

It means I can visit my dad in good conscience this weekend because I have been socially distant since my last test which was clear

I was meant to have my first test last Thursday but they stood me up, hoping to start next week. How do you find out your results? Is it the absence of a call from T&T?

How do you find out your results? Is it the absence of a call from T&T?

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(You don't really get told the swab test results. I guess you'd be contacted if you were positive but I only know my negative test results because the letters they send my GP eventually appear as scanned documents on my medical record I can view online. Takes ages though, I had my last test on 6th October and the letter still hasn't appeared.)
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(My GP surgery uses the PatientAccess site to book appointments/etc, and it appears on that. Not all GP surgeries do the same, my daughter uses a different GP surgery and they use PatientAccess too but I can't see her medical record via the site, nor can my wife who is registered that GP surgery too.)

I'd be surprised if it really was up to my GP to inform T&T about a positive test, especially as the GP surgery only processed that letter 8 days after the actual test was performed. (Test 6th Sep, Letter sent 11th Sep, Letter opened/scanned 14th Sep).

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You might even get picked for the extra antibody/antigen blood tests although you won't get told those results at all. Of the people on here I'm not sure anyone has been picked for the antibody part.

We have been picked for the antibody test and we're told that we would get the swab tests back via text and the antibody ones back via gp

Ah, must have changed, the bumpf we got with the original invitation letter said we wouldn't receive any results directly, and absolutely no results of the antibody/antigen tests if we were picked for that scheme.

And just now got our voucher!

Is there any way to volunteer for the ONS tests or do you have to be selected?

How do you get onto this - invitation following random selection?

I received the one-off test invitation this week. Kit is here. Only need to remember to do the test monday morning when they will come and collect it...

I think you have to be selected, I had gone through their website to see if I could volunteer and there didn't seem to be any way.
@Cupcakes

Wow. This single move is going to have such an impact.

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Cosy Chic for Covid Ti...

just burn it all down.