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Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 22nd, 2022, 2:37 pm
by Mike4
absolutezero wrote:pje16 wrote:
Do we have numbers for deaths from the common cold, measles, chichen pox, mumps etc
We don't have numbers of deaths from covid.
We have an inflated measure* that contains "with" and "of" and so is pretty much useless unless we know the "of" figure - which we never will.
*The old 'positive test then gets killed by being knocked over by a bus within 28 days' figure.
The 'excess deaths' figures give a pretty good broad picture of 'lethalness' of covid, everything taken into account.
Conveniently ignored by the "
of or with?' water-muddiers.
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 30th, 2022, 12:22 pm
by XFool
Tried to get a final free box of LFT tests today (last day). Left it a bit late - nobody had any!
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 30th, 2022, 1:45 pm
by tjh290633
I have a box with 5 left in it. I very much doubt that I will ever use another. Would you like to make me an offer on this antique of the future?
TJH
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 30th, 2022, 2:02 pm
by pje16
Yep
I''ll pay you what YOU paid for THEM
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 30th, 2022, 2:52 pm
by vrdiver
pje16 wrote:Yep
I''ll pay you what YOU paid for THEM
Pah. I'll double that offer...
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 30th, 2022, 2:54 pm
by pje16
Oh that's too steep for me I'll bow out
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 6:29 pm
by terminal7
Been trying for almost a week - impossible to order.
T7
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 10:33 pm
by vrdiver
terminal7 wrote:Been trying for almost a week - impossible to order.
T7
Is that "order the free ones" or "buy"?
I ask because if it's the free ones, then I expect there are a lot of folk stockpiling before the cutoff, whereas if it's the purchased tests, that seems a bit worse, as I'd have thought there are still some people who really can't afford to catch covid, so they, and the people in contact with them, will be wanting tests no matter what.
VRD
Re: Do you regularly use lateral flow tests?
Posted: April 1st, 2022, 9:10 am
by terminal7
vrdiver wrote:terminal7 wrote:Been trying for almost a week - impossible to order.
T7
Is that "order the free ones" or "buy"?
I ask because if it's the free ones, then I expect there are a lot of folk stockpiling before the cutoff, whereas if it's the purchased tests, that seems a bit worse, as I'd have thought there are still some people who really can't afford to catch covid, so they, and the people in contact with them, will be wanting tests no matter what.
VRD
The free ones.
As you may be aware the govt originally stated that over 75s would be eligible for free LFTs after 1 April. They withdrew that 'offer' about 7/10 days ago. Hence I - and I suspect many other over 75s - have tried rather unsuccessfully to order in advance of the deadline.
This is not the place to discuss the ethics of pouring yet more money into Randox et al - so just factually indicating yet another cost to be borne post 1 April that the govt have made yet another a u-turn.
T7