Noremac:
Moreover, what about travelling to testing sites? Surely the best thing to do if you have symptoms is just to stay at home. Surely going out at all is risking people’s lives. What if you are involved in a car crash and the emergency services come into contact with you? What about the workers at the testing sites? What about the staff at the services when people going to get tested stop there? It was a completely unnecessary journey to be making to simply tick a box to say you have the virus. I understand doctors and nurses who need to get back to work getting tested, fair enough, but joe punter can go out and walk the streets with Covid-19 because he/she needs to get tested.
I hope you’re not working, you’re having your shopping delivered in hermetically sealed packaging which you leave outside for 3 days before bringing it in and individually disinfecting every single part of it and everything in it whilst wearing a fulll hazmat suit with that level of fear.
Lets address the handwringing point by point…
- The vast majority of people will be driving to the test centre. They come into contact with nobody en-route. They shouldn’t be stopping at services because there should be no need to travel on a motorway to get to a test centre.
- The chances of them being in an accident are infintessimal and if they are the emergency services have protective gear they wear to prevent them from catching it. They were doing that from the start of the first lockdown. I remember passing an incident on the A1M at Peterborough on the other carriageway. Van parked on hard shoulder, hazmat tent put up, road fully closed from the junction before to the one after.
- At the testing sites all of the staff tell you to keep the windows shut, they hold up signs. The only time you open your window is to be handed the test and to give it back and that’s to someone fully masked up so they can’t get it.
- It’s not an unnecessary journey just to tick a box to say you’ve got the virus. First of all if you’ve got it they can then do contact tracing to find others who’ve been in contact with you so they can self isolate and reduce the chance of it spreading. If you’ve not got it it allows you to go back to work which if you’re a key worker, especially if you’re a care worker, an emergency worker, NHS staff etc means that those employers who desperately need staff aren’t struggling because of a shortage of it because people who don’t need to isolate are just in case they have it.
Just think whilst you’re sat at home with the tin foil on the windows because you don’t want to catch radiation from the 5G signals that you should be thanking the hundreds of years of scientific advances we’ve had because once upon a time Darwinism would’ve ridden the gene pool of people as stupid as you. It’s only because of those advances you didn’t die years ago.