Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[newfhouse]

I trust what happens to clinical samples as I work in a clinical lab.

You would say that, wouldn’t you? How does he know you don’t want to clone him?

 

[Accy cyclist]

cos they're feeling curious is

So are you saying you have to be put forward for a test by your GP? I honestly thought they were for anyone who was willing to have one.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

@Accy cyclist Please don’t go to Covid testing centres because you were bored.

 

[winjim]

The swab test tells you if you are likely to currently have the virus, the blood test tells you if you are likely to have had it. The swab test won't tell you if you've had it in the past.

 

[Accy cyclist]

@Accy cyclist Please don’t go to Covid testing centres because you were bored.

I saw quite a few people there who looked like they were going to have the test because it's 'free'. Some folk will take anything if it's on offer for nothing! I still think your DNA details will be stored.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I saw quite a few people there who looked like they were going to have the test because it's 'free'. Some folk will take anything if it's on offer for nothing! I still think your DNA details will be stored.

They already have it if you’ve ever been to the doctor

 

[vickster]

So are you saying you have to be put forward for a test by your GP? I honestly thought they were for anyone who was willing to have one.

No and no and linked above

 

[Accy cyclist]

the blood test

Blood test! no one mentioned a blood test! The thought of a needle being rammed into my arm on a hot day is a recipe for fainting!!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

@Accy cyclist Please don’t go to Covid testing centres because you were bored.

Also @Accy cyclist don't go because they inject you with nanobots which when activated give you an insatiable lust for Anne Widdecombe. Beware!!

 

[winjim]

Blood test! no one mentioned a blood test! The thought of a needle being rammed into my arm on a hot day is a recipe for fainting!!

Ha. It's a proper venous sample too, not one of these wimpy thumbprick capillary jobs.

But you certainly can't just rock up and get one, the testing centres are equipped for the swab test, not the blood test.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Also @Accy cyclist don't go because they inject you with nanobots which when activated give you an insatiable lust for Anne Widdecombe. Beware!!

Then Bill Gates will track you via 5G.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Also @Accy cyclist don't go because they inject you with nanobots which when activated give you an insatiable lust for Anne Widdecombe. Beware!!

That wouldn't bother me. Now if they gave me summat that'd activate insatiable lust for Diane Abbott then... !!!!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Be afraid @Accy cyclist , be *very* afraid.

View: https://youtu.be/PhfbYtbpNxY


[Completely off topic obviously. But how I miss Victoria Wood, she would brighten up any pandemic!]

 

[winjim]

They already have it if you’ve ever been to the doctor

Unlikely although some samples are stored. But the sample belongs to the patient and nothing should happen to it without consent. If you want it destroyed, it should be destroyed, although I don't know what the mechanism is to request this after initial consent has been given for storage.

 

[C R]

Unlikely although some samples are stored. But the sample belongs to the patient and nothing should happen to it without consent. If you want it destroyed, it should be destroyed, although I don't know what the mechanism is to request this after initial consent has been given for storage.

Do you think that conspiracy theorists care for sensible replies? What would the government do with dna samples of random people anyway.