Apparently, getting tested for Covid is almost right now. GPs, doctors and the opposition have called the existing testing regimen a “total disaster” that is “on the brink of collapse. “Britain is destined to be a modern, science-driven country, but unlike Germany (which offers loose tests at exercise stations) or South Korea (whose test and traceability formula allowed it to ‘avoid blocking), Covid’s tests have noticed problems. since the beginning of the pandemic.
I myself experienced the last collapse of the control formula. Last week, my son was out of school with a very high temperature and a ”rare belly”. Before the new normal, it would only require a few days of school leave, a long sleep and a hug, but now you only have one of the symptoms of Covid-19 (such as maximum temperature, persistent cough or loss or replacement in your sense of smell or taste, similar to the symptoms you would have of a bad without blood or flu) means that young people will have to have a Covid checkup before they can return to school.
Sounds easy. However, the government says an NHS Covid-19 check will suffice, not personal. Nor the one that can be purchased on the Internet in China. The check that prevents education, the freedom of parents or the chance to earn a living is an officially approved NHS Covid-19 check.
Like many others, I learned it was an e-book with an official check on the government’s coronavirus website. After spending all day on the site, I was informed several times: no checks.
One parent informed me that young people were allowed to enter driverless evaluation centers without an appointment. I drove to the nearest one. But no appointments, no tests. The post was abandoned, the arrears are in the labs.
The day of the moment: the same. Bad luck on site. Bad luck in the middle of the check. Then a parent texted me: “Go to the online page NOW!”I’m online. I informed him that there were 42 places at Heathrow and 12 met in Edgbaston, Birmingham, miles away from me. After searching Heathrow, the online page shows the “no verification” reaction. Over the next 24 hours, newspapers were filled with reports from others in the same scenario that reported a “challenge” with the online page. For me there is no challenge, only many other people looking for a handful of places.
To carry the stress, the NHS says that if it has not been reviewed within five days of the onset of symptoms, then it is too late due to the e-book of a home review kit and will have to self-evaluate for two weeks. In other words, there is no check in five days, no school and no living for 14 days.
I called the school again. The nurse had an “emergency” verification kit at home. I took it and entered the verification kit code on the website. It didn’t work. After looking 8 times, I saw the box marked “Scotland”. One way or another, a checkbox on one UK component had discovered its way to one school in another.
I think there are a lot of kids in school right now, not because they have coronavirus or long-term symptoms, but because they have a seasonal bloodless flu and can’t download Covid-19 verification certificates. And that will only increase the need for verification.
The third day: unlucky, how about a personal test?Maybe I can convince the school to ask the government to settle for it. I was presented with a variety of expensive amounts, adding 205 euros for a 48-hour “express” service and a certificate.
But the personal check certificate does not count according to existing rules. Unless your son is at Eton College. Unlike millions of other academics, all Eton’s academics and staff were able to return to school after they all took personal checks. becoming personal At least my son can play with his friends and I can get back to work.
Pending the effects of the checks, the government announces Oconsistent withhation Moonshot. It’s ambitious: it aims to increase checks from 100,000 to 10 million by 2021. Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s announcement was greeted with laughter in parliament. I’m not surprised. These days, we expect instant solutions, one-click on-demand verification, but the truth of getting a check is stressful and full of bureaucratic hurdles.
Returning from a personal verification laboratory, I saw an official “mobile” verification center. All that happened, insisting that it is highly unlikely that he will electronically book an NHS check. One of the attendants nods and hands us the checks that we write ourselves in a parking lot. We are asked to sign the identity numbers from our verification kit on the website.
After this experience, I wondered why personal checks are a lower and unacceptable way to get back to school, at least they are conducted through qualified staff in a blank medical setting, while I had to make my own government-approved check in a dusty old parking lot.
The big challenge is not just the lack of evidence; no doubt, the available numbers will accumulate. Lack of investment is also not the challenge: the government is even sending tests to laboratories abroad to increase capacity. what we really want to ask ourselves is why we depend so much on the state to make a decision about whether we can work and teach our children.
Private tests can be expensive, however, if we were allowed to use them for young people to return to school, their value would pass because the source would meet demand. Basically, we could get quick effects instead of stressing all five. window of the day to perform an NHS test.
The risk of being potentially absent from pictures or school for two weeks each time a child has a child without blood this winter, just because only one type of check is allowed, is irrational and marks the state’s culmination over our freedom. We have to oppose the strict regulations that the state knows of maximum productivity that govern the maximum basic facets of our lives.
Tessa Clarke is a journalist and executive mother.
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