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Apologies, should have said he/she for the doctor as you didn’t state their gender. But their confidently spouting ****e as fact lends me to believe probably a man! Unfortunately we’re disproportionately good at that sort of thing.
Debtfreemansoon - I think your example supports my point. It sounds like they didn’t have an informed contributor to state the opposing positive case. A doctor’s job is to treat patients, not control an outbreak. So obviously he was speaking from the blinkered view of tests being solely for patient diagnosis.
Anyway, agreed that hopefully a better, British-made test will attract positive headlines.
I think we are agreed on that.
Maybe cautious but I listened to a very ill informed doctor on five live the other day being asking about the school LFTs. The interviewer (BBC) was quite good asking what the advantage of LFTs were. The problem was the doctor who said "none" that they were misleading/wrong and that PCR was only reliable test. Now maybe that is BBC but maybe it is just poor comms from the LFT camp
The trouble with the BBC’s commitment to balance is it often leads them to give a lot of air time to idiots. Like when they used to give Jacob Rees Mogg or Piers Corbin a platform to talk about climate change.
In fact on LFTs they don’t seem to have any balance on their news. It’s all negative coverage. Perhaps worthy of some complaints? ;)
Goldtrig.
The parent on BBC news said that it was only his child that was PCR tested. He was found to be negative, yet despite the negative result the whole family needed to isolate. This situation is crying out for an accurate test with no false positives and good PR to put an end to the bad press the LFT is getting.
Surely common sense should prevail. Neg PCR plus another neg LFT = good to go... maybe LFT the whole family to be sure.
Bell end but either will do #hamburgergate
When you say that bell you mean Deeks not the other prick John Bell? :)
great analagy which I can relate to (not robin reliant but had an ancient mini a long time ago which used to stop when it rained)
False positives aren’t a problem. Ignoring the fact LFDs have very good specificity, who cares if a few extra people isolate? At the moment, track and trace are isolating any and every contact. Plenty false positives there due to PCR, the original case where the person might not be infectious and then everyone they’ve met. That bell needs his soap box removing. He’s quoting that LFDs might cause more harm than good, has he considered the harm he’s causing by ****ging off the best way out of this mess?
Anyway, hope you added ‘but not in the snow’
I saw the same BBC news item. Nothing positive mentioned about LFTs. They interviewed a parent who said their child had tested positive using LFT and then negative with PCR. Regardless of the negative result he said the entire household were told to isolate for 10 days. If that part of the procedure does not change many parents will be tempted to be dishonest when carrying out tests at home.
I said to somebody on twitter a while ago regarding a Deeks comment
" I'm not driving again because I drove a Robin Reliant and it was crap"... Then drive a BMW you might change your opinion
Which is a hugely better situation than entire swathes of kids isolating due to an individual case. A few false positives is better than the previous situation. I see Deeks is getting quoted again. He’s a gormless prick that doesn’t live in the real world
Sorry if this old news
Just out on BBC
There are concerns pupils could be forced to isolate unnecessarily due to inaccurate Covid test results when schools reopen in England on Monday