RE: Twice a week LFT tests for all5 Apr 2021 09:07
PSB, the figures nor the logic you quote add up to me:
If our test is so good and its our test (see, 2 presumptions already made, but lets carry on), then why do you need 2 test per week for a year? If everybody does take their 2 tests per week you break transmission almost instantly, but lets assume 3 months or until the end of June as up to that date the govt is paying. Then its game over, for needing to test isn't it?
Or not enough people take the test regularly in which case its not 50m of people taking 2 test a week. Either way the figures are fanciful for the UK.
Lets say we carry on past June, who pays for it at what, £5 per test? £10 per week? You think the public who have been vaccinated and hear on the TV of a few thousand or less a day cases with hardly any deaths will pay out for tests £10 week, week in week out when they every test keeps being negative? (You honestly think the "poor" youth will take the test? we have seen their reaction to group gathering s when it was rife in communities.)
Very soon in that ritual, the person will feeling they well might as well get a stack of £5 notes and set fire to them for all the difference it makes. Anybody here who thinks healthy, vaccinated people will spend maybe £40 week as a family as an extra expense is crazy.
If business just shake their money tree and pay for the test who says the employees will take it? can they be forced to? and even so its not 100m per week as 50m don't work
Yes airports if its quick enough, yes maybe big venues, likewise, maybe, but I think the added cost to the ticket will deter some.
Assuming at last it is us, then globally sure this should at last be the huge game changer we have all hung on for, but I don't see the figures your quoting as likely or anywhere near in the UK
Schools, NHS, & Police will probably go on, which should keep the coffers nicely topped up but not 100m per week for 52 weeks. and that's the point, if the govt, carry making it a free test past June, then there will still a potential for good uptake of testing, otherwise forget it.