APS COVID Tests for Spring Break - What percentage do you estimate are going straight in the trash?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm betting that it's more than 80%. I've heard only 20% of kids are opted into surveillance testing (the most extreme of extreme parents).

This isn't living with the virus, this is extreme hypochondria. This is school closures by stealth, considering nowhere else in society tests random people like this, let alone the least at risk segment of the population. I can't imagine how many kids would be shut out of school every flu season for the past 20 years if we asymptomatically tested for flu (which is more deadly to healthy kids than COVID).

We got ours yesterday and it went straight into the circular file.

What is wrong with you?

Spoiled parents. That’s what.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing the vast majority of parents stick them in the closet with the other covid tests they've accumulated. That's what we did.

Who would just toss them?

[Anonymous]

OP, that was dumb. You could have saved them for next time someone in your house has COVID symptoms or you want/need to test for some other reason. How wasteful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing the vast majority of parents stick them in the closet with the other covid tests they've accumulated. That's what we did.

Who would just toss them?

Another cra-cra Arlington mom, the place is crawling with them

[Anonymous]

A lot, because as we’ve learned, the majority of parents are selfish and me-me-me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm betting that it's more than 80%. I've heard only 20% of kids are opted into surveillance testing (the most extreme of extreme parents).

This isn't living with the virus, this is extreme hypochondria. This is school closures by stealth, considering nowhere else in society tests random people like this, let alone the least at risk segment of the population. I can't imagine how many kids would be shut out of school every flu season for the past 20 years if we asymptomatically tested for flu (which is more deadly to healthy kids than COVID).

We got ours yesterday and it went straight into the circular file.

What is wrong with you?

Profound, profound selfishness.

[Anonymous]

The commentary by OP is weakened by OP’s comparisons.

School is not like other activities in society. School is not optional. Schools are entrusted with the health and safety of kids. Movie theaters are not.

In the past schools did not test for flu. If they had the ability, they should have. It is not okay to have sick people infecting the healthy.

Wasteful to throw away. Return to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm betting that it's more than 80%. I've heard only 20% of kids are opted into surveillance testing (the most extreme of extreme parents).

This isn't living with the virus, this is extreme hypochondria. This is school closures by stealth, considering nowhere else in society tests random people like this, let alone the least at risk segment of the population. I can't imagine how many kids would be shut out of school every flu season for the past 20 years if we asymptomatically tested for flu (which is more deadly to healthy kids than COVID).

We got ours yesterday and it went straight into the circular file.

What is wrong with you?

Profound, profound selfishness.

Probably an open school type. Totally irrational.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait...they gave you tests and you threw them in the trash? For why?

Because it’s a scam and the fraud used to perpetrate this plandemic.

Disclosure: I put water, orange juice, soda and gasoline. They came out positive. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait...they gave you tests and you threw them in the trash? For why?

Because it’s a scam and the fraud used to perpetrate this plandemic.

Disclosure: I put water, orange juice, soda and gasoline. They came out positive. Go figure.

Sounds like you took the insanity test and it came back positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way I’m giving my kids a covid test after break unless they are symptomatic. One of my kids had covid a few weeks ago (no one else caught it), and our school did absolutely nothing to keep them from falling behind while they were out or to catch them up when they came back. Not even the teacher check-in they were supposed to get. Not setting any of the rest up for that.

Why would anyone test if they didn’t have symptoms? We’d be testing every day if that were the case.

[Anonymous]

I live in a different district that already had spring break. The cases in schools doubled the week back from break. My own family traveled, ate in restaurants, and went to see a Broadway show. We all tested multiple times before going back to school and work because we knew our possibility for exposure was high. All negative, though my kids both ended up with a short duration minor cold. Covid is much more transmissible than flu and with masks gone Id hate to be the one causing my kids whole class to get sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The commentary by OP is weakened by OP’s comparisons.

School is not like other activities in society. School is not optional. Schools are entrusted with the health and safety of kids. Movie theaters are not.

In the past schools did not test for flu. If they had the ability, they should have. It is not okay to have sick people infecting the healthy.

Wasteful to throw away. Return to the school.

No, we're not re-ordering society because of hypochondriacs. Testing unless absoultely necessary is the only way to go. That's why less than 20% of people signed up for surveillance testing (and that 20% seems to be way overrepresented on this thread).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a different district that already had spring break. The cases in schools doubled the week back from break. My own family traveled, ate in restaurants, and went to see a Broadway show. We all tested multiple times before going back to school and work because we knew our possibility for exposure was high. All negative, though my kids both ended up with a short duration minor cold. Covid is much more transmissible than flu and with masks gone Id hate to be the one causing my kids whole class to get sick.

The only types of parents who would be asymptomatically testing their kids are the same few who think kids with cloth paw patrol masks on work. Same few who wanted schools closed in Fall 2020. They seem to be WAY overrepresented on this board and AEM.

[Anonymous]

There are a couple of wacko covid-is-forever people on these boards and they post cray stuff ad nauseum. Just back away slowly from them and don’t show fear and they won’t attack.