Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
I think that anyone sat at home everyday getting tested would be a bit paranoic! But I think thepoint of the tests is similar to masks - they aren't really there to protect the user (after all if you test positive, what can you do?!) but protect others, family, friends and work colleagues. If you do a couple of tests a week, you can often spot it before symtoms hit or confirm early and avoid contact with others.

To try and keep the spread down to a minimum, and baring in mind the lower the spread, the less chance of the virus mutating into forms that evade the vaccine, as well as not unnecessarily spreading the virus to others, a couple of tests a week sounds pretty sensible to me
The test kits that you can either get at a chemist or sent through the post, kits from the NHS, instructions
to test twice a week, send result to NHS, they confirm by text & e-mail the result, you give them.
So not sat at home every day doing a test, I still go out, wear a mask in a shop / supermarket.