{"id":247894,"date":"2022-01-04T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247894"},"modified":"2022-01-05T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T08:44:07","slug":"uk-plans-to-test-every-school-child-twice-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247894","title":{"rendered":"UK plans to test EVERY school child TWICE this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off-Guardian \u2013 Jan 3, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

New plans, announced before Christmas<\/a>, will require every secondary school pupil in the UK to take an on-site Covid test when school resumes after the Christmas break.<\/p>\n

The government plans, allegedly to \u201cmonitor\u201d Covid infection in students, go on to suggest that every child should receive a follow-up test 3-4 days later.<\/p>\n

The tests being used are lateral flow tests, which have repeatedly been shown to be completely unreliable<\/a>, and can test positive using apple juice or coca-cola<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are roughly 3.5 million school pupils<\/a> aged 11-16 in the UK and they plan to test them all twice.<\/p>\n

If just 2% of them test positive just once, the media will scream about 140,000 new \u201ccases\u201d of Covid in children.<\/p>\n

Further, the \u201crecommendations\u201d suggest children should then continue to be tested twice a week, every week, or \u201cmore frequently if asked to do so\u201d<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Secondary, college and university students and education staff and early years staff should then continue to test themselves twice a week, and more frequently if they are specifically asked to do so, such as in the event of an outbreak.<\/p>\n

At least<\/em> 7 million lateral flow tests per week, every week.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to see where it goes from there, with the headlines blaring that lack of social distancing over the holidays gave rise to a \u201cfourth wave\u201d (or would it be fifth? I\u2019ve lost count).<\/p>\n

I would start preparing for a new lockdown, if I were you.<\/p>\n

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\u2026.so what happens when you run 7 million lateral flow tests in five days? And are you ready for the \u201cnew wave\u201d of \u201ccases\u201d it will likely produce?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":247896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247895,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247894\/revisions\/247895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}