With this measure it looks like it is no longer required to conduct any tests if one feels ill.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but why would anyone self-interested enough conduct a self-test in the first place anymore? Why run the risk of isolation if you can just go around, happily infecting everyone?
You would think that any place forcing people to share a closed room for the entire day put at least some measures in place. I know that “we have to live with the virus” but that doesn’t mean abandoning all measures that may mitigate the risk.
Money saving at the expense of vulnerable persons who are paying with daily anxiety…
https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1900730.html
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Common sense and just trying to be a decent human being?
The students/pupils were pretty much the only ones left in society that had to do mandatory self tests. While also being in an age group that has a very low risk for hospitalization. It doesn’t really make much sense to force (edit: well, not really, as you can opt out – so, let’s say: strongly recommend) them to test, unless you also make it mandatory (edit: strongly recommended) for everybody else, who also works in a closed room with other people.
Finally! Can you imagine how much waste all those tests caused each day? In my child’s school they were tested nearly daily for the last two months, because they constantly have been in touch with a someone who was tested positive for covid. And that was just one class in one school in one city.
Germany, for example, is lifting isolation/quarantine requirement for covid positive cases from May 1st. It will become optional, it’s your choice, either you isolate or not.
To know if you got that stupid virus that can kill you if untreated?
It comes down to hospital admissions. I don’t go running around telling everyone I have a cold or a tummy ache, nor do I go into a cave for 10 days when it happens. I just do my personal best to avoid transmission to others like we’ve always done as a society. I do not feel it is the Government’s responsibility to mandate our personal freedoms any longer, unless the hospitals send a warning shot. I have always played by the rules, because they made sense at the time. I am happy to follow these rules now. The Duchy has done a terrific job in managing such a disaster for so long. Chapeau. I trust our medical experts.
This is great news. Back to the new normal.