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I had to take my toddler for a COVID test earlier this week - it was a depressing and deeply infuriating insight into just how incompetent and *blatantly* corrupt the UK& #39;s out-sourced testing set-up is.
I booked a slot at a & #39;test centre& #39; which turned out to be a tent in a leisure centre car park. When I entered I was handed a test & leaflet by a kid who looked 16 yrs old & then left to administer the test on my son alone in a small bay of the tent without even have a curtain.
There was no one medically qualified to help, answer questions or even just offer reassurance. The only advice available was in the leaflet given to me. I had to try & hold my son& #39;s hands & head at the same time & put a scarily long probe into his nose while he screamed in pain.
Several other parents who& #39;d also arrived alone were similarly struggling & I could hear multiple other kids screaming & crying. The staff - who had clearly received absolutely minimal training - all just looked on passively either bored or vaguely apologetic. It was a mess.
While the govt is funnelling *billions* of public money to Deloitte (et al) under the guise of fighting COVID, the actual public health measures it& #39;s responsible for like this are being operated by barely trained teenagers. It was potentially dangerous & unnecessarily traumatic.
This method clearly leads to large numbers of false negative results too, as even doing the test on yourself is difficult, let alone on a child. Friends of mine in other countries who I told about this genuinely couldn& #39;t believe people here were being forced to do it themselves.
