Lat Flow test needed for Soton Boat show.

[Tranona]

The reporting system on the NHS app is simple, scan QR code on test kit and enter result. Takes a minute or so. You then get a text and email confirming your result.

Exactly right - just done it and have the text and email. Going on Friday so will do another test just before.

Don't understand why people get so worked up about some undefined "loss of freedom" - when it actually provides additional freedom - to visit the show, and free if you are an RYA member. Just the fiver for the car park.

 

[RobbieW]

Unfortunately Google doesn't allow Boolean searches so I couldn't delete scammers. I thought it did a good job of giving me a UK Government website ... despite it being inaccurate.

Part of the problem seems to be what you want to use the test for. Testing inside the UK seems to be free, but if you want to return to the UK it isnt. AIUI you cant use one of the free tests to get through immigration, those have to be paid for.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Unfortunately Google doesn't allow Boolean searches so I couldn't delete scammers. I thought it did a good job of giving me a UK Government website ... despite it being inaccurate.

Travel tests are not free, lateral tests are in the UK.

Getting a government website can be akin to getting a scam site. The quality of some uk gov sites is laughable, but in their defence no citizen seems keen to pay more tax and get the sites upgraded, simplified etc

 

[lustyd]

Don't understand why people get so worked up about some undefined "loss of freedom"

You're not required to understand, just be thankful that some of us do and are fighting on your behalf.

 

[capnsensible]

You're not required to understand, just be thankful that some of us do and are fighting on your behalf.

You aren't fighting, simply complaining. ?

 

[lustyd]

You aren't fighting, simply complaining. ?

Calm down Capn, this has nothing to do with you out there. You have no idea what I do outside of my posts on these forums, some of which are indeed complaining and some are informing others of the dangers around data privacy. Either way, better to be on the side of data privacy than siding with the government imposing on that privacy. I really can't work out what's in it for you for our privacy to be eroded, unless you're a friend of Borris and funding your endless holiday with kickbacks?

 

[capnsensible]

Calm down Capn, this has nothing to do with you out there. You have no idea what I do outside of my posts on these forums, some of which are indeed complaining and some are informing others of the dangers around data privacy. Either way, better to be on the side of data privacy than siding with the government imposing on that privacy. I really can't work out what's in it for you for our privacy to be eroded, unless you're a friend of Borris and funding your endless holiday with kickbacks?

It does seems as though you do indeed live in a strange world. What colour is the sky? ???

 

[lustyd]

Yes, sometimes knowledge looks like magic to those less well educated.

 

[Gary Fox]

Yes, sometimes knowledge looks like magic to those less well educated.

Sometimes magic looks like knowledge to those less well educated than you obviously are, i.e. 99.999999% of humans and certain goats.

 

[ProDave]

The reporting system on the NHS app is simple, scan QR code on test kit and enter result. Takes a minute or so. You then get a text and email confirming your result.

Are you saying the code on the test kit is registered to the person that the test kit is issued to?

I ask because I have to do a test to attend a club event. My daughter has a spare unused test kit issued by her school. What will happen if I take the test with that kit and try and register it? Does it ask me for my name? Or will the test result be logged agains my daughters name with no mechanism to alter it?

 

[longjohnsilver]

And how does that differ from simply telling the person at the gate you tested negative? Other than costing £38Bn

Is that really the cost of the lateral flow tests?! And I have no idea what you need to do or say at the gate because I’m not going. I was just answering the question about reporting the test results. I wasn’t providing an opinion on anything.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Are you saying the code on the test kit is registered to the person that the test kit is issued to?

I ask because I have to do a test to attend a club event. My daughter has a spare unused test kit issued by her school. What will happen if I take the test with that kit and try and register it? Does it ask me for my name? Or will the test result be logged agains my daughters name with no mechanism to alter it?

No, they hand out the kits without recording the test kit codes against your name. So use whichever one you want.

 

[Tranona]

You're not required to understand, just be thankful that some of us do and are fighting on your behalf.

I don't want you to "fight on my behalf" - and how are you fighting and what for? So I am not thankful that people who bury their heads in the sand are doing it for me.

I figure that having got this far in life I am quite capable of making up my own mind without any help from you.

 

[Tranona]

Travel tests are not free, lateral tests are in the UK.

Getting a government website can be akin to getting a scam site. The quality of some uk gov sites is laughable, but in their defence no citizen seems keen to pay more tax and get the sites upgraded, simplified etc

Just not so in this particular case. Nothing could be easier. One of the good things that have come out of the last year is a vast improvement in govt organisation of mass communication, even if still a little bit ragged at the margins.

 

[Stork_III]

Pleased to read that, just don't type "lateral flow test cost uk" into Google and click on the Gov website. ... see above ?

Type "free" LFT into Google and you get - Regular rapid lateral flow coronavirus (COVID-19) tests

 

[capnsensible]

I have had the great good fortune to travel far and wide across a good deal of our planet by yacht. Entry to a boat show with a health certificate is in the grand scheme of things, absolutely trivial. I know I'm not the only one on here who has done this, including some, like me, who have travelled during covid restrictions especially for work.

It's a perspective thing. ??

 

[Gary Fox]

I've just ordered a lateral flo from UKGov, yes the website is carp and should be subcontracted to Amazon. I am going sailing on a supercool old gaffer (Moosk) and it's a requirement. Not an issue, I would go a long way further than stick a Q tip in myself to be on this trip,,no orifice excepted.
Look at crew selection to get on 'British Steel' back in the daze, 'Next briefing on the Summit of Ben Nevis at 0400Z tomorrow for all interested parties. '

 

[dom]

Sorry but I am unpersuaded. It's not difficult and to suggest you're going to be in trouble for telling the computer you're in the UK at a hotel in order to get the system working is neither here nor there. Shall I suggest that I'll personally pay your fine if you get into trouble for complying with the show organisers directions? It's a flounce looking for a reason to flounce over an insult and difficulty that doesn't exist. IMHO

Insults and flounces don't come into the equation. Many foreigners conducting business in the UK -- inc EU citizens -- come back and fwd to Britain under a Tier 1 investor VISA. This provides the right to apply for a British passport after 2-5 years, depending on how much you invest.

Nobody wants to mess this up by following the advice of a boatshow.

No such problems in either Cannes or Dusseldorf so they became a safer bet for some.

 

[Povremeni pomorac]

That's odd.

I typed in "lateral flow test cost uk" and once past the adverts the first link was the Gov/NHS ... see above, which gave me the costs I quoted ?View attachment 122100

They are (or perhaps were) free for domestic use. Not for travel. Fair enough. I have just had a LFT today as I am due to go to Croatia tomorrow- not sailing in fact this time.

 

[Povremeni pomorac]

And how does that differ from simply telling the person at the gate you tested negative? Other than costing £38Bn

They won't accept that.