Overbearing! really. Here's a guy hoping to have cancer surgery, which sounds like a pretty darn serious thing, and he's worrying about a 10 second tickling sensation. If it's a choice between a PCR test and Ice Cream, go for Ice Cream. But if it's a choice between a PCR test and life-saving cancer surgery, I'd say, the test is trivial.
I've had 2 PCR tests so far for different reasons. I can guarantee you, it's a sterile bit of cotton that goes up your nose; only AFTER they've taken the cotton from your nose do they then subject it to testing with 'God knows what'.
The point here is that it is totally unreasonable to have to do a PCR-test to be able to get surgery. He is right to feel bad about it. You seem to be encouraging people to take unreasonable tests because "it's nothing".
A seemingly sterile piece of cotton that goes up a very sensitive spot. We don't know, but it has been suggested that they can put hydrogel on the PCR tests. Or use them to take your DNA. Or a million other things you don't want. Why would you trust them when they try to force you to do something nonsensical and uncomfortable?
Perhaps it is a denigration and a risk that is worth it compared to cancer surgery? Could well be that you are right. I am not saying that. All I'm saying is that it isn't "nothing" to allow them access to a spot that is extremely close to our brain "just because".
When weighing risks, I would perhaps chose to take the PCR test to get the surgery (if I believed the surgery was needed), but I would at least try to protest and get away with not doing it. Or perhaps do a rapid test instead.
Overbearing! really. Here's a guy hoping to have cancer surgery, which sounds like a pretty darn serious thing, and he's worrying about a 10 second tickling sensation. If it's a choice between a PCR test and Ice Cream, go for Ice Cream. But if it's a choice between a PCR test and life-saving cancer surgery, I'd say, the test is trivial.
I've had 2 PCR tests so far for different reasons. I can guarantee you, it's a sterile bit of cotton that goes up your nose; only AFTER they've taken the cotton from your nose do they then subject it to testing with 'God knows what'.
The point here is that it is totally unreasonable to have to do a PCR-test to be able to get surgery. He is right to feel bad about it. You seem to be encouraging people to take unreasonable tests because "it's nothing".
A seemingly sterile piece of cotton that goes up a very sensitive spot. We don't know, but it has been suggested that they can put hydrogel on the PCR tests. Or use them to take your DNA. Or a million other things you don't want. Why would you trust them when they try to force you to do something nonsensical and uncomfortable?
Perhaps it is a denigration and a risk that is worth it compared to cancer surgery? Could well be that you are right. I am not saying that. All I'm saying is that it isn't "nothing" to allow them access to a spot that is extremely close to our brain "just because".
When weighing risks, I would perhaps chose to take the PCR test to get the surgery (if I believed the surgery was needed), but I would at least try to protest and get away with not doing it. Or perhaps do a rapid test instead.