£500 when you test positive for Covid

**GigiBronz** · 22 January 2021, 08:45

I wonder how many would be still alive after £500 of heroin...

**Whorty** · 22 January 2021, 09:36

Originally posted by Eirikur View Post

I wonder how many people will get infected on purpose to claim it
Thinking about junkies in particular
Covid-19: Ministers to consider GBP500 Covid payment to boost self-isolation rates - BBC News

A high risk strategy for them given they'll likely have compromised immune systems. But, desperation does make people do strange things!

**Gibbon** · 22 January 2021, 10:09

Originally posted by Whorty View Post

A high risk strategy for them given they'll likely have compromised immune systems.

That is not necessarily a bad thing. According to my transplant doctors in a lot of transplant patients cases the immune suppression prevents the over reaction that actually is the cause of severe disease. Which is why one of the medications given to those with severe symptoms is Dexamethasone ( a corticosteroid used in a wide range of conditions for its anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant effects)

**d000hg** · 22 January 2021, 10:41

You have to be with it enough to figure out how to book a test though, and get to a test centre.

**SueEllen** · 22 January 2021, 10:44

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

You have to be with it enough to figure out how to book a test though, and get to a test centre.

Depends where you live...

£500 when you test positive for Covid