00:00 The one thing we're looking at is free testing coming back. Would you be in favour of that?
00:07 What? You mean the kits?
00:08 Yeah, that they're going to pay for.
00:10 Yeah, I'm definitely into seeing free testing again. I didn't know you had to pay for them
00:14 at the moment. I've still got a kit from when it was free.
00:18 I'm quite unsure with that, yes or no. It depends on the individual, it depends if they're
00:22 comfortable doing that. So it varies from case by case for me.
00:27 Whilst free, there were so many other things that were free or money spent very unwisely
00:34 by the government of the day. So why not make it free? You can still restrict the number
00:41 of kits that you give out to people.
00:44 Pirola is the latest mutation of the Omicron Covid variant that cropped up in the summer.
00:49 It's been detected in 15 countries, including France, Spain, Portugal and Germany so far.
00:55 Its appearance comes as here in Britain we've seen more than 100,000 new cases of Covid
01:00 as of the 10th of September, according to the Zoe Health study. Are you concerned about
01:05 the rising figures ahead of the challenging winter months?
01:08 I think that for it being free, I would think that would be the best course of action because
01:13 a lot of people will just go and they just won't spend the money on the tests. And so
01:18 they could be going out and they just won't care enough to test to see whether or not
01:21 they have it.
01:22 I guess 1 billion per cent public health is in the toilet. If we start to get any more
01:29 restrictions it's going to be very, very dodgy for the economy. It's already massively, like
01:35 only alive where, what was it, 20 billion the United States printed within six months,
01:41 which was like more money than it's ever been in that economy. It's really scary to think
01:45 that we'll have to prop things up even more.
01:48 Unless there's evidence to show that the vaccine has become ineffective for some reason,
01:54 then I don't think any more restrictions should be brought in.
01:58 Definitely. And I've got no idea what's happening about vaccines this winter. So it's all very
02:03 uncertain at the moment.
02:05 Is Covid something you're kind of worried about?
02:07 Yes, very definitely. Because I'm caring for somebody with an incurable brain cancer. He's
02:12 got a compromised immune system. So yeah, it is a worry.
02:18 Not that long ago I was really ill and I had to cancel on a mate and he says, "Have you
02:23 got Covid?" And I've got a one-year-old baby. I haven't watched the news in months, so I've
02:28 got no idea that it's rife again. But I couldn't get a test at the time because obviously I
02:35 wanted to protect my family from myself if I did have something like that. So yeah, available
02:42 free testing would be great.
02:44 I think if you charge for testing anyway, there are some people that just basically
02:51 can't afford that. I don't know how much the cost would be. But yeah, if it was free, I
03:00 think more people would be likely to take up on the offer.
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