You are avoiding testing and counseling others to avoid testing because of this ???
The poison issue is kind of silly. If you are not a complete imbecile, you will not touch or ingest the reagent. The amount of reagent in home tests is tiny and a person would have to be pretty stupid to confuse it for medicine. That level of stupidity indicates that they probably could not administer the home test accurately anyway. As for children getting the test, I agree that like all
Medicines and chemicals, it needs to be stored away from children until it is used.
As far as nasal swab complications go, that is kind of ridiculous also. You no longer have to stick a swab way up your nose. Kits now just need a quick swabbing about 3/4 of an inch up each nostril, not way up in the sinuses. If 3/4” swabbing causes long lasting pain and discomfort, you probably should see a doctor anyway since you have something wrong in your nose.
When a virus is so weak, as this one is, I believe testing is irrelevant. It only feeds hysteria that infection is to be feared, which this one should not. No covid should, in my opinion, when compared to other common respiratory illnesses, which have roughly the same symptoms.
When I pressed my sister on why she got tested, she said because she wanted to be able to compare how ill she actually became, if it was covid, as it turned out to be.
She said in the end, it was an extremely mild experience. She only had a slight fever, Friday morning, and picked up the test at her pharmacy drive through. After testing positive, she stayed home from work of course. The mild fever broke that day, and by Sunday she was perfectly fine.
That doesn’t mean everyone infected may have such mild symptoms. But it convinced her to never waste her time and money or the risks on ever being tested again.