Posted on 01/26/2021 6:29:40 PM PST by dynachrome
More than a million Beijing residents undergoing coronavirus testing amid a fresh outbreak have been administered anal swabs, which are considered more accurate and raise the chances of detecting COVID-19, said a Chinese disease specialist.
The key districts of Daxing and Dongcheng began a mass testing drive on Friday after a nine-year-old boy tested positive for the more virulent strain of the virus, first discovered in London and the southeast of England last month.
Health authorities in the Chinese capital said they were aiming to screen more than two million people in 48 hours. Among them, around 1.6 million inhabitants in Daxing were to be given antibody tests, as well as throat, nasal and rectal nucleic acid swabs.
Anal swabs have been in use since last year, including in the major port city of Shanghai, but the method is so far reserved for individuals in potential COVID-19 hotspots, according to an infectious disease expert quoted by China's state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday.
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They’ll need a heck of a marketing campaign if they want that to catch on in the States.
Adam Schiff raises hand “I want to be tested”
Its bad enough the nose swab up to the freakin brain, but now an anal probe basically, HELL NO! I’ll take my chances with the damn virus
Well..... that gives spread em a whole new meaning.
Bend over and spread em.😳
The Jokes almost write themselves
What kind of shit are they trying to pull?
“Jokes almost write themselves”
I had to restrain myself.
“What kind of shit are they trying to pull?”
Or push.
Yaaah, drive thru rectal swabbing, ummmm, no. Crappy job to boot.
Seriously.
There is a lot of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily be fecal to oral transmission.
Let that sink in.
Remember about a year ago when there were a few quickly buried stories about communities in the New England states that were going to start testing sewerage for COVID?
Let that sink in.
Now consider this: In many States (Pennsylvania and Ohio for sure) the mask mandates are explicit that those in restaurants MUST wear a mask INTO THE RESTROOM where of course that cloth will absorb all toilet odors and other zhit.
Let that sink in.
Then the patron MUST wear the zhit laden mask back into the restaurant so that with every exhale the patrons innocently eating pancakes can get a dose of the restroom zhit.
Let that sink in.
Still hungry?
More accurate, they claim? Facebook needs to assign their fact checkers to personally determine the veracity of every one of these anal swabs.
Every joke has a butt.
Oh my, where do I thine up?
Oh. I thought the tester was referring to the Seventh Planet.
Will mooning come back into vogue?
I did a drive up covid test last spring on a cold day.
Not sure I would use that service?
Could the Onion or Babylon Bee have written a better piece?
The Aliens have landed. Let the butt probing begin.
Who’s been shedding Covid over here?
Go to the shedhouse...
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