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China brings back anal swab testing for Covid two weeks before Winter Olympics begin
UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/21/2022 | Rachael Bunyan

Posted on 01/21/2022 2:28:31 PM PST by fruser1

At least 27 people underwent the controversial anal swab tests at an apartment building in Beijing where a 26-year-old woman had contracted Omicron, the city's first recorded case of the variant, according to Chinese newspaper The Beijing News.

The anal tests involve inserting a sterile cotton swab up to two inches (5cm) into the rectum and rotating it several times. The swab is then removed before being analysed in a lab. Anal swab testing has been used in China since 2020, but became prevalent in Beijing in January 2021 after a nine-year-old boy tested positive for the virus.

China sparked further controversy in March last year when it expanded the use of the anal swabs to any foreign travellers flying into Beijing.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; didyousearch; olympics
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Digging for the gold?

Article not clear on if incoming atheletes have to test.

1 posted on 01/21/2022 2:28:31 PM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1

For more comnebtary:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4031469/posts


2 posted on 01/21/2022 2:30:02 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? ๐Ÿ˜•)
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To: fruser1

Democrats will gladly line up for this one.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 2:30:50 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: fruser1

Will it apply to Olympic athletes?


4 posted on 01/21/2022 2:38:11 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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To: fruser1

Recent headlines ... think there’s a connection? /s

NBC not sending announcers to the Beijing 2022 Olympics

ESPN announces it won’t send reporters to Beijing Olympics due to COVID-19


5 posted on 01/21/2022 2:39:21 PM PST by Qiviut (๐ŸŠ #standup "Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: fruser1

our diplomats are looking forward to that!!


6 posted on 01/21/2022 2:42:25 PM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: fruser1

EWW!


7 posted on 01/21/2022 2:43:21 PM PST by traderrob6
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The alternative...

Having a sharp stick pushed up your nostrils until it is one inch away from your minimally protected brain.

After a couple billion of those near-brain probes, no one has ever tested swabbing the completely safe lower nostrils to see if you get exactly the same result.

By the way...

The Chinese anal swabbed a group of USA State Department employees about a year ago.

Judicial Watch sued the State Department for related documents and communications, but State refuses to turn them over.

8 posted on 01/21/2022 2:44:40 PM PST by zeestephen
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Comnebtary?

There’s one for the Lexicon.

๐Ÿ˜„


9 posted on 01/21/2022 2:45:19 PM PST by Disambiguator
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Oriental honor culture bent on humiliating what they consider the “inferior races”.


10 posted on 01/21/2022 2:46:56 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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How dehumanizing for our athletes if they do this.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 2:47:01 PM PST by Striperman (Striperman)
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This doesnโ€™t pass the sniff test.


12 posted on 01/21/2022 2:51:21 PM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didnโ€™t help at all. )
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While they are doing it, look for worms and blood from polyps! Why waste a good swab! Some no doubt will enjoy it!


13 posted on 01/21/2022 2:53:02 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK IN FACEBOOK JAIL, Another 30 days. On GAB now. Some real cranks there!)
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It’s convenient. If the anal test comes out positive they can turn the swab around for a confirmation test up the nose.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 2:55:56 PM PST by glennaro (Do not live your life in irrational fear. Live unmasked, unvaxxed, untested; unbullied and unafraid.)
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There will be no worms if taking Ivermectin. It has been deworming horses for decades.


15 posted on 01/21/2022 2:59:12 PM PST by entropy12
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To: fruser1

Looking for “The Babylon Bee” credit, still looking....


16 posted on 01/21/2022 3:00:42 PM PST by stevio
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“The swab is then removed before being analysed in a lab”.

Thank God the Daily Mail clarified that for us! My thoughts, and prayers were already focused on the poor Chinese citizens that were potentially forced to roam the countryside with anal protrusions,and unwanted ear cleaning of strangers whilst walking through crowds!

Sadly, the winter olympics will be a joke, and as usual, NBC will do everything in it’s power to “lipstick the pig” that is the CCP. I have no interest in watching it this year, and I actually wish that we’d boycott the games.

The restrictions they plan to impose on the athletes will destroy their (for most of them) once in a lifetime opportunity, and take away the experience of visiting/enjoying/learning about a “new” country, and it’s culture. :(


17 posted on 01/21/2022 3:01:24 PM PST by Salty Longshanks
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To: D Rider

You better watch out, theyโ€™re in control. Hopefully TSA will have private swab booths.


18 posted on 01/21/2022 3:02:34 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: fruser1
Here's one for a Biden sized a-hole:


19 posted on 01/21/2022 3:11:28 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Disambiguator

Big thumbs small phone keys. ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜…


20 posted on 01/21/2022 3:15:54 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? ๐Ÿ˜•)
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