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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChina brings back anal swab testing for COVID two weeks before Winter Olympics (NY Post)
China has brought back its undignified anal Covid swabs just two weeks before the Beijing Winter Olympics begin.
The Communist regime claims the virus test which involves inserting a 5cm long saline-soaked swab up a patients bum and rotating it is more accurate than other on-the-spot virus tests.
Chinese newspaper The Beijing News said at least 27 people underwent the anal swab tests at an apartment building in Beijing where a 26-year-old woman had caught Omicron the citys first recorded case of the variant.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/china-brings-back-anal-swab-testing-for-covid-ahead-of-winter-olympics/
milestogo
(23,205 posts)ripcord
(5,553 posts)There is no way I would let some Chinese official probe my ass.
LisaL
(47,514 posts)NT
ripcord
(5,553 posts)Maru Kitteh
(32,015 posts)It's good to be in the USA.
I just don't need to know my coworkers and their families that well!
Hugin
(38,002 posts)Rang out over the land.
It would seem my joy at the emergence of prostate blood tests was premature.
Turbineguy
(40,214 posts)Rectal barometers?
Kaleva
(40,437 posts)Maru Kitteh
(32,015 posts)myohmy2
(3,723 posts)" The Communist regime claims the virus test which involves inserting a 5cm long saline-soaked swab up a patients bum and rotating it is more accurate than other on-the-spot virus tests. "
...now if it were a Capitalist regime accuracy would not be the motivation...
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Golden Raisin
(4,756 posts)SalviaBlue
(3,110 posts)JI7
(93,908 posts)and other things to avoid getting it if this was the only way they could test for it.
Takket
(23,804 posts)
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