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If this test version comes to the UK I'll definitely be a volunteer. Testing ladies only obviously.
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New Covid Conspiracy Theories
“In recent weeks, China has ramped up its use of a controversial coronavirus diagnostic tool: anal swabs. The test reportedly involves a patient bending over, putting one hand on the back of a nearby surface, and using the other to spread their cheeks apart while an official inserts a saline-soaked cotton swab one-to-two inches inside their rectum and swirls it about a bit to collect a sample.
Some evidence suggests the virus ravaging the globe survives longer in feces and thus people’s rectums than in noses and throats, a local doctor told the state-backed Global Times in late January. So, some Chinese authorities believe these swabs may be better at reliably detecting asymptomatic carriers than other tests. The state has reportedly mandated the tests for international travelers coming into Beijing, people in key quarantined areas, and all the staff and students at a school where a kid came down with COVID-19.
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However, while China’s anal swab tests have most observers cocking an eyebrow and perhaps giggling nervously, they have sent many COVID-19 conspiracy communities into full-blown freak-outs.
“How long before they start doing this everywhere else?” an anonymous post shared on several major COVID-19 skeptical Telegram channels in late January mused. “After all, it’s about discomfort and humiliation and not really about a pandemic.”
“The COVID anal swab test is *definitively* coming to the US and Europe,” a cryptocurrency Twitter personality with almost 16,000 followers and a predilection for sharing anti-lockdown content argued. “You’ve bent over and taken everythin g [sic] they’ve done so far. Now it’s going to go from the metaphorical to the literal. #TheDimAge.
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Conspiracy theorists have, of course, argued that virtually every pandemic control tactic is absurd, degrading, and totalitarian. However, they seem to be especially hung-up on and distraught about anal swabs. This, experts told The Daily Beast, is likely because these tests not only seem particularly egregious and intrusive to many observers, they also play into widespread, deep-seated homophobia among far-right audiences.
“They’ll probably be penis shaped,” a commenter wrote in Reddit’s COVID conspiracy group NoNewNormal. “‘It’s just to make it go in easier.’ The elite laugh in their ivory towers.”
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