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Months-long lockdowns. Entire city populations herded through the streets for mandatory testing. The people of China could be forgiven for thinking they had seen it all during the coronavirus pandemic.
But now they face a new indignity: the addition of anal swabs — yes, you read that right — to the testing regimen for those in quarantine.
Chinese state media outlets introduced the new protocol in recent days, prompting widespread discussion and some outrage. Some Chinese doctors say the science is there. Recovering patients, they say, have continued to test positive through samples from the lower digestive tract days after nasal and throat swabs came back negative.
Yet for many, it seemed a step too far in government intrusions after a year and counting of a dignity-eroding pandemic.
"Everyone involved will be so embarrassed," one user in Guangdong province said Wednesday on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform. In a Weibo poll, 80 percent of respondents said they "could not accept" the invasive method.
[...] The new protocol comes just over a year after the virus began spreading rapidly in the country. Chinese officials are worried about the approach of Lunar New Year next month, often called the world's largest annual migration. Some 3 billion trips are made over the holiday during a non-pandemic year, which means even a single silent coronavirus case could rapidly leapfrog across the nation.
Journal Reference:
Mei Sun, Dong Guo, Jing Zhang, et al. Anal swab as a potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection to evaluate hospital discharge of COVID-19 patients [open], Future Microbiology (DOI: 10.2217/fmb-2020-0090)
(Score: 1, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Friday January 29 2021, @01:13AM (6 children)
>Americans love their War on Drugs
you've never been to china... to give you an idea - you know how you get thrown in jail a few years for having a bag of heroin on you? it's punishable by death in china.
and no, the american people do not support no-knock warrants, civil forfeiture, or being shot. the other stuff you speak of seems to be from some hipster blm handbook with talking points. when you're detained for a violent crime, and the police have a gun on you and tell to put your hands up and freeze, you do not get shot for reaching for your wallet. you get shot because you did not comply. because the cop doesn't need to decide if you're reaching for wallet vs gun. you need to put your hands up.
and yes, when you are suspected of robbery with a gun, and the police tell you to freeze and put your hands up, and you start to run away instead, they should shoot you in the back. to prevent you shooting someone. and if you want to prove you're not the suspect, you put your hands up, freeze, and let the cop take your wallet from your pocket.
the war on drugs is not ok, most people don't support it. but then you go and mix in bullshit with that, making your whole point false.
cops kill more white people than blacks. blacks kill the most blacks. 7.5 times more murders per capita than whites. you think maybe a population statistically likely to murder more, gets incarcerated more? wow, what a surprise.
asking a person to wear a mask is fine. enforcing it with fines and violence if they don't comply is not fine. but this goes for clothes too - the government is indeed overstepping its authority for arresting you if you're walking naked in public. yes, the government overstepping its authority is an infringement of freedom. A law saying I have to use pink toilet paper would be also. So would a law saying I have to look up at the sky once per day. The triviality or ease of doing something does not mean someone has the right to force me to do it, no matter how beneficial it is. And I say this as someone who wears an n95 everywhere I go.
What you have with masks is people protesting against a government grab for authority it doesn't have, not against wearing masks. But it's cute that you sound like a 14yo edgy kid from /r/politics. You're so cool and fresh!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday January 29 2021, @06:22AM (5 children)
when you're detained for a violent crime, and the police have a gun on you and tell to put your hands up and freeze, you do not get shot for reaching for your wallet. you get shot because you did not comply. because the cop doesn't need to decide if you're reaching for wallet vs gun. you need to put your hands up.
Wrong. Philando Castile [wikipedia.org] was shot for reaching for his wallet.
the war on drugs is not ok, most people don't support it
Most people do support it, at least implicitly, or else it would be a big enough political issue that it would get fixed.
But it's cute that you sound like a 14yo edgy kid from /r/politics. You're so cool and fresh!
And you sound like a total asshole. Your posts here are so full of bile, you really should get some counseling.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Friday January 29 2021, @06:56AM (4 children)
Castille was told not to reach for his firearm, immediately proceeded to reach for his wallet, and was shot. At least read your own damn link.
ah, so most people don't support it, so you say 'implicitly by electing lawmakers' guess most supported trump too in 2016, since he won? nice strawman.
and guess what. the drug laws are slowly getting removed and people let out of jail. because people vote for lawmakers that fix them. so there goes even you stretched strawman of an argument.
i sound like an asshole because i am an asshole to you. an idiot spreadng misinformation and false narrative to keep your anger flowning. because let's face it -if you don't have this quest in your life, you literally have nothing else. because you're stupd, and you're a loser.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 29 2021, @11:42AM (3 children)
"because people vote for lawmakers that fix them."
We should also insist on having better voter integrity laws than what we currently have. Otherwise it may not even matter who we would like to vote for.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Friday January 29 2021, @06:42PM (2 children)
i agree with this, but even if we fix the districts and nuke the ec, it doesn't fix it. many times people do vote to support bad things. hell, we put japansese americans in camps. just that the war on drugs and corrupt cops aren't examples of that. and many bad things caused by voters are because of blatant misinformation and lies. like the post i replied to. the guy complaining about the problem -literally the cause of the problem. and too stupid to know it. he also doesn't really care about the problem -it's just a quest he picked to fill a hole in his life. because he's a loser.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday January 30 2021, @12:20AM (1 child)
Why don't you tell me your home address, and we can talk about how much of a loser I am in person.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 30 2021, @12:34AM
Yep. In addition to not having the social skills and conversational experience to understand a basic joke, you are also a keyboard warrior and /r/iamverybadass. How about instead of posting my address on the internet, I just laugh at you some more, you absolute social reject loser?