Foreign visitors have been upset by China’s anal swab tests for COVID-19, prompting complaints of inconvenience and even psychological trauma, and stoking debate over their necessity (2021)

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[–]neolib[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The Chinese Center for Disease Control says the test is performed with a sterile cotton swab, which looks like a very long ear bud, that is inserted 3 cm to 5 cm (1.2 inches to 2 inches) into the anus before being gently rotated out.

[–]fdisp 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

imagine the chinese put a gps in yo ass so they can track what you do

[–]Mastermustard09 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The officers having to perform the anal swab on fat americans are probably even more traumatised

[–]twolanterns 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

welcome to the land of the mandarins

[–]HonkyTonky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They started doing this at Walmart