QOTD

34 Replies to “QOTD”

1. Very good point I hadn’t thought of!

2. For a normal person it’s 2″

   1. The 4″ is normal for karens as their noses are so long that they keep sticking them in other people’s businesses.

      1. Like that, made me laugh today. Thanks BA.

         bverwey

3. Or … wave the swab in the air … FIVE feet in front of me. Because an MIT study “proved” that aerosol droplets actually travel 25!! Feet!!! Be afraid!!! Be verrrrrrry Afraid!!! And let the government save you

4. Sorry, but it’s a dumb comment from someone who doesn’t know the first thing about testing.

   1. And you do?

      1. Yup.

         Swabbing a mask will collect all sorts of other microbes that you have breathed in or were present in the mask before you put it on. It’s basically a contaminated swab from a mask. It will also include everything you breathed out, but in smaller live quantities than are inside of you (some escape, some disperse to different points on the mask, some die after sitting in your mask for a while).

         All of which leads to a very poor swab for testing purposes. Obviously.

         Whereas a swab from deep inside or even directly from breathing will provide a sufficient sample for accurate results. Obviously.

         So it’s a good QOTD if you are trying to showcase how someone’s anti-science agenda is driving them even further down the highway to Stupidville.

         1. Thank you for confirming the reasons why masks don’t work.

            1. Skipped high school science, I see. Explains a lot around this site.

            2. Well Teddy, if all you have as a rejoinder is an ad hominem, you’ve lost. thank you for playing.

            3. Thank you for reminding us all that humans weren’t designed (or evolved) to have a giant flap of skin over their mouth and nose to “mask” viruses and/or random microbes that could find their way into our noses. That any such appendage would actually trap and hold all manner of schmutz that can do us harm.

               Seems as though mankind was designed (or evolved) to respirate and filter out most of the crap we encounter perfectly well with the noses on our faces. And that people who claim we should ALL walk around with masks … and stop shaking hands … and sit some arbitrarily established distance from one another … are blithering idiots.

         2. Are 80% false positives still a thing?

            1. If you really want to know, you should google “False Positive Paradox” and maybe you will see why, even if a test is 99% accurate, if only 0.1% of people actually have the condition being tested for, 90% of the positives will be false. Testing random populations will always crank up the false positives.

         3. teddy, you are real good at missing the point, ain’t cha????

   2. Sure thing Ted. Stick it up your arse and you will get an even more accurate reading, freaking idiot.

      1. Yeah, Ted’s the idiot.

5. It should also be all over your hands.

   It’s definitely all over the hands of the Third Worlder nurses who refuse to wash their hands before smacking your grandmother in the mouth for not eating slop even the street urchins of Port-au-Prince wouldn’t touch if there was anything better to eat.

   Because that’s why Wuhan flu is rampant. Blacks, Indians and other Pieces of Cack employed by the health care industry have poorer sanitary habits than my dog.

   1. SG, you are blatantly wrong and obviously bigoted. For someone who constantly expresses his religious faith, I find your post surprising. I’ve traveled extensively in my life, and can assure you that other races, nations, and nationalities, are no better or worse than some of the disgusting habits of my own race. There are good and bad, decent and evil, throughout this world, and what I’ve found is that a persons habits are usually based on local environments and local realities rather than their race or nationalities.

      1. Gerry..

         I’m sure in the heck not a bigot, but having worked with some of the nurses coming from Canada to working the USA hospitals (Bellingham WA.) They are from 3rd world nations and getting them to work is hard enough, but sanitary part. Yes it’s an issue.

         I’m NOT saying all, but it only takes a few to make rest look bad.

      2. Have you ever travelled to China?

      3. A relative of mine is now in a care home. He hasn’t got much good to say about the third worlder staff that work there.

      4. Just curious then … why do you suppose the COVID is spreading faster and more deadly in … *ahem* … communities ovvvvvv culllller? No … seriously! That’s a serious question for you.

6. It is a godamed flu, all you morons.

   1. Just as your constant “Canadians are stupid/morons” etc. schtick was wearing thin, the latest lies, suppositions and pure inanities by various “health experts” and politicians at all levels have driven me to humbly concede you are, by and large, correct.

7. This wouldn’t happen if Doctor Jill Biden was the Surgeon General.

   1. L-That is the funniest comment you’ve ever written here. It’s a Ho, Ho, Ho to you, too.

      1. I’m still trying to figure out if Pat is a he or a she.

         1. So is Pat.

   2. Nahhhh … Dr. Jill Biden would be down at the strip mall doing “Beyoncé-sized” butt implants for the folks who voted for her husband

8. Actually, I think that nose swab can puncture a membrane.

   1. Seriously! I always worry that some Community College dropout Medical Office Assistant is gonna shove that swab into my sinuses

9. Annual checkup today. Avoided having anything pushed 4 inches anywhere.

   1. Chinese Doctor?