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Why Are the LFT Swab Bristles Tube-like and Why Do They Stay in Your Body?

by Will Jones
9 August 2021 10:41 PM

A few months ago, some people had a closer look at the swabs typically provided for carrying out lateral flow tests and wondered why the bristles broke away so easily and remained in your body. Here’s a good video demonstrating the issue.

LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT THE SWAB TEST

The test might be, for whatever technical reason, the best that a lab might desire, but I WANT IT TO LEAVE NO TRACE IN MY BODY. Is that too much to ask? pic.twitter.com/zoMdnufIUm

— Wake Up From COVID (@wakeupfromcovid) April 9, 2021

One oddity was that the bristles appeared to be like tubes, and this raised the question of whether they were hollow, and what might be inside them.

Intrigued by the unusual composition of the swabs, Professor Anthony Brookes and Dr Kees Straatman from the University of Leicester put some material from one under a powerful laser microscope. The videos below show what they found. They explain:

To shed further light on the bristle structure of the swabs provided in LFD testing kits, we examined examples via confocal microscopy. The bristles were easy to separate from the swab itself, about 15 micrometres in diameter (the size of a large nucleus in a human cell), and clearly comprised an outer tube layer with an inner filling. The inner material does not seem to exude or flow or deviate from a cylindrical shape when the bristles are dissected, and so we would provisionally conclude this inner material is solid or semi-solid in nature.

It remains mysterious why the swabs would be manufactured in this strange way, and why they break away so easily when it should be straightforward to design a swab that remains intact and leaves no residue in the body. There is no evidence we are aware of that this swab design is harmful to health, but the design is still hard to understand and clarification from the manufacturer would be welcome.

Tags: Lateral Flow TestsMicroscopy

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

How come every time we take a closer look at anything to do with this virus, it all raises more questions than answers? Is it any wonder there’s so many people pointing out how abnormal the whole situation is?

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

All of these coincidences are just coincidental. Variants tracking vaccination inception, for example, pure coincidence. In every country.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
3 years ago

Isn’t this just like stinging nettles? We know what happens with them – an irritating payload is deposited under the skin. Now I wonder if that’s where the idea comes from ….?

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

At least these test kits are manufactured in the same country as the virus was, so they must be top quality.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

I would think that these kits are behaving exactly as they are meant to do and that they will be made to a given specification. The real question is, what are these friable bristles made of and what if anything are they are impregnated with. Impugning the country of origin looks like a troll’s distraction tactic. There are already worrying reports that the PCR probes have a graphene constituent, as do some masks and a certain Covid vaccine. It all looks like a another job for “La Quinta Columna”

Last edited 3 years ago by Rowan
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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

Video of British ex-paratroopers coming out in support of the anti-lockdown anti-vaccine passport protests – seems quite a few have been so disgusted by the use of military psyops on our very own people by this government in our own country that they have decided to side with those who oppose this governments plans for some kind of freedom-restricting techno-tyranny – the ex-paratrooper in this video speaks well and expresses the same concerns we all have about where this is all heading.

https://twitter.com/AndRealisation/status/1424741689474883588

https://twitter.com/Chrissy_2697/status/1424761169852633088

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

I listened when it went out live. The paratrooper spoke so succinctly and so beautifully. He summed up the situation perfectly.

Last edited 3 years ago by HelenaHancart
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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Given the numbers in the armed forces ( iirc Army 80000, Navy less than 30000, RAF less than 30000), there are many, many, many more ex-servicemen and women than currently serving. That makes a huge legion, folks, that potentially can be on the side of truth, honesty and righteousness. Those like the para in the video make a huge cohort of relatively young folk who can recognise the psyop. Thousands must join and leave each year on short service contracts.

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nickbowes
nickbowes
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Thanks, that is worth remembering

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

They have been selected for decades using psychometric methods etc to be/become unquestioning malleable drones. Sorry to break it to you.
A few may have developed critical faculties.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

In some ways critical thinking skills are more essential to a soldier today than decades ago when they were cannon fodder. Staying alive depends on situation assessment and correct decisions. “Mission control” principles rely on local decision making, not orders from afar. Combine that with other personality traits that you need in a soldier, and things may not be as bad as you fear in terms of drones following orders, at least in some trades.

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Marcus Junius Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus
3 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

“Unquestioning malleable drones”. Often, but not always. Many officers I have spoken to over many years in all services have been quite open about their thoughts on the things they are asked to do, and extremely well informed.

I recall walking into a deep conversation between some Commando officers, none of whom were under any illusion as to why we went to the Falklands (minerals), Iraq (oil & reconstruction),

They are self concious players in the Grand Game, strategic thinkers schooled in the art and philosophy of war and power, and yet they play nontheless. For the right civil cause, they could be a game changer. They know where the bodies are buried – they buried them.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Junius Brutus

I’ve worked with and known several ex-Special Forces guys. Top people all, far from the usual pongo. Likewise some of the ex-officers. They had a mission-based perpective: as one of them said, tell me what to do and then fuck off, and I’ll get back to you when it’s achieved. The Management didn’t like that at all. The exact opposite of the usual micromanagement.

Lots of ex-military of all levels.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

The next conspiracy theory to become a conspiracy fact. They’re really stacking up.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

….

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

Mask wearers – you are being played for fools … its about politics and power – the mask as always a political prop – cameras caught this White House bozo out – watch this charade being played out before your very eyes ….

https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1424843796643291150

Last edited 3 years ago by Ember von Drake-Dale 22
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Lowe
Lowe
3 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

It kept him safe for seven steps… Clearly the virus skulks about at stage right, but not off stage and centre stage. Good to know.

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Bill Sanderson
Bill Sanderson
3 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

An amusing charade, but it’s worth scrolling further down this Twitter thread (past the Ramsey meme!) to the recorded testimony from a Dr Dan Stock(?) to a Mt Vernon committee. In six minutes he summarises beautifully the total wrong-headedness of the world’s response to covid19.

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BeBopRockSteady
BeBopRockSteady
3 years ago

You may as well start from the position of this being by design with a molecular sized intention. Then question from there.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

Please watch and share this as much as possible …

https://twitter.com/maccheeky1/status/1424811775992737792

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago

I am reminded of asbestos fibres (they are about 1/3 the width of these). I am not suggesting for one instant that they might be carcinogenic, but we do need a reassurance that they are benign. We have been lied to about so many things recently.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  Norman

It’s the needle like structure of asbestos that means it can penetrate cell nuclei and disrupt cell mitosis or something, hence cancer. They can also migrate through the body. Leaving microscopic needles up your nose and in your tonsils, the two first line areas of immune response and protection, is asking for big trouble. Yet parents are forcing their kids to do these tests.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Yes scary stuff. One wonders if they were designed this was for a reason, or just for cost purposes. Or of course both.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

hmm, if lots more people get cancer, that could increase sales of “treatment for someone”.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

I seem to remember a rumour that “Covid” tests could be used to sneak a vaccine into someone (among other health concerns).
Until I know for certain, I am inclined not to trust any of them. If you think about how many of them are taken though, and the way they are taken, it could represent a fantastic opportunity for someone.

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baboon
baboon
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Not taking a vaccine, not taking a PCR test, will not comply with vaxx passports. I’m going John Galt. This whole thing is cobblers and I am beyond done with it.

I know plenty of people who had Covid. No-one died. I very likely had it in December 2019, so the Wuhan lab leak, unless it occurred during the World Military Games (in Wuhan) and was brought back by the participants is likely bogus.

This question was just posed on 4Chan’s /pol/:

>Are the vaccinated secretly upset they did what the masters asked, but didn’t get the promised reward?

My reply:

Promised reward:

LOCKDOWN TIME!
Three weeks to flatten the curve
We just need to jab the elderly and vulnerable and this is all over
We just need to jab the under 60’s and this is all over
LOCKDOWN TIME!
We just need to jab the under 50’s and this is all over
We just need to jab the under 40’s and this is all over
We just need to jab the under 30’s and this is all over
We just need you to use this vaccine passport
We just need to jab the under 20’s and this is all over
LOCKDOWN TIME!
We just need to jab the under 10’s and this is all over
BOOSTER TIME!
We just need you to get Moderna’s new experimental Covid, Flu and RSV Vaxx
LOCKDOWN TIME!
We just need you to take this experimental Monkeypox vaxx
We just need you to take this experimental Plague vaxx
We just need you to take this experimental Ebola vaxx
We just need…..

Watch this and come back to me:

MASS PSYCHOSIS – How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M %5BEmbed]

Whatever we do will NEVER be enough because we need to stop being cucks and start saying FUCK OFF

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

Hmm, I suspect it’s not anti “vaccine”-coercion people who are thick… (I was trying to think of a better term than “anti-vaxxers”)

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baboon
baboon
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

anti “vaccine”-coercion people

Not very catchy but accurate Hugh. I’m certainly not an antivaxxer. I have travelled all over the world. On one occasion I got three vaccines for tropical diseases and the next day I got two. I asked the nurse if I could get all of them at once and she said “no, you will probably explode!”.

When I first heard that they were making vaccines for SARS-COV-2, I was immediately suspicious, as I had never heard of a coronavirus vaccine before. That lead me immediately to ADE. I then realized that something was seriously wrong.

Of course, since then we have had bad news for the death shots on a weekly, now daily basis. They don’t work and are a catastrophe. I thank Dr. Yeadon of this parish for first alerting me to some of the other issues, and from there I probably got to the same place as just about everyone else on this site.

I have read thousands of articles, peer reviewed journals and studies since then. I honestly think I could probably pass an undergraduate first year epidemiology class at this point!

I was very good at biology at school and indeed, my biology teacher begged me to do biology A-Level.

Anyway, this whole thing is a gigantic fraud and I am really concerned where this is going next. If I am correct, the next few months are going to be hell on Earth. I sincerely hope I am wrong.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

My understanding too, I’m afraid.

And one does have to wonder about coercion to take an experimental “vaccine” when no coronavirus vaccine has ever been successfully produced before. For a bug demonstrably within the range of a severe flu season. All that testing and “vaxport” infrastructure? Doesn’t look to me like they plan to dismantle it any time soon.

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes I absolutely concur.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

absolutely same page !

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Atters
Atters
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Vaccine safety advocate?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Atters

Oh, instead of “anti vaccine-coercion person”? I had to think about what you meant for a minute, so probably not. Someone must be able to think of a good ter. ” ‘vaccine’ realist”?

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PaddyB
PaddyB
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Pro-natural immunity! I’ve been describing it like this for the past number of months. I refuse to use their derogatory label, which they have deliberately attached to us in negative terms.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  PaddyB

A good term, but some people won’t necessarily make the connection with vaccines…

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baboon
baboon
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

Forgot to add that I now know of two dozen people maimed by the death shots vs. ZERO people who died of Covid.

I have been redpilling my mother on this whole situation, to the point of spending eight hours trying to buy Ivermectin for her (with success – horse paste) because despite what I tell her she keeps saying “I think I want to get vaccinated” DESPITE the evidence that I caught the damned thing off her in the first place and her diary shows CLEARLY that she had all the symptoms (in December 2019)…I give up. The cognitive dissonance of people who read/watch MSM is off the charts.

Anyway, she finally got it. By which I mean that she realized I was right. Not got the vaxx.

The fact that so many people we know started being admitted to hospital for major surgery – many for the first time – was a big help. A blessing and a curse. So to be clear, I know no-one who died of Covid but we know dozens of people who have been maimed by the death shots. Especially those that got their second Pfizer. One lady literally collapsed the day after her second. Predictably the doctors had no idea what was wrong with her – and removed her gallbladder.

I have always hated governments. My ideal number of interactions with a government in my lifetime is zero. Now we cannot exist without the government intruding into our lives and I am sick of it.

The problem is I am increasingly convinced that this is only the beginning. The date September 15th is all over the place at the moment. This is a deadline for mandatory vaccinations.

I am very certain that there is a deadline at this point. I’m expecting “Covid-21” in October and it will decimate the vaxxed. I don’t know what happens after that but I can guess…it won’t be a Utopia.

A week ago I found this video on Twitter:
 
https://twitter.com/MetteKjaer7/status/1421816709359575041

This video shows an internment camp being built in British Columbia. Similar to the ones in the UK, but these have creepy, Orwellian Covid signs outside.

I then found this video, from the Ontario parliament, where they admit that these are being built:

https://twitter.com/Nycweatherrepor/status/1411710255206129666

Clearly, this cannot be a conspiracy theory.

Now I see that the CDC is considering the same in America:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/shielding-approach-humanitarian.html

Finally, the excellent Karl Denninger has found something very disturbing in his latest analysis of Bureau of Labor statistics:

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243171

The statistics show that a million Americans have “disappeared” and there are only three ways that can happen: imprisonment, commitment to a mental hospital or death. It appears that these are probably vaccine deaths.

I don’t know what horrors are coming but I suspect things are going to start getting really nasty. I would recommend stocking up on food and enjoying yourself to the greatest extent that you can for the rest of this month.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

I don’t know exactly to what extent pharmaceutical companies control msm organisations and government, though I suspect it is a business priority, and as I say they appear to have had some success, at least with apricot kernels. They are also reported to own Cancer Research UK.

If the vile “quarantine hotels” are for the long term, I suppose internment camps are a logical next step…

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baboon
baboon
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I don’t know exactly to what extent pharmaceutical companies control msm organisations and government

That’s not it. The whole thing is coordinated. It’s international, interlocking and top-down controlled. As I have pointed out on here, Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street seem to be the tip of the spear. They are the biggest shareholders in all the vaxx companies, Big Tech, MSM, the genome sequencing companies, you name it.

If you think of the WEF as the “steering committee” you probably won’t go far wrong.

Click this link, for the ruling party of the UK, and tell me what you see:

https://www.conservatives.com/

No conspiracy needed, it’s in your face.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

Build back better plus rainbow flag NHS digger? If it’s not a parody, it’s doing a jolly good impression of one (and the NHS of course have a disturbing relationship with Big Pharma).

Anyone on here thinking of supporting the Conservatives maybe ought to take a look…

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baboon
baboon
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

apricot kernels

Supposedly a prophylactic/very early stage treatment against cancer if anyone is interested.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

And “banned” by the EU (from being sold as a food) for no good reason after a big pharma smear campaign.

Come to think of it, a big pharma smear campaign probably is a good reason for the people who run that show. So much for one person one vote.

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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SueJM
SueJM
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

I read Griffin’s ‘World Without Cancer’ about apricot kernels, many years ago. The second half of a thick book is all about the history of the Rockerfellers and medical education and the oil industry. Good reading. Used to nibble on apricot kernels…enjoy the taste. There are many many approaches to cancer out there.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

You can get proper Ivermectin (12 mg tablets) on IndiaMart.com. I got a good supply recently. Excellent service.

Last edited 3 years ago by Brett_McS
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Sailing Gypsy
Sailing Gypsy
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

A bewildering selection available, which did you buy please?

The “pet worming” description is a little off-putting?

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stevechelt
stevechelt
3 years ago
Reply to  Sailing Gypsy

I bought some recently via them, 5 boxes each of 100 x 12mg tablets (human grade). Indiamart is confusing, eventually I bought from Kachhela Medex who supplied a clear quote including tracked shipping, packet arrived safe and sound about 10 days later. Payment was via ‘Wise’, which was quick and cheap compared to a normal wire transfer. The cost was very reasonable, about 9p per pill inc shipping. As with Brett above, the service was excellent.

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Sarah in DC
Sarah in DC
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

Overwhelming choice of providers on indiamart. How do you know if they are all legit and you really will get ivermectin. Who did you buy from?

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
3 years ago
Reply to  baboon

Yes. Fuck off is the only viable and powerful antidote to this bollocks.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
3 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

Confusion via the medium of colourful graphs may have ceased to be the answer.

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TheBigman
TheBigman
3 years ago

Ehm. These have been studied for a while. Different types are being used. They are also coated in carcinogenic materials

Who is to say these don’t help produce a desired effect ie pos/neg results

Last edited 3 years ago by TheBigman
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oblong
oblong
3 years ago

I made a connection between having tests and getting heartburn. Had no idea why that might be until I read this. I just took a LFT swab and rubbed my finger along it over the glass of my phone so as to view what came off. Loads of tiny bristles came off really easily. Maybe these irrate my throat or further down.
I’ve done about a dozen tests in total over the past year. Just going to spit on it from now on

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

“There is no evidence we are aware of that this swab design is harmful to health” except for the track record of the organisations involved I suppose.

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FarligGods
FarligGods
3 years ago

This needs proper explanation over a simple cotton swab… wtf is going on here??
Never taken a test, not about to….

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