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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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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago

Another week of manufactured crises

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Planet Earth III Climate Change Lies 
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

01b-Planet-Earth-III-Climate-Change-Lies-MONOCHROME-copy
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Baldrick
Baldrick
1 year ago

Video about masks worth watching:-
https://themodelhealthshow.com/maskfacts/

Does masks, but goes onto the real major problem with viruses and our health.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Baldrick

All you need to know on the matter of masks…

https://brownstone.org/articles/studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/

SurgicalMasks
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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

‘Ukraine has blown its best chance to defeat Putin’

10 Sept. 2022 was their best chance.

‘Exploiting a stretched and tired Russian front that spanned some 1,300km — roughly the distance from London to Prague — Ukrainian special forces, tanks and armour sliced through their lines and weak rear resistance, provoking a panicked retreat’

So many reasons why they couldn’t sustain that offensive…..

And yet, and yet…….

‘…..the logistic services would somehow have to adapt themselves to the tactical situation.’ ” This approach had met with success for Rommel when he commanded the “Spook” Panzer Division in France at the outset of the war.

“His division sometimes advancing so fast that it became detached from the main fist of Kluge’s Fourth Army…and continued to race along its throughway on its own, with only the most tenuous connection in the rear to its logistical support.”

Then

‘Tobruk fell to Rommel. Moreover, the capture of significant stores – “2,000 vehicles, 5,000 tons of supply, and above all, 1400 tons of fuel” provided an operational spark to a dying supply line. Rather than consolidate, however, Rommel continued to press the attack. “It was captured stocks that took the Panzer Army to Alamein.”

Rommel got no further thanks to Auchinleck but, against a lesser General, he might have bounced Alam Halfa and got to Cairo.

‘War remains fundamentally a contest of human wills—there is more to war than blowing up targets. Leadership, military command, morale, and the will to fight are key ingredients of success, as Ukraine demonstrates. Prioritizing the destruction of matériel de-emphasizes moral and cognitive factors, an all-too-common orientation within some circles in the U.S. military.

Properly understood and updated, manoeuvre warfare remains critical to the future. Seizing the initiative, seeking an information advantage, exploiting tempo, and employing surprise and deception remain relevant.’

The Ukrainians have a plan:

‘….probing Russian lines seeking gaps and forcing Russian reactions that are potential mistakes. In the culminating phase, precision fires and full domain manoeuvre from the trained assault brigades and overhead drones will exploit the defender’s disrupted defence.’

‘Manoeuvre warfare is not dead but it must evolve’ Colonel Pat Garrett (sic) Nov. 2023

But when they get a critical breakthrough, ‘…the logistic services will somehow have to adapt themselves to the tactical situation’

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

The article from Matt Goodwin above is very interesting. An excerpt;

”The lines between those who wish only to advocate for the welfare of innocent Palestinians and those who support the brutal terrorism of Hamas have become badly blurred. Those lines have remained blurred in the subsequent demonstrations, in which a minority have proudly displayed their extremism on their banners and in their chants, while the majority stand alongside them.”

Everybody attending these marches would have supported the Nazis during the war. 100%, no doubt in my mind. Why am I so confident? Well, we can support and sympathise with the poor Gazans that are suffering and getting killed directly or indirectly because of the actions of the terrorists that run the place from our homes. But only a certain kind of person would go to the trouble of attending a huge protest, rubbing shoulders with extremists waving flags of Jihad and chanting for the eradication of Jews. No fear of ‘guilt by association’ there is there? Show me somebody waving a ”Free Palestine from Hamas” banner and I’ll take it all back.

Speaking of which, here is one single, solitary guy with an intact moral compass and a titanium pair of balls. See how he fared and witness the reaction of the crowd around him. Case closed as far as I’m concerned.

https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1720898721599107475

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Marches and demonstrations are often attended by those others do not associate with. If fear of guilt by association was significant, protests might go unnoticed due to low attendance.

Why are the same people not protesting about Hamas? Perhaps because that’s not their focus. To take that on is simply another success for divide-and-conquer. However, it could be for the same reason politicians don’t overtly criticise their brutal allies: it’s the only people fighting their corner. How to get rid of them can be a problem for later.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

Because they are amoral human beings. All you need to know.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Why are so many people triggered on both sides in this unique instance?

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

Thanks downvoters, truly thought-provoking.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

When govt policy and MSM propaganda only ever offer a binary option – one side or the other – with absolutely NO mention of any of the ongoing mediations by numerous countries for a ceasefire, humanitarian aid or longer term peace talks, tarring every single person at every single rally happening across the world – even babes in arms and toddlers in pushchairs – as Nazis will be the end result. I thought DS readers where more thoughtful than that.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Oh I have given it much thought, believe me. Anybody wanting to eradicate a whole race of people, in this instance the Jews, is a Nazi in my book. Anybody attending these massive, worldwide marches and not openly condemning the terrorists who want to eradicate all Jews are demonstrably on-side with that mentality, ergo they live up to the label of ‘Nazi/Nazi sympathizer’.

Given that we are now 4 weeks in, post Oct 7th atrocities in Israel, one would assume that the demonstrators would have had sufficient time to educate themselves on exactly what ”antifada” means and what is behind the meaning of the words, ”from the river to the sea…” etc they so enthusiastically chant. There is no excuse in claiming ignorance at this stage. These people know exactly what they’re marching for and the astute among us, who can engage functioning eyes and brain, can see plain as day. They are pledging their allegiance to terrorists and Hamas’ cause.

More evidence here, and before anyone cries, ”cherry-picking” or ”biased!”, please come back to me with evidence of people openly condemning terrorists in these protests, because until I see anything contradicting this collective mindset I shall quite easily tar them all with the same Nazi brush;

https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1720937920104665520

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Wow! That’s cojones.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Speaking of heroes, here’s another one of mine. Billboard Chris. He was at the protest and apparently the terrorist sympathisers took offence to his ever-present sandwich board stating that children can’t consent to puberty blockers. Therefore of course the Met police come to his rescue by accusing him of ‘breach of the peace’ and removing him forthwith, despite the fact he’s the only calm and rational person there. More proof the pigs will always protect the Nazi scumbags;

https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1720824532649361679

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DS99
DS99
1 year ago

Presumably every other country that went into lockdown has a similar story of behind the scenes “turmoil”? C’mon, pull the other one.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

“Transgender activist who said ‘would not matter’ if the number of female murders increased if men were allowed to self-identify as women is devising ethics rules for therapists”

Prof Chappell (born a bloke, BTW) works for the OU. Prof Jo Phoenix (criminologist specialising in crimes against women) was hounded out of the OU for saying blokes shouldn’t be in women’s prisons. Just sayin’.

Doesn’t inspire confidence in BACP counsellors for non-judgemental help and support, does it?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://miriaf.co.uk/an-11th-hour-offensive/

A cracking post from Miri looking at the inevitable, tragic violence which is being planned for next weekend.

The second half of the post makes a very good case for participation in local politics. It occurs to me that maybe I should take my involvement more seriously.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I don’t know if you or anybody else here is aware of this initiative, to end mass migration, and what you think. Is it even feasible? I’ve not heard of Neil Anderson but what he says seems to be perfectly reasonable, just going from the 3min video I watched on the site;

”EMM is a campaign organisation that has been set up by a group of immigration experts from academia, think tanks, politics and the media. We are determined to challenge the myth that mass immigration is beneficial to the UK when it is actually causing enormous economic, social, cultural and political damage to our country.”

https://endmassmigration.uk/

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