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Anal swabs to become China’s No. 2 method for COVID-19 testing Chinese citizens are clenching up at an invasive new form of COVID-19 testing in the country: anal swabs. State-controlled media has floated the notion of anal swabbing for “high risk groups” in recent days, citing claims by Li Tongzeng, a deputy director in charge of infectious disease at Beijing You’an Hospital. Some tests have already been conducted, and more are expected as the country moves into its busy Lunar New Year season. Li says anal coronavirus tests are useful for cutting down on false negative results among high-risk patients, because the virus can linger in the intestinal tract for days after it’s cleared out of the respiratory system. “If we add anal swab testing, it can raise our rate of identifying infected patients,” he said on CCTV Sunday. “But of course considering that collecting anal swabs is not as convenient as throat swabs, at the moment only key groups such as those in quarantine receive both.” In other words, citizens won’t be required to drop their pants at test centres across the country, where throat swabs will remain the testing method of choice. Many citizens tightened up at the idea of an anal pandemic probe, with some turning to social media to express their outrage. “Low harm, but extreme humiliation,” one user said on China’s Twitter-like Weibo service, according to the AFP. “Everyone involved will be so embarrassed,” another user wrote, according to the Washington Post. Some also jokingly expressed fears that a tester might mix up the swabs. “I’ve done two anal swabs, every time I did one I had to do a throat swab afterwards — I was so scared the nurse would forget to use a new swab,” one person wrote. https://globalnews.ca/news/7602224/china-anal-swab-coronavirus-test/amp/
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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
ChuckNORRIS4Cup replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
Jays acquire Mets SP Matz for three pitchers TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired left-handed pitcher Steven Matz in a trade with the New York Mets. The Blue Jays announced the deal, that will see right-handed pitchers Yennsy Diaz, Sean Reid-Foley and Josh Winckowski head to the Mets, on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Matz has spent his entire career with the Mets. He has gone 31-41 with a 4.35 earned-run average and 552 strikeouts over 579 2/3 innings in 112 games over six seasons with New York. Matz made six starts and three relief appearances in a difficult 2020, posting a 9.68 ERA before spending the final month of the campaign on the injured list with left shoulder discomfort. https://www.tsn.ca/report-toronto-blue-jays-finalizing-trade-for-new-york-mets-sp-steven-matz-1.1584022 -
The one that bugs me the most about this league and how it's run and why I call it a bush league, is how it can have two different rules for the year, how they call everything in the regular season and then come playoffs they hide the whistles more, just stupid. Teach your players to play a certain way all year and then come playoffs confuse the crap out of them even more, bush league rules.
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After the first I was thinking if the Canucks win this game they'll be lucky because this will be one of those games when you get out played and some how find a win, but credit where credits due they decided to show up and finally play in the 2nd, they can now deserve the win the right way, just win da third now.
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Criteria imo would be to start seeing a much better winning percentage with the system you are coaching with, if it's good enough the results will show that, but if it's not good enough the results will stay around .500. Desjardins had around a .500 record as coach 246GP 109W 110L. Green has pretty much the same 241GP 105W 108L. Neither system is showing progress which they should have if they were good coaches, a good coach would have results these coaches just aren't good enough imo, just decent. Benning doesn't get a free pass either, his drafting is the good, his signings and cap management is very bad.