Health authorities contemplate a new programme to survey German shit in perpetuity for Covid as part of a virus "early warning system".

[Mindful]

Will no one rid us of these turbulent testers?​

Via a pilot project in Rheinland-Pfalz, health authorities contemplate a new programme to survey German shit in perpetuity for Covid as part of a virus "early warning system"

Will no one rid us of these turbulent testers?

www.eugyppius.com

 

[Mindful]

I fear that they will just never, ever, ever stop testing:

Scientists in Rhineland-Pfalz are considering the transition from the pandemic to the endemic stage with a study on wastewater surveys for Corona. “We’re the only federal state in Germany that’s doing wastewater analyses accompanied with a survey,” said state vaccination coordinator Daniel Stich (SPD) in Mainz. “Right now, therefore, Rhineland-Pfalz is positioning itself for possible future pandemics.” …

Samples are taken twice a week at 15 sewage treatment plants in the state and tested for the Covid and its current variants. In addition, almost 7,500 people in the state’s five major centres take a Covid rapid test twice a week, says Professor Karl-Heinz Küfer of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial and Mathematical Methods (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern. …
Other German states have already expressed interest [in the project]…

The effort is scheduled to run to the end of the year and will cost 2.5 million Euros. Those involved hint darkly that any future programme growing out of the trial might survey for other respiratory viruses as well, such as RSV and influenza. Thus the press will always have something to panic about.

At the end there’s this funny bit:......

 

[Manonthestreet]

jobs jobs jobs////

 

[Circe]

I fear that they will just never, ever, ever stop testing:


The effort is scheduled to run to the end of the year and will cost 2.5 million Euros. Those involved hint darkly that any future programme growing out of the trial might survey for other respiratory viruses as well, such as RSV and influenza. Thus the press will always have something to panic about.

At the end there’s this funny bit:......

They've been sampling effluent in Los Angeles for some time, I read ---- I don't know if any other U.S. cities are.

Fairly harmless, I think. I mean, really, who cares.

 

[Mindful]

They've been sampling effluent in Los Angeles for some time, I read ---- I don't know if any other U.S. cities are.

Fairly harmless, I think. I mean, really, who cares.

A lot of money spent on not caring. When the whole of Europe is striking for more pay.

 

[Circe]

A lot of money spent on not caring. When the whole of Europe is striking for more pay.

Looks like they may lose another French prime minister this coming week. That'll be, what, 187th since the Revolution?

 

[Mindful]

Looks like they may lose another French prime minister this coming week. That'll be, what, 187th since the Revolution?

I haven’t been paying much attention. I’m not a fan of Macron.

I’m an hour’s drive from the French border.

 

[Circe]

I haven’t been paying much attention. I’m not a fan of Macron.

I’m an hour’s drive from the French border.

I didn't know you were living in Europe. Huh.

 

[Mindful]

I didn't know you were living in Europe. Huh.

It’s all fun and games here. Strikes and demos.

 

[Circe]

It’s all fun and games here. Strikes and demos.

Yes, I gather from Reuters that Europe is having even a worse time since the start of Covid than we are.

 

[Mindful]

Yes, I gather from Reuters that Europe is having even a worse time since the start of Covid than we are.

Yet everyone’s out on the streets, enjoying themselves. A reaction to lockdown, l guess.

 

[Moonglow]

Will no one rid us of these turbulent testers?​

Via a pilot project in Rheinland-Pfalz, health authorities contemplate a new programme to survey German shit in perpetuity for Covid as part of a virus "early warning system"

Will no one rid us of these turbulent testers?

www.eugyppius.com

Fecalpheliacs seek to conquer the world.