OMG, OMG, OMG, this morning we got a letter …… from the NHS, let’s just say The Towers positively thronged with rampant emotion and pride ………
…… as we have been selected, by our country, to be part of a Covid-19 testing research study, we are honoured beyond belief. We are to be tested to see if we are currently infested with the virus, we doubt very much that we are, but perhaps, you don’t know, we could be undercover carriers of a Typhoid Mary type nature.
Once we are enlisted, we will be sent a testing pack with which to swab our oral cavities i.e our nose and throat. Darrell says he doesn’t think its as easy as it sounds and with his gag reflex inserting a 6-inch long swab into the space between his nose and mouth for 15 seconds and rotating it several times might prove a little problematic, but he’ll have a bash.
Nigel has suggested that perhaps we should start practising on one another now, so by the time our pack arrives we’ll be really good at it, but I have said hang fire, I don’t want any unnecessary gagging going on if I can help it, even if it is for Queen, Country and Boris.
Darrell was online more or less straight away getting us all signed up …..
….. and it is reassuring to know that if we should change our mind, which we won’t, there will be no fear of reprisal, we are volunteers.
All we have to do now is wait for our pack to arrive ……..
……. and hid the cotton buds well away from Nigel, as I fear, despite what I have said, he might well take himself off to the bathroom to practice self administering if we are not careful!
A six-inch cotton swab? That is pretty big. Nigel could get a few of the smaller ones stuck up his nose, if he has multiple trial attempts, with the ones you already have safely hidden away.
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