Schoolchildren, inspired by videos on social media platforms, have taken to using fruit juice and fizzy drinks to get false positive Covid test results and skip school. A number of videos have been found, with titles including: “Fed up of going to school? Want to get a positive Covid test? Use orange juice.” The MailOnline has the story.
When droplets of orange juice or fizzy drinks like coca-cola are placed on a lateral flow test it can produce a positive result because the acidity of the drink destroys the antibody proteins in the test.
And although it does not work every time, viral videos on TikTok and Instagram have been encouraging children across the U.K. to try the trick to get out of going to school…
Gateacre School in Belle Vale, Liverpool, sent an email to parents yesterday warning them to watch over their children as they take lateral flow Covid tests.
The school warned parents children around the country had discovered a trick for producing a false positive reading…
The email read: “Nationally, some school students have discovered that placing droplets of orange juice or other fruit juice on an LFD test gets a false ‘positive’ result.
“In light of this, can you be extra vigilant when your child is doing their LFD tests. Also, remind them that a positive LFD test must be followed by a confirmatory PCR test.” …
A Government spokesman said it is “imperative” lateral flow tests are used in the correct way.
They added: “Around one in three people with Covid experience no symptoms and rapid testing with lateral flow tests helps us track down positive cases that would otherwise go under the radar.”
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Well at least children are being motivated to learn some proper science even during the abuse of science
Nice to see that Chemistry lessons are back on the curriculum.
Phuquing brilliant!..and hopefully an ‘Emperors new clothes’ moment.
That’s a pretty forlorn hope. All they’re really doing is generating more “cases”, and more demands for testing to “find” them.
Yes, they are inflating the number of new ‘cases’, however, they may well be the children of parents who have swallowed the bullshit hook, line and sinker and if their children’s dishonesty shows them that the test is useless, the figures for infection therefore bogus and they start to think that perhaps the whole affair is a monumental hoax inflated figures are a short-term problem and a price worth paying.
This restored my faith in the younger generation….way to go!
Absolutely! For months I’ve been wondering what was wrong with all these kids being upset at missing school- I’d have been coughing and sneezing every day to get out of school!
WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION!
TEACHER – LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE!
The way out of all this lunacy is – chaos itself.
And the kids. “Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.”
Up their noses, rather!
The Government – including Matt Hancock – telling us the rules have to be followed…hmmm.
False positives are easy, I’m waiting for the kids who can show us how to make these fraudulent tests always give a negative result .
Have you ever played with these things? A negative test is easy to create, just add a couple of drops of supplied buffer to the sample well and wait 20 minutes. Job done. A false positive is much harder to generate, kudos to the kids.
I waved one in the air, apparently I was negative.
Are you taking the P?
…supplied buffer…sample well..
What are you on ?
But presumably, to “play” with the tests, you have to send them off to a lab to be analysed and risk getting a positive result.
Simple, apply the control buffer (supplied) without contaminating it
Even contact lens saline will work.
That’s perfectly simple: you just decline.
I’m proud to say that both of my kids have decided off of their own backs to not comply with the scamdemic.
Still with this complete and utter bullshit.
And so what if they did? They are in the age group where it won’t be at all serious and all these old people they allegedly go onto infect are supposedly vaccinated. 4 million worldwide deaths attributed – mostly falsely – to Covid in eighteen months is NOT a pandemic.
True, but, thanks to these muppets we have lockdown extended because of a rise in cases in the young.
Kids finding novel (pardon the pun) ways of bunking off school have nothing whatsoever to do with why lockdown was – and will again be – extended.
Those muppets have established that the rise in ‘cases’ is almost entirely bogus if not absolutely so.
I got a letter from my local council a few months ago advertising their mass testing drives. It pretty much began with the phrase ‘As we know, even asymptomatic people can still spread the disease’. I threw the thing straight in the bin.
I’m hoping none of these kids follows the fate of John Magufuli (RIP), pioneer of such fruitful experimentation.
No wonder positive tests are so high in the young!
How’s the “discouragement” on tenors practicing coming along? And the stamping and clapping for footy fans instead of shouting? It’s a wonder anyone takes these people seriously.
Ha ha ha. Kids 1, Fascists 0.
Really? Because every “case” that’s generated like this just strengthens the tyrants.
Come on- wouldn’t you have done this as a kid?
It’s comparatively easy to defend government computer systems against Russian hackers – but a lot harder to stop Form 3a breaking into them….
Always wondered if anti viral otc products like vicks first defence or chloraseptic would result in a negative test result regardless. Anyone fancy testing it?
The problem is that the only way the vast majority of people could know they’ve got the virus is by doing a test – which, if it’s positive, is highly likely to be a false positive. Therefore, we’d never know if the Vick’s test was actually a false negative. Probably!
OK. This is not on.
Forced testing by the army twice a day. It’s the only way.
Yes, and while we’re at it, make those 77th Brigade chaps in their ivory towers get some experience on the front line. Captain Darling’ll shit his strides.
Evening folks! I havn’t got enough spare time to do alot of commenting on here and this is only my third time but please hear me out on this. I’m reading this from a slightly different angle. Is this not the kids inadvertently showing us how to bring these LFT’s down for good, and maybe this is ATL, in true Blackadder cunningness, giving us the nudge. Quite simply in stead of rejecting these things what about a co-ordinated mass (false) positive spike. Get as many of these things as possible, ‘trip’ them and log the results. Johnson and his lackys would shit them selves. You are running the risk of them panicing and bringing back measures but so what, I think we on here are all pretty much sure they’re going to lockdown again anyway and maybe it will help bring more people into the light when it dawns on them it is they who have the power to end this. Or as they keep saying to us, ‘it’s only few more weeks, what harm can it do’ Find a way to do the same with the PCR and we can turn the tide on this by beating them with… Read more »
I think sticking them up Hancock’s arse would be a more appropriate use personally.
“Hey… hang on….there’s something wrong with the lab read out… why has Hancock’s anus sample tested positive for Fergusson’s imperial semen?”
Maybe that’s what he was trying to do with Mrs Colddangler
Are these deliberately produced false positives the reason for the recent increase in the number of “cases” rather than the INDIAN variant? (I chose not to follow WHO’s woke nonsense and refer to it as the Delta variant, wish LDS would do the same)
If this is the case then the kids involved have not only got one over the government, but they have also fucked us all over by being the reason for the delay of “freedom day”. Maybe they shouldn’t be applauded.
It shifts the responsibility to the adults in that case. The children are just doing the rational thing.
There’s nothing rational about refusing education.
Actually, even as I was typing that, I realised the flaw in my reasoning. It’s perfectly rational to want to avoid being indoctrinated.
👏👏👏
You’ve got it!
Correct. Parents shouldn’t have their children involved in the abusive practice of shoving sticks up their noses
After the way kids have been treated over the last year, they are entitled to do absolutely anything they want. “Freedom day” should never have ever been a thing, to blame kids for the delay would be playing into BloJObs hands.
Well done kids, keep it up!
The tests are fraudulent, but provide our criminal political elite with plausible deniability.
At least it did until some of our kids stood up and pointed out that the King has no clothes. The figures justifying lockdown are clearly fraudulent if they rely on these tests. They are also using these figures to justify the vaccines, saying that they save more lives than they cost. Well they only do that if you include those who die with a false positive test result and assume no future vaccine deaths. Take out the fraudulent false positives and you have knowing mass murder.
Gotta hope that the judges at Nuremberg 2.0 see through this flim flam the politicians are using to cover their backsides.
So children have not been fear mongered into total compliance. There is hope for the human race after all! People walking down the street or sitting in their cars with their masks on or queuing up for their jabs…. take note!
Superb post- if I could give it 10 votes I would!
I called this months ago.. if you hate work or school (and who doesn’t?).. just take a test.. and bang.. you get to stay home and so do loads of your mates.
But the government also knew this would happen. It was intentional. To destroy the economy and cause chaos.
We really need to stop all this silly testing
The others are just licking it and sticking it in the bin.
I wonder what Matt Hancock does with his?
I love this, kudos kids.
A while ago I sent Toby a mail saying a change in strategy might be needed; that instead of fighting the restrictions with logic, data and common sense, we should go along with EVERYTHING, but with even more zeal; lockdown forever, schools cancelled, double furlough for all, triple masks, ban all outdoor exercise and abolish all forms of human contact…. I understand that this would be a truly horrific and destructive play, but my thinking was that we could accelerate the destruction of our economy and society quicker…. and therefore the damage being done would become so absolutely apparent to absolutely everybody, that there could be no alternative other than to handle all of this horse shit like sane, sensible, unselfish humans. I applaud the school kids that are going full joker on the whole sham.
“Introduce A Little Anarchy, Upset The Established Order, And Everything Becomes Chaos.”
Hahaha, brilliant!
Except…
It’s not brilliant, it’s awful.
Because every “case” prolongs the despotism, while giving indoctrinators fresh ammunition to screech and demand more free holidays.
What would be brilliant is to stop testing, and return to sanity.
If it gets them out of lessons on CRT lessons and how terrible the UK was/is then these kids are clever.
If pupils are doing it you can guarantee teachers will be as well
Well played!
Just proves what an utter waste of time these nonsensical tests are.