Why do people have to be warned not to drink or otherwise ingest Covid test kit liquid stuff???

[thewayne]

*sigh*

Apparently enough people - and CHILDREN! - have drank the solution, used it as eye drops, dribbled it onto their tongues, or put it onto the swab before swabbing their nostrils that it makes them sick to varying levels that the government now has to step in and warn them to NOT DO STUPID SHIT.

Warning: do not drink chemicals not meant to be drinked.
Warning: do not squirt chemicals into your eyes that are not eye drops or otherwise your eye doc tells you to do.
Warning: don't rub chemicals onto your skin that are used to test for diseases.

Doing these things might make you sick and shows that you might not be very smart. Have you considered moving to Florida, or do you already live there?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/the-fda-would-like-you-to-not-put-covid-19-test-solution-in-your-eyes-nose/

Comments

[lilysea]

To be fair, some of the children who have done this are of the age where they are young enough that they will drink ANYTHING, including cleaning products -

it's not the children being unintelligent, it's the parents not locking the test stuff up or putting it in a tall cupboard out of reach...

[thewayne]

You are absolutely correct.  When children drink stuff they shouldn't, it's usually their parent's lack of responsibility.  And goodness knows, our country has a big problem with adults and responsibility for some time now.