At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, we’d all like to scream our heads off. It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year of working from home, social distancing, food and grocery deliveries, and intermittent Covid tests to make sure we don’t die from this insidious virus. Now, a new Covid test allows you to unleash your rage at the state of the world and get tested for coronavirus at the same time.
It’s called the “scream-based COVID-19 test” and it was created by Dutch inventor Peter van Wees. It works exactly as you’d imagine: you go inside an airtight cabin called the QuBa and scream your head off. The structure then collects, dries and measures the particles in the air to determine if you have Covid.
“If you are…yelling and screaming, you’re spreading tens of thousands of particles which contain coronavirus,” van Wees explained to the New York Post.
In as little as three minutes, the scream test can determine if you have Covid with 80 percent accuracy, which is similar to a nasal swab test.
“It’s always very nice to scream when nobody can hear you,” Soraya Assoud, a participant in the scream test trials, said with a laugh. “I think it’s a good way of meditation as well, so it’s fun!”
Whether or not this is an effective and efficient form of Covid testing, we don’t really care. What the buzz around this invention does prove is how desperate we are to release our quarantine resentment and sheer misery in a long, loud scream fest.
Cover Photo: New York Post
Safe is sexy: The Mandatory Guide to Dating in the Age of Coronavirus
MORE NEWS:
Stay away: 10 Friends Who Definitely Have Coronavirus and Should Be Avoided From Now Until Death
Visit the Mandatory Shop for great deals on your very own Mandatory merch.
Follow Mandatory on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Entertainment News Roundup 3 1 21
-
Kardashian-Jenner Sisters Model Sexy New Lingerie Line (Is It Hot in Here or…)
Read more here.
Photo: Instagram
-
Pregnant Mena Suvari Poses Nude in Pro-Vegan Ad For Peta (But There’s Something Odd About Her Bump…)
Read more here.
Photo: Jon Kopaloff / Stringer (Getty Images)
-
Cadbury Gets Creamed For Egging on Same-Sex Kisses to Children, Parents Say Stick to Feeding My Kids Polluted Candy
Read more here.
Photo: YouTube
-
Kevin Bacon Shares Banana-Slicing Hack in Viral TikTok (Give This Man a Cooking Show Already!)
Read more here.
Photo: TikTok
-
10 Times ‘The Simpsons’ Accurately Predicted Our Weird Future, Including Ted Cruz’s Quick Trip to Mexico
Read more here.
Photo: Fox
-
Gizmo From ‘Gremlins’ Gets His First Sip of Mountain Dew in New Ad
Read more here.
Photo: YouTube
-
Instagrammer Alexandra Rubinstein Turns Dicks Into Fine Art (We’re Not Worthy)
Read more here.
Photo: Instagram
-
Ranked! The Best of Shia LaBeouf Movies (Including ‘Pieces of a Woman’)
Read more here.
Photo: Amazon Studios
-
Meghan Markle’s Wax Figure Gets Baby Bump (‘Cause That’s Not Creepy)
Read more here.
Photo: Instagram
-
Ranked! Kanye West’s Worst Moments (That Make the Divorce Obviously Inevitable)
Read more here.
Photo: Kevin Mazur / Contributor (Getty Images)
-
Ranked! 10 Mandatory Books to Read After One of the Best Recent Years in Publishing
Read more here.
Photo: Eva-Katalin (Getty Images)
