Joseph Goebbels Brings Ethylene Oxide Truth to Covid

 I recently came upon the video linked here:

This video is about Ethylene Oxide (EO).  This is a carcinogenic gas used to sterilize the cotton swabs used for taking Covid samples high up in your nasal cavity.

The claim here is that EO is not good for you, and, as this woman says, Youtube believes that knowing this is bad for you so they took down her video.

USA Today, for example, takes a hit at these claims.

Basically they agree with the fact that EO is a carcinogen, its bad for you, and so on.  But at the very end of the article they say: "For the gas to be hazardous to us humans, we would need to be exposed to high concentrations of it for long enough periods of time, not from the occasional use of a swab, Batterman said."

So let's see what dear old OSHA says about the exposure (link here): "Employee exposure is limited to one part EtO per million parts of air (1 ppm) measured as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA). Employee exposure may not exceed the short-term excursion limit of 5 ppm EtO averaged over any 15-minute sampling period. These limits are called permissible exposure limits (PELs)."

Yet this paper points out that the swabs should not be used in the nasal cavity for at least five (5) weeks after sterilization. 

And USA Today, in the same article, says: "there's likely hardly a trace of (ethylene oxide) remaining," Stuart Batterman, an environmental health sciences professor at the University of Michigan, told FactCheck.org in June."

The operative words here are "likely hardly a trace."

Is this a scientific term like 1ppm?

I think not.

There are many other "fact check" articles out there as well, all vaguely covering the same idea: see this at AP for example.

The problem is that these swabs come from China.

How are they made there?

What sway the the FDA have over the manufacturers there?  Probably not much.

Does anyone actually check these swabs, as the are imported by the millions, that they conform to proper sterilization protocols?

Probably not.

Should you feel safe with all this...?

Probably not.

Are the "fact checkers" really checking the fact?

No.

An actual fact check you question the various sources as well as actually examine wha is coming into the US from China.

Otherwise its all just a statement from Orwell's "Ministry of Truth..."