The pandemic from COVID-19 came to change the way people relate to each other around the world, but despite the fact that more than two years have passed since the first restrictions were implemented, some are still not familiar with the tests detection of the virus or what to do in case of infection.
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Man confuses COVID-19 test with a pregnancy test and his reaction goes viral
Through social networks, a conversation of a woman who gave positive to COVID-19 and decided to notify all the people with whom he had had contact in recent days, but one of his friends confused the test photo with one of pregnancy and the first thing he did was deny that the alleged child was his.
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“Why are you showing me this?” the man questioned. “I was with you yesterday,” his friend replied. “So? I had a vasectomy last year, it’s not mine,” the user replied.
The capture of posts was shared by the Austrian comedian, David Hughes, on his Twitter account Twitter and already accumulates more than 594 thousand likes. The publication divided opinions among users, because while some considered that the conversation was not real, others criticized the man for believing that a woman could know she was pregnant a day after seeing him.
“The number of people who think this is a pregnancy test and they don’t see ‘COVID’ on the test It’s kind of scary.” “Imagine being with someone who can’t tell the difference between this and a pregnancy bout. I hope she wears protection.” “Haha, he thinks in 24 hours she might test positive for pregnancy,” they commented.
Other users also shared videos and conversation captures of similar experiences they had to show that it is more common than it seems for men to confuse the pregnancy test with the COVID-19 rapid detection tests.
At the end of 2021, a video went viral on TikTok of a father who was scared after his daughter sent him a picture of her positive test for COVID-19 because he thought she was pregnant again, but was relieved when she clarified that she was just sick. Here you can read the whole story.