Are you ready for this week's absurdity? Here's our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.

China Pushes New Trend: Anal Swab COVID Tests

In the earliest days of the pandemic, China locked down the citizens of Wuhan, going so far as to weld some people in their homes in an attempt to control the spread of COVID.

Little did we know at the time that China's aggressive authoritarian policies would become the norm across the world.

Now China has taken the depths of their penetration to a whole new level… because now the regime has started to use anal swabs, inserted about two inches into the anus, to test for COVID.

And naturally they started the process by using the new tests on about 1,000 school children, claiming it is more accurate to detect mild or asymptomatic cases through the anus.

First China convinces the West to destroy their economies, and trample on the individual liberty of their citizens using aggressive lockdowns.

Now they are showing the world that the next step in controlling COVID is to sodomize children in the name of public health.