It says “breaking news” above this chain letter, so it must be true! Tonight everyone has to stand naked on the balcony. Or in the garden. Or both.
The breaking news chain letter: We at Mimikama are fans of field testing. So if there is a claim somewhere that can be checked, then we will do that too. I remember the WiFi radishes , with which we even ended up in an episode of Fact or Fake .
We are people of action! And far be it from us to simply let a chain letter that can be verified (or falsified) pass by. Even better if it doesn't cost anything to try and you don't get hurt in the process (my friends know what I'm talking about).
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Therefore, this chain letter is basically predestined to be tried out in a field test. This is about the following chain letter, which is distributed in the form of a breaking news story:
Danger!
This evening between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. a satellite will use a laser to measure the body temperature of the population in order to determine the current infection rate with Covid-19 within Austria.
Please stand naked on the balcony / in the garden / in front of the front door and hold up your ID card with your right hand.
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Since there is no date in the chain letter, we simply decided that this “tonight” falls on Saturday, July 18th. This has the advantage that we can have a small editorial dinner in the office and follow breaking news.
The balcony has been cleaned, we won't go to the front door. We don't have a garden either. Accordingly, we will squeeze into our small balcony with 6 people (it shouldn't be particularly warm, so that will be compensated for).
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On the other hand, we also have to keep a distance from a baby elephant, so we will also take 5 baby elephants with us onto the balcony. That will probably work out.
By the way …
This breaking news chain letter is not new. It was already available in a very similar version at the beginning of April 2020 ( compare ). And of course he's joking. Our colleague from the music editorial team only says the following about measuring temperature using satellites:
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