Starbucks coffee helped American diagnose her illness
'10.12.2020'
Source: Medialeaks
Tiktokersha videotaped how she tastes popular on the platform coffee from Starbucks and is surprised, because the drink does not have the expected sweetness. But after a few seconds, the girl realized: this is not an accident, but a symptom of the disease, writes Medialeaks.
Videos with life hacks on how to make branded drinks from different cafes are quite popular in TikTok. Recipes for Starbucks customers enjoy a special love of tiktokers, and a number of them were shared by a user with the nickname airjordan1mid in a viral November post. Among other drinks in the video, there is a very sweet and large iced coffee.
“Heavy cream, five servings of vanilla syrup, three servings of caramel, whipped cream with caramel,” are the additives to the drink.
Tiktokers often shoot on camera as they try their favorite recipes from cafe customers. 19-year-old Marin Short, who became the heroine of the BuzzFeed News material, is no exception: on November 23 after work, the girl stopped at Starbucks to arrange a video test of the above-described caramel and cream drink, which she expected to be super sweet. She shared the result on November 30 in a post that garnered three million views.
“I tried a Starbucks drink that is popular in TikTok ... And something unexpected happened,” Marin wrote.
After a quick introduction to the video, she explains that the coffee was $ 4,18 and then moves on to the test. But with the first sip, it becomes clear: something is wrong.
“It's tasteless!” Marin announces.
The girl takes another sip and wonders why she doesn't feel anything. Short then said that she only felt “something creamy,” and understood that the coffee was sweet, but there was no taste at all.
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Marin had already started to assume that the barista might have added too much cream to the order, but then she realized what was the real reason. After all, the loss of sense of taste, as well as of smell, can be one of the signs of COVID-19.
“What do I have, covid? - the heroine of the material on the video is perplexed. She added that she woke up with a stuffy nose, but attributed this to an allergy. - Wait-and-it ... I don't feel anything! Oh my God!" The shocked girl exclaims.
At this point, the frames with Marin starting to panic and end.
Immediately after filming the video, Short contacted her mother and received advice to quickly pass the coronavirus test, and told her colleagues about the incident. The next morning, the tiktoker passed the first analysis for COVID-19, followed by another one for a more accurate result. Both results were positive.
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The girl had to arrange a quarantine for herself, during which she, according to her video on TikTok, takes supplements prescribed by a doctor - vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc. Fortunately for Marin, she has almost no symptoms of the disease, which is already beginning to pass, except for the loss of taste and a slight congestion in the nose. Be that as it may, the tiktoker urges others to take a more responsible attitude towards the virus and take the necessary measures to prevent it.
It seems that now Marin Short has another reason to love Starbucks coffee, because thanks to him, she found out about the disease at the right time.
