TUSHY is a bidet company. It’s gotten a lot of traction during the pandemic, as Americans suddenly working from home decided to upgrade their bathroom experiences. (This group includes me and my roommates.)
Now, you might ask: Betsy, why are you featuring a bidet company as a COVID-19 data source? Because a special page on TUSHY’s website is reporting the share of Americans who have been fully vaccinated, with a (NSFW) framing: “Can We Eat Ass Yet?”
The current answer is no—only 33% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, according to this page. TUSHY staff are updating the page every weekday using CDC data.
“The idea for “CanWeEatAssYet.com was born when COVID was blowing up in NYC,” says TUSHY’s founder Miki Agrawal. “NYC government sent out a message to all New Yorkers to not eat ass because it could spread COVID… and we wanted to create a funny site a la “IsMercuryInRetrograde.com” with a YES / NO answer specifically for eating ass, because with TUSHY bidet, we support clean ass and wanted to let people know when it was safe to partake in the activity.”
That bright red “NO” may be switched to “YES” when 70% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, but Agrawal says the team will “keep checking with the CDC regularly” to determine the perfect “ass-eating immunity” threshold. Now that’s creative science communication.
Editor’s note: This is not sponsored content, I just think the page is really funny—and TUSHY’s marketing team was kind enough to reply to my email on short notice. Also, H/T Garbage Day.