Impact of the local Universe SZ signal on the quadrupole-octopole alignment. We measure the difference of S​_QO (see Eq. (6)) between Gaussian CMB realizations with or without the local tSZ (at 143 GHz) and kSZ effects, when the galactic plane alone was masked (in red), and when the galactic plane and Virgo were masked (in green). The distributions are shown for both the full set (solid lines) and the 5% (dashed) simulations where the alignment is strongest (largest S​_QO).