Posted on 03/15/2020 8:30:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dozens of Hindu activists held a cow urine party in the Indian capital Saturday to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, as countries around the world struggle to control the deadly pandemic.
Members and supporters of All India Hindu Mahasabha staged fire rituals and drank from earthen cups to fight COVID-19 at the gathering in New Delhi dubbed a “gaumutra (cow urine) party.”
Many in the Hindu-majority nation of 1.3 billion consider cows sacred and in recent years have made several assertions about the liquid being an elixir, claims that critics have rejected as quackery.
“Whoever drinks cow urine will be cured and protected,” Hari Shankar Kumar, one of the volunteers at the event, told AFP as he served the “remedy” in brown clay cups. Governments and scientists have said no medicine or vaccine is available to protect or cure people of the infection that has killed more than 5,400 people and infected nearly 150,000 across six continents.
Two people have died in India while more than 80 have fallen ill, and the government has ordered the closure of some land routes into the country and canceled all visas to stop the spread of the virus in the world’s second most populous country.
Members draped in saffron clothes chanted Hindu hymns at the fire ritual as devotees sang paeans for the sacred animal.
“We have gathered here and prayed for world peace and we will make an offering to the corona (virus) to calm it,” Chakrapani Maharaj, the group’s leader, told reporters before gulping down a cup of urine.
He then offered a glass to a devil-shaped caricature of the virus to “pacify” it.
He urged people to adopt the “tried and tested” practice of drinking cow urine to ward off diseases, and desist from killing animals and eating meat. “The coronavirus is also a bacteria (virus) and cow urine is effective against all forms of bacteria that harm us,” claimed Om Prakash, a participant from the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh.
Some members of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party have also claimed cow urine has medicinal qualities and can even cure cancer. One legislator from the party last week suggested use of the urine as well as cow dung can cure the coronavirus.
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I need a couple of TUMS after reading that.
How disgusting!
I’ll stick to vitamin C thank you very much.
Years ago the Hindians has a prime minister named Maraji Desai who drank his own piss. Now the Hindians are drinking the piss of Holy Cows. Whoda thunk!
No thanks, I’ll pass.
Drink Mor Kow Yoorin
India is only claiming 114 infected with 2 deaths.
[[India is only claiming 114 infected with 2 deaths.]]
That’s obviously because of all the cow urine elixirs they drink
When I was a kid growing up on a farm, we played baseball in the front pasture. We used cowflops as bases. Sometimes the cowflops were not fully sundried. We never got sick hardly. Plus the time spent with the cows in the barn and the fields, feeding and milking, etc. heck we wuz covered in cow manure and urine all the time. We only took one bath a week til we got to high school..Might be sumpin to it. Horses too same darn thing.
[[India is only claiming 114 infected with 2 deaths.]]
True but it is also reporting 2000 deaths due to urine poisoning
as the prime minister raised his glass, he said “this too shall pass”
I saw a documentary on “Poo” and for almost an entire hour they were in India showing all the uses for cow poo. It’s in shampoo, toothpaste, soap......When a new home is built, a cow is decorated up (the back end, not the front) and paraded thru the home. If it sh*ts in the house, it is a sign of good luck....weird culture
Well, it is sterile and I like the taste!
Barf.
I wish they hadn’t published that. Now everybody is going to want some. I mean, it’s hard enough finding toilet paper these days but when you head out to the north 40 and discover that Bossie’s already tapped out, whatchagonnado?
Good thing the IRS/FDA is not in India they would TAX them thousands of dollars per oz. of Cow Urine.
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