Posted on 03/27/2020 6:53:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
More than 300 people have died and a further 1,000 have fallen ill in Iran after consuming methanol in the belief that it will protect them against the coronavirus, according to local media.
Fake remedies have spread across Iranian social media, with methanol simply the latest supposed cure. As an Islamic nation, the consumption of alcohol is banned, but bootleggers have distributed industrial alcohol.
“Other countries have only one problem, which is the new coronavirus pandemic,” said Dr. Hossein Hassanian, an adviser to Iran’s Health Ministry who claimed that the problem could be more severe than reported. “We have to both cure the people with the alcohol poisoning and also fight the coronavirus.”
The government downplayed the crisis ahead of a parliamentary election, leaving the Iranian people with little trust in their lawmakers. …
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Is there a lot of aquarium solvent in Iran?
It’s all Trump’s fault since he said that hand sanitizer containing methanol could reduce your chances of getting the China flu.
Would or does this confirm that the world is utterly filled with stupid? /s
Inshallah!
They clean their fish tanks with methanol there?
I hear if you mix Methanol with that Fish Tank Cleaner you’ll be over the virus in a matter of minutes. ;)
Trump’s fault.
You’re supposed to put the methanol on pork chops.
Obviously, it was the US that introduced the methanol remedy to Iran. How could they know our intentions were so evil?
Methanol, that’s a rough way to go.
It stopped the virus dead.
I always doubt articles that have 300 dead but no actual place or date.
Perhaps these Iranians listened to Joe Biden’s advice to take care of the cure.
“consumption of alcohol is banned, but bootleggers have distributed industrial alcohol. “
This happens all the time. Not new. But telling people they have a cure for the virus in the form of methanol is evil.
Iranians are very susceptible to ‘miracle cures’ because they don’t trust what the gov’t tells them and don’t get the medical care they really need & feel desperate for some kind of help. Again, not something new.
In ran they pray to allah for woolite.Sounds like allah answered their prayers. Now there is a shortage of virgins and toilet paper in paradise
Plus, as an added bonus, your windshield will be clean. Except you will be blind so it will be of no use to you. /sickhumor
Methanol; the poisonous byproduct of distilling drinking alcohol.
Crazy! Anyone who knows anything about Prohibition knows this is what killed lots of people in America back then. That and using lead distilling hardware like car radiators. It made some people blind too.
Has Trump said anything about methanol lately?
The perfect Corona Cocktail
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