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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It’s horrible. Whoever is selling people that poisonous fake cure ought to receive a good Islamic punishment.
I’m a native speaker of English, and I couldn’t understand anything Joe Biden might have been attempting to convey in his recent statements.
They should stick to drinking camel piss.
How stupid and backwards do you have to be to drink methanol which metabolizes into formaldehyde in the bloodstream?
What’s baseball without unforced errors?
Depends on the source; fruits usually have higher concentrations of natural methanol. And since methanol has a lower boiling point than ethanol (148°F and 174° respectively), it can be separated in the distillation process by monitoring the still temperature.
Actually, the best protection is bacon, but the mullahs don’t want anyone to know that.
Industrial alcohol (ethanol) is produced by steam hydration of ethylene, which is produced in turn by steam cracking of hydrocarbons from crude oil and/or ethane gas; industrial methanol is produced by steam hydration of methane. Quite a different process from fermentation and distillation.
In the UK some islamic medical staff refused to use alcohol based hand cleaner because of the prohibition of alcohol; unless of course you’re some rich Saudi who guzzles the stuff into oblivion.
With the chops on a bed of rhubarb leaves... /S
The additional oxalate gives the dish an added “oomph” in destroying the kidneys, amongst other organs.
Well, it almost worked.
Human lethal dose (straight methanol), median, is about 2 oz, blindness can result from less than a half oz. (NIH)
Methanol? They’e dead, but their car’s windshields are spotless.
Anyone know how many of these were members of the ruling “class”? Am hoping most. IRan could have a coup and never fire a bullet.
Yes, and much like the coronavirus "epxerts", the anti-drug crowd will state that they died from taking Meth.
Perfect. These ignorant Neanderthals wallow in a pit of superstition and herd behavior, so this is to be expected. I suggest their imams and other puppetmasters tell them to give themselves (or each other) cyanide enemas.
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