[Olog-hai]

Back on March 10, the number was listed as “dozens”.

[Tax-chick]

“We have to both cure the people with the alcohol poisoning and also fight the coronavirus.”

Is there a lot of aquarium solvent in Iran?

[norwaypinesavage]

It’s all Trump’s fault since he said that hand sanitizer containing methanol could reduce your chances of getting the China flu.

[cranked]

Would or does this confirm that the world is utterly filled with stupid? /s

[dfwgator]

Inshallah!

[Buckeye McFrog]

They clean their fish tanks with methanol there?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I hear if you mix Methanol with that Fish Tank Cleaner you’ll be over the virus in a matter of minutes. ;)

[usafa92]

Trump’s fault.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

You’re supposed to put the methanol on pork chops.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Obviously, it was the US that introduced the methanol remedy to Iran. How could they know our intentions were so evil?

[BBQToadRibs]

Methanol, that’s a rough way to go.

[Leep]

It stopped the virus dead.

[edwinland]

I always doubt articles that have 300 dead but no actual place or date.

[nuconvert]

“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.

[chuckee]

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

[Boomer]

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.

[mmichaels1970]

Has Trump said anything about methanol lately?

[Magnum44]

[PGR88]

They should stick to drinking camel piss.

[Blood of Tyrants]

How stupid and backwards do you have to be to drink methanol which metabolizes into formaldehyde in the bloodstream?

[RayChuang88]

This is what you get the Iranian government threw out the Médecins Sans Frontières group from the country. That group was setting up a series of field hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients.