Hundreds dead in Iran after consuming methanol thinking it was coronavirus protection

Fox News ^ | 03/27/2020 | Peter Aitken

[Magnum44]

[Wilhelm Tell]

It’s horrible. Whoever is selling people that poisonous fake cure ought to receive a good Islamic punishment.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[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.

[stuckincali]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3820805/posts

[mylife]

Good Olde Ayatolla....

[BradyLS]

What’s baseball without unforced errors?

[Olog-hai]

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.

[sphinx]

Actually, the best protection is bacon, but the mullahs don’t want anyone to know that.

[Olog-hai]

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.

[SkyDancer]

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.

[Calvin Locke]

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.

[SaxxonWoods]

Well, it almost worked.

[SunkenCiv]

Human lethal dose (straight methanol), median, is about 2 oz, blindness can result from less than a half oz. (NIH)

[Flick Lives]

Methanol? They’e dead, but their car’s windshields are spotless.

[hoosiermama]

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.

[Go Gordon]

Methanol, that’s a rough way to go.

Yes, and much like the coronavirus "epxerts", the anti-drug crowd will state that they died from taking Meth.

[IronJack]

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.