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Hundreds dead in Iran after consuming methanol thinking it was coronavirus protection
Fox News ^ | 03/27/2020 | Peter Aitken

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; iran; iraq; kungflu; methanol; moogoogaipandemic; q; qanon; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; rop; wuhanvirus
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To: Olog-hai

21 posted on 03/27/2020 7:02:51 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

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


22 posted on 03/27/2020 7:02:55 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


23 posted on 03/27/2020 7:05:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Scapegoating is a textbook coping mechanism.)
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To: Olog-hai

They should stick to drinking camel piss.


24 posted on 03/27/2020 7:08:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Olog-hai

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


25 posted on 03/27/2020 7:10:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: Olog-hai
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.
26 posted on 03/27/2020 7:11:13 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Olog-hai

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


27 posted on 03/27/2020 7:12:39 AM PDT by stuckincali
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To: Olog-hai
Good Olde Ayatolla....


28 posted on 03/27/2020 7:17:22 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Olog-hai

What’s baseball without unforced errors?


29 posted on 03/27/2020 7:21:55 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Boomer

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.


30 posted on 03/27/2020 7:21:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

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


31 posted on 03/27/2020 7:23:16 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: nuconvert

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.


32 posted on 03/27/2020 7:28:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: norwaypinesavage

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.


33 posted on 03/27/2020 7:34:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


34 posted on 03/27/2020 7:48:22 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Olog-hai

Well, it almost worked.


35 posted on 03/27/2020 7:54:46 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Human lethal dose (straight methanol), median, is about 2 oz, blindness can result from less than a half oz. (NIH)

36 posted on 03/27/2020 8:01:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Olog-hai

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


37 posted on 03/27/2020 8:05:12 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: Flick Lives; All

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.


38 posted on 03/27/2020 8:13:53 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: BBQToadRibs
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.

39 posted on 03/27/2020 8:20:30 AM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


40 posted on 03/27/2020 8:22:28 AM PDT by IronJack
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