Quick! Go buy Betadine! It cures COVID! Or prevents it! Or destroys your digestive system!

[thewayne]

Pick one of the above, and it's not the first two.

The latest fad miracle cure has hit. Good old Betadine, the iodine product used mostly for cuts and scrapes. It can do really nasty stuff to your insides, as it's used strictly as a topical treatment, or in some cases, in a dilute form, as something to be gargled. NOT TO BE TAKEN INTERNALLY!

But idiots gotta idiot.

One article that I read talked about testing all sorts of things against Covid in vitro, which is, in a petri dish. All sorts of things affect Covid in a petri dish. But a petri dish is not the human body. Lots of salt affects Covid in a petri dish. So does bleach. Ionizing radiation probably does. Ten bajilion volts of alternating current probably does: it'll cook the agar substrate and kill anything. Do you want to be strapped in to an electric chair to cure your Covid infection? I thought not.

JUST BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A POTENTIAL MEDICAL TREATMENT IN ONE APPLICATION DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT IS DEFINITELY A VALID MEDICAL TREATMENT!

Among the many things that I'm curious about is how these additional deaths will affect voter rolls for next year's midterm elections, because it's not the Dems that are dying in job lots.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/betadine-anti-vaxxer-covid-treatment-iodine-1225438/


And now hospitals are giving workers panic buttons because of increasing violence. You know, I am almost of the opinion that hospitals should hold back 10% of their wards for people without Covid, without horse dewormer problems. In fact, there should be a Federal regulation that you have to have a license to buy Ivermectin, and if you have that license, and don't have proof of a Covid vaccination, no hospital will admit you if you're infected with Covid.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/health-workers-get-panic-buttons-as-covid-deniers-get-violent/

The proof is there. Vaccinations work. New Mexico is just above 70% vaccinated population. Our hospital Covid admissions are DECLINING. I've had one family death from Covid, I don't know what his beliefs were, he might have died before the vaccines became available, I just don't remember. But I'm just sick and tired of Republican governors saying that people have a right to body autonomy, meanwhile denying the same right to women over their pregnancies.


Republicans cried loud and hard about Death Panels. Well, now they've got 'em.

Comments

[reynardo]

Oh, some of us drink it. Sometimes..

[thewayne]

Oh, absolutely there's legitimate purposes.  Not in the quantities some of these idiots are proposing drinking it in.  Like your post said: DROPS.  And in a quantity of water: FURTHER DILUTED.  You're not going to knock back a mouthful neat, I doubt.

[conuly]

I wonder if we could tell them that it works according to homeopathic rules - the less there is, the greater the effect....

[thewayne]

OOOOH!  I like that!  One drop in 10 ounces of water is strong, one drop in a gallon of water is even stronger!  LOVE IT!

[marahmarie]

I don't. I'm still seeing natural selection in all of it from not masking to not vaxxing to taking ivermectin, bleach and iodine orally.

I've never believed so much in evolution/survival of the fittest and suicide/death cults as I do now.

[kathmandu]

All I'd seen about Betadine was diluting to a certain percentage and *gargling.* Definitely no swallowing.

There was a picture going around a few weeks ago, of a store shelf with the ivermectin dewormer, and a hand-lettered sign saying "We will only sell ivermecting to people who have horses. Must show a selfie of yourself with your horse at the checkout."

[starwatcher]

I like that. Especially if the feed store doesn't know you. If someone has been buying ivermectin at the same place for years on a regular schedule, as I once did, the store personnel can figure you're not on the "cure for covid" bandwagon.

[elf]

One potential way to deal with the violent anti-vaxxers: Get restraining orders against them. Which means they can't come within 100 yards (or whatever) of the person who has the restraining order.

...Which means they can't get medical treatment at the hospital where their victims work.

[moxie_man]

I'm to the point where I'm fine with the anti-vaxxers being strapped into an electric chair.

[thewayne]

Jolt some common sense into them? ;-)

[moxie_man]

It's my believe that "common sense" has been bred out of most of the human species.

I was thinking more along the lines of granting them some "mercy" and freeing up a hospital bed for someone else.

[thewayne]

I was reading about a college instructor finding out that their frosh students knew nothing about saving files in Windows: drive letters, subfolders, nothing.  They thought that if they saved something, it all just mysteriously was saved and would be retrievable.  Yeah, it would appear that you are correct.

[moxie_man]

Why does this not surprise me in the least.

Oh, right, 'cause I work for a State Government contractor handling applications for a certifiation program (1 step below a professional license) and I receive an awful lot of BLANK word doc and adobe pdf applications.

[thewayne]

Wow.  I had no idea.  That's pretty sad.

[marahmarie]

And let's not forget...God's gonna protect them all from COVID but to protect themselves they gotta have their guns. Looooove it.

[thewayne]

I know.  Irony is completely lost on these people.

[silveradept]

They always had the death panels, we call them insurance companies. Now we have obvious death panels and still a whole lot of people that believe by being white and following Republican TurboJesus will protect them from the virus and serious infection. And that whatever the divinely ordained head of the cult says works will work, science be damned.

[marahmarie]

"TurboJesus"

*spits out drink*

It's funny how many pastors and cult leaders have died of COVID considering all that turbo protecting them.