I have an acquaintance who was convinced paint thinner was the cure / prevention for COVID. Any opportunity to talk about it, ANY, and he was on top of the world.
"They" don't want you to know about toluene, but supposedly his buddy works in a top secret government facility and tested it out and the stuff kills COVID instantly in a test tube.
Anyway, needless to say, he's one of those people that latches on to random conspiracy theories, so although it's irritating most of the time, it is occasionally entertaining. Doesn't talk so much about COVID cures anymore, but blames his long COVID symptoms on the fact that other people were vaccinated and shed the vaccine in/on him. It's been awhile since I heard the details of how that works.
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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 146d
https://xkcd.com/1217/
SteveNashFan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 146d
The alt text is the funniest part
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 146d
I have an acquaintance who was convinced paint thinner was the cure / prevention for COVID. Any opportunity to talk about it, ANY, and he was on top of the world.
"They" don't want you to know about toluene, but supposedly his buddy works in a top secret government facility and tested it out and the stuff kills COVID instantly in a test tube.
Anyway, needless to say, he's one of those people that latches on to random conspiracy theories, so although it's irritating most of the time, it is occasionally entertaining. Doesn't talk so much about COVID cures anymore, but blames his long COVID symptoms on the fact that other people were vaccinated and shed the vaccine in/on him. It's been awhile since I heard the details of how that works.
WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 146d
So he didn't just down a bunch of toluene when he got COVID and die? I'm shocked he didn't trust his own "research" enough.
bobo@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 146d
Inb4 the "long COVID" is lung damage from inhaling paint thinner
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 146d
Sorry but long covid is an actual illness
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 2 pts · 143d
I'm sure they know, they're just dissing the other guy.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 146d
Iād like to see the research paper on this before I believe anything.
whimsy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 146d
No empirical evidence shall be tolerated in this house!
OpenStars@piefed.social · 21 pts · 146d
And bleach.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 146d
And a washing machine
gnutrino@programming.dev · 10 pts · 146d
And my axe!
skhayfa@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 146d
Same in a patient, just find the right angle and the brain tumor is gone.
ArmyTiger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 146d
Doesn't have to be that accurate. Cancer cells that aren't perfused don't grow!
elvith@feddit.org · 15 pts · 146d
Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/1161/
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 146d
I remember my first desk pop
dumnezero@piefed.social · 4 pts · 146d
What about lasers?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 146d
Space lasers.
dumnezero@piefed.social · 3 pts · 146d
Sounds even more anti-cancer!
Does the Sun count?
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