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Hundreds dead in Iran after consuming methanol thinking it was coronavirus protection
2020-03-28
[FOXNEWS] More than 300 people have died and a further 1,000 have fallen ill in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
after consuming methanol in the belief that it will protect them against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, according to local media.
They're just getting this story? Maybe somebody at Fox News should read the Burg.
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."
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Posted by:Fred

#8  Does it make a good mixer for fish tank cleaner?
Posted by: The peanut gallery   2020-03-28 17:39  

#7  I thought Allen told them theyre not supposed to drink alchohol
Posted by: 746   2020-03-28 17:29  

#6  Maybe it only works if you spray a shrine with it and then lick it off ? You gotta keep trying !





And with that, I sign off for t'night.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-03-28 15:49  

#5  WELL???...IF they are that DENSE....Let them DELETE their crowd?? YA just can't fix STUPID. SORRY, BUT you are responsible for your own care, IF able? Aren't you?
Posted by: ranture   2020-03-28 12:59  

#4  Didn't anyone tell them Tide Pods are the Real Cure!
Posted by: Sonny Black   2020-03-28 08:16  

#3  Denatured alcohol is a very good disinfectant for surfaces. Not so much for stomachs.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-03-28 07:38  

#2  Well, they didn't die from the Chinese Virus, did they?
Posted by: Frank G   2020-03-28 06:36  

#1  Crystal liquid meth
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-28 01:00  

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