The joke around here is that anti-vaxxers will drink their own urine for a cure. And now…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-vaxxer-tells-supporters-covid-195908571.html
Didn’t the urine-drinking thing start as a joke?
Anti-vaxxers need their own version of Poe’s law.
At least around here, I’m pretty sure the jokes (at least related to CoVID) started after Christopher Key started touting it, around 3 weeks ago.
Sounds about right. They’re so desparate to prove that “Big Pharma/Big Government/Big Reality”* are out to screw the smart people (them, of course), they’ll do anything that is contrary to what BPBGBR touts and damn the science!
Just yesterday, I saw a great line: If you boycott the vaccine, you should boycott the hospital bed, too.
*Yes, I just made up the last one. Big Reality. That’s what those idiots (aka “Whacked Out Nutjob Conspiracy Theorists (WONJCT)” are against.
You can’t tell whether they are taking the piss or taking the piss?
At the Philly Gay Film Festival back in 1997, I saw a great film called Crocodile Tears (really great. I cannot recommend it highly enough). One of the ‘treatments’ for HIV mentioned in the film is a “rectal ozone generator”. Among the other compliments I gave the writer/lead during the question and answer session was roughly ‘I loved the rectal ozone generator! It was almost literally smoke blown up your ass!’. He politely informed me that he hadn’t made it up. It was a real thing people were really selling, claiming it could cure AIDS.
There should be a special case of Poe’s law here.
The opportunities for a dedicated and ruthless prankster, and these people, abound. I wonder what else you could make them do.
Well, apart from the obvious ie vote for a serial bankrupt who played a successful businessman on TV.
Maybe I should market a cure for COVID. ‘Cure COVID without Big Pharma! Send $19.95 to [whatever].’ Then when they pay, send them ‘Drink your own piss! Or someone else’s!’’
Now that would be fraud, and I can’t condone that 
But just spreading the “news” that “They” don’t want you to know that COVID can be spread through the virus lodging in your hair, but that a blue rinse prevents it, would be fun.
Not being a fraudster, I wouldn’t know how to legally take money from the rubes. 
No joke. It’s a “sacrament” to devotees, who’ve long been slurping up their own pee in India and other places for health benefits.
There was a 7th World Urine Therapy Conference in 2021, but I can’t bring myself to link to the YouTube video.
There’s money to be made here. Seeing that antivaxers fantasize that as “purebloods” their unvaccinated blood and semen will be valuable, those who’ve recovered from Covid-19 could probably sell them “immune urine” to drink.
I encountered one of 'em when I was homeless.
I’m not trying to rain (or pee) on anyone’s parade - and I certainly don’t want to give the impression that the anti-vax ignoramuses are onto something - but fecal transplantation is used legitimately to treat C. difficile colitis.
It involves transferring healthy poo into the GI track of the patient.
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The difference is that feces is implanted in a place where the bacteria can grow, while the urine is ingested into a bag of acid.
Yeah, I understand the difference. Just pointing out that there are seemingly crazy treatments out there that are effective and science-based.
In other words, just because it sounds whack-a-doo on the surface doesn’t necessarily mean it is.
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I am happy to volunteer to pee on any anti-vaxxer I meet. I’m just generous that way.
Don’t we have a head-pounding-on-the-desk emoji?
Me too! (Or would that be #PeeTwo?) Except if they are on fire.
Stay hydrated!
You’d think they’d have learned from their Mango Messiah that the real health benefits are found in Russian hooker urine.