I Knew Anti-Vaxxers are Crazy But...Consuming Excrement?

 


I have covered a lot of anti-vaxxer craziness in this blog, but this takes the cake. An anti-vaxxer who styles himself as the "vaccine police" is advocating drinking urine to prevent COVID-19.

This guy Christopher Key, who doesn't look crazy at all, drives around with weapons like a flame thrower and multiple assault rifles, delivering packets of information that he says prove that the vaccines are bioweapons. He was recently arrested for trespassing at an Alabama Whole Foods, where he refused to wear a mask. Because those are bioweapons too?

He's now out of jail telling people to drink their own urine to prevent COVID-19, well sort of:

The antidote that we have seen now, and we have tons and tons of research, is urine therapy. OK, and I know to a lot of you this sounds crazy, but guys, God’s given us everything we need. ...We've got research after research, documented peer-reviewed research on urine. ...This vaccine is the worst bioweapon I have ever seen. ...I'm not a medical doctor and I'm not telling anybody to drink their own urine but I drink my own urine!

 Okay! You go, Chris!

While researching this post, I also ran across an account of a guy in India who appears to eat cow dung. I don't understand Hindi so I can't tell if he's talking about COVID-19 in the video, or if he is against vaccines. But a letter to the editor of a medical journal published earlier this year confirms that use of cow dung and urine as a COVID-19 cure is a thing in India: 

Many people are consuming cow dung and urine under branded “cow dung therapy” for COVID cure. In last year, dozens of Hindu activists hosted a cow urine-drinking party in India. Some members of the Hindu nationalist party demanded that cow urine and dung can prevent and cure COVID-19. Therefore, the Indian superstitious, fanatic politicians and some other leaders disseminating the propagation that cow dung can cure COVID-19 among the general religious population. 

So instead of just believing BS, you could actually eat or smear yourself with it, or drink urine. Or you could get vaccinated—the choice is yours. Sheesh...just when you think people can't be any stupider.

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