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Oh god, homemade "ozonators" like this bare mercury lamp one.[1] HN sometimes has a misplaced admiration of ex-USSR-ian resourcefulness, but the cultural clima
by legerdemain 6y ago
Oh god, homemade "ozonators" like this bare mercury lamp one.[1]
HN sometimes has a misplaced admiration of ex-USSR-ian resourcefulness, but the cultural climate of top-secret alternative cures and conspirology is exactly what popularizes breathing cures, DIY bleach injection, "bringing the light inside," and other desperate, dangerous self-experimentation.
A top result for "ozonator" in Russian advertises that ozone therapy is "used for wound-healing, immune system recovery, removal of cellulite, and obesity." Just breathe it in!
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/0/00/Ozonator.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/0/00/Ozonator.jpg
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoDude, wth. I am talking about actual proper device that you place in a room, leave the room and it runs on a timer. That's what normal people have. Sure there is a fascination with alternative medicine in Russia, but thats a separate problem, among many others.
- legerdemain 6y agoI don't know what kind of modern luxury you live in, but the hobo arc lamp version is what my family and friends of the family had, and it's the primary illustration on Russian Wikipedia.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoI mean it's still a mercury lamp, the same thing, just in a metal box and with a timer. I remember seeing it since age of 12, and noone was trying to make me breathe ozone. There were folks advising my parents to treat skin burns with urine of a young piglet, but fortunately no-one was taking them seriously.