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Somewhat tongue in cheek: dihydrogen monoxide is also harmful at high doses. While checking the spelling, I stumbled upon https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html https:
by bookofsand 5y ago
Somewhat tongue in cheek: dihydrogen monoxide is also harmful at high doses. While checking the spelling, I stumbled upon https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html, with a delightful quote:
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
* Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
* Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
* Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
* DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
* Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
* Contributes to soil erosion.
* Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
* Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
* Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
* Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
* Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
* Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
* Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
- throwaway5752 5y agoThat's quite funny. It's even funnier to see people pushing the use of an anti-parasitic medicine to treat a virus with no particular hypothesized mechanism of action, when a nearly 100% effective vaccine with similarly great safety profile is widely and cheaply available. Sorry, maybe tragic is a better word. Look at Latin American and ivermectin usage. This is yet another non-treatment that is being used to scam the vulnerable and ignorant. It has been a depressing 20 minutes catching up on ivermectin + covid news. Barely effective at best, yet there's a black market of animal-grade medicine now in some countries.
- bookofsand 5y agoWe really do need all resources we can muster, even if by miracle. Covid crisis is not over. The virus is mutating. "the (Israeli) government said that as of June 6, the (Pfizer) vaccine provided 64% protection against infection". The vaccines are narrow in scope, making mutations likely to evade vaccine protection. The world population is large. Most people live outside developed countries, and don't have easy access to -15C storage equipment.
- throwaway5752 5y agoAll quite true. Still doesn't make ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, smoking, or vegetarianism (which all have had data that made them fad/scam covid-19 treatments) any more effective.
- forcry 5y ago>scam covid-19 treatments One problem I have with this is that Ivermectin is proposed by real doctors who treat patients on ground zero. As far as one can see, there is zero incentives for them to promote a treatment that does not work. But on the other hand, there are huge incentives to censor the efficacy of Ivermectin and other treatments. In a perfect world where research and reporting is done with out bias and financial incentives, you would be right. But sadly we don't live in that perfect world.
- majewsky 5y ago> Ivermectin is proposed by real doctors who treat patients on ground zero To treat Covid, or to treat fungal infections that happen as a result of Covid messing with patients' immune systems?
- loonster 5y ago> * Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits This is missleading and is a straight up unnecessary disparagement of DHMO. Pure DHMO is perfectly safe to use around electricity. People have even built computers in an atmosphere of pure DHMO. Problems only arise if the DHMO is itself contaminated with something. We should be placing the blame on the unseen actors and not the highly visible accessory.
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- Covzire 5y ago^Truth, It blew my mind when my HS chemistry teacher dipped the ends of two wires connected to a battery and a bulb into a jar of DHMO and it didn't light up. Then I think he mixed in sodium or something and slowly it lit up more and more.
- GravitasFailure 5y ago>People have even built computers in an atmosphere of pure DHMO Shouldn't that be "hydrosphere"? Though Babbage's steam powered Difference Engine might count as making use of a "water atmosphere." And just for giggles, have a steam powered robot: http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/r2s2/ http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/r2s2/