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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo..people that were ready to melt hydroxychloroquine in a spoon and fire it up themselves
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about a year ago, now don't want to be vaccinated because it's not fully approved by the FDA? Gotcha.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)ever asked their doctors for the safety data sheets on anything else.
viva la
(3,265 posts)A vet med used for deworming. I hear it has a laxative effect.
brewens
(13,536 posts)admit it.
Haggard Celine
(16,834 posts)say that we had worms if we had a stomach ache or if we were fidgety. Her cure was a spoonful of sugar with a little turpentine poured over it. It tasted awful; I can only imagine what it would have tasted like without the sugar. Sometimes instead of giving us a dose orally she would rub some turpentine on our bellies. I guess the turpentine was supposed to soak in and kill the worms. I don't know where she got the idea that turpentine was a cure-all. I've never heard of anyone else doing what she did.
NickB79
(19,219 posts)Turpentine ingestion is, sadly, not as rare as you think.
Haggard Celine
(16,834 posts)My grandma was a wonderful lady, she just had a few weird ideas. Glad to know she wasn't the only one who thought turpentine was medicine. She had an excuse for it; she grew up in the boonies where there were few doctors available, so people had to come up with their own ways of dealing with ailments. I guess turpentine would kill worms outside of the body, so why not try ingesting it? When she grew up, they had bottles of heroin and cocaine on the store shelves. People had wild ideas about drugs and chemicals back then. At least it was just a few drops of turpentine, not enough to hurt us. I guess she had to feel like she was doing something to thwart those pesky worms!
Silver Gaia
(4,538 posts)Only she said you had to put the turpentine in your belly button.
Haggard Celine
(16,834 posts)That seems so strange, looking back on it now. I didnt think anything about it when I was a kid. Must have been some kind of cure that the patent medicine salesmen used to bring around.
Silver Gaia
(4,538 posts)You may find this interesting: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-turpentine-medicine
That was the best I saw that delved into the history of its use medicinally.
I found another site where it was being discussed (by mostly Southerners) both in terms of remembrances, like we are doing, and also CURRENT usage. Evidently, it's still a thing with some people!
And I saw news articles dated 2015 and 2018 about it being a new craze. I had never heard that before.
Haggard Celine
(16,834 posts)I dont know why I didnt think of doing it myself. We all self-medicate, one way or another, dont we?
Silver Gaia
(4,538 posts)Oh, and my grandma was from central Arkansas, so not all that far away from yours.
viva la
(3,265 posts)"Rub it on your chest to prevent Covid!"
They'd go write for it.
Remember the old Reuben I've been thinking song?
Silent3
(15,130 posts)...these idiots will remain full of shit.
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)PJMcK
(21,988 posts)"Please don't confuse your Google search
With my medical degrees."
getagrip_already
(14,603 posts)WAYYYYY too many doctors have never attended a day of school since graduation. the only training they get is at vendor funded get aways, and that is more a sales pitch than any meaningful education.
Even 5 years out, you are an antique. A good google search is mandatory prior to any medical care. And i'm not talking about facebook groups or their equivalent here.
kirkuchiyo
(402 posts)Continuing Medical Education, to keep up their license. It isn't like a drivers license where you get it and never have to do further training.
getagrip_already
(14,603 posts)They can qualify for cme's by attending drug company symposiums, or watching on-line videos (with no real test criteria), or through other low touch methods.
I don't think it means what you say it means.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)Its a proven drug with very little side effects and FDA approved.
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/study-fenofibrate-covid-infection/
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)I also remember my mother using mercurochrome for anything remotely resembling a cut. You could see that red pink splotch on your arm from across the room!
twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,538 posts)Grandma would paint that stuff on then say, "Now blow on it!"
twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)bahboo
(16,302 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)My friends and I were so scraped up in summertime that we looked like painted warriors with that stuff all over our arms and legs.
patphil
(6,144 posts)People are anxious to take a treatment that the FDA hasn't approved for what they plan to use it because some uninformed Jackass told them to.
But the same people refuse to take a vaccine that has been approved by the FDA for the same use because some uninformed Jackass told them not to.
"You can't fix stupid"...Ron White.
hadEnuf
(2,172 posts)It's that simple.
Probatim
(2,499 posts)The people who will tell us we have no critical thinking skills are the same ones looking for a savior to lead them through these troubled times. Unfortunately, the leaders they have chosen to line their pockets through lying to these rubes.
hadEnuf
(2,172 posts)Whether it's crackpot groups thinking that a plague will "purify the population" or a loser-nutcase drooling over Carlson & Hannity's every word, it is still cult-like behavior, aka brainwashing. Reasonable people would not put themselves and their kids or families in danger like this.
spinbaby
(15,088 posts)I cant tell you how many times Ive spotted Trump yard signs alongside religious yard signs.
malaise
(268,641 posts)Fauci or the Slobfather?
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Lemon Lyman
(1,347 posts)And when Pfizer is FDA-approved in 3 weeks, they'll have some other bullshid excuse..."The approval was rushed" or some such nonsense. You know those waiting for approval are not going to get it once it's approved. You just know it.
AllaN01Bear
(17,940 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,376 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,377 posts)accidentally shaking down the mercury thermometer only to have it go flying to pieces on the tile bathroom floor. No need to call Hazmat then. Mom was freaked out, shouting "don't move," but we cleaned all the little, silvery, bouncy beads up with paper towels/tissue and then encased them in double plastic sandwich bags, a quick once over with the Kirby, and a wash with maybe Pine-sol or Murphy's. Glass gone; mercury - Good enough! Now it's the amalgams in my teeth...yup, doomed!
Mad_Machine76
(24,391 posts)is that they want to resort to a bunch on UNAPPROVED (and mostly ineffective) *treatments* for COVID instead of getting a couple of shots that will *prevent* them from getting it- or at least drastically reducing their risks/symptoms if they do become infected. I don't understand the calculation there. I've not even heard anything much about people having problems with the vaccines or why people think that the vaccines are riskier than getting COVID. They tend to focus on its survivability rate but, like, why would you want to risk getting sick even if it doesn't ultimately kill you. And also, nobody knows what their individual risk for serious complications are until they're sick- and again, if there's a way to prevent getting sick, why wouldn't you jump at it? I mean, who wants to be sick? I don't want to be sick, even if it's something as simple as a cold, the flu, a stomach bug.
This all just doesn't make any sense to me but if they choose to be unvaxxed, the LEAST they could do is throw on a mask when they're out in public.
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,362 posts)getagrip_already
(14,603 posts)That is supposed to fix EVERYTHING. My uncle Ari told me that.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,129 posts)Went to our local witch doctor and got prescriptions for Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine