Dozens in Iran die from drinking
bootleg alcohol to prevent
coronavirus infection: reports
Fox News,
by
Danielle Wallace
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
3/10/2020 1:47:43 PM
Dozens of people in Iran died after drinking industrial-strength alcohol amid rumors it would prevent them from contracting the coronavirus, according to reports Tuesday.
The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA, reported Tuesday that 44 people had died from alcohol poisoning in the country after they "drank bootleg alcohol over rumors that it would be effective in treating coronavirus.” But the semi-independent Mehr News Agency reported a lower figure – at least 27 people dying in Iran from alcohol poisoning amid the coronavirus scare. Drinking, selling or buying alcohol has been outlawed in Iran for all citizens, except for some non-Muslim minorities, since the establishment of the Islmamic
Reply 1 - Posted by:
obdurate 3/10/2020 2:01:35 PM (No. 342135)
Good news.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
john56 3/10/2020 2:13:30 PM (No. 342139)
Hey, be sure to share the industrial strenght-hooch with the Mullahs and the neighborhood Iranian Guardsmen. I'm sure they'd appreciate your concern for their well being.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/10/2020 2:34:33 PM (No. 342155)
I hope these are mostly people in the Iranian government. I feel for the rank and file citizens there. Very difficult to overthrow a government, especially when world powers use it as a proxy. Just like the unfortunate citizens of Venezuela.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MattMusson 3/10/2020 2:37:42 PM (No. 342159)
Interestingly enough, some similar happened in the USA when the Spanish flu was devastating the country in 1920.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/10/2020 2:40:27 PM (No. 342162)
I worked, no? Not one of the 44 will contract the Coronavirus, safe to say.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 3/10/2020 2:52:02 PM (No. 342165)
Is it bad that I call this the feel good article of the day?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 3/10/2020 2:59:18 PM (No. 342166)
Should have washed their hands with it, not drank it.
Since there seem to be no reporters who ever took even a basic chemistry course, they are probably unaware that "alcohol" does not automatically mean ethyl alcohol. "Alcohol" is accurate for isopropyl alcohol (isopropanol), methyl alcohol (methanol) or ethyl alcohol.
But, only ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is safe to drink, the other two are toxic. Lots of people have died due to this ignorance and lumping all alcohols into one group. Various poor folks have tried to use methanol or isopropanol from various products to drink, often with fatal results.
Ignorance is bliss? Not always.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 3/10/2020 3:02:05 PM (No. 342170)
Oh, and even if the stuff was industrial ethanol, it has been common to intentionally poison it with an addition of toxic methanol to prevent theft. But, again, you gotta know what this is all about.
Probably will prevent theft in the future.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lftrn97 3/10/2020 3:03:13 PM (No. 342172)
#4 If a person freely believes in the false god then they aren't innocent.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/10/2020 4:27:13 PM (No. 342225)
Had they lived, the hangover would have been worse than the virus! Hysteria caused by the media, everywhere!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/10/2020 4:31:48 PM (No. 342229)
Re #8. In 1951 in Atlanta a bootlegger named John 'Fat' Hardy ran short of ethyl alcohol and laced his next batch with methanol. 38 black people died and dozens were blinded or paralyzed. He was tried and found guilty and given life in prison. Another account says he was given the death penalty but was allegedly too fat to fit in the electric chair and got his sentence commutated to life. The lesson here is to make sure you know what you are drinking.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/10/2020 4:38:14 PM (No. 342230)
But Alcohol in Iran is prohibited by law since 1979 so this couldn't have happened.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/10/2020 4:53:07 PM (No. 342235)
It worked. CORONAVIRUS didn't get them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
worried 3/10/2020 5:36:07 PM (No. 342257)
Do they add these figures to the deaths by coronavirus to inflate the number? It would make the virus seem more deadly.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/10/2020 6:49:50 PM (No. 342322)
Ethanol or methanol?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/10/2020 6:51:18 PM (No. 342324)
As I read paragraph one which mentions 'industrial strength alcohol', my cynical inner voice said "I wonder if those knuckleheads are drinking Methanol?
I was truly surprised when I got to paragraph four, and it stated, sure enough, that they were drinking Methanol.
A note to the article writer: Alcohol was used as an automotive antifreeze a long time ago, I think in the 1930's or so. By the time I started playing with cars in the early 1960's, antifreeze was all based on Ethylene Glycol.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Petronius 3/10/2020 7:05:24 PM (No. 342339)
Allah wills it!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/10/2020 8:00:39 PM (No. 342380)
And I saw a picture today of some third world goobers sitting in some kind of tub filled with cow poo to keep them from getting the virus.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/10/2020 8:28:21 PM (No. 342407)
Persian blend alcohol, delivered fresh from Darwin Distillery
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
joew9 3/10/2020 8:48:18 PM (No. 342422)
If they hadn't died wouldn't sharia law have executed them for drinking alcohol?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Norway 3/10/2020 9:03:35 PM (No. 342428)
First the lick holy shrines, now they drink (illegal) alcohol, forbidden by their own religion. Iran might just collapse from it's own stupidity.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
coldoc 3/10/2020 9:07:54 PM (No. 342431)
The only cure for corona virus is eating bacon.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
hershey 3/10/2020 9:27:19 PM (No. 342442)
I thought mooslims didn't drink alcohol???
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/11/2020 7:37:02 AM (No. 342704)
This proves some Irainians just aren't up to snuff when it comes to gray matter...
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Well, I guess Allah willed it. Or maybe being ignorant is dangerous to your health?
Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.