Hundreds of Iranians have reportedly died and more than 1000 fallen ill after consuming methanol amid false rumours that it can help cure the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Iran has struggled to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed almost 2,400 people across the country and infected another 32,332.
In a desperate search for a cure, families have been turning to fake remedies that have spread across social media, including alcohol, which is banned in the Islamic Republic.
According to Iranian media, almost 300 people have been killed by ingesting methanol. An Iranian doctor helping the health ministry told the Associated Press that the extent of the problem was even greater, and estimated the death toll at 480, with 2,850 people ill.
“Other countries have only one problem, which is the new corona virus pandemic. But we are fighting on two fronts here,” said Dr Hossein Hassanian, the health ministry adviser.
It’s probably the end of the world as we know it. Those that will emerge on the other side of the post virus era will have a very different view of mother earth.
I dont think that will happen. The problem with microorganisms is that they know no nationality. Once released they will come back to infect your people.
That’s why they’ll develop the vaccine/antidote first. Zile vitu tunaonanga kwa movies. If the things declassified now are from 50 years ago, and the way they are advanced, what is currently being developed?
The thing is when dealing with microorganisms, they develop a life of their own. The multiply, mutate, grow. Even if you have a cure or a vaccine, a simple mutation may render a cure ineffective. We are now getting superorganisms that are resistant to treatment.
The world has waited for a nuclear apocalyspe for the last 70 years. It never came. Now we might be living through a biologically triggered human extinction level event. 95% of all living species that ever lived, are extinct. We could be next. 7 billion humans, just too many. scary shit!