This guy suggests you drink your own pee to fight Covid. your thoughts?

[Still-alive]

Anti-vaxxers are touting another new Covid ‘cure’ – drinking urine. But they are not the only obstacles to ending the pandemic https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/anti-vaxxers-covid-drinking-urine-misinformation

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just waiting to hear any anti-vaxxer try to defend this lol

[CrazyGirl2]

I think this says it all! 🥲😅😅😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😅🥲

[Still-alive]

Lol all those faces at once 😂

[CrazyGirl2]

Wellllllll, he drinks his own piss, (ewww god, I hope it’s his own) and he believes that it cures Covid! I mean it JUST came out of his body, if it didn’t cure anything WHILE it was inside him before he peed, why would it cure anything the second time through? that definitely deserves SOME laughter. However as usual you are wise beyond your years, it DOES deserve some 🥴🤢🤮 emojis too! LOL

[Still-alive]

Yeah all these quacks just crawling out of whatever hole they came from lol

[CrazyGirl2]

Some day, sweetie. Some day! Mankind just cannot keep on being THIS stupid, and survive!

[devoygf]

that's disgusting

[Apple1996]

Drinking my own pee? Nah I'm good if I really want to fight covid with my body fluids I'll drink my own breastmilk

[Still-alive]

better tasting lol

[malakaki]

I tried this before (it wasn't for coronavirus), because I was little back then. But anti-vaccine folks, don't listen to this guy and drink your pee. Because it tastes very acidic and salty. But still getting vaccinated is cooler than drinking urine. I recommend. =D

[Apulu_3]

Ah why is drinking pee so popular? In India also a random priest was saying drink cow urine to fight covid. What has happened to world? Did they all got possessed by Bear Grylls?

[Still-alive]

just people are able to say whatever they feel like on tv and the internet and such and theirs no fact checking or filtering them out anymore.

[Apulu_3]

Like it is proven that person can get their kidney damaged by drinking urine.

[Zygum]

@apulu_3, ex, P. M, of India, Mirrar ji Dessai used to drink his urine

[Apulu_3]

@Zygum you are talking about Morarji Desai?

[lightbulb27]

I'm not anti vax, but I'm skeptical reserved and pro choice vax... because some people are harmed by the vax.

I'll stick with apple cider vinegar and pickles, thank you very much.

these ideas of "drink your own" have been around a long time, nothing new. maybe it works... who knows... not gonna find out.

Anyone want to jump off the empire state building so ya don't get covid? don't...

[Leonharted]

Shooting yourself in the head with a frangible round also ensures that you will never catch Covid, or any other disease again. It will also keep you from ever sounding stupid again.

A frangible round in ballistic gel

[jshm2]

You are going to lose your mind when you hear about the cow pat "covid cure" then!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/20/dont-eat-cow-dung-to-protect-against-covid-19-coronavirus-despite-these-claims/?sh=4aeae7fc4cd9

[loveslongnails]

I hear if you make a mixture of your pee and add bleach and Invermectin, then suck Trump's, or McConnell's, or Ron Johnson's dick and have them cum in your mouth and wash it down with that mixture, you'll be immune from not only Covid, but all diseases, forever !! Have you heard that too?

[purplepoppy]

We shouldn't be mocking this idea, we should be encouraging antivaxers to do this just for a laugh

[r2cute]

he will win the Darwin award eventually lmao

[ImNoOne111]

I can't get enough of these people. Years and years of sacrifice of millions of people to understand viruses and stop those which we are damaging us and this dude comes and tells you to drink your own pee and don't care about hundreds of years of work of intelligent people! I want to see him provide proof if there is any difference in effectiveness of his "cure" based on sex, age and environmental factors. This made my day!

[ODC2112]

Fools are not to be protected in any way. If you are stupid enough to drink your piss thinking it will save you from covid do it. It will highlight that you are a urinophagus and the next step is to become a coprophage by saying that you eat creamy chocolate, when you taste your own shit.

[De_La_BakedBeans]

Oh yeah totally, and you should mix it with bleach. It works better as well. And while your at it why don't you buy a one-way space-travel ticket so we can shoot you off of the face of the earth once and for all...

[MarkRet]

Urine is what your body gets rid of because it’s no longer of any use. How is drinking it supposed to help. Ted Cruz drinks Trump’s urine, and it doesn’t seem to do HIM any good!

[jamesgoldman]

Horrible I can remember at tye start of the pandemic before the UK was effected that the french had had to put out a PSA that cocaine wasn't a Covid cure, I remember reading that out loud in a coffee shop and hearing a few laughs around

[lilaccc]

i believe in vaccine and my own immune, so my answer is nope. thanks 😂

[Still-alive]

yeah icky lol

[zagor]

Some people in India were pushing drinking of cow urine to prevent covid.

Yeah because if you drink cow piss no one will come near you...

[theothersider]

India has the highest death rate for rabies in the world. It is a common held belief in india that if you are bitten by a dog... you are impregnated with puppies so instead of going to a doctor they go to a shaman to be treated subsequently dying of a infection or rabies... moral of the story is don't turn to india for health advice.- seriously I am not making that up. search puppy pregnancy syndrome.

[Still-alive]

@theothersider

@PrettyPriya is what she says accurate?

[PrettyPriya]

@Still-alive

First I am hearing of it.

[Still-alive]

@PrettyPriya yeah sounds a bit farfetched to me

@apulu_3 what do you think?

[theothersider]

blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../

www.youtube.com/watch skip to 6 min in or about to get the full explanation.

[Still-alive]

@theothersider oh im sure one youtube video proves anything... hmmm

[theothersider]

or you could research it your self? I give a youtube video because 99.9% of questions asked on this website could be answered if people spent 5 minutes googling and reading... but apparently the internet lacks that attention span so I linked a convenient video... the other link I included is to a link in scinetificamerica that explains the absurdity of such an idea.

[Apulu_3]

@Still-alive Even if such belief is there then it isn't common as she told because I have never heard of that really. I asked my friend and he thought that I'm making it up. I'm from east India and I can say it isn't really common hear or at least not heard of it. He stayed in West and Middle India for most of his life and he doesn't know about this too.

[Still-alive]

@Apulu_3 interesting. thanks!

[Apulu_3]

@Still-alive your welcome

[PrettyPriya]

@Apulu_3 @Still-alive

Imagine that... people making assumptions on the internet.

[Apulu_3]

@PrettyPriya Yes it's very bad and causes many misunderstandings.

[theothersider]

@PrettyPriya Imagine that, people on the internet refusing to use the internet to verify if what I am saying is true or not. I mean seriously, google search rabies deaths by country. virtually every link you find that has the epidemiology of the rabies virus will tell you that india has the highest rate of mortality due to the that virus. it will also tell you why india has the highest mortality rate due to rabies...

Exerpt from the World Health Organization rabies data fact sheet.

India

India has the highest rate of human rabies in the world, primarily because of stray dogs,[93] whose number has greatly increased since a 2001 law forbade the killing of dogs.[94] Effective control and treatment of rabies in India is hindered by a form of mass hysteria known as puppy pregnancy syndrome (PPS). Dog bite victims with PPS, male as well as female, become convinced that puppies are growing inside them, and often seek help from faith healers rather than medical services.[95] An estimated 20,000 people die every year from rabies in India, more than a third of the global total.[94]

www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies

[Apulu_3]

@theothersider Yeah the rabies part is true but that common belief which you said about dog bites are completely false or at least not common.

[theothersider]

@Apulu_3 well then you need to take that shit up with the world health organization for spreading something that is "totally false". because they are the ones saying it. Also something can't be completely false and not common. they are either one or the other which if you would read any of the articles I have linked it will tell you that it is not a belief that affects ALL indians but Indians in more rural areas due to poor education.

[Apulu_3]

@theothersider Maybe it is something which doesn't happens in my part (east India) as when I go to my village then also I don't notice this belief.

[theothersider]

@Apulu_3 The syndrome is thought to be localized to villages in several states of India, including West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh, and has been reported by tens of thousands of individuals. I have no geological concept of were these are in India?

[Apulu_3]

@theothersider at least not in Middle east Odisha where I live because never in my life I have heard such a thing.

[SteinerX]

Yes this is the unfortunate truth. Rabies Encephalitis is a horrible disease, and one of the very few diseases in front of which, the entire medical community kneels down. There is no treatment or cure, and the affected individuals die almost in cent percent of the cases. Unfortunately, the death is very very horrible and extremely painful. The only thing we have is prevention, but it is highly, almost 100% effective, which includes the Anti Rabies Vaccination and Anti Rabies Immunoglobulin.

India, my country, is rather bad when it comes to scientific knowledge among the rural people. Some of them still think that apples fall to the ground because God does not like wordly things to reach Him/Her in the heaven, so they blow on them from above, which causes objects to fall.

Something similar happens in the case of diseases like Rabies. People, who do not believe in vaccines, or are scared of them, often do not go to the doctor, and refer themselves to fake monks and saints, claiming that if the wound is left untreated, the victim will start barking like a dog and his/her stomach will start breeding puppies (as to how men will breed anything, let alone a puppy, without a uterus is beyond them)... these con artists also teach the people to avoid taking consultation from a medical practitioner or a doctor... which then leads to the development of rabies symptoms... and once Rabies symptoms develop, literally no ONE ON THIS PLANET CAN SAVE YOU FROM THIS REAPER VIRUS... IT'S THE CALL OF DEATH

[theothersider]

@SteinerX Thank you for the clarification. I had actually heard of this from a guy I work with who is Indian. My opinion was not meant as a slight but to draw attention to the absurdity of DIY treatments. the guy in this original post drinking his own urine is an example of this snake oil sales man bs in white culture. They prey on the mis informed.

[SnakeBoop]

"Doesn't want to put toxins in their body"
Then promotes drinking their piss... which isone if their body's way of expelling toxins...

[SaoirseS]

I'm starting to think the idea of being able to broadcast oneself wasn't a very good idea!

[Jaximus-Lion]

What happened to bleach? I thought that was da shit. I have to keep my self updated. But hey! I am diabetic, my urine will be sweet 😝

[RolandCuthbert]

Didn't know we had pee drinkers at GaG. They could have told somebody. I could sell them my pee for 2 or 3k a bag.

[DaveToo]

Ignorant people will try anything to avoid doing the one thing that could help them from getting, or at least mitigating the effects of Covid and its variants, get the fucking vaccine.