from the Dunning–Kruger-Effect-or-Darwin-Award-Candidates? dept.
Americans are drinking bleach and dunking food in it to prevent COVID-19:
Americans are doing more housecleaning and disinfecting amid the COVID-19 pandemic and many are turning to wild and dangerous tactics—like drinking and gargling bleach solutions.
Back in April, the agency noted an unusual spike in poison control center calls over harmful exposures to household cleaning products, such as bleach. The timing linked it to the spread of the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (not statements by President Trump). But to get a clearer idea of what was behind the rise, CDC researchers set up an online survey of household cleaning and disinfection knowledge and practices.
In all, they surveyed 502 US adults and used statistical weighting to make it representative of the country's population. The findings—published Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—are stunning.
Overall, 60 percent said they were doing more cleaning and disinfecting amid the pandemic and 39 percent admitted to doing at least one non-recommended cleaning practice the CDC considers high risk.
The questions and responses are fully available (NO paywall); read it here:
Journal Reference
Gharpure R, Hunter CM, Schnall AH, et al. Knowledge and Practices Regarding Safe Household Cleaning and Disinfection for COVID-19 Prevention, [OPEN] MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6923e2)
Questions from the survey:
Recommended Best Practices:
- When making a dilute bleach solution, only room temperature water should be used
- Bleach should not be mixed with vinegar
- Hand sanitizers should be kept out of reach of children
- Bleach should not be mixed with ammonia
- For some household cleaning products, eye protection should be used during use
- Hands should be washed with soap and water after using household cleaning products
- For some household cleaning products, gloves should be used during use
- Good ventilation (air flow) is needed when using cleaning chemicals
- Household cleaning products should be kept out of reach of children
Risky Practices Performed:
- Drank or gargled diluted bleach solution
- Drank or gargled soapy water
- Drank or gargled a household cleaner
- Inhaled the vapor of household cleaners like bleach
- Misted the body with cleaning spray or alcohol spray
- after being in public spaces
- Used household cleaner to clean or disinfect hands or bare skin
- Washed fruits, vegetables, or other food products with bleach
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday June 07 2020, @10:55PM (3 children)
Replace 'bleach' with 'soap' in the second section, and you're not going to go hazardously far wrong. And since soap and water has a dual-action mechanism (at least according to Alton Brown) of emulsifying and stripping the delivery mechanism [youtube.com] from viruses, why aren't people abusing and hoarding soap instead? At least that's a little more comprehensible.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday June 08 2020, @12:55AM (1 child)
People were hording, at least around where I am. But by late May stocks of all cleaning products and things like toilet paper were back to normal.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @05:38AM
We had a sale on toilet paper at one of the stores here. I think they ordered too much thinking demand would stay high, but it ended up not.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Monday June 08 2020, @09:15PM
More than a quarter century ago I worked thru school at a food store and got seconded to help out in the deli counter occasionally which is a very long story to explain that I know what they're doing.
Most soaps are either nice smelling or some commercial grade liq detergents are near odorless (any stink is added by consumer grade manufacturers).
So we had to dip stuff in a dilute bleach solution which stinks of chlorine and if you can still smell chlorine either the stuff is still too wet aka corrosion and just generally being gross or hasn't been wiped clean (food reside plus bleach is stinky; clean stuff that was dipped in solution doesn't have stinky bleach stick to it).
The slicer was actually pretty interesting to clean in that it had multiple sprays to generally clean areas that food never touched, disinfect other areas, and lube parts, like an inside out car engine where all the wet surfaces were exposed.
By deli "stuff" I mean inedible machines and tools. Like the giant meat slicer machine or the serving spoons.
We did not dip deli food in the bleach. But if we did, it would make more sense as you can smell when the bleach is rinsed off better than when all the soap is rinsed off.
Also as a side note I can unfortunately report that eating a ridiculous small amount of detergent due to poor rinsing CAN result in massive explosive diarrhea. On the other hand, consuming small amounts of bleach, not enough to corrode skin but enough to smell and taste bad, seems quite harmless, about like drinking chlorinated water. Sometimes in the Army water chlorinated heavily enough to make the medics happen meant it smelled and tasted like pool water; better gross taste than giardia I guess.
I could totally imagine someone buying produce at the food store that some idiots have coughed all over for days wanting to soak their potatoes in a bit of dilute bleach water.
I suspect the big problem with bleach was much like toilet paper; I'm told by Big Brother to only shop every two weeks and there's a shortage of bleach and TP so I better buy enough for the next six months today, and everyone doing that resulted in a huge shortage for awhile. Normally we'd all buy a bottle of bleach every six months for laundry or whatever, but everyone insisting its the end of the world and better buy now because it won't be here next week means we all had to buy six months bleach in one week interval of shopping.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by MostCynical on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:00PM (8 children)
everyone who responded to the survey was not dead.
so we don't know how many have killed themselves gargling bleach or inhaling bleach vapours (or injecting it, or whatever)
further, we don't know how dumb they were before they admitted doing stupid stuff (dumb enough to do it..), only that they were dumb enough to admit it..
Did it make them dumber?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:03PM (5 children)
Long term, probably. Still - most people who believe this kind of thing (including our Baby Carrot in Chief) are dumb enough to start with that any additional loss of I.Q. is imperceptible/irrelevant.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @10:12AM
Relatively speaking, they still may have lost 50% or more of their IQ.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by c0lo on Monday June 08 2020, @10:32AM (3 children)
Heh, easy fix. Allow more Mexican house cleaners in US, they have enough IQ and direct experience in using bleach to know it's not to be used as a drug (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 08 2020, @12:47PM
Jesus, talk about direct experience... when I was working fast food we had an employee who was trying to get his hands on the cash bag, his first attempt was to mix ammonia and chlorine in a mop bucket by the manager's desk - manager wouldn't open the door that close to the cash bag so she just sat there and took the gas.
About a week later, he finally managed to get his hands on the bag and get it out the back door unseen - tossed it up on the roof (this in days before cameras everywhere) - but, even with food prep gloves everywhere was still dumb enough not to wear them so when the cops found the bag they found his fingerprints on it.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @01:36AM (1 child)
Huh! Really? The parent offers an excellent, practical and cheap advice to raise the IQ in US, should be modded +Insightful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @03:30PM
Ya, but it involved the wrong skin tones so the resident racists couldn't have that.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:25PM
Did it make them dumber?
Judging by election results over the last few decades, yes... The most direct answer to your question resides in the White House
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday June 08 2020, @01:16PM
Of course you must grant them one thing: After you died from bleach, you won't catch COVID-19. So clearly it helps.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:01PM (10 children)
It's all a matter of dosage, but even if it is safe, it doesn't mean I have to like the residue of white stuff on the surface of the shaved carrot chunks in the bag...
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:42PM
Packaged carrots of any type, really. They sit there way too long, and you end up with spoilage. I always used to buy fresh, loose carrots in ones and twos, now I just buy more of those. I can look at them to make sure they're not rotten or split. You can't do that in those bags, not very well anyway. Just buy fresh, loose carrots and clean them yourself. Problem solved. Added bonus, you cut out some packaging which has gone sky-high since this pandemic started. We've gone back to single-use plastic bags and everything. I'm still bagging the carrots of course, but in a thin produce bag, not a thick printed fancy bag that hides the quality (or lack thereof) from me. So there we go. I've ranted about carrots. There really is too much time on our hands these days...
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday June 08 2020, @03:43AM (8 children)
I have some bad news for you. They add chlorine to your drinking water and the water you bath in. Even worse here, they then add ammonia just to make sure.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @11:00AM
Shhh, don't tell them that this early into the game, I was quite enjoying where it was all going, you've gone and dropped that bomb way too soon..
(FWIW, the chlorine levels in the local water supply are enough to seriously fuck up any attempts at home brewing. and I've lived in places where the heavy chlorination of the tap water turned it into, more or less, a mild bleach solution...the alternative being lovely active cryptosporidium. )
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 08 2020, @12:41PM (2 children)
Not ours - our household water comes from the ground, the Hawthorne (limestone) aquifer, same place they extract some of the better (or at least more popular) bottled waters from. Means that films of red algae tend to form in the toilets after a couple of days, and the kids aren't getting fluoride in their drinking water, but as terrible as their brushing habits are (and floss, what's that?) they are still cavity free.
They started adding ammonia to the municipal water where I grew up when I was about 10, disgusting stuff, but with good reasons. If you're going to supply drinking water to millions of people through thousands of miles of nasty old underground pipes, it's the cost effective way to make sure you don't end up killing a bunch of them with a bacterial outbreak. I'll pay a little extra for our private water system, thanks.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday June 08 2020, @03:14PM (1 child)
Your lucky. I have a shallow well that I don't trust for drinking, used to be a few springs that I got my drinking water from, good water, but they've all been shut down due to things like golf courses appearing. I do get my municipal water jsut before the ammonia adding plant so I avoid that but still get the chlorine.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 08 2020, @03:34PM
Yeah, shallow wells used to be good for drinking around here, in the 1930s. Since then, you need to get to the deep aquifer for drinking water. Our well still has about 5' of "head" on it, so even without electricity (as in: after a hurricane) we still get a trickle in the low faucets like the bathtub. Used to be a lot more until the municipal water supply tapped the same aquifer - they actually paid for submersible pumps for everyone affected (in the 1960s) - our pump just died two years ago, $1200 to replace - small price for clean water.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @02:43PM (1 child)
Might differ by area, but around here they use chloramine instead of chlorine, because it persists longer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Monday June 08 2020, @03:02PM
Chloramine is what you get after adding the ammonia to chlorine.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 08 2020, @09:22PM (1 child)
Don't hold back, give them the good news about flourine also.
For extra fun talk about corrosion inhibitors, the whole Flint Michigan thing was caused by a lack of inhibitors. It certainly wasn't caused by lead pipes, those things had been installed for a century in some cases certainly no new ones have been added in at least half a century. What did change was not adding inhibitors anymore, probably to "save money".
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday June 09 2020, @02:09AM
Hmm, interesting. Never heard of adding corrosion inhibitors to the water supply before, perhaps due to the water here being not particularly corrosive (snow melt). Looking at my governments guidelines , it does seem expensive just to monitor and educate the users about the lead in water, little well treating it. I guess the water company that served Flint was criminally negligent for not monitoring for lead, little well treating it.
As for fluorine, well we all know about General Jack Tripper.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:04PM
At least these people are not using Windows and trying not to catch the virus!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:05PM (17 children)
Trump (even GOP) is planning to lost election, by killing off his followers.
1) Their is no COVID-19 its just the flu.
2) GOP suing to force everyone to go to polls and vote... That raised COVID-19 rate in state.
3) Stupid ideas like injecting cleaners. And you got this story.
Now if the offer a Kool-Aid party... watch out.
But this will just lead to marshal law. We have seen in the last week of Blue Line (police), Brown Line (Troops), and ???? Line (every thug they could find without ID), take over Washington DC, because of peaceful protests. There was some bad actors mixed in, no better than the Brown Shirts is take over of German before WWII. This will lead to Trump lossing the election but winning the war as he calls for marshal law, so he become the KING of America.
Next envade Canada and Meixco (sheap labor).
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:19PM (9 children)
And 100+ BLM protestors right next to each other won't spread COVID? Stupidity is pretty universal.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @02:16AM (3 children)
From a different AC:
Of COURSE the parent post was modded flamebait. It showed the fundamental, hypocritical illogic in how Democrats are treating coronavirus spread and deadliness. Is it really a threat? Democrat actions now appear to indicate they really think it's just a cold. Who got slammed and by whom the first time around for having that attitude? Remember? Or maybe Democrats REALLY DO think it is dangerous, and they have the same level of concern for the health of the law-abiding public they have showed with respect to the arsons/assaults/looting associated with the peaceful protests: not much. Either way, it's awful.
P.S. I would LOVE for parent post to be modded anything other than Flamebait -1 because that just CENSORS a legitimate counterargument.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @03:29AM (2 children)
Browse at -1, faggot.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @05:23AM (1 child)
Obviously I saw it, jackass, or how could I respond to it?
Are you one of those who drank the bleach, by chance?
This was so OTHER PEOPLE would see the post who don't look at -1 posts.
(Score: 5, Touché) by janrinok on Monday June 08 2020, @08:59AM
Perhaps they don't want to see posts that have been moderated to -1? If they don't want to see it why should the moderation system be changed so that they have to see it?
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:02AM (1 child)
So COVID is a Democrat hoax right up until it is convenient for you to attack your political enemies?
Interesting how your brain works. Well, more predictable than interesting, but y'know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:26AM
The country is reopening too soon!!!
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-white-houses-push-to-reopen-the-economy-this-early-is-a-dangerous-gamble [newyorker.com]
Fuck the police!!! I CAN'T BREATHE!!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @01:26PM (1 child)
I don't know of anyone that thinks the protests aren't going to spread it. Honestly, the timing couldn't be worse.
But the protesters didn't exactly choose the timing, that was up to George Floyd's killer.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @03:02PM
No, it's not the cop's fault.
It's the fault of the ENTIRE WHITE RACE since Amerikkka was founded. You're not keeping up with the evolving story here.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:12PM
I've heard the argument for allowing the BLM protesters. It is, roughly that the protests will have an effect on another significant cause of death -- the murder of blacks by authoritarians.
So it is a trade-off between one cause of death and another.
I'm not convinced. The murder of blacks is endemic, but dies not appear to be as contagious as covid-19, and as such is not exhibiting exponential growth.
It is clear that suppressing these demonstrations by use of force will only inspire the demonstrators to carry on.
-- hendrik
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:23PM (5 children)
Let me try to fix this for you.
Close to what you were trying to say? The spelling is atrocious and deplorable, even by SN standards. But we are all aboot the Freeze peaches, so we will tow your line. It will help you get a new leash on life!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday June 08 2020, @03:27AM
Is there a venery shortage in Canada?
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Monday June 08 2020, @06:19AM (1 child)
Maybe he meant Marshall Law [youtube.com]
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Monday June 08 2020, @08:59AM
I thought he meant Martian Law [youtube.com]
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:11AM (1 child)
Russia has downgraded the importance of SN propaganda. I guess Buzzy's stubborn stupidity has at least had some effect for good, can't brainwash people already blinded by idealism.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 08 2020, @10:37AM
Don't try to brain-bleach them, they are already doing it on their own money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday June 08 2020, @10:16AM
Cleaning the swamp, one drop of bleach at a time. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:17PM (5 children)
I'll stick to Tide Pods.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 08 2020, @01:29AM
Those will make you gain (heh...Gain) a surprising amount of weight if you're not careful. Try All Free & Clear if you're counting calories.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @02:10AM (3 children)
Tide pods and bleach are so...old. The kids are sniffing Tear gas these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:13AM (1 child)
Who knew DARE would be more than a government acronym???
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @09:10AM
Drugs Are Really Excellent.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 08 2020, @10:39AM
And using pepper spray instead of Lynx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:30PM (1 child)
This country needs this. Trump is a genius.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:19PM
Compared to someone who would call him one? Sure.
(Score: 1) by gmby on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:36PM (5 children)
Exposure levels are important with all things good/bad.
https://www.endoexperience.com/documents/NaOCl-safeuseetcBritDentJ2007.pdf [endoexperience.com]
Bye
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @12:01AM (4 children)
For that matter, there are times when it's reasonable to drink what is effectively a highly diluted bleach solution: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water [epa.gov]. This isn't for disinfecting the body from infectious agents but to kill microorganisms in potentially contaminated drinking water.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @05:52AM (3 children)
The recommended amount of 6% bleach solution to add to a quart/liter of water is equivalent to 154 microlitres or 0.03125 teaspoons (although the volumes used don't increase linearly the way they should). I highly doubt the people doing these dangerous activities are using anywhere low of that amount or even the correct kind of bleach.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday June 08 2020, @07:16AM (2 children)
Microlitres? Teaspoons? Please use everyday, easily visualised units for volume - it's 0.0000193 Bugatti Chiron engines.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Monday June 08 2020, @05:09PM (1 child)
Couldn't you just give it to me in some units I understand, like liters per gallon.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Farmer Tim on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:00PM
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:37PM (8 children)
Let the idiots kill themselves off and hope they haven't reproduced yet.
It's just a fact of life that people with brains the size of grapes have mouths the size of watermelons. -- Aunty Acid
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @11:56PM (5 children)
Unfortunately, the type of hyphenated-American slum dweller who would try this stuff tends to breed young and breed often.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @12:05AM (1 child)
#HyphenatedAmericanLivesMatter
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @12:21AM
Not according to President Roosevelt!! [wikipedia.org]
Of course, he did not have to hide in a bunker, and tear-gas Americans exercising their constitutional rights, to hold a Bible up San Juan Hill and give special tax benefits to the Teapot Dome.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @12:34AM (1 child)
I thought the people who went for hyphenated names tended to be upper class
(Score: 2) by drussell on Monday June 08 2020, @05:06PM
I suppose that depends on if you mean given names or surnames. :)
I dated a really cute girl named Bobbie-Jo for many years, from a tiny, tiny little town...
She's got a hyphenated name... :)
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @07:16AM
And here I thought you White Power folks tended to protect your own.
Oh well, I won't be shedding any tears about you hateful idiots dying off. I do hope none of your younger members drink the kool-aid, they do stand a chance of forging a better path.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by corey on Monday June 08 2020, @02:36AM (1 child)
They just become a burden on the health system by ringing up the poisons hotline and going to hospital.
It's disappointing that so many people actually believe this stuff, and generally anything the Orange Anus says. I don't hope they die but rather see that he is an idiot with a microphone and camera, and to be ignored.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @03:21AM
You can blame incompetent judges and media organizations that treat both sides as equally valid for that. Sometimes, there really is only one valid opinion.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @12:57AM (3 children)
Boomers forced everyone to stay home at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space.
Boomers forced every business to close at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space.
Boomers forced everyone to wear face masks at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space.
Boomers caused the worst economic depression in history to give Boomers a safe space.
Whiny entitled Boomers are the worst generation ever to live.
No longer.
Boomers must be made to pay with their lives for crimes against civilization.
The Final Solution to COVID-19 is to exterminate every Boomer.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @01:11AM (2 children)
Sweetie, drinking bleach has pickled your brain.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @01:29AM (1 child)
Didn't you hear, Boomer? Drinking bleach will protect you from COVID-19 and black people.
Looters looted your precious businesses that gave you preferential treatment, Boomer. No more preferential treatment for you.
Die, racist selifish Boomer.
(Score: 2) by drussell on Monday June 08 2020, @05:10PM
This shtick is getting really, really old...
you're welcome to keep trying, though...
(Score: 2) by Revek on Monday June 08 2020, @01:00AM (1 child)
Its ultimately a self correcting problem.
This page was generated by a Swarm of Roaming Elephants
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday June 08 2020, @12:10PM
You can't fix stupid, but sometimes stupid can fix itself, eh?
To everything there is a season ... this the season of the Darwin Awards? Well, don't get your hopes up. Swarm intelligence works for ants, and even the dumbest functional humans are way smarter than an ant. When they see fellow humans hurt themselves, they can still sometimes string together the cause of that effect, and avoid it themselves.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by sonamchauhan on Monday June 08 2020, @01:17AM (3 children)
There's a better way to use bleach.
Let your body's cells generate HOCl (the active ingredient of bleach) from salt solution that you used to gargle and rinse the insides of your nasal cavity. The cell then uses bleach that it made within the cell for antiviral activity.
This paper has the details:
"Hypertonic saline nasal irrigation and gargling should be considered as a treatment option for COVID-19"
http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue202001/jogh-10-010332.htm [jogh.org]
(Ignore the less than impressive presentation. This is a preprint paper accepted for publication. The group's previous research has appeared in 'Nature').
Here's how you do it:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/27/how-grandmothers-gargling-remedy-could-help-abate-the-wuhan-virus/ [thefederalist.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @02:13AM
> ...from salt solution that you use to gargle ...
Let me improve on that recipe. From salty semen that you use to gargle - at least someone gets some benefit.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 08 2020, @02:55AM (1 child)
My mom recommended salt water gargles for colds of all types 50 years ago...
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(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Monday June 08 2020, @03:31AM
My dentist recommends it after oral surgery.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 08 2020, @02:19AM
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @02:55AM
Nothin' like the morning cup o' Clorox to get the day started.
(Score: 1) by leon_the_cat on Monday June 08 2020, @07:06AM
I personally won't go anywhere near the stuff its totally banned in my household but i'v tried talking to people about their over use of bleach and found out that many people are actually addicted to bleach fumes.
(Score: 3, Touché) by sjames on Monday June 08 2020, @07:15AM
Wow, dumber than advertised. I remember knowing better in kindergarten. We even had a lady in a green superhero costume come in and remind us that it's bad to eat or drink cleaning products.
Apparently the labels need an update to let small children know they need to hide the cleaning products from "adults".
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday June 08 2020, @08:22AM (1 child)
I found that two teaspoons of bleach per 5 gallon of water in a jerry can will keep green stuff from growing in it. I think the CDC lists one teaspoon per 5 gallons, but I think that from the tap and not rain water. I got about 20 of these nice 5 gal jerry cans that connect together lego style. Stacks up nicely against a wall. I used to cycle through them watering the chickens, until the tornado killed them. So that dosage isn't even enough to kill a chicken.
Anyway, you can drink bleach. It doesn't smell appealing but it's better than dehydrating. Probably better to use pool shock, but that's used as a precursor for stuff that doesn't mix well with prepping. Unless you want some feds to pull a waco on you.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by stretch611 on Monday June 08 2020, @11:33AM
Even better, add a little pool shock to some coke (or generic cola; not cocaine) Just make sure that the pool shock contains calcium hypochlorite. (Don't use "stabilized" chlorine for this.)
Disclaimer... do not do the above... it is a very serious chemical reaction.
I am not a chemist... (just a computer geek that worked in a pool store while going to school 30 years ago.)
and like the dumb kid I was in college... I had to try it... even a small teaspoon amount added to little more then backwash in a nearly empty 2 liter bottle of cola lead to a violent reaction back then.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P