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Everything’s Going to Hell, But At Least We’re Not Eating Mummies
People have always done stupid things. It’s not like stupidity was invented in 2016, or that we somehow got even stupider in 2020 when the pandemic struck.
It just feels that way.
Do you know what colloidal silver is? It’s tiny little pieces of silver suspended in a liquid. Silver actually has some antibacterial properties, but it can also kill you.
It will also turn you blue (a condition called argyria) if you ingest enough of it.
Despite the fact that colloidal silver can be deadly and turn you blue, people still take it internally as a homeopathic cure-all. (“Homeopathic” is Latin for “Doesn’t fucking work”.)
This fact goes a long way towards explaining the whole ivermectin fiasco, which is apparently getting even more fiasco-y, if that’s possible.
But at least drinking silver and taking horse dewormer is based on some teeny, tiny crumb of science.
Eating mummies? Not so much.
No matter how bad things get or how insane our society becomes, at least we’re not eating mummies.
