Friday, March 27, 2020

"Florida politician says coronavirus cured by blowing hairdryer up nose"

Warning: Do Not Self Medicate (or immolate).*
From the New York Post:
A local Florida politician has apologized for telling a public meeting that blowing a hairdryer up your nose can cure the coronavirus.

Okeechobee County Commissioner Bryant Culpepper bragged about his background as a paramedic as he hailed the madcap “cure” that he saw “one of the foremost doctors who has studied the coronavirus” reveal on cable TV.

“This sounds really goofy — and it did to me too — but it works,” he told Friday’s meeting of his commission, as caught on video.

“The answer was you use a blow dryer. You hold a blow dryer up to your face and you inhale with your nose and it kills all the viruses in your nose,” he insisted....MORE
*Don't be like the Arizona man who drank the chloroquine phosphate and died.
"He has a name you know."
"What is it?"
"Aquarium cleaner guy"
—actual conversation
Also,  despite what Governor Cuomo said, do not break open your old-school TV:
New York To Begin Trials With Plasma For Seriously Ill And Antibody Test To Send Survivors Back To Work