Hmm. Seems like the blessing might be bullshit.
Gotta bless it with Absolut Faith, the new brand from Absolut, then they can bless it AF.
Fuck yeah!
“The power of Christ compels you [to get cholera]!”
Wait, people drink holy water? its a bit of a joke where I live about people accidentally drinking it.
It just gets chucked over people or dabbed on their head where I’m from.
I didn’t think of that.
I didn’t think of people drinking it…that sounds really unhygienic.
Those are just the demons leaving their body.
From your behind
The article is scary… I used to study biology and still know a dozen antibiotics by heart. This was resistant to everything I remembered. Reading the passage, I was unable to guess what they treated it with. The article follows up by telling, however. :)
Testing indicated that the cholera strain that the travelers brought home was a particularly nasty one. V. cholerae O1, which is linked to other recent outbreaks in Eastern and Middle Africa, is resistant to a wide variety of antibiotics, namely: fluroquinolones, trimethoprim, chloramphenicol, aminoglycosides, beta-lactams, macrolides, and sulphonamides. The strain also carried a separate genetic element (a plasmid) that provided resistance mechanisms against streptomycin and spectinomycin, cephalosporins, macrolides, and sulphonamides.
spoiler
Fortunately, this strain was still susceptible to the antibiotic tetracycline, one of the drugs of choice for cholera. However, there are reports of other cholera strains in Africa that have also acquired tetracycline resistance.
I remember naming one of my Oregon Trail characters “God”. The words “God has cholera” still make me laugh, and this just reminded me.
Maybe they should have used some of that very profane UV light on their holy water, to make it safe, not just holy.
Modern medicine dragging the herd IQ down once again. You’re welcome…
I get the feeling that people who would drink holy water are not the ones listening to professionals or applying any common sense.
Theyre the ones buying snake oil instead of going to a doctor, or drinking bleach to get rid of autism.
I’m sure they would’ve acted against the eldest recommendation even before modern medicine.
That’s a brutal and very cynical view on saving lives.
And maybe some of these people get a little bit wiser. So I’m not sure your argument is even true.
And it’s definitely not funny either.Was just being facetious.
Lest you forget, Germany still subsidises homeopathy through the health insurance scheme, which ends up costing twice…
This is a small sample from the same group of people who were protesting the SARS vaccination.
I’m not sure how the 2 relate. But IMO homeopathy shouldn’t even be legal, because it’s fraud.
It doesn’t matter that some people may believe it, the evidence is clear that it doesn’t work beyond the placebo effect. It should be illegal on the same principles that make pyramid schemes illegal, pyramid schemes also do work for some.Since a lot of people are fine with placebos to feel better (studies support it), I support this over prescribing medicine all the time. This way less people feel the need to drink holy water
I refuse to pay for placebo when it costs more than actual medicine.
Yours is an absolutely asinine take.
And as a final note, there is no evidence homeopathy has a positive effect globally in the German population that is non inferior to not having it at all.
And as an important tool for those thinking the placebo effect is at all relevant, please keep in mind the design of the study you read and the disclosures (or lack thereof) at the end of said study. We’re still reeling from the sugar industry effects on research into nutrition.
They would get some unregulated stuff online then, and then it gets really expensive if their liver fails later on. Or shop for doctors until they get something.
You cant fix stupid, you can only push it into a less harmful direction.
