Anti-Vaxxers Are Now Gargling Iodine to Prevent Covid-19

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One ER doc’s response to the new trend: “Fuck me! Of course they are”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/betadine-anti-vaxxer-covid-treatment-iodine-1225438/

[Ocelot II]

1. When are they going to start drinking their own pee?

[Hugin]

3. Who says they aren't?

Don't you go and give them any idears! FREEDUMB!!!i!1!!

[Hugin]

2. 1x16 oz bottle of iodine $80.00 US...

1xCOVID vaccination $0 US.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Would be a lot cheaper

potassium iodide. Doctors sometimes rec that. Less toxic, I think.

[Texaswitchy]

5. What about vinegar.

Makes about the same sense.

Cheaper also.

Dollar Store $1 for a big bottle.

[BootinUp]

6. Why not take a silver bullet

And get it over with.

Signed… Out of fucks

[keithbvadu2]

18. Colloidal Silver acc to Jim Bakker.

Colloidal Silver acc to Jim Bakker.

[Botany]

7. Anybody tell 'em that the virus is taken down the respiratory tract and it goes into the lung's

epithelia cells?

[getagrip_already]

8. I thought it was betadyne?

If they are going to use iodine, they need this recipe:

Ingrediants:

-- 1 kg pure iodine crystals
-- 4 liters 95% liquid ammonia

Mix well, some grinding may be required. Dry to a solid. Hit with a hammer until... well, the rest isn't needed.

[DBoon]

9. if they also drink colloidal silver, can they take photographs with their tongues?

[ananda]

11. Actually colloidal silver is a natural antibiotic.

I drank it for two or three days to cure a chronic and
persistent UTI. It worked. I have never had one since.

However, it would never work on a virus.

No antibiotic will work on a virus.

[DBoon]

13. and silver iodide can be used to make photographic film

before there were digital cameras, silver halides (iodide, bromide, chloride) were the basis of photography.

[ananda]

19. Sorry, I was just correcting a wrong impression. You took it the wrong way.

...

[DBoon]

20. No prob. Colloidial silver has its uses

as does iodine

[ananda]

24. Oh, I forgot. Colloidal silver also cured a bellybutton infection..

I got after appendix and bowel surgery.

Nothing else worked.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

10. Mercury...it kills everything

And you’ll look like T2.

[womanofthehills]

12. Actually, they are currently doing studies on Betadine as a protection for drs doing incubations

From Journal of Otolaryngology - Springer Nature

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased awareness of operating room transmission risks of the responsible virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 can remain aerosolized for at least three hours under experimental conditions and may persist for greater than 72 h on plastic and stainless steel surfaces; this creates substantial risks to all healthcare professionals [1]. The virus may reside in high concentrations in the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, oral cavity and oropharynx, and thus opportunities for dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 in the operating suite have been hypothesized [2, 3]. Intubation, as well as transoral and transnasal procedures, may pose a unique risk as viral particles may be aerosolized while performing these measures and contact with mucosa can be extensive. Various anecdotes confirm a relatively high prevalence of COVID-19 among otorhinolaryngologists, and for this reason, special precautions have been proposed for many aerosol-generating transnasal procedures [4]. Given that a minority of infected patients may remain asymptomatic, and that rapid and reliable screening remains limited, prevention against viral exposure has primarily focused on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) [5,6,7]. Topical oronasal treatment with povidone-iodine (PVP-I), better known as Betadine™ (Avrio Health, LP), may be an effective method to immediately reduce the viral load of the upper aerodigestive tract and thus decrease the risk of inadvertent virus transmission.
https://journalotohns.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40463-020-00474-x

[Percy]

14. Won't all that iodine is go directly to their thyroid

causing hyperthyroidism? Or "thyroid storm" as it's called?

Is this the "storm" they're all talking about?



But really ... it's not funny. I'm waiting for a doc to comment on this.

[womanofthehills]

17. It's such a tiny amt of iodine - The Betadine Sore Throat Gargle has 0.5% iodine and you do

not swallow it. You only gargle with about a tablespoon or less if you get a sore throat. Any Betadine you can buy in the store will be very diluted - even the betadine for cuts/rashes. Stronger Betadine is mostly used in hospitals. Betadine is great for mites in dogs ears or any cuts or rashes your animals might have.

We eat iodized salt - our thyroid needs iodine
The U.S. was historically iodine deficient prior to the early 1920s, particularly in the goiter belt region of the Great Lakes, Appalachians, and the northwestern area of the country, due to the effects of natural atmospheric processes. Following the successful implementation of salt iodization program in Switzerland, the introduction of iodized table salt in the U.S. during the 1920s significantly improved its iodine nutritional status. However, although recent national studies demonstrate that the general population is overall iodine sufficient, salt iodization in the U.S. is not universal, and certain subsets of the population, including pregnant and lactating women and their offspring, may be at risk for mild to moderate iodine deficiency. As such, a public health approach by the American Thyroid Association and the Endocrine Society advocate U.S. women to take a supplement containing 150 µg iodine/day beginning preconception. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5327366/

[canetoad]

15. This is not actually as stupid as it sounds

And to use malaise's words, let me make this pellucidly clear; I am not into woo remedies for covid!

I have a bottle of Betadine Sore Throat Gargle, it's a year or so old. I believe the Australian packaging is different to that in the US. Here is what was printed on the bottle until around one year ago:



"Betadine ready to use sore throat gargle is an antibacterial and antiviral gargle."

Here's the pharmacists pix of the bottle. You need to use the magnified thumbnails: https://www.amcal.com.au/betadine-sore-throat-gargle---120ml-p-9300655122548

Yesterday I checked the label on a bottle of the same stuff while shopping. The 'antiviral' has been removed on very new bottles.

This is making a mountain out of a molehill. The stuff was marketed as an antiviral. Now on their website they are saying that it doesn't kill covid. End of story.

[iemanja]

22. It's an airborne virus

It doesn't need to enter through the mouth.

[canetoad]

23. I know

I am not discussing the ways Covid can be transmitted.

This thread and several others over the past few days have heaped scorn on people who 'gargle with iodine'. I am pointing out that an iodine-based sore throat gargle, at one early point during the Covid pandemic, was labelled 'Anti Viral'.

You can draw a straight line from wearing masks to assuming that an anti-viral gargle could help destroy the covid virus. I just want to ammeliorate the derision that is being heaped on people who, FOR ONCE, may not deserve it.

[C Moon]

16. And they're still waiting to for us all die off in droves

for taking the vaccine.
They’ll be dying in a hospital bed saying, “At least I’m not dying of the vaccine.”

[iemanja]

21. I heard arsenic is better.