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The Urine-Drinking COVID ‘Cure’

Earlier this week, the anti-vax “Vaccine Police” leader Christopher Paul Key, who set out on a road trip seeking to conduct citizen’s arrests of Democratic governors and was arrested for criminal trespass, urged his followers to swear off COVID-19 inoculation and to instead drink their own urine as a cure.

Key said in a video posted on Telegram, a platform favored by the far right, last weekend that the COVID-19 vaccine “is the worst bioweapon I have ever seen.” Instead, he told followers, “The antidote that we have seen now, and we have tons and tons of research, is urine therapy. OK, and I know to a lot of you this sounds crazy, but guys, God’s given us everything we need.”

In a subsequent conversation with The Daily Beast, Key identified Group as his guru on drinking piss.

Group is a Houston-based, self-styled “natural health” expert whose dubious credentials and connection to Alex Jones were explored in a 2017 torching by HBO’s John Oliver. In that segment, Oliver revealed how Group—who reportedly has a chiropractic certification but no undergraduate degrees—frequently appeared in ads touting InfoWars supplements on behalf of Jones, in one clip claiming the far-right conspiracy website’s health products could ward off any number of ailments, including the “mass amount of parasites or harmful organisms” he claimed were carried by refugees.

WAIT! Don't go running off, there is more, and it gets even better!

Cocktail guide offers recipes made with urine

As horrifying as the concept sounds, evidence shows that the ancient Egyptians, Romans, Hindus and Chinese all drank urine for medicinal purposes. Many believe that the waste can prevent or cure sickness, cleanse one's bowels or act as a beauty treatment. Modern-day techniques for ingesting it include taking some midstream from morning urine, mixed with juice, poured in fruit or taken in drops under the tongue.

Some famous practitioners reportedly have included Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez, author J. D. Salinger and former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai.

Some health professionals say that drinking urine isn’t the best idea, and that while it contains mainly water, minerals like sodium, potassium and chloride that the body has already been expelled are being put back in.

But if you're one who embraces urine therapy, all we can say is bottoms up.

This item from back in 2016, so before Covid even, courtesy of Fox News. 

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/cocktail-guide-offers-recipes-made-with-urine




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