Originally published at: FDA asks people not to drink Covid test solution or use as eye drops | Boing Boing
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Come on people, it’s a testing solution, not ivermectin.
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The U.S is an amazing place. Many in this country cannot form a coherent sentence or determine the correct form of your/you’re, there/their/they’re, to/too/two or cite/site/sight. Yet, they claim, depending on the situation, to be experts in medicine, public health, modern warfare, religion, law and education. What a crazy country. Oh, they can also be convinced to drink their own piss.
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And you thought believing QAnon was peak American stupidity.
When you want to scrape the bottom of the barrel, the barrel always goes deeper.
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US stupid has been rising for quite some time.
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It’s been attributed to Einstein, but: “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
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Here they’ve been warning people not to chew of the RAT kits. (Seems kind of obvious…)
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And this is why reading the user’s manual is now a job.
I could see kids drinking it because they don’t know better, but one has to imagine the eyedrops are adults. What grown person goes “Hmm, an unfamiliar, slightly wrong-looking little bottle of liquid… I’m going to put this in my eyes without bothering to read the label”?
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The FDA doesn’t say who made the mistakes.
We live in a country that has a lot of elderly people living alone and with covid even more of them living in isolation.
I can easily see someone, especially someone that needs eye drops, getting all sorts of things mixed up including instructions on how to use a test.
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Really. Their leader suggested that they drink bleach to cure Covid. This is a wise and necessary move on the part of the FDA
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Don’t forget about horse paste and fish tank cleaner.
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Or tide pods
I suspect it’s more improper storage of the bottle near actual eyedrops, and people (potentially with poor eyesight) getting them mixed up.
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How long until this makes its way onto a right wing "news’ outlet with a narrative something along the lines of
“The FDA admits home covid tests are unsafe!”
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And now that the FDA has told them not to, what do you think the nutjobs are going to do? Can I get a “you’re not the boss of me”?
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