Someone I know has omicron. She shared an article from Fox News, and the headline made my jaw drop: “Cocktail guide offers recipes made with urine.” This is how it starts :
As hard as it may be to swallow, drinking urine has been around for millennia as a health elixir.
I’m imagining Fox executives were betting with each other about whether they could make their followers drink pee, to which I honestly would say, “Well done.” Now to be fair, this article is from 2016, so several years before the pandemic, but it is absolutely making the rounds right now in conservative media circles.
I googled “Fox News” and “urine” to see if there were any more recent articles. Fox did not disappoint, offering a most accommodating 2019 video entitled: “Drinking Urine: Can it help?”
Anti-vaxxers are taking the cause seriously. Anti-vaxx leader Christopher Key has really been pushing drinking urine to his minions: “The antidote that we have seen now, and we have tons and tons of research, is urine therapy. Okay, and I know to a lot of you this sounds crazy, but guys, God’s given us everything we need.”
The cocktail guide has recipes like the Marga-pee-ta, which is made with lime juice, syrup, and urine. You could also have a Pee and Tonic, or a Piss-co Sour. The guide doesn’t mention where you are supposed to acquire the urine.
The article explains that many great civilizations believed urine could “prevent or cure sickness, cleanse one’s bowels or act as a beauty treatment.” Of course, they believed in leeches and blood-letting as well, but no spa treatment guides for that yet.
I asked my friend to please not drink urine, which she said she wasn’t going to—that would be silly. However, she is actively trying to acquire horse dewormer paste for her condition.
If people want to eat horse dewormer, drink bleach, or down urine cocktails, they can have at it. Why not take a urine bath, like Dear Leader did in that Moscow hotel room?
As for me, I prefer to listen to people who have actually studied infectious diseases for their entire lives and who make science-based recommendations, like Dr. Anthony Fauci. But hey, Fox-watching folks are going to do what they want, even if that includes ingesting a tall glass of Long Island Iced Pee.
But if when they do, they really must stop trying to convince people that they’re the smart ones because they refuse to take the lifesaving vaccine.
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