Sometimes it seems as though disasters like the Chinese Virus pandemic are just nature winnowing the human wheat from the chaff. For every inspiring story of human courage, selflessness and ingenuity, there’s…well, this…
A kid who licked toilets as part of the #CoronaVirusChallenge says he’s now in the hospital with coronavirus.
twitter.com/PardesSeleh/status
Uh…what? You may well be asking…
A woman was slammed online after she shared a video clip of herself licking a toilet seat on TikTok.
Ava Louise, a 22-year-old influencer, from Miami, was slammed online for licking an airplane toilet seat while taking part in the so-called ‘coronavirus challenge.’
In the short clip, she can be seen crouching in front of an airplane toilet seat before licking it.
dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8116799/Tik-Tok-star-22-slammed-licking-toilet-seat-claiming-complete-coronavirus-challenge
I’d like to think that the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve watched the video on Twitter, after it was banned from TikTok, were watching with the same horrified fascination as driving past a car wreck. But, clearly, at least one was sufficiently “influenced”. This is, after all, the generation who ate Tide Pods and licked ice-cream in supermarkets because of similar moronic “challenges”.
Not that the Boomers have anything to smirk about.
A man has died and his wife is under critical care after they ingested a chemical found commonly found in fish tank cleaner thinking it was the miracle coronavirus cure President Donald Trump touted at a press conference last week.[…]
The couple, both in their 60s, were rushed to the hospital about 30 minutes after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, according to the statement.
It’s believed that they confused the chemical – an additive often used at aquariums to clean fish tanks – with hydroxychloroquine, an antimalaria drug that’s shown promising results in treating COVID-19 patients.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8144449/Man-dies-wife-critical-care-took-fish-tank-cleaner-cure-coronavirus.
Naturally, no showcase of human stupidity is complete without a contribution from the Legacy media.
The media rushed to blame President Donald Trump[…]
Axios, for example, had to delete a tweet and issue a correction after reporting, initially: “Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine.”
The website added an “editor’s note” to the story: “Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that the form of chloroquine the couple ingested was used in aquariums — and it was not a medication.”
At least Axios issued a correction. That alone puts them miles ahead of the pack of their Trump-deranged cronies.
BuzzFeed reported: “A Man Died After Self-Medicating With A Drug Trump Promoted As A Potential Treatment For The Coronavirus.”
The text described “a drug meant for aquariums” without distinguishing between a product sold for fish tanks and a product for humans prepared by a pharmacist and supplied with a medical prescription.
breitbart.com/the-media/2020/03/24/media-blame-donald-trump-for-mans-death-after-ingesting-fish-tank-cleaner/
These sterling events in natural selection are best summed up by two responses to the toilet-licker: one Twitter user wondered, “So…he lost that challenge? Or did he win it? These social media challenges are confusing to me”.
“We all won,” another responded.
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