covid, anti-vaxxers 

TIL that anti-vaxxers are now eating this special "magic dirt" to protect against covid. And this dirt, which costs at least $100, is apparently peat from a bog adjacent to a landfill, and testing showed it to be contaminated with dangerous levels of lead and arsenic.

Don't laugh. This isn't funny because parents are making their children eat this "magic dirt"

re: covid, anti-vaxxers 

Also, some anti-vaxxers are trying to "de-vaccinate" by putting borax in their bath water. When I told my brother this, he was immediately shocked. He periodically works janitor shifts at his job, and so he has familiarized himself with various cleaning products. Almost all of the cleaning agents that he uses (including borax) have warning labels saying not to get them on your skin.

covid, anti-vaxxers 

@Zauberin people are also buying ash from the volcano because someone said it was sterile
it is sterile because it's like asbestos

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