COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

[DrScholl]

So you first found people having Covid as funny, with your title stating "LMAO."
What made you change your mind, to alter it to "Yikes"?

Because it is funny, sorry. They are all fully vaccinated. They’ll be fine

It’s just this whole stunt has blown up in their faces

Numerous Twitter personalities are laughing about it.

That's not funny. And I'm sure the Twitter personalities are all conservatives.

Other people have laughed about this virus have ended up dying from it, so I wouldn't play around like this. What you put out in the universe can come back on you.

[DrScholl]

I mean you guys sure loved it when Republican congressman tested positive last year. Both this and that are distasteful.

It was more so that people called out how idiotic Republicans were for calling the virus a hoax or not taking it seriously and then ended up getting it.

[DrScholl]

Fewer crazy Trump supporters means less of a chance of him winning in 2024. If you don't want to get the vaccine, have at it. It just means you lock yourself out of the White House, House and Senate.

[DrScholl]

So the latest crazy theory is that bathing in borax will remove the vaccine from your body.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-you-cant-undo-a-covid-vaccine-with-a-borax-bath-but-you-could-hurt-yourself-11636754961?link=sfmw_tw

Wash your clothes with borax — not your body.

The powdery chemical compound often used as a cleaning agent was trending on Twitter on Friday, after a news report claimed that some antivaxers have been using it in a potentially dangerous detox bath to “undo” their COVID-19 vaccines.

The NBC News report highlighted a viral TikTok video featuring Dr. Carrie Madej, an osteopathic internal medicine doctor who has posted a number of debunked theories about COVID vaccines to Twitter. The original video was removed by TikTok last month, but clips and the recipe have continued to spread across social media. Madej claims that one can “detox the vaxx” by soaking in a bath of baking soda and Epsom salt — which are safe enough, but don’t act the way she claims they will.



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Wash your clothes with borax — not your body.

The powdery chemical compound often used as a cleaning agent was trending on Twitter on Friday, after a news report claimed that some antivaxers have been using it in a potentially dangerous detox bath to “undo” their COVID-19 vaccines.

The NBC News report highlighted a viral TikTok video featuring Dr. Carrie Madej, an osteopathic internal medicine doctor who has posted a number of debunked theories about COVID vaccines to Twitter. The original video was removed by TikTok last month, but clips and the recipe have continued to spread across social media. Madej claims that one can “detox the vaxx” by soaking in a bath of baking soda and Epsom salt — which are safe enough, but don’t act the way she claims they will.

“Baking soda and Epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a ‘radiation detox’ to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine,” writes reporter Ben Collins. “Bentonite clay will add a ‘major pull of poison,’ she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies.”

But then the recipe calls for adding a cup of borax into the mix — a cleaning agent that the Food and Drug Administration has banned as a food additive because it’s a potentially harmful skin and eye irritant, and can cause digestive problems. Madej claims that borax will “take nanotechnologies out of you,” although it’s unclear what she means by this. She has falsely claimed that there is a “liquified computing system” inside coronavirus vaccines, however, such as in a “Reawaken America” podcast.