5x corona food and drink myths
Over the past few weeks, a lot of fake news about remedies against the coronavirus has been circulating on Facebook and Twitter. In all their desperation, people kept throwing one so-called miracle cure after another onto the internet and sharing them. But the truth is harsh. Although these homemade DIYs are very tasty, they (sob) do not have any healing properties..
Eating and drinking garlic
Myth 1: chewing raw cloves of garlic and drinking a bowl of boiled garlic water would protect you after just 1 night (and even completely cure you!) from corona. A woman in China was so convinced of this that she consumed 1.5 kilos of garlic in 2 weeks, after which she was admitted to hospital with an inflamed throat. Not true, and don’t do it. The World Health Organization also emphasizes once again that there is no scientific evidence whatsoever for this cure, so it does not help.
Drinking alcohol
A vodka a day keeps the doctor away? Nope, that’s complete nonsense too. Still, many people in America fell for it after a hospital allegedly distributed a letter recommending drinking vodka to prevent infection. People even claimed that it would disinfect the inside of your body. “Drinking alcohol can reduce the chance of infection. THIS IS NOT TRUE,” the hospital itself stated in response. And that’s a good thing, otherwise we would become an even bigger bunch of drunks than we already were…
Gargling with salt
This was also supposedly a trick to prevent the virus from spreading through your body. By gargling with salt, it would supposedly remain in your throat and not reach your lungs. Even drinking water or vinegar (?!) was said to flush it into the stomach, where the virus ultimately supposedly could not survive because of stomach acid. For those who don’t like gargling, rinsing your nose with it was also an option. All utter nonsense.
Drinking hot water with lemon
The fact that relatively few people in Israel had died from corona by the end of March was supposedly because the country’s residents protected and cured themselves by drinking hot water with lemon and baking soda. Here too, it was emphasized once again that there is no scientific evidence for this, and that homemade herbal remedies (see also the garlic version) cannot prevent the coronavirus, let alone cure it. False claim, then!
Eating ice cream
In the fabricated remedies about drinking hot beverages, the opposite—the consumption of cold food or drinks—is also strongly discouraged, especially ice cream. Ice cream would be able to carry the virus because of the cold, meaning you could become infected by eating it. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course. Corona cannot spread through any food, so don’t let anyone fool you and keep eating licorice ice cream!
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