Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum

Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: KKOB on March 19, 2020, 18:54:02 PM

Title: Lost for words
Post by: KKOB on March 19, 2020, 18:54:02 PM

Twenty people have lost their lives and another 34 people have been placed in intensive care units in Istanbul after drinking isopropyl alcohol (AKA rubbing alcohol) in an attempt to “protect themselves against coronavirus.”

https://www.duvarenglish.com/health-2/coronavirus/2020/03/19/20-people-die-after-drinking-rubbing-alcohol-to-combat-coronavirus/

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: Highlander on March 19, 2020, 20:50:57 PM

Good grief - how sad  :( :( :(

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: steveb1 on March 19, 2020, 22:50:02 PM

That’s so sad

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Post by: TOSH TOSH on March 20, 2020, 07:00:21 AM

That,s heartbreaking what people are doing to try and not  get the horrible virus  :(

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: Saga Louts on March 20, 2020, 16:17:20 PM

Very sad, but it is Turkey!!

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: Scunner on March 21, 2020, 13:48:29 PM

Not quite sure what you mean?

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: IanK on March 21, 2020, 16:27:36 PM

Not just in Turkey.....

More people have now died in Iran's Fars province from alcohol poisoning while trying to protect themselves from the coronavirus than from the disease itself, Iranian media report.

Mohammad Javad Moradian, the director of the province's emergency services centre, told Isna news agency that Covid-19 had killed 13 people in Fars, while 66 have died after drinking industrial-strength alcohol.

A persistent rumour in Iran claims that drinking alcohol helps protect individuals from contracting the virus.

Shocking.

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: Anne on March 21, 2020, 20:15:07 PM

So sad that people believe this sort of rubbish in this day and age.
RIP to those who lost their lives and speedy recovery to those hospitalised

Title: Re: Lost for words
Post by: KKOB on March 30, 2020, 08:46:48 AM

The Iranian death toll has now reached 300 !

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165403/Drinking-methanol-leaves-300-people-dead-1-000-ill-Iran.html