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Not Too Bright in NM

Kachina624 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:13:03 GMT

Since last month, seven people in the state have become critically ill from drinking bootleg hand sanitizer. Three of these people died, one was left blind, three are in critical condition. We have a big problem with alcoholism.

DONT DRINK THE HAND SANITIZER!!!

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dancingwoman — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:17:28 GMT

@Kachina624 I just read about this in our online paper...it had methanol in it...at least that's what our paper said...how sad....DW

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SusieQ_2 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:27:07 GMT

Has it been reported why people are drinking it? I've seen videos of hand sanitizer being produced in bottles that are made to resemble alcohol bottles. I don't know if it's bootleg or not. Here's an example:

Granted the bottles are clearly marked but I wouldn't be surprised if some people aren't bothering to read the labels.

I don't know if that has anything to do with it but...maybe?

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Kachina624 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:51:17 GMT

@SusieQ_2 I think there's no doubt they know what they're drinking. If the can't get liquor, they'll drink mouth wash.

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SusieQ_2 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:58:44 GMT

Wow, I was hoping to give them the benefit of the doubt but if they know what they're drinking, that's just sad or maybe a little nuts.

Vodka is my drink of choice but if it someday goes extinct I just can't imagine myself mixing up a hand sanitizer and soda. Thinking about it makes me want to gag.

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fthunt — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:04:04 GMT

Joan Kennedy, ex-wife of Ted (Chappaquiddick ) Martha's Vineyard......drank rubbing alcohol after she was deprived of real stuff. Off to hospital to have stomach pumped.

(thank "G" for spell check - couldn't have spelled "C" to save a life)

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Goldengate8361 — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:44:25 GMT

Sounds like some more treatment programs are needed for alcoholism......and we all know how likely (unlikely) that is to happen these days...Very sad.

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Marp — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:50:09 GMT

@fthunt wrote:
Joan Kennedy, ex-wife of Ted (Chappaquiddick ) Martha's Vineyard......drank rubbing alcohol after she was deprived of real stuff. Off to hospital to have stomach pumped.
(thank "G" for spell check - couldn't have spelled "C" to save a life)

I'm glad you took the time to spellcheck your unnecessary dig. Wouldn't want readers to think you were talking about anyone other than Ted Kennedy.

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fthunt — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:20:49 GMT

@Marp ..............?....................

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lovesrecess — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:26:52 GMT

I posted about this a few days ago; there was a warning put out about even using hand sanitizer containing methanol....it is toxic when absorbed into the skin or ingested. The company selling it is out of Mexico. Sounded like you don't even have to drink it for it to cause death. When I was teaching, they had to take down the Purell dispensers in the cafeteria because the kids were wiping it on their tongues for the alcohol. They didn't get high, just sick.

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Sooner — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:33:01 GMT

I feel sorry for those people. It is a problem, not a lack of intelligence. They should not have bottled it like that to begin with. But is is a sad sad thing.

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shoesnbags — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 02:02:45 GMT

@SusieQ_2 wrote:
Has it been reported why people are drinking it? I've seen videos of hand sanitizer being produced in bottles that are made to resemble alcohol bottles. I don't know if it's bootleg or not. Here's an example:

Granted the bottles are clearly marked but I wouldn't be surprised if some people aren't bothering to read the labels.

I don't know if that has anything to do with it but...maybe?

@SusieQ_2

The reason some sanitizers are in bottles that look like liquor bottles is that many small distilleries jumped in to produce sanitizer temporarily instead of liquor. Some in my area did this and donated all of it to local hospitals, but many companies are selling on the open market. They are using what they have on hand re labels, bottles, etc. Here is an article about this:

www.distilledspirits.org/distillers-responding-to-covid-19/distilleries-making-hand-sanitizer/

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Kachina624 — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 04:48:47 GMT

I did a double take at that bottle. I thought it said it was made in California but there's a South Fork in Colorado right at the foot of the mountains along the Rio Grande that looks like the label.

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Desertdi — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 07:58:57 GMT

I thought it was the South Fork Ranch from the TV show "Dallas". I only watched one episode, "Who Shot JR", because of the hype. I wasn't thrilled............

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gardenman — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:09:40 GMT

I briefly went to high school with an idiot who would drink aftershave and cologne. If you left your gym locker unlocked he'd drain the aftershave. He would also raid the home ec room for the vanilla extract. The chem lab used to have small alcohol burners and they had to be locked away or he'd sneak in and drink the alcohol out of them. He had lots of counseling but didn't care. If there was alcohol on the ingredients, he'd drink it. His family moved into town for less than one full school year, then moved on again. The kid had serious mental health/intelligence issues. I think his family kept moving every time he got in trouble. He'd go into local grocery stores and just gulp down vanilla extract. He'd go into drug stores and gulp down aftershave. He had issues.

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dancingwoman — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:37:40 GMT

@Kachina624 Looks like it is California...I had to check it out because I hadn't heard of this one in CO...lol...not that I know all the distilleries here...DW

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bikerbabe — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:48:21 GMT

If you work a psych unit or a drug rehab, there’s no hand sanitizer in areas that can be accessed by patients due to the alcohol content.

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Mindy D — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:59:20 GMT

Drinking wood alcohol is not new, but trying to drink hand sanitizer is on an upward swing due to its high ubiquitousness during the epidemic.

Today the most common cause of blindness from drinking is methanol. Methanol, methyl alcohol or wood alcohol, can damage the optic nerve and even kill in high concentrations. During Prohibition, bootleggers would often sell moonshine that contained methanol, and the practice is still found in many countries. drinking isopropyl alcohol

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esmerelda — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:50:17 GMT

@Goldengate8361 wrote:
Sounds like some more treatment programs are needed for alcoholism......and we all know how likely (unlikely) that is to happen these days...Very sad.

@Goldengate8361 Gosh, are all the current treatment programs full up?