Brickbat: Cow Dung

Indian journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem and activist Erendro Leichombam have been held in prison for more than 45 days under the National Security Act after they each posted on social media that cow dung and cow urine will not cure COVID-19. They posted after the death of Tikendra Singh, head of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state of Manipur. Many BJP leaders have touted the use of traditional Indian medicine, including cow dung and cow urine, in the treatment of COVID-19.

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[Jerryskids]

The idea that white Western patriarchal colonialist "science" is the only way of looking at things is a ridiculous notion, I'm glad the government is cracking down on this sort of disinformation and misinformation. Although personally I think sacrificing a chicken in a cemetery at midnight of a full moon provides better protection from the coronavirus, as my forefathers have taught my people, and who are you to question my other ways of knowing?

[SQRLSY One]

Sad to say, much suffering (even death) due to "other ways of knowing" has been around for a while. See below...

http://peteflow.blogspot.com/2006/03/
In 2001, Jacob Ogebe, a field officer for the Carter Center Guinea Worm Eradication Program, was trying to track down every pond in the area surrounding Ogi. He treated each with Abate, a mild pesticide that left the water potable, but killed the microscopic fleas that carry Guinea worm.
The Carter Center's office was able to send in its biggest gun, short of a visit from Mr. Carter himself: Gen. Yakubu Gowon, who ruled Nigeria from 1966 to 1975.

Nigeria “Guinea worm” abate General “Yakuba Gowon” is excellent search string to find more!

[SQRLSY One]

"Reader's Digest"-style summary for the above slightly cryptic post: Nigerian natives believed in the magic ooga-booga powers of bathing in their hidden pond, which was infected with “Guinea worm”. Treating this water with "abate" (horrible heathen western witchcraft) to kill the worms would have ruined the magic waters for bathing! Only with the intervention of high-ranking (locally respected) Africans, was the pond allowed to be treated for the worm infestation!

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[markm23]

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[mad.casual]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Still better than twitter jail.

[Inigo Montoya]

Cow dung can cure Covid?
That’s bullshit.

[SQRLSY One]

Cowshit and bullshit may not cure Covid, not even in India, but if things keep going the way that they're going in the USA now, they may select our next POTUS for us!

[MatthewSlyfield]

Well, cow shit could be female bovine excrement rather than male bovine excrement.

[Stuck in California]

I dream of a world where shit can identify however it feels.

[m4019597]

In jail for their own protection.

[Chumby]

This is udderly ridiculous.

[SQRLSY One]

Yes, I agree! If humans keep right on abusing cows, milking them for all that they're worth, to include their piss & shit & shit, they just MIGHT rise up against us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
Cows with guns!

[Chumby]

Video was a bunch of bull. The producer should be put out to pasture.

[SQRLSY One]

But... but... but, as they say, it was produced with revolutionary veal! Che Mooovara would have been proud of it!

[Chumby]

Don’t think he’d steak his reputation on it. Regardless of his beef. If he did he might get roasted.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

You all laugh, but just wait until hate speech* is criminalized in a place where you live.

*whatever occurs in the mind of a reasonable offendent

[James K. Polk]

India is a strange place.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

An attack on the therapeutic effects of cow dung is an attack on science itself.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

If only Lord Fauci had the power to jail people, the new utopia would be upon us.

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