[conspire] A Man Drank 1 Bottle Rubbing Alcohol For COVID-19. This Is What Happened To His Brain

[Nick Moffitt]

On 25Apr2020 02:17am (-0700), Michael Paoli wrote:
> So, chem lab, chemistry instructor in college, told a story of a
> chem lab once ... the non-denatured ethanol was repeatedly coming up
> short.  So "they" (whatever person or persons) decided to try and find
> out what was happening to it.  They spiked it - with phenolphthalein.
> It's readily available in most chem labs - commonly used
> as an acid-base indicator.  It's also a powerful laxative, and is (in
> small amounts) the active ingredient in some laxatives.
> Well, in short order, someone got a terribly bad case of the runs that
> landed 'em in the hospital.  Mystery solved.

The original fuel source in the V-2 rocket programme was pure ethanol, but the staff kept drinking from the fuel tanks.  So the top brass ordered a deadly poison put into the stuff, and the bodies that resulted were hung from the tanks for a few days as a warning to others.