• @[email protected]
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    222 months ago

    I’m morbidly curious how antivaxers would respond if some YouTuber started telling them that leeching could “suck out the Rona”.

    …Who am I kidding, we already know.

    • Flying SquidM
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      82 months ago

      I’m only surprised such a suggestion didn’t get to and get disseminated by Trump.

      I guess it’s hard to find leeches these days. I wouldn’t know where to get one other than a pond in an area known to have leeches.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        Ironically, medical leeches and maggots are still used in modern medicine under extremely rare conditions. They are specific species bred in labs for that purpose however.

    • NegativeNullM
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      42 months ago

      They are already taking Ivermectin, which would kill Leeches who drink their blood

  • @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    What else is there to do, when their humours are unbalanced? Too much blood is very unhealthy, after all. I wish we had leeches to suck up bile as well, but medical sciences have not advanced to that pinnacle of bliss just yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    Blood gets replaced when you don’t have enough.

    Our blood is full of microplastics.

    Fresh blood is not.

    Conclusion: leaches can suck the microplastics out of our body.

    • @ThrowawayPermanente
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      12 months ago

      Microplastics in your bone marrow, with a steel chair held menacingly above their head

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    Leeching in Vinland costs 1000 wampum co-pay after insurance.

    Most of the ancient world gets leeched for free or low cost under public healthcare systems.