‘Vaccine Police’ Founder Claims Drinking Your Own Urine Is Covid-19 Antidote

What’s the newest anti-vaxxer Covid-19 antidote? Properly, urine for a shock.

Sure, Christopher Key, who maintains the “Vaccine Police” anti-vaxx web site, is seemingly now touting urine remedy. On this case, urine remedy will not be sitting down with a jug of your urine and speaking about its emotions. As a substitute, it’s ingesting your individual urine, as a result of why not, proper? In spite of everything, it looks as if varied anti-vaxxers have been making an attempt to persuade you to do mainly something in addition to get the Covid-19 vaccines.

In a video posted on his Telegram account, Keys advised placing into your mouth what usually goes into the bathroom. Simply check out the clip of the video accompanying the next tweet from Tom Osinski, MD, who by the way is a urology resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center:

As you possibly can see, this clip began off with Key telling his viewers, “We have now the antidote. And the antidote is even for individuals who’ve been vaccinated.” Then earlier than revealing what this “antidote” could also be, he prefaced the massive reveal with a couple of different statements comparable to “they’re going to tear me aside, however hey they tear me aside all time” and “after I inform you this, please take it with a grain of salt, however go do the analysis.” By the way, urine does are inclined to have some sodium in it, however that won’t have been the “grain of salt” that he was alluding to in his assertion.

Key finally obtained to his key urine punch line with: “The antidote that we’ve seen now, and we’ve tons and tons of analysis, is urine remedy.”

He continued with “OK, and I do know to quite a lot of you this sounds loopy, however guys, God’s given us all the things we’d like.”

Key tried to assist his assertion by saying, “This has been round for hundreds of years,” which is identical factor that you can say about physique lice, toe fungus, and sloth dung. He additionally talked about “analysis” and “peer-reviewed publications on urine,” with out providing rather more specifics on these. It might have been useful to listen to extra about this supposed analysis and the way the research had been designed because it’s not straightforward to search out such “pee-reviewed” research within the scientific literature. For instance, a PubMed seek for “urine remedy” and “Covid-19” right this moment returned zero outcomes, which is strictly the identical variety of outcomes that you simply get whenever you seek for “I’m a big egg carton.”

A piece by Zachary Petrizzo for The Daily Beast included an extended model of the Telegram video. There you possibly can hear Key declare that “this vaccine is the worst bioweapon I’ve ever seen,” and “I drink my very own urine.” Calling the Covid-19 vaccines a bioweapon? You imply the vaccines that the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved or authorized? This actually hasn’t been the primary time that Key has railed towards Covid-19 vaccines. For instance, in August 2021, Florida lawyer Ron Filipkowski tweeted out the next video of Key threatening these administering vaccines in a Springfield, MO, Wal-Mart:

OK, earlier than you blindly begin treating your bladder like a expresso machine, you must have lot of questions. In different phrases, thoughts your pees and Q’s. I’ve already coated for Forbes why you shouldn’t have a cow and eat cow dung or urine in an try to forestall or deal with Covid-19. As I discussed, cow dung and urine can have dangerous pathogens comparable to ringworm and nasty E. coli.  Now it’s possible you’ll argue that you’re completely different from a cow. You might say that not like a cow you possibly can go surfing to Fb and that your urine is completely different and sterile. Isn’t that what the Patches O’Houlihan character insisted within the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story:

Properly, right here’s a shocker. Don’t get your urinary science from a Hollywood film, even one which focuses on balls. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology confirmed that your urine might not be a sterile as you assume. Samples of urine from ladies had 85 completely different species of micro organism. And, spoiler alert. The presence of micro organism signifies that it’s not sterile.

Microbes aren’t the one downside. Urine incorporates waste merchandise as properly. Your kidneys type urine to eliminate waste out of your physique. These aren’t all essentially “toxins” as the next tweet calls them:

However, generally, it’s not a good suggestion to drink what your kidneys labored so arduous to eliminate within the first place. Give it some thought. You don’t scrub meals particles off of your dishes, throw the particles within the trash can, take the trash out onto the sidewalk, after which subsequent morning carry the particles again into your kitchen with the intention to make an omelet. At the very least, you don’t try this and proceed to have associates. Re-ingesting waste merchandise out of your urine might not be instantly dangerous. Over time, although, doing so can find yourself overtaxing your kidneys. This may be akin to trapping your kidneys in a Groundhog’s Day state of affairs, the place it continues to see the identical waste over and over.

You might have seen the hashtag #UrineIdiot on the tweet above and swirling round Twitter after Key’s video hit social media like urine in a rest room. Quickly there have been mentions of issues like “wee the individuals”, “wee my Valentine”, and “trickle-down” theories. The Ivy League of Comedy’s comic Shaun Eli Briedbart quipped, “I’d like to see the record of the opposite ‘drinks’ they tried earlier than they opted for urine.” He additionally joked that “ingesting urine might assist alleviate any rest room paper shortages.”

Yeah, it might not be a terrific thought to inform your important different after a toilet journey, “by the way in which, to preserve rest room paper, I made a decision to drink my urine as a substitute.” And no, it most likely received’t make issues higher by changing “my” with “different individuals’s,” on this case. There’s no actual scientific proof that ingesting urine will shield you towards Covid-19 in any manner. That’s, after all, assuming that individuals don’t social distance from you once they hear that you simply drink urine. On the identical, time ingesting urine will not be a kind of “completely innocent” issues that you could simply do for the heck of it.

Plus, this complete “drink you personal urine” is yet one more factor that detracts from the true evidence-based methods of stopping Covid-19 and the unfold of the extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) comparable to vaccination and face masks carrying. All through the pandemic, there’s been a seemingly regular move of bogus antidotes and coverings that haven’t been backed by science. Such snake oil-esque may fill a retailer that nobody would need to go in non-pandemic instances. If you’ve obtained individuals considering of ingesting urine as a substitute of getting vaccinated, you’ve obtained extra than simply wee little bit of an issue.