I have heard about stuff like this more and more over the years. It always seems to happen in the not so great areas of the world. 50 people is a lot though… what an awful way to go.
Well… I guess my life could be worse.
Seriously, though. It sucks that people died over this.
So the treatment for methanol poisoning is ethanol I believe. As a dumb kid I always just figured this meant if you take a shot of moonshine, make sure you follow it with a known regulated alcohol and hopefully all would work out. Is that true? I have no idea… but I’m glad I never had to find out.
same metabolitic pathway for methanol and ethanol. Methanol breaks down to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which is super deadly. Those enzymes - alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases metabolize alcohols (methanol or ethanol). If you drink ethanol it will make your enzymes busy and (hopefully) methanol would not be metabolized into deadly formic acid before your body secretes them out. Similar thing happens if you drink antifreeze (ethylene glycol also alcohol.
Theres actually super high affinity drug binding to those enzymes, so probably you wouldn’t get free shots in the hospital, but unfortunately you need a spoonful of methanol to become blind
Hence blind drunk
At some level yes. But that “known regulated” alcohol might be fraudulent and also contain methanol.
It could be, but American exceptionalism tells me it is highly unlikely to find a bottle of alcohol that hasn’t been strictly regulated by our very responsible and reliable government regulations.
Yeah, it’s picking weird if you go to the store and buy a known brand of alchohol, and then it’s poisonous, too. Like, even in Africa, most alcohol is fine, which is why this is news.
I must be a terrible and uncaring person because my immediate thought is “why does that ambulance have a QR code on it?”
It’s a private ambulance service. It goes to their site, https://8medical.co/.
Being unhinged and easily distracted isn’t equivalent to that.
Could asked nicelier. 🙃
Ai says “QR codes placed on ambulances (especially in Germany by organizations like Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe) are used in an anti-gawking campaign to deter bystanders from illegally filming accident scenes with their smartphones.”
And
“QR codes are used on ambulances and in emergency transport initiatives in Nigeria to instantly verify vehicle legitimacy, access real-time first aid guides, and connect citizens to nearby accredited medical services.”
No one wants to know what an ai slopped out. Keep that shit to yourself.
What does a human say?
Lots of things, can’t shut ‘em up usually.
“Why don’t you just google it.”
Duck duck go it.
I can’t be fucked. That’s why I used it with disclosure to be better than nothing which is what you would have gotten.
Well then don’t bother to be fucked with posting it then.
No, speculation is not better than nothing.
Most claims on here are no better than speculation. Go check and verify. Do not believe people for they tend to be wrong or just state held beliefs.
It’s not like I didn’t check the other results to make sure it is about accurate, but didn’t get primary sources. People usually don’t.
Who do you think AI gets it’s info from?
Lunatics on reddit.
I’m almost certainly wrong and dumb, but how does a QR code prevent gawking?
By making filming annoying. Modern phones evaluate the code and give the option to follow the link with an info brochure
Now I understand why my GrapheneOS camera app makes me switch to a dedicated mode to scan QR codes.
Ok, but maybe you shouldn’t optimize for recording injured, dying and dead people.
It’s literally just a little bubble you click on with the link that would them open in a browser.
It’s optimizing for not letting any random QR code hijack the camera and web browser, whether it was on an ambulance or not.
