Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside

You learn that methanol from inside the house can kill.

As a follow up to the last post When Evil Meets Stupid.
Desperation leads people to bad decisions. On the site The Times of Israel is a story that should be confirmed, and due to the access not granted to the United States press, not immediately possible.

Hundreds die of poisoning in Iran as fake news suggests methanol cure for virus.

Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus.
The boy, now blind after his parents gave him toxic methanol in the mistaken belief it protects against the virus, is just one of hundreds of victims of an epidemic inside the pandemic now gripping Iran.
Iranian media reports nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened so far by ingesting methanol across the Islamic Republic, where drinking alcohol is banned, and where those who do rely on bootleggers. It comes as fake remedies spread across social media in Iran, where people remain deeply suspicious of the government after it downplayed the crisis for days before it overwhelmed the country.  

The desperation the people have leads them to take risks, in this case fatal risks.
Have empathy for the couple that drank fish tank cleaner, and for these frightened people who choose certain blindness and possibly death.
The news that I listen to suggests that infection rate curves are flattening, also that the because of initially poor testing, mortality rates may have been overestimated by orders of magnitude.
Praying that I am not wrong, and doing simple things to protect myself.
Stay safe.