There Is No Coronavirus Cure Yet Mates: Stay Safe And Sane
Please check with health authorities before getting a “coronavirus cure”
Coronavirus scare is gripping people from all over the world and people are doing silly things like stocking up on toilet paper to buying food supplies in bulk. One of the side effects of the current coronavirus scare is that people are being tricked into thinking that a coronavirus cure is available. There is no such thing, mates. Everyone who says different is lying, and thankfully the authorities are looking into it.
This Friday, the Food and Drug Administration of the US and the Federal Trade Commission sent a warning letter to Jim Bakker, who many people know from the Jim Bakker show. He advertised a product that was misleadingly promoted as a coronavirus cure. In reality, it is probably as non-effective as DIY sanitizers, the videos of which are popping up everywhere on the internet.
The televangelist told viewers that they could drink a Silver Solution, that’s nothing but Colloidal Silver as a Coronavirus Cure. As it was not true, the FDA added the show to the growing list of firms that are selling fraudulent products which claim to cure the disease but are not effective at all. A chyron that was below the screen also offered four bottles of the solution for USD 80 (AUD 121). The claim that Silver Solution can help kill coronavirus is false as it can kill some viruses when employed in a proper medical setting, but drinking it from the bottle won’t help much.
William Correll, representing FDA and Richard Quaresima, representing FTC wrote this in a letter “There currently are no vaccines, pills, potions, lotions, lozenges or other prescription or over-the-counter products available to treat or cure coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).”
It is not the only scam out there. Several other scams claim to offer a coronavirus cure. They have spread quickly in the last few weeks. There are even spam emails and websites that offer fake information on the disease and secretly install malware that try to steal the personal information, credit card details and passwords of the users.
E-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay have also ramped up the efforts to stop the sale of fake products that are advertised as coronavirus cure by removing millions of listings. Our suggestion to the readers is to trust only reliable sources of information and not experiment with any coronavirus cure unless the authorities say so!
