"WE'LL get through this", we keep telling ourselves, but every now and then you see something that just makes you wonder if we will.
There are times when it seems like stupid is gaining too much of a foothold in humanity for us to survive the current COVID-19 crisis.
Maybe it's the nostalgia for a happier time, when we could freely travel interstate, surely 12 months ago we, as a species would intrinsically have known that slurping down hand sanitiser - regardless of how it was packaged - would have been a bad idea.
It seems today human beings are now too dimwitted to realise this, with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rolling out warnings that just because a hand sanitiser may have an appealing scent or have novelty vodka bottle-like packaging, it still is not safe to drink!
Sadly the FDA has been forced to issue warnings not to imbibe hand sanitiser since Jun, with the agency identifying dozens of cases where people have been poisoned after drinking some.
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