Sure, Go Ahead and Undo Your Vaccine

I have to admit that I got a bit of a chuckle from an NBC News article about people giving in and getting vaccinated, and then "undoing" it.

In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates.

The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda and epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a “radiation detox” to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine. Bentonite clay will add a “major pull of poison,” she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies.

Look, unless you are under the care of a physician--probably at the emergency room, it's a virtual guarantee that anything that claims to 'detox' you is utter baloney. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that the word 'detox' is a bright red signal that you are probably dealing with a charlatan.

That's why I thought the article was funny. People who are into 'detoxing' themselves have already left the realm of medical/scientific reality. Why would they care about a news article that tells them that they can't undo or "detox the vaxx"? Excuse me, TikTok says otherwise.

But, since getting a high proportion of the population vaccinated is a good thing, there's a part of me that wants to go along with this. Here's what I might say:

Oh, no! Don't you dare get the vaccine and then take a bath and smear mud on your skin! You'll ruin everything, and the government can't do anything about it! Now you know why doctors are so mad and don't want you to know about this one wierd trick!

That kind of marketing has to be good for something.

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