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Facebook ads, conspiracy theorists pushed bleach consumption and UV ray cures

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news… via @nbcnews
Unfounded and harmful coronavirus treatments — including those that were floated by President Donald Trump — continue to spread online, evading efforts to crack down on misinformation.

A cottage industry of fake coronavirus treatments has emerged.

Facebook pages created in
late March sold UV “sanitizer” lights, promising “a proven impact on COVID-19” and to be the “most effective way to kill viruses.” The companies, which had names like “Beam Sanitizer,” ran ads on Instagram and Facebook in March, according to Facebook's ad library.
Conspiracy theorists, including those that center around the QAnon conspiracy, have also advocated for drinking a diluted form of bleach called Medical Mineral Solution, or MMS.
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Did not realize Social Security withdraws $$ from the accounts of new widows -- in my mother's case w no warning & causing her to bounce checks her first time paying the bills after losing her husband.

Apparently she'll get it back, ya know, just gotta fill out some forms. 👎
only took 1.5 hour wait time on the hotline to figure it all out. cool.
the check was deposited 1 day after my father died (covering the month of April, for which he was alive).

but since the deposit date was AFTER he died, they took it all back. again, no warning.
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Last night for the last time we held our precious father as he left us, peacefully, listening to his favorite music and surrounded by the love of the family he created.

John Przybyla was the light in my heart, the most loving, gentle, humble, witty father any girl could ask for
I'll never be the same without him and I’ve been reaching deep to try to find the words to express what an absolute gift he was.
The mark of a truly great father is when all of his kids (4) think *they* were the favorite.
Our memories are the same because he *was* that father.
My sister had the constitution to write a beautiful portrait, which I am amending/adding to here:
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Our sweet father is in a coma on a ventilator fighting for his life.

(pneumonia in both lungs & a major cardiac arrest. He tested negative for COVID)

2 days ago, he called to say he had chills & chalk it up to low blood sugar, cracking that’s good cuz he’s not ready to go.
Then he hung up.

After rushing home to Michigan all I can do is wait … & perhaps try to rally energy, prayers & the universe.

He is that dad who regularly drove us from Detroit to Disney in a station wagon, rips out frayed polaroids to brag to random cashiers ab. his 4 kids
, chastises me for failing to flag ALL my TV hits; sits on his porch to greet neighborhood children after school & feed his pet squirrels.

He worked manual labor to put us through college & still has the frame of a bull for it.

He is our light. Universe, begging you to rally.
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