It is amazing that a Venn diagram of a.) people who think this coronavirus thing is some sort of liberal hoax/Chinese plot, and b.) people who get suckered into buying snake oil from scam artists like Jim Bakker, would show c.) a considerable amount of ovelap.
Bakker, who was convicted in 1989 on 23 charges of fraud and one of conspiracy stemming from his "PTL" television ministry based in North Carolina, was released from prison in within four years. He resumed television ministry in 2003, trading in his former prosperity theology for apocalypticism.
But he hasn't changed a bit when it comes to fleecing his flock.
Attorneys General of New York and Missouri have filed restraining orders against the so-called Reverend Bakker, who has been peddling something he and "naturopathic doctor" Sherrill Sellman purport to be a cure for the virus.
A complaint was filed by the state of Missouri Tuesday, March 10, against Bakker and Morningside Church Productions, which does business as Jim Bakker Show Ministry. The show, which is broadcast on “multiple networks across the country,” since Feb. 12 had sold the supposed coronavirus potion for “donations” of $80 and $125.
The complaint alleges that Bakker was “falsely promising” that the potion called Silver Solution can “cure, eliminate, kill or deactivate coronavirus and/or boost elderly consumers’ immune system.”
The complaint continues that there is “no vaccine, pill or potion” that can treat or cure coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.
“Let’s say it hasn’t been tested on this strain of the coronavirus, but it’s been tested on other strains of the coronavirus and has been able to eliminate it waiting 12 hours,” Sellman claimed of the product that contains colloidal silver, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has found to be dangerous to one’s health, even causing “serious side effects.”Colloidal silver is one of those homeopathic remedies that has been around since the horse and buggy days; its various forms are basically nanoparticles of silver suspended in one solution or another, either ingested to treat disease or spread on the skin to heal wounds. Theoretically, the silver attaches to bacteria and kills them, but the science is dubious. The danger is that these nanoparticles might also seep from one's blood into one's brain, becoming a health risk themselves.
As if we didn't have enough to worry us about the health of our elderly parents/grandparents, without having to make sure they aren't also being hoodwinked by holy roller con artists!
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