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Blood River

Covid Cures and Conspiracies Introducing: The Deadly Cure

Blood River

Bloomberg

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.4732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure is a podcast about a family on the fringe who convinced tens of thousands of people across the globe to buy a miracle liquid made of poison, the international conspiracy they ignited, and the people who fought to take them down. Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure is a Neon Hum Media, Bloomberg & Sony Music Entertainment production.

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0:00.0

The story I'm about to tell you, it's as old as dirt.

0:06.0

And yet, like any great story, it perfectly explains the moment we are currently in.

0:12.6

It's a story about a man and a magical potion.

0:16.7

Something he says will save the world for just a few dollars vial.

0:22.2

But there's a catch.

0:24.7

That potion, it might also kill you.

0:30.1

This is no run-of-the-mill elixir, though.

0:32.8

It's a miracle cure, a cure that people all over the world believe in.

0:39.3

Factions form for and against it.

0:42.8

Spiritual warfare has ignited, at least in places like Reddit and Telegram.

0:48.3

Real damage has been done.

0:51.4

Lies spread.

0:53.1

Lives hang in the balance. It is the story of what happens when

1:00.7

it's hard to sort the facts from the fiction. There's this one video I keep coming back to.

1:08.4

It starts with a black screen, white text. It reads a gross negligence

1:13.6

of the First Amendment, being observed in real time. Real time is in all caps. It flashes on the

1:21.3

screen like a warning and gives you the impression you're about to see some sort of shocking

1:25.9

miscarriage of justice.

1:28.8

You are not.

1:35.3

Anyway, it's dated April 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic.

1:39.3

You're crossing property, okay?

1:44.1

The video is a grainy handheld recording, probably from a phone.

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