Is Booze The Cure For Swine Flu?

A few months back I was listening to a radio show discussing the H1N1 Swine Flu and they were interviewing some 90 something year old guy who survived the 1918 pandemic (Spanish Flu) and he was talking about how this one doctor who never lost a single patient. His treatment? He kept his patients drunk on whiskey.

Last week I was coming down with a bad cold. My nose was running and I was sneezing a lot. I do not have allergies and this is how all my colds start. Usually when I get one I am miserable for a couple of weeks and go through a couple boxes of Kleenex. So this time, instead of buying the over the counter cold remedies that are pretty much useless in my opinion, I picked up a bottle of Captain Morgans Spiced Rum and some diet coke.

I had forgotten how good that stuff was. Needless to say I got pretty toasty.

But the next day, while I was slightly hung over (it wasn't as bad as I feared) my cold was completely gone. No runny nose. No sneezing. Nothing. Just gone.

And now I run across this article from Reuters. It is about how Russian soccer fans were told to drink plenty of whiskey to ward off the swine flu.

While this is in no way scientific proof of anything I for one am going to keep plenty of Capt Morgans in the medicine cabinet.