—Spoilers for Iron Lung —
Thinking about the scene in Iron Lung where Simon looks through the med kit and drinks the rubbing alcohol.
In the US, to protect the alcohol tax revenue, rubbing alcohol is just poisoned alcohol. Like, they personally add poisonous additives in order to prevent people from drinking it, and it’s only supposed to be used to disinfect/be used topically. It’s not just ethyl alcohol, but methyl isobutyl ketone and ACETONE.
And in other countries, similarly, rubbing alcohol is also not true ethanol, but a concoction not fit for literally anyone to consume without serious side effects.
But in his mind, after the events of the Quiet Rapture, this is probably the closest to a shot he’ll ever get, and there’s a good (extremely high) chance he’s not even making it out of this alive anyways. So sure, those wounds are severe and it’d probably be smart to disinfect… if he thought it would make a difference.
Also he’s probably severely concussed and dealing with the stages of hypoxia, (and radiation damage), poor man was not thinking clearly at this point already
This movie really is full of
It’s so over- we’re so back- oh my god it’s over- holy shit we’re back- oo we’re gonna die- how did we NOT die?- THERE’S MORE?- WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S MORE?- NO!- YES!- OH SHIT!- dear god.













