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So was Alan sick for real?

posted 11 years ago by itstoohardtoreadmyname
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Or was his just pretending so that he could advertise forsynthia?

[–] rtlh1982 11 years ago

The government ran blood tests on him following his arrest. Dennis French informs him that he never had the disease in the first place.

[–] itstoohardtoreadmyname 11 years ago

Ha Ha, in the midst of an apocalyptic epidemic he probably just had a normal flu

[–] savagesteve13 10 years ago

He didn't know, he assumed he had the virus and figured forsythia was what "cured" him. What a better testament to its miracle cure than that! Of course when he was told he didn't have MEV-1 he fell back on his tinfoil hat conspiracy thinking.

[–] DirtyThirty 10 years ago

... and before he was arrested he did take some forsythia to Lorraine, pregnant reporter who had already died, so maybe he did believe it helped BUT he was trying to PROFIT from his being a PROPHET about the extract.