Leaving aside the issue of whether pouring hard liquor on an arrow wound does any good (you notice the characters doing so in films don’t exactly have a ton of options), it doesn’t sound so crazy. Alcohol kills germs, after all—heck, it’s the main ingredient in hand sanitizer! And vodka is pretty dang strong as alcohol goes. Wouldn’t it stand to reason it’d kill germs and viruses on your hands? It won’t—as none other than Austin-based boutique alcohol purveyor Tito’s Handmade Vodka was quick to point out recently in reaction to a viral tweet offering a vodka-based homemade hand sanitizer recipe: In case you can’t read the fine print, here’s Tito’s advice in full, as reported by the Dallas Morning News: There you have it. There is no shortage of reasons to buy alcohol in bulk in this nightmare year of Two Thousand and Twenty, but making your own hand sanitizer shouldn’t be one of them.
