There is no risk of methanol poisoning from distilling a fermented wash. Ever. No one has ever had this happen.

From what I understand the US government deliberately added methanol to moonshine to maim people and claim it was because of poor distillation technique. The reality is methanol's lower boiling point is only such for a pure solution of methanol. When in a solution of ethanol and water the methanol actually tends to bind to the water and come out more at the end of the run than the beginning, but is more or less constant throughout so it never gets concentrated. There is a great post on this in r/firewater.

Also, using methanol to denature industrial ethanol was also used as a technique before they just made it taste bad. And I'm sure people have also used it to bump up the proof of illicit spirits for more profit, just like with any illegal and unregulated drug. These would lead to poisonings for sure.

Finally, old stills sometimes used lead in their construction which got confused with the methanol myth and further entrenched it as a perceived danger.

If you mix yeast and sugar and distill it you will not go blind.