Out of Context? Out of His Mind!
"It is hugely irresponsible because, sadly, there are people around the world who might believe this sort of nonsense and try it out for themselves.""This is one of the most dangerous and idiotic suggestions made so far in how one might actually treat COVID-19."Paul Hunter, professor of medicine, University of East Anglia, Britain"Is there away we can do something like that [disinfect people] by injection, inside, or almost a cleaning?""It would be interesting to check that."U.S.President Donald Trump"Neither sitting in the sun, nor heating will kill a virus replicating in an individual patient's internal organs.""Drinking bleach kills. Injecting bleach kills faster. Don't do either!"Penny Ward, Professor, pharmaceutical medicine, Kings College London"Trump's briefings are actively endangering the public's health.""Please don't drink disinfectant."Robert Reich, professor, public policy, University of California, Berkeley
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Well, if Donald Trump's enthusiastic endorsement of a drug meant to be used for malaria and commonly used in treatment of chronic auto-immune conditions, as an inexpensive and surprisingly effective antidote to the novel coronavirus sent the medical community into a tizzy of alarm and ultimately became responsible for the untimely deaths of some gullible people who believe the nonsense that spurts out of Mr. Trump's restless mouth, weren't enough, he's gone off on yet another influencer-tangent.
This time, musing about the potential in exposing the interior of a human body to UV light to destroy the novel coronavirus, and musing on the possibility of injecting people with disinfectant. Effectively killing them before the SARS-CoV-2 even gets a chance. The immediate reaction to these mindless thought-dispatches from a cerebral genius was to send off alarm bells throughout the medical community and prompt the manufacturers of disinfectant agents to loudly disclaim enhanced health properties for their products.
Doctors and all manner of health-industry experts were quick to raise their voices, urging people not to drink or inject disinfectant of any kind in any amount anywhere near their persons, despite the Trump suggestion that scientists would do well to investigate inserting cleaning agents into the human body to determine whether it too, like the malaria wonder drug could prove a way to cure COVID-19.
And as yet another alternative to the malarial drug, ultraviolet light to be inserted somehow into people infected to help clear them of the presence of the disease. Just as hydroxychloroquine use for COVID-19 protection and elimination has no basis in scientific fact but is undergoing a series of research trials, it is highly unlikely that a poisonous substance will undergo research of any nature to determine whether it might be effective beyond poisoning someone to death.
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Once the reaction to his recommended actions by bioscientists was heard loud and clear, Mr. Trump disowned seriousness on his part, and instead offered sarcasm. And, in the spirit of what's good for the goose is good for the gander, the wide public reaction to his witless musings make ample use of sarcasm as well.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a health warning last August about MMS (miracle mineral solution) being touted and sold online complete with instructions to mix it with lemon or lime juice and imbibing a combination that forms a powerful, dangerous bleaching agent, according to the FDA. A halt to the sale of industrial bleach products by an organization calling itself Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, marketed as a cure for autism and AIDS was ordered by the U.S.Justice Department.
No one has yet, however, attempted to market a cure for stupidity, and that's really a tragedy. It might save Dr.Deborah Birx in her role as coordinator of the White House task force on the coronavirus from further embarrassment on those occasions when convention has it she must share a public platform with the president, painfully trying to make herself inconspicuous while Trump lauds disinfectant that "does a tremendous number on the lungs".
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President
Donald Trump looks on as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
Dr. Deborah Birx speaks about the coronavirus outbreak in the press
briefing room at the White House on March 17, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Drew Angerer—Getty Images
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Labels: Idiotic Lunacy vs Cerebral Brilliance, Novel Coronavirus, U.S.President Donald Trump
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, April 26, 2020
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