Oh wait, you mean because he kinda-sorta had a similar suggestion to this absurd medical practice? No. His goal is to stay in power.
Oh wait, you mean because he kinda-sorta had a similar suggestion to this absurd medical practice? No. His goal is to stay in power.
He never said anything about mainlining bleach though.
Bleach, isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide...
Whichever disinfectant he was suggesting injecting into the body, it's not a good idea.
UV light injected into the body via fiber optics...
He didn't specifically say "mainlining bleach", but he was referencing injecting one of the aforementioned disinfectants. It's kind of hard to say he didn't.
> And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that too, sounds interesting. And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning.
He's clearly talking about two things - one sentence is about light, "And I then I see the disinfectant"... - and you simply can't "inject" light.
You can inject light via fiber optics. We all know 'inject" isn't the right term, but it's how he was using it.
Regardless, and most importantly, he never specified any disinfectant, so in the context, he meant UV light. No contortion necessary. It's all there in the quote you provided.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/24/disinfectan...
> Trump’s eyebrow-raising query came immediately after William N. Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gave a presentation on the potential impact of summer heat and humidity, which also included references to tests that showed the effectiveness of different types of disinfectants. He recounted data from recent tests that showed how bleach, alcohol and sunlight could kill the coronavirus on surfaces.
> Bryan said bleach killed the virus in about five minutes and isopropyl alcohol killed it in 30 seconds. In tests, sunlight and high temperatures also appeared to shorten the virus’s life on surfaces and in the air, Bryan said.
> Bryan said
Last I checked, Bryan wasn't Trump.
Okay, I'll play along. Here's part of that quote, "is there a way..."
When someone merely asks if there's a way, I don't interpret that as them suggesting anything, since a question isn't a suggestion.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/319030/should-a-...
"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
So for all this talk about examining context and intentionally interpreting the President's comments in an unfavorable light, he was in fact being disingenuous and sarcastic. He wasn't "merely" asking a question. He was trolling. BTW, this is why people are so eager to not take him at face value.
> And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning.
You're saying he's saying "nothing" but in fact he's suggesting that disinfectant injections are worth trying
Discussing potential treatments with, as he said, "medical personnel", is nowhere near advising people to drink bleach.
The fact that a person would ingest a known and clearly dangerous chemical simply because Trump said the word disinfectant is a reflection on the individual, not a valid reason to censor the president. If people are ignorant enough to go from "president mentions potential treatment" to "I must inject myself with bleach" then, frankly, the heard needs to be culled. Arguably the way we've coddled such people for decades is part of the reason we're in this sorry state, but that's another discussion. In any case the number of people who actually go on to do such a thing will be negligible if not zero. This is pure sensationalism.
You speak of misinformation but you are consuming the very same, only oblivious to it because of your bias. How often do people actually look at the primary source, i.e. the interview? Because by the time anything is filtered through the media it is nearly always exaggerated and misreported. Even this example - the guy is rambling like an obvious idiot, that's clear and more than enough to report on. But then we go and have the media holding him liable for the poor choices of others, for discussing a potentially medical treatment? This happens literally every time he talks.
We're way past the point of justifying faith in any of our popular media.