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There is alas no cure for stupidity

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GagaJo Fri 24-Apr-20 07:52:04

I think maybe, that as a person in an AT RISK group, that Trump could trial that treatment. Lead from the front, as it were.

kittylester Fri 24-Apr-20 07:46:36

I watched that this morning - there are no words really!!

MawB Fri 24-Apr-20 07:43:02

John Balmes, a pulmonologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, warned that even breathing fumes from bleach could cause severe health problems.
He told Bloomberg News: "Inhaling chlorine bleach would be absolutely the worst thing for the lungs. The airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant.
"Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe. It's a totally ridiculous concept."
Mr Trump has previously hyped a malaria medication, hydroxycloroquine, as a possible treatment for coronavirus, though he has stopped touting that drug recently.
This week a study of coronavirus patients in a US government-run hospital for military veterans found more deaths among those treated with hydroxychloroquine than those treated with standard care.

Riverwalk Fri 24-Apr-20 07:33:24

I just knew from the title this was about Professor Trump and his disinfectant injections grin

Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, who sounds in despair:

“It is incomprehensible to me that a moron like this holds the highest office in the land and that there exist people stupid enough to think this is OK. I can’t believe that in 2020 I have to caution anyone listening to the president that injecting disinfectant could kill you.”

Nortsat Fri 24-Apr-20 07:26:59

Gaga I agree - OMG ...

GagaJo Fri 24-Apr-20 07:21:03

OMG.

MawB Fri 24-Apr-20 07:19:25

US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body.
He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with UV light, an idea dismissed by a doctor at the briefing.
Another of his officials had moments earlier said sunlight and disinfectant were known to kill the infection.
Mr Trump's own public health agencies (unsurprisingly) warn against bleach as a medicine.