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The problem with your metaphor is leaving the Fridge open to cool the house does not kill you (and the person wondering that is not holding a position of high p
by mattnewton 7y ago
The problem with your metaphor is leaving the Fridge open to cool the house does not kill you (and the person wondering that is not holding a position of high prestige). People are actually worried about people injecting disinfectant.
“My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea,” Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post. “This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous.”
Lysol is worried about it:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/do-not-inject-disinfectants-lysol-warns-after-trump-raises-idea https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/do-not-inject-disinfecta...
And they have cause to be, after the last time Trump spoke about chloroquine and people listening to him consumed aquarium chemicals and died as a result.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-chloroquine-death/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-ch...
The media has a responsibility to report information of medical experts and no responsibility to be charitable to the President to save him from embarrassment here.