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I think it's important to differentiate saying X should be investigated as a treatment and X is a viable treatment. When I hear "Trump recommending bleach inje
by concordDance 6y ago
I think it's important to differentiate saying X should be investigated as a treatment and X is a viable treatment.
When I hear "Trump recommending bleach injections" what I, and I think most people, understand from it is Trump recommending everyday people inject themselves with bleach as a cure for covid, not Trump saying doctors should investigate whether injecting bleach would cure covid. And the former is clearly not what Trump was communicating
- timmytokyo 6y agoHow does anyone read what he actually said and not instantly think "moron".
- concordDance 6y agoI can (and did) also think that, but that's not relevant here.
- DiogenesKynikos 6y agoThis was during the peak of the first wave, in mid-April 2020. The president was up on stage improvising about how injecting patients with bleach or isopropyl alcohol might be a good treatment. I think most people were just shocked that a man who would even consider that as an idea had somehow become president of the most powerful country on Earth.