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>But people certainly listened to his words as officials from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency sent out an alert one day after receiving more than 100 c

by giarc 5y ago

>But people certainly listened to his words as officials from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency sent out an alert one day after receiving more than 100 calls about ingesting disinfectants as a possible treatment for COVID-19, according to the Governor’s office, and reported by ABC News. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/04/25/calls-to-poison-centers-spike--after-the-presidents-comments-about-using-disinfectants-to-treat-coronavirus/?sh=633811bb1157 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/04/25/calls-... I'm sure some can be chalked up to simply people increasing their cleaning during a pandemic, but 100 in a day for a single state... come on.

kcplate 5y ago
According to the Maryland tweet it was “several”. The others referenced “exposure”. I suspect the media worried and reported the outrage about this far more than people took it seriously enough to do it. Gonna sound harsh, but if you are dumb enough to ingest a poison on the say so of an obnoxious real estate developer, the world is better off without you. I’m ok with those folks removing themselves from the gene pool.