As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/business/lysol-disinfectant-t...
I keep thinking of this recent Ted Chiang quote:
If your goal is to dramatize the threat posed by an unknown virus, there’s no advantage in depicting the officials responding as incompetent, because that minimizes the threat; it leads the reader to conclude that the virus wouldn’t be dangerous if competent people were on the job. A pandemic story like that would be similar to what’s known as an “idiot plot,” a plot that would be resolved very quickly if your protagonist weren’t an idiot. What we’re living through is only partly a disaster novel; it’s also—and perhaps mostly—a grotesque political satire.
https://electricliterature.com/ted-chiang-explains-the-disas...
In this case it's not typical incompetence of officials, it's an official with huge influence derived from their office endangering people by recommending injection of disinfectants into their bodies. That itself a huge threat.
Just to clarify one possible misreading of Chiang's point I noticed due to the way I excerpted his statement: he's not suggesting that incompetent officials should not be called out and held accountable.
He's saying rather if you're a fiction writer and you were trying to write a story about a plausible sci-fi pandemic and you added a character like Trump and depicted a scene like that press conference yesterday, you'd literally lose the plot and lose any serious reader. It would unsuspend disbelief.
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said, that hasn't been checked but you're gonna test it. 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. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that."
What does this mean? It certainly sounds to me like he is talking about using disinfectant to clean the virus out of the lungs.
Here's a better link: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/23/trump_sug...
> it's clear he never said anything about injecting disinfectant directly into a patient
Here's what Donald Trump said:
> And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number
Here's what your source had to say about what Donald Trump said:
> spoke about the use of ultraviolet light to fight the virus and an injectable disinfectant that would clean your lungs
The ongoing research Bryan was discussing was not medical research, and had nothing to do with the human body, and yet Donald Trump certainly said someting about injecting disinfectant directly into a patient (or at the very least, it isn't clear that he didn't say that).
> Listen to the remarks, and its clear he never said anything about injecting disinfectant directly into a patient.
does not seem to be correct. That's it.
> You really think he was suggesting that people drink cans of lysol to clean their lungs? That's absurd, and I think you know it
No, I think he was suggesting that using disinfectants as a treatment for COVID-19 is worthy of investigation based on the findings that lysol kills coronavirus.
Truly extraordinary times we live in.