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Re:Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time For... by chelovek89 on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:04PM (#22969517)
What you are saying is disinformation. Nobody has suggested injecting bleach. Bleach is a disinfectant, not all disinfectants(i.e agents that disinfectant) are bleach. It was poorly worded enough without you spinning it, the spin only strengthens his base of people who don't trust the media because of sophistry like this.
Re:Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time For... by cthalupa on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:26PM (#22971948)
Is there some other disinfectant that we could be injecting that would not be of roughly equal harm?

Because I don't think injecting hydrogen peroxide, benzalkonium chloride, or isopropyl alcohol is going to have an effect that's any better.

Quibbling over whether or not they meant bleach or some other disinfectant isn't really the point. The point is the President was lending credence to the idea that injecting disinfectant into the human bloodstream might be a good thing to do. Which is absurd, regardless of whether or not he specifically meant bleach, and bleach is a perfectly reasonable stand in.

Re:Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time For... by bpnichol on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:06AM (#22978178)
He asked a question of experts. That's not the same as "lending credence" to a particular response to the question.
Re:Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time For... by newacct583 on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:45PM (#22971578)
OK, I went back and checked the transcript. It's true that the president didn't say the word "bleach". It's not true that "nobody" did. Trump was riffing off of a report that had just been given by Bill Bryan, listing out some anticeptic testing in an in vitro context.

Bleach was, in fact, the first disinfectant in his list. Then Trump stands up and says we should investigate injecting those into the body.

I really don't think this it's applying a whole lot of spin to argue that Trump was saying we should inject the stuff the guy he was referring to had listed.