Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment

[Rev. Rye]

The funny thing about the whole thing (besides, you know, the whole “President being so stupid as to say we should inject bleach into our bodies” thing) is that it’s plausible to interpret it as just the President thinking out loud about how if UV and disinfectant can kill the virus that quick, maybe it’s possible that there’s light at the end of the tunnel, with a side order of musing about how good it would be if we could kill it that easily. Unfortunately, but predictably, not only is The president talking during an official pandemic briefing the worst time and place to do so, especially with a base that proudly rejects observable reality In favor of his word, but he phrased it in the dumbest way possible and refuses to take responsibility for his fuckups, as usual.

And thus we end up here: