PRESIDENT SUGGESTS INJECTION OF DEADLY DISINFECTANTS FOR COVID-19

…William Bryan, acting undersecretary of Homeland Security & Prez

Trump’s ideas, immediately caused doctors across the country to respond with dire warnings

Mr. William Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gave a presentation at one of the daily CORONAVIRUS PRESS BRIEFINGS. 

The briefing, was one in which the experts have already panned as not being relevant to the reality of how the coronavirus actually reacts to the potential impact of summer heat and humidity.  The presentation, also included references to tests that showed the

effectiveness of different types of disinfectants and alcohol.

Bryan recounted his data from recent tests that showed how bleach, alcohol and sunlight could kill the coronavirus on different surfaces.

After the presentation that touched on those effects of sun light and disinfectants

on the coronavirus, President Trump actually pondered whether light and those

chemicals could be used to fight the virus inside the human body.

“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute,” Trump said

during the briefings. “And is there a way we can do something

like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets inside

the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting

to check that.”

This question, which Trump offered totally unprompted, immediately spurred

doctors across the country to respond with warnings against

injecting or otherwise ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic.

We must remember that when the president started pushing the Malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine for the coronavirus, some people died by trying various uses of that drug.  “My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea,” Craig Spencer, Director of Global Health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post. “This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is totally dangerous.”

What really hit me though, was that as the president spoke, one of his top public health experts, Dr. Deborah Birx, who serves as the response coordinator for the White House’s coronavirus task force, listened in a chair a few feet away from the podium, and she did not immediately react….?

It was amazing that Dr. Birx did not quickly show that she understood Trump’s remarks

about the light therapy or disinfectant injections at the coronavirus briefing.

Instead, she watched silently from the sidelines, her lips pressed in a tight line as

Trump talked about bizarre testings of these unproven treatments.

Later in the briefing, Trump turned to Birx and asked if she had any knowledge of

heat or light being used as a potential treatment for Covid-19.

“Not as a treatment,” Birx answered from her seat.  “I mean, certainly fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond.” Then, as usual, Trump started talking again, cutting her answer short.

As Bryan had left the podium without answering reporters’ questions, Trump had stepped up to the mic. Before he allowed anyone to ask a question, the president offered an answer to a, “question that, probably, some of you are thinking of if you are totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting.”

That’s when he asked about injecting an unspecified disinfectant into the lungs of Covid-19 patients. He also raised the possibility of using light to combat the viral infection and suggested consulting medical doctors with these questions.

“So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it,” Trump said to Bryan.  “And then, I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body,

which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.”

He continued: “And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting.”

Other doctors have stepped forward after the briefing to challenge the president,

calling his comments “irresponsible,” “extremely dangerous” and “frightening” in interviews

with The Post as they rushed to warn people of the dire consequences of ingesting caustic chemicals.

“We’ve heard the president trying to practice medicine for several weeks now, but this is a new low that is outside the realms of common sense or plausibility,” said Dr. Ryan Marino, a medical toxicologist and emergency physician at University Hospitals in Cleveland.

“I can understand looking to medicines that might have some effect or some sort of studies in a petri dish showing that they might work on a virus,” Marino added. “But talking about putting ultraviolet radiation inside of the human body or putting antiseptic things that are toxic to life inside of living people, it doesn’t make any sense anymore.”

Because past presidents are listened to and expected to tell the truth, it was immediately required to get the word out that what the president had said was wrong, deadly wrong.

Once more, our president shows how unqualified he is to be the leader of the free world.

Copyright G. Ater 2020