federally indicted mattoid wrote:
Your nominee for prez showed how ignorant he is when he said "injection" in reference to disinfectants.
Can you believe he said that?
No.
Later, Trump clarified his comments after a reporter asked Bryan whether disinfectants could actually be injected into COVID-19 patients.
"It wouldn’t be through injections, almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area.
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object."
Trump did not explicitly recommend ingesting a disinfectant like bleach.
Nevertheless, his remarks led some companies and state agencies to issue warnings about ingesting disinfectants. The maker of Lysol said in a statement that "under no circumstance" should its products be used in the human body.