Even DUmmies should be smart enough to know this, but here is a forestry rake:
As to "injecting bleach", here's the transcript of the press conference to which this claim sort of alludes,
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-23 . Some key quotes:
Donald Trump: (29:46)
A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly 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. 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. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in 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 on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful. Steve, please.
While this sounds like scifi fantasy, Trump was alluding to a device developed at Cedars Sinai Hospital that had been recently (days or hours, not weeks or months) been announced as entering prototype production for FDA testing.
ETA: Here is the press release Trump was alluding to,
https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=4636718157891743 .
Moving along:
Jim: (34:05)
The president mentioned the idea of a cleaner, bleach and isopropyl alcohol emerging. There’s no scenario where that could be injected into a person, is there?
...
Donald Trump: (34:22)
[crosstalk 00:34:22] It wouldn’t be through injections, [inaudible 00:34:25] almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big affect if it’s on a stationary object.
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Donald Trump: (35:06)
He’s saying on surfaces, the heat, the hot summer and whatever other conditions, humidity and lack of humidity, that that would have an impact. So, that on surfaces where it can be picked up, it will die fairly quickly in the summer. Whereas, in the winter it wouldn’t die so quickly.
My emphasis. Three facts of note:
* A "reporter" used the word "bleach". President Trump did not;
* They were speaking of surfaces of objects, not human bodies;
* Trump specifically said, "It
wouldn’t be through injections ...".
It's amazing what DUmmies could learn if they factchecked what they want to be true. I factchecked the "bleach" claim 2 or 3 years ago, so I knew how to find that transcript
again.
