“On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”
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h/t wtg
The Onion saw this coming a month ago, published on March 25:
https://local.theonion.com/man-just-buying-one-of-every-cleaning-product-in-case-t-1842493766
Man Just Buying One of Every Cleaning Product In Case Trump Announces It’s Coronavirus Cure
EVANSTON, WY—Throwing bottles of bleach, ammonia, and Drano into a cart at his local grocery store, area man Troy Mitchell was reportedly stocking up on one of every cleaning product he could find Wednesday in case President Donald Trump announces it is a coronavirus cure. “I got toilet bowl cleaner, carpet cleaner, Swiffer WetJet refills—you name it—just so me and my family will be ready if the president announces one of these things can treat Chinese virus,” said Mitchell, indiscriminately throwing containers of laundry detergent, Scrubbing Bubbles, grout whitener, steel wool, Febreze, Tilex mold and mildew remover, and laptop screen wipes into the cart, the contents of which rang up to $2,513.67 at checkout. “I’m not getting caught without some oven degreaser should Trump say it’s going to save us, so I better go ahead and grab me a bottle. After this, I’m hitting the hardware store to pick up a 5-gallon bucket of roof sealant to make sure I’m prepared in the event that turns out to be what gets rid of the Wuhan. Could just be 10 or 20 squirts of Windex into each nostril. You never know what might work in a pinch!” At press time, neighbors confirmed Mitchell had been found unresponsive on the floor of his bathroom with several empty aerosol cans of Rust-Oleum wax-and-tar-removing solvent by his head.
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Take that, Babylon Bee!
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You guys do know that Hydrogen Peroxide (a popular disinfectant) was administered intravenously during the Spanish Flu to great effect?
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@LuFins-Dad said in “On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”:
You guys do know that Hydrogen Peroxide (a popular disinfectant) was administered intravenously during the Spanish Flu to great effect?
Cool! Why did they stop it? You don’t hear much about that for viral treatment today. Did they do it in the 57 or 68 outbreaks? Was it attempted for SARS, MERS, or Ebola?
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@LuFins-Dad said in “On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”:
You guys do know that Hydrogen Peroxide (a popular disinfectant) was administered intravenously during the Spanish Flu to great effect?
Unproven quackery! Why would you suggest a treatment from over 100 years ago. Next up, a good blood letting!
The only places I can find are wackadoodle sites and youtube that are pushing this as a treatment for everything and anything.
The only real news sources I found were not favorable.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in “On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”:
There's probably already a shortage.
Copper, you might want to get yours while you can.
We hoarded, we're fine
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Yet there really are Darwin Award contestants out there...
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@mark I didn’t fucking recommend it. I mentioned that it’s been used in the past. I am getting really sick of your panicked and overbearing attitude.
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad WTF are you talking about? I am not panicked nor overbearing. You are touting unproven bullshit treatments and you are calling me out for calling you out?
Yeah, OK then.
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Anyone who thinks Trump advocated anything like household disinfectants needs to try researching the context of the statement.
Immediately preceding the president's remarks, the Acting Secretary who leads the Science and Technology Directorate at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said this:
"We’re also testing disinfectants readily available. We’ve tested bleach, we’ve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus, specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids. And I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes; isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing — just spraying it on and letting it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster. We’re also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva.
This is not the end of our work as we continue to characterize this virus and integrate our findings into practical applications to mitigate exposure and transmission. I would like to thank the President and thank the Vice President for their ongoing support and leadership to the department and for their work in addressing this pandemic. I would also like to thank the scientists, not only in S&T and the NBACC, but to the larger scientific and R&D community."
The discussion then continued:
[TRUMP:]
"So I asked Bill 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, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that 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. It sounds interesting.
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY BRYAN: We’ll get to the right folks who could.
THE PRESIDENT: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. 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 would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — 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 — that’s pretty powerful."
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So why did he say he was being sarcastic?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in “On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”:
So why did he say he was being sarcastic?
He obviously wasn't being sarcastic at the presser -- I assume he was just pissed off at the trolling reporter and lashed out intemperately.
