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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:21 PM Apr 2020

Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an 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.”

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Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Apr 2020 OP
I wonder how many Nigerian lotteries have bilked the orange offal? NRaleighLiberal Apr 2020 #1
So now we know where Trump got the idea from. nt SouthernCal_Dem Apr 2020 #2
I suppose the letter was also sarcasm? Solly Mack Apr 2020 #3
Long before this latest "miracle cure", Quacks were procon Apr 2020 #4
As usual, the Guardian digs deeper than our brain dead media types. Trump didn't just make this... blitzen Apr 2020 #5
I hope nobody tells him about Brawndo. LastDemocratInSC Apr 2020 #6

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Long before this latest "miracle cure", Quacks were
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:59 PM
Apr 2020

touting industrial strength bleach as a patent “cure” for everything from autism, cancer, Ebola and Alzheimer disease, to name but a few. The internet and eBay was full of nutters peddling vials of this super strong bleach as the new secret medicine that Big Pharma in cahoots with Big Brother, was keeping from the public.

Trump is an incompetent idiot. He's a naive imbecile who is easily impressed by crackpots and charlatans, and snack oil hucksters much like himself. In just less than the two months since he finally acknowledged that corid 19 existed, look at how he's already fallen for a "miracle cure" malaria drug, and now he's pushing lights and industrial cleaning products as his latest quacky "miracle cures".

What next?

blitzen

(4,572 posts)
5. As usual, the Guardian digs deeper than our brain dead media types. Trump didn't just make this...
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 04:19 PM
Apr 2020

up off the top of his empty head. He heard about it from the right-wing Church-Huckster-Pundit industrial complex.

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