You Knew the Anti-Trump Press Were Going Latch Onto This...And They Got Embarrassed Again

Last week, you knew the anti-Trump opposition press was going to latch onto President Trump’s disinfectant remarks. It might not have been the most artful remark. In fact, the only reason why it was a terrible remark is that the liberal media would go ballistic over it, distracting us with their nonsense as we fight his Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Partially, it wouldn’t shock me if Trump had the latter in mind, given the media’s pervasive tenacity to take everything he says literally. Frankly, I don’t care. Trump is president. They’re not. And given how badly the media has covered this White House, they can be ignored for the next century. Here’s what caused the uproar (via NYT):

Reportedly, Dr. Deborah Birx, one of Trump’s top officials on his Wuhan coronavirus task force, is not happy that the media is still predictably talking about this. Yet, this is something these clowns will zero-in on, trying to find some hook in order to weaponize it against the White House. So, they tried to suggest that hordes of people were poisoning themselves off of Trump’s remarks. That’s fake news (via Reason):

It’s a swing and a miss again because the media had to overreach. They must attack Trump, who didn’t tell Americans to inject Lysol into their veins. This is the classic case of the isolated incident. Trump mentions, say hydroxychloroquine, as a possible therapeutic as we wait for a vaccine and one couple in Arizona injects something that sounds similar but it’s not hydroxychloroquine, and the media blames Trump. The woman was left in critical condition, while her husband died after they both ingested…fish tank cleaner. You simply cannot make this stuff up. Former CNN Producer Steve Krakauer even admitted that Trump never said we should inject disinfectants into our bloodstream, but he did note the other thing the media should talk about. One is that there should be a more balanced approach to the lockdowns and the re-openings, even though the former saved lives. That being, brace yourselves for the media shaming if there is a slight uptick in new infections. It’s going to happen, but it’s not like this administration said that there would be zero new infections in states that have met the stage one reopening criterion:

One of the storylines I've written abou tis the geographic bias in coverage of coronavirus, and that has continued as we've begun to see some strategic easing of lockdown, stay-at-home orders. While the focus has been on the beaches being populated by what the media perceives as Trump voters, California, for example, reported 50,000 beachgoers in what looked like far more crowded beaches on Friday.

But the point here is not to COVID-shame anyone. We need to be smart about how we approach emerging from lockdown. It's all about balance.

I've been enjoying following former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, but I also can' t understand his argument about the effectiveness of the lockdowns. Anyone who says we would have less coronavirus-related deaths if we all just went about our business as usual doesn't have much of a case.

I'd highly suggest everyone watch this 15-minute interview with the most interesting voice I've seenon how we strategically get back to some levels of normalcy - how we can be smart and nuanced about it - Dr. David Katz on Bill Maher Friday night. Mark Halperin's COVID-related newsletters have been excellent in presenting different points of view also.

A great many states have seen cases dip and are ready to re-open slowly. That’s fine. I’m glad it’s happening, but I know there can be a mixed bag of some new infections in some states and a mini-explosion for others. Even the Trump administration knows phase one isn’t going to go smoothly for some states, but they’re confident with these guideless that we can minimize a destructive second wave. Also, America needs to start getting back to work, but safely. And that really can’t happen if most of the media, which hates Trump, peddles fake news trash about poison control center calls spiking because of Trump

Here at FR we used to joke that the Dems were Lucy with the football and the R’s were Charlie Brown. Trump has turned that on its head. You would think that the leftist MSM and democrats would wise up when he presents a big, fat football to kick, but they go after it anyway.

It’s one of the things I like about him.

BTW, the reason he can do this is that he is no republican. He’s too conservative (classical liberal) for republicans. He just had to join a party to win the election.

I guess the “critics” have never heard of asthma inhalers. An asthma inhaler delivers (injects) medicine directly into the lungs. The medicine? It could be an antibiotic. An antibiotic kills (disinfects) unwanted biotics.

Researchers are already studying placing UV light sources into transparent ventilator breathing tubes that are inserted into the lungs.

It seems that President Trump is simply an out-of-the-box forward thinker. The only issue here is someone has already thought of it, and is using it.

Per Alvarez:

Had your Flu shot this year? Did you know that Thimerosal and Formaldehyde are disinfectants? Did you know you are injecting them into your body via vaccines?

Check it out: https://www.twitter.com/therealquapo805/status/1254287354790998016";>twitter.com</a>

Trump was trolling #BigPharma because they are already injecting disinfectants.
Info via pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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