Posted on 04/24/2020 7:05:45 AM PDT by McGruff
Left-wing activists made multiple false and misleading claims on Thursday following President Donald Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in which the president commented on new scientific findings from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The activists falsely claimed that Trump “urged Americans to inject themselves with disinfectant” and “told people to drink bleach.”
To understand Trump’s remarks, it’s important to first understand the full context of what was said at the press briefing.
Bill Bryan, Under Secretary for Science and Technology at DHS, said at the press briefing, “Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air. We’ve seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus.”
Bryan talked about the half-life of the coronavirus on surfaces like door handles and stainless steel surfaces, saying that when they “inject” UV rays into the mix along with high temperatures and increased humidity that the virus dies quickly.
“The virus does not survive as well in droplets of saliva, and that’s important because a lot of testing being done is not necessarily being done, number one, with the COVID-19 virus and number two, in saliva or respiratory fluids,” Bryan continued. “And thirdly, the virus dies the quickest in the presence of direct sunlight under these conditions.”
Bryan continued by noting that DHS also tested if certain types of disinfectant could kill the coronavirus.
“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,” Bryan said. “Isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing. Just bring it on and leaving it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster.”
Bryan added, “We’re also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva.”
Immediately following these remarks, Trump said:
So, I’m going to ask 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 when 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. 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’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.
A few moments later, ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked Bryan, “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?”
“No, I’m here to talk about the finds that we had in the study,” Bryan responded. “We don’t do that within that lab at our labs.”
Trump then clarified his remarks: “It wouldn’t be through injections, you’re talking about 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.”
Trump later raised the possibility of whether UV rays could kill the coronavirus if it was on a person’s skin, in particular if it were on their hands.
“If they’re outside, right, and their hands are exposed to the sun, will that kill it as though it were a piece of metal or something else?” Trump asked.
“I don’t want to say it will at the same rate because it’s a non-porous surface, but what we do know is that we looked at the worst case scenario and the virus lives longer on non-porous surfaces,” Bryan responded. “So porous surfaces, it doesn’t live quite as long, so in theory what you said is correct.”
Left-wing activist Chris D. Jackson wrote that Trump had “urged Americans to inject themselves with disinfectant.”
Jake Maccoby, a former speech writer for the Obama Justice Department, wrote on Twitter that Trump had “told people to drink bleach.”
Others have repeated the false claims.
The President says something fairly simple.
The Press is too stupid to understand, and tells everyone that the President is stupid.
Some percentage of the population walks around thinking “I can’t believe that idiot is president”.
I agree with the President... all vile, lying POS liberal scum should inject themselves with disinfectant AND drink a pint of bleach to protect themselves from the mean virus.
Would someone please tell the lying progressives that drinking bleach works actually much better than hydroxychloroquine, and they should try it!
Haha I just posted this on a soccer mom site where this lady said that trumpians drink bleach
all vile, lying POS liberal scum
A bit verbose but effective!
Could be one of my in-laws.
Trump did not say that.
Some dishonest, ignorant journalist thought that up and put those words in his mouth.
People on Face Book are having a field day with this!
The Press understood fully well. They just chose to parse Trump’s words into something that fits their agenda and hatred of him.
Is there video of what Trump said?
As I recall, the Nazis sometimes used to inject prisoners with carbolic acid.
It was the top headline in the morning rag I sometimes read online (only because it’s free).
of course we are dealing with D’s. remember the idiot D donor who imbibed some gardening product with chloroquine in it or some such. so we have to remember there is that part of the population — ahem.
Last night I was minding my own business and Donald Trump himself called me on my cell phone!
He told me to drink more Ovaltine.
Obviously comprehension is not taught any more in college. Those cretins can only hear what they want things to mean.
No ..IT WAS A TRAP! Trump should have said..ARE YOU STUPID WHAT PART OF USING IT TO CLEAN SURFACES DONT YOU UNDERSTAND?!!! Ugh! Please someone get us out of our misery with this bastard mediaVOMITS!!! Please!!
I’ve noticed that Reckett Bensinger’s U.S. headquarters is in NY, and I’m wondering if NY has hoarded the nation’s supply of Lysol since Lysol cannot be had anymore, and because you have this insane pronouncement coming from the brand... that nobody in neighboring states can find... that people are finding substitutes for among other brands that DON’T leave us high and dry in a crisis.
This brand will be losing market share if they are not careful.
The press isn’t stupid in this case. They are waiting to pounce on anything that can be misinterpreted into something they can use to make Trumps sound stupid — in other words to manufacture fake news. So they are actually being clever but in a demented way to serve their demented ideology which rejects reality most of the time.
Trump is baiting them, he is the master troll, the press never learns.. So flu vaccines can be loaded with anti microbial chemicals like neomycin... the only difference between an antibiotic and a disinfectant both are anti microbial,agents but the antibiotic is deemed “safe” to ingest by other people than Trump. So is it going to come out that not all our vaccines are not the same but have been tainted for years harmful agents? I think so, Trump will have a field day lampooning the press who have been demanding a vaccine as the ransom to go back to work, yet they knowingly look the other way about the possibility “disinfectants” being injected in people through bad vaccines. How can the press never question any consumer product to be free of any harmful agents let alone one that would be demanded everyone ingest while telling us trump is an idiot and dangerous role model?
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