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Man Who Died Ingesting Fish Tank Cleaner Remembered as Intelligent, Levelheaded Engineer
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 4/24/2020 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 04/24/2020 5:06:00 PM PDT by TChad

In death, he has become famous as a cautionary tale about the risks of mindlessly following the armchair medical advice President Donald Trump has dispensed from the White House podium.

But friends of 68-year-old Gary Lenius, the Arizona man who passed away last month from drinking a fish tank cleaner that contained an ingredient, chloroquine phosphate, that Trump had touted as a potential coronavirus cure, say they are still struggling to understand what drove an engineer with an extensive science background to do something so wildly out of character.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: chloroquine; coronavirus; fishtankcleaner; garylenius; hydroxychloroquine; methundrstanding; wandalenius
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To: TChad
He drank the stuff. Sorta like putting a 1911 to your head and pulling the trigger. 👉 😳 bang!
41 posted on 04/24/2020 5:41:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: TChad
It's crystal clear what happened.

She poisoned her husband and blamed it on PDJT.

A lefty twofer.

42 posted on 04/24/2020 5:41:14 PM PDT by Eagles6 (I said good luck to him)
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To: TChad

Yes, the agenda driven author of the piece is quite suspect. She /he/it has blood on its dead soul hands for this propaganda piece.


43 posted on 04/24/2020 5:42:05 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: SmokingJoe
He can't be intelligent or level headed if he thinks a fish tank cleaner will do anything but kill him in ingested n sufficient quantities. Any 7 year old will tell you that.

Where is the evidence that he knew what was in the glass?

44 posted on 04/24/2020 5:43:07 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

The wife is a nut case. Where are the cops?


45 posted on 04/24/2020 5:43:17 PM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Sorry, but given his actions, he was neither Intelligent or levelheaded.

What if he drank a glass of liquid given to him by his wife without knowing what was in the glass? How stupid would he have had to be to do that?

46 posted on 04/24/2020 5:46:09 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

Having worked with Engineers my entire career I can honestly say one of the very general conclusions I’ve come to is this: an engineer’s level of common sense is inversly proportional to his level of education.


47 posted on 04/24/2020 5:46:50 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: ConservativeMind

He needs to go to a blue state, so, he can vote.


48 posted on 04/24/2020 5:47:08 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: TChad

Some otherwise very intelligent people will stay in, even cling to a bad marriage even when they don’t have to.
It becomes a match made in Hell between a Taker with too much self esteem becoming ‘the owner’ of a Giver, with too little self esteem.

Usually, everyone around such a couple can see the malfunction except The Giver, aka Willing Doormat.
This is often their will to stay and be abused.
Everyone knows of such a couple either as in a marriage, friendship or employment.


49 posted on 04/24/2020 5:47:16 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: wastoute

LOL


50 posted on 04/24/2020 5:47:40 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: TChad

her next husband will die from a fractured skull because he will not take the stuff


51 posted on 04/24/2020 5:50:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ConservativeMind

She wanted to get rid of him. She’s a psycho Democrat.
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I heard she mixed up the cocktail for her husband. She also was tried some years back for some form of spousal abuse. She was acquitted when her husband said he forgave her at the trial. Her excuse for not going the way of her husband is that she vomited up the concoction. Apparently the state is investigating the death as suspicious and I would add very fishy.


52 posted on 04/24/2020 5:50:13 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: Political Junkie Too

That’s what I was thinking... Probably not a CHEMICAL Engineer (I am).


53 posted on 04/24/2020 5:50:46 PM PDT by Rio
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To: PGR88

he didn’t take it on his own IMO, his wife poisoned him. I hope she’s brought to justice.


54 posted on 04/24/2020 5:52:02 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Cobra64
Sorta like putting a 1911 to your head and pulling the trigger.

Why do you and other posters here assume that he knew what was in the glass? If he wanted to kill himself, there are easier means than self-poisoning, including your 1911.

One of the article's main points is that there is no evidence that he was suicidal.

What a strange thread.

55 posted on 04/24/2020 5:54:15 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: UNGN

I think SHE put him out of his misery.


56 posted on 04/24/2020 5:55:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: TChad

There have been suggestions that his wife prepared this “elixir of life” for him, with special ingredients.


57 posted on 04/24/2020 5:56:27 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: fatman6502002

—> Having worked with Engineers my entire career I can honestly say one of the very general conclusions I’ve come to is this: an engineer’s level of common sense is inversely proportional to his level of education. <—

Agreed-
Everyone here (and society) in general seems to think that if someone is disciplined enough to earn a degree indeed multiple degrees that they possess a very high level of intelligence, practical reasoning, and rational thought ability.

That simply is not the case. Thermometers have lots of degrees. You know where they put those? :-)


58 posted on 04/24/2020 5:56:29 PM PDT by know.your.why ( If love is blind then marriage is an institution for the blind)
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To: CincyRichieRich

The latter sounds more reasonable.


59 posted on 04/24/2020 5:56:38 PM PDT by softengine (l)
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To: TChad

FTA: ... an ingredient, chloroquine phosphate, that Trump had touted as a potential coronavirus cure....

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Lie.

I think the wife poisoned him. He’s not around to tell us that he took the fish tank cleaner knowingly, is he?


60 posted on 04/24/2020 5:58:26 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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