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Lysol maker urges people not to inject disinfectants after Trump remarks
Reuters ^ | April 24, 2020 | by Tanishaa Nadkar in Bengaluru

Posted on 04/24/2020 5:26:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Lysol and Dettol maker Reckitt Benckiser warned people against using disinfectants to treat the coronavirus, after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested researchers try putting disinfectants into patients’ bodies.

"Under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)," the company said.

Trump said researchers should try to apply their findings to coronavirus patients by inserting light or disinfectant into their bodies.

“Is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside, or almost a cleaning?” he said. “It would be interesting to check that.”

Reckitt said due to recent speculation and social media activity, it had been asked whether internal usage of disinfectants may be appropriate for investigation or use as a treatment.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020electionbias; alreuters; fakenews; fso301; journalism; media; nevertrumpfools; qanonbleachdrinkers
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not to worry the Prez is the Master Troller.


41 posted on 04/24/2020 5:53:24 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: mewzilla

And a note to Reckitt Benckiser: Considering what a cluster foxtrot the UK’s making of dealing with WuFlu, you might want not want to cast stones.


42 posted on 04/24/2020 5:54:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: fso301

No matter what he does, the EverTrumpers defend. You are in deep doo-doo.

You’re correct, he needs to keep his mouth shut and filtered more through what is supposed to be his press secretary. My only surprise was that this was in person, and not the endless uncontrolled tweets.


43 posted on 04/24/2020 5:54:33 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Good thing, the idiots in the media are injecting themselves with Lysol and using isopropal alcohol as suppositories.
44 posted on 04/24/2020 5:55:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s not like we didn’t see people hitting up the fish tank after discussions of chloriquine started. Sometimes, as a company, you have to protect yourself from the idiots of the world.


45 posted on 04/24/2020 5:56:34 AM PDT by oincobx ( Posting)
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To: mewzilla

We should refer to them as the Tide Pod generation.


46 posted on 04/24/2020 6:02:02 AM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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To: fso301

I am surprised that one side of his head isn’t caved in from Melania or someone in the family hitting him over the head with something for speaking before thinking. I’ve said from the beginning of his presidency that his mouth needs a governor. So we support him - we don’t have to shy away from criticizing him.


47 posted on 04/24/2020 6:02:07 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: frogjerk

If the media, social and otherwise, are so keen on censoring speech - removing misinformation they call it - why are they blasting Trump’s comments all over the place?


48 posted on 04/24/2020 6:02:25 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No worries Lysol. Nobody has your products and many of us have found alternatives.

What we should consider injecting, though, is that TB vaccination. For one thing there is a good correlation between universal vaccination and low incidence of Covid 19 deaths. For another thing there are studies out indicating that it could lower our expenditures on healthcare since it positively affects asthmatics, diabetics, etc. after all the money we just spent, vaccinating every man, woman, child, non-binary, furry, etc would be drop in the bucket.


49 posted on 04/24/2020 6:02:37 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Totally unnecessary statement from Reckitt Benckiser. Just joining in on the mockery. British scum.


50 posted on 04/24/2020 6:05:20 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: bramps

“How could he not know how it would be received given the media today?”

One, Trump has headed a huge company for years, and probably has not had a discussion with anyone during that time who did not have an IQ under 130. Now, he is surrounded by the press, and they all seem to be very average, to be generous.

Two, he has probably spoken to a large number of experts in brainstorm sessions who came up with the idea.


51 posted on 04/24/2020 6:07:27 AM PDT by odawg
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To: italianquaker
This idiot probably believes chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows

Wait - what? What are you trying to say?????

It better come from chocolate cows!

52 posted on 04/24/2020 6:07:43 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lysol should have directed this to the media, everyone else was not confused.


53 posted on 04/24/2020 6:08:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Manic_Episode

I have seen Woody Allen drinking Woolite.


54 posted on 04/24/2020 6:08:35 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: FenwickBabbitt
Believe it or not a disinfectant is something that kills of microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

On hard surfaces, yes. Spray your counter with Clorox or any other disinfectant and you'll kill bacteria or viruses that are there. But once in the body then it's a different matter. Want to fight bacterial infection in the body? You don't use a disinfectant, you use an antibiotic. Want to fight a virus in the body? You can't, except in very limited circumstances. Viruses, like Covid, run their course.

I don't know if Trump was talking about antibiotics or antiviral drugs or whatever. But he threw out a completely inappropriate term, 'disinfectant'. A term that the whole country applies to household cleaners. So of course the media is going to jump on it and try and make Trump look like a fool. And Trump took the bait and helped them make their case.

Secondly, he absolutely did not suggest that anyone inject themselves with anything but was talking about further scientific research that could be done.

He talked about injecting disinfectants and maybe that would be worth studying. As the expected response since then has shown, there is nothing to be gained by studying whether injecting disinfectants is worth the effort. It isn't.

55 posted on 04/24/2020 6:09:07 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

56 posted on 04/24/2020 6:09:46 AM PDT by USMC79to83
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To: BlackAdderess

That is, once summer hits


57 posted on 04/24/2020 6:10:12 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: fso301

You might understand the statement less than they did


58 posted on 04/24/2020 6:15:13 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If people are dumb enough to do it i’ll buy them a bottle, this way I figure everyone wins


59 posted on 04/24/2020 6:15:54 AM PDT by heshtesh
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To: oincobx

And yet no one can sue you for misuse

Ask the dope who got injured throwing a
beer bottle off a brick wall if the brewery paid him


60 posted on 04/24/2020 6:17:31 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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