Clorox is The New Hydroxychloroquine

In a press briefing yesterday, President Trump actually suggested Americans inject themselves with disinfectant to combat COVID-19:

I see disinfectant, where it knocks [coronavirus] 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 you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me.

In which case I suppose this means Clorox is the new Hydroxychloroquine. Of course, Trump touted the anti-malarial drug as "a game changer" for COVID-19. However, a preliminary study done by the New York Department of Health suggests the drug had no effect in aiding recovery. A similar study undertaken by a French hospital in Nice was halted after cardiac side effects emerged. In recent days, Trump has stopped mentioning the drug altogether. 

One wonders if Trump is going to double down his defense of Clorox injections and cry fake news. Or will he simply throw Bill Bryan under the bus? Bryan is head of the Science and Technology Division of the Department of Homeland Security who did tell Trump that disinfectant can be effective in killing COVID-19 on surfaces, not the human body.  Bryan made similar remarks about COVID-19 being killed off by sunlight on surfaces, not the human body. But Trump pondered, “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light.”

It must be asked. Is President Trump really this stupid? Or will this just be another one of his lies? It should come as no surprise if in a few days from now Trump will deny he ever made such a claim. 

Thus we can conclude that President Trump is both stupid and a liar. After all, it was only yesterday that Trump asked CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield to lie to the country and say he was misquoted by The Washington Post when he said a second wave of COVID-19 next winter could be even more deadly than what we are now facing. To his everlasting credit, Dr. Redfield said the WaPo quoted him accurately although the good doctor might be sharing space under the bus with Bryan and Dr. Fauci. 

The bottom line here is that we cannot trust anything Trump says about COVID-19 (or anything else for that matter). We could not trust Trump's repeated claims that COVID-19 was under control, that anyone who wanted a test could get a test or that Hydorxychloroquine was a game changer. With this track record, I can only hope that no American will see fit to pour Clorox or Lysol into a syringe. COVID-19 has now claimed more than 50,000 American lives. We don't need foolish advice from President Trump to add to the death toll.