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If you were a member of the media and the President of the United States - of any party - suggested people try injecting bleach as a cure (for anything), what would you do?

What would you say about other politicians who implicitly supported such irresponsible behavior.

This isn't even a political question - I mean it's basic science. Bleach.

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Nobody suggested injecting bleach, please stop spreading exaggerated misinformation.

Really? Calling it bleach instead of disinfectant is the important source of misinformation here? The lengths people will go...

I have no dog in this fight, but totally natural and edible things like lemon juice and vinegar are also used as a disinfectant.

Sure bleach can be considered a disinfectant, but not all disinfectants are bleach. I do find it fun to extrapolate that Trump was telling people to go drink bleach and die though. Very entertaining during these lockdown times.

In the interest of complete clarity and understanding I went and found the exact transcript and this was exactly what was stated:

“I see 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. "

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