Just another night at a White House briefing..
The strange odyssey that has become nightly MUST SEE TV (on networks that show it) features a meek science team, an emotionless Vice President, and a testy Donald Trump slamming and bamming the media one by one as they ask countless questions for hours in the White House press Room..
The White House podium lacks the presidential seal.. also lacking are the normal flags that once adorned the president. Conspiracy theorist may figure out why.. Maybe some logical reasons exist…
Beyond that, CNN is “fake news.”
People are repeatedly shouted by the Commander in Chief when they dare ask questions for people they claim could not make it due to COVID-19 social distancing restrictions.. It turns into a series of reporters looking stone cold emotional or almost crying as the President moves on to the next question..
One by one..
Minced meat.
So often the press room becomes a series of despondent journalists and a President energized and ready to take them on in nightly prime time sessions..
Tonight, however, the situation got more chemically enhanced..
President Trump free-formed his banter.. he commented that blasting patients with “tremendous” amounts of UV light, even “inside of the body” as well as injecting them with the same disinfectants that are used to kill the viruses on surfaces might be effective treatments for Covid-19…
Trump was riffing off of some still developing research presented by Bill Bryan, an official from the Science and Technology branch of the Department of Homeland Security, who had just detailed the half-life of the coronavirus under various heat, humidity, and light conditions. Bryan noted that the virus seemed to decay quicker under the ultraviolet light from the sun.
As Bryan finished answering a reporter’s question, however, Trump stepped back up to the podium and began to discuss his own take on the data, which quickly devolved into highly unscientific and potentially harmful advice.
“So, a question some of you are probably thinking of if your are totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting,” Trump said, before posturing as a medical expert.
“So, supposing we hit the body with tremendous, I don’t know if it’s ultraviolet or very powerful light, and I think you said that has been checked but your’e going to test it,” Trump said, turning to Bryan in a sidebar moment at the end for confirmation. “Then I said what it if you brought the light inside of the body which you could do either through the skin or some other way and I think you said you were going to test that, too, sounds interesting,” he added next, again turning to Bryan for validation.
The President went further ..
Then I see the disinfectant, one minute. 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’ll have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds interesting to me. So we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, where it goes in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.
ABC News’ Jon Karl asked about Trump’s claims in a question to Bryan, asking if there was any scenario in which a human could be injected with bleach or isopropyl alcohol to treat the virus.
Bryan said: “We don’t do that in our labs.” Trump immediately jumped in, “Not cleaning through injection. Almost a cleaning, sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work. But it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.”
At one point, the President turned to Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, asking if she had ever heard of using “the heat and the light” to combat the coronavirus.
“Not as a treatment,” Birx said. “I mean, certainly … when you have a fever it helps your body respond. But I’ve not seen heat or light.”
“I think it’s a great thing to look at,” Trump said.
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PERHAPS EATING TIDE PODS WOULD BE .. SAFER..
