LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnit.com), April 26, 2020.–Speaking off-the-cuff about new information on killing the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 by Undersecretary of State Bill Bryan April 23, Trump brainstormed out loud about how disinfectants and ultraviolet rays killed the virus. Instead of letting it go for what it was, just ramblings over possibilities, the media pounced. Bryan, who’s not a medical doctor, presented research at the daily briefing April 23, on how the virus dies under sunlight and common household disinfectants “It was totally ad-libbed,” said an unnamed White House official. It was “off-the-cuff,” saying Trump made no recommendations only asked Dr. Deborah Birx whether she saw any promise of disinfectants and ultraviolet light.. Trump’s enemies in the media and Democrat Party jumped all over his musings, making it look like he’s telling people to inject themselves with Clorox.
Bouncing ideas around after Bryan spoke, Trump opened up a can of worms. “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it?” Trump asked Bryan and Dr. Deborah Brix. Neither Bryan nor Birx had much reaction to Trump’s musings. “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting,” Trump said, never suggesting that anyone try light treatments or disinfectants. But the media jumped all over it, saying Trump urged U.S. citizens to inject themselves or consumer household disinfectants like Clorox, something he never said. Today’s media is so biased it can’t stop itself from twisting the facts.
Trump conflated, without knowing it, Bryan’s research that indicates the coronavirus outside the human body dies from solar energy or simple household disinfectants. From that, Trump thought out loud about how that simple process could apply inside the body. “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute. And is there a way were can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that, so that, you’re to have to use medical doctors with,” Trump finished his rambling. But how the media and Democrat Party spins that to mean that Trump recommends injecting or consuming Clorox shows how far the media will go to discredit the president. Trump has a big problem with fake news: It’s not going away anytime soon.
As virologists and epidemiologists have noted about the seasonal flu, it tends to be worse in the fall and winter, improving in the spring and summer, even though you can still catch it. Reasoning about the coronavirus, it’s possible that the novel coronavirus may behave the same way in spring and summer with less infections. Whether that happens isn’t yet known but it could follow the same pattern as other flu viruses. Trump’s public remarks were not recommendations for treatments only asking questions of the experts of how the same principle of light and disinfectants could apply to treating Covid-19 cases. “Not a treatment,” Birx said to Trump, regarding the use of disinfectants and light to treat the human body. Yet the anti-Trump media seized on the opportunity to make Trump look like an idiot, recommending dangerous treatments when all he did was ask questions.
Coronvirus cases topped 2,991,073 and 206,822 deaths worldwide with 986,045 cases in the U.S. with 55,377 deaths, making the U.S. 32% of total world cases and 26% of world deaths. Trump desperately wants to find answers that just aren’t there. Whether admitted to or not, state-of-the-art medical research doesn’t have answers for slowing the cornovirus spread or treating Covid-19. Promising treatments using the old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine used with Azithromycin [Z-PAK] haven’t proved too successful as earlier trials suggested. New drugs, like Gilead Pharrmaceutircal’s Remdesivir. also haven’t proved all that effective in treating SARS CoV-2. In that context, Trump got excited about Bryan’s presentation about how the novel coronavirus dies under sunlight and most household disinfectants, not recommending anything, only asking questions.
Trump’s problem with fake news is that it’s ubiquitous, something he can’t get away from, making it personal in the 2020 Election Year to hound him out of office. Today’s media has their credibility on the line seeing Trump defeated in November by former Vice President Joe Biden. It’s difficult for Trump to fight back because the hatred for him in the media is so widespread. Trump sets himself up musing about how light and disinfectants could get rid of coronavirus. Taking things out of context is the best way fake news can make Trump look dangerous and irresponsible. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tried to help clean up Trump’s mess April 24. “Your safety is paramount, and doctors and nurse have years of training to recommend what’s safe and effective,” Adams tweeted, clarifying that no one should do anything in the way of a treatment without following their doctor’s advice.
