• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        I remember that press conference. It was so clear that someone had mentioned that bleach and UV are effective virus killers and he just ran with it like a PSA for awareness of Dunning-Krueger.

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            8 months ago

            The rate of everything goes up and down constantly. I’m reminded of the non-stop “x is down 3% as uncorrelated event takes place” financial articles.

            In the case of bleach poisoning, the numbers are low, so going from 1 to 2 poisonings can be a “100% increase”.

            From your link:

            Critically, association is not causation, and with a frightened public doing whatever it can to protect itself from the virus, the same increases in poisonings might have happened regardless of Trump’s remarks.

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          That whole thing was so ridiculous, they were talking about what kills the virus on surfaces. There are a lot of things that can sanitize a table or counter but that doesn’t mean they can kill germs in your body without also killing you. Imagine having a sunburn inside your lungs because someone shoved a light down there, that was Trump’s genius solution to the pandemic in that moment.

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          8 months ago

          He’s so narcissistic that he legitimately thought he randomly came up with a cure for COVID on the spot that no one had thought of.