So here we are over a week later still talking about the Stable Genius' helpful suggestions about introducing disinfectants and UV lights into humans infected with Covid-19. What's striking about this isn't the colossal and profound stupidity of the President of the United States. Anyone not wearing a MAGA hat has by now come to accept what every native New Yorker has known for decades. It's the extent to which what one might call normally reasonable people will go to make sense of and/or offer plausible explanations of the constant what-the-fuckery coming out of the White House. After all, right up until 2017 most Americans had held the office of President in, if not reverence, had at least imbued it with a certain gravitas that took seriously the office's pronouncements, whether you agreed with them or not. For anyone with any sense this all went down the crapper the with the Vendor Stiffer.
A couple of days after Tariff Man made his now historically fucked-up suggestions, the following was shared in the Facebook news feed of a friend of mine who is a medical professional:
So as a Respiratory Therapist....I watched the clip about the "disinfectant that Trump talking about". People need to listen closely....and before I say this, I will tell you that I am not registered to vote and I don't vote. I am neutral. He is basically brain storming for an idea to help the lungs. He stated that the disinfectant kills the virus in one minute, so he proposed the question can we inject disinfectant (not Lysol), he used the word "disinfectant" ...in the lungs, but that is for the doctors to figure out. Now a lay person like Trump will say disinfectant and a medical person would say "medicine". Medicine dumped into the lungs happens all the time! I personally have dumped respiratory medicine down an Endotracheal tube directly into the lungs. When babies are born prematurely, guess what? Yes we "inject" the lungs with a medicine called surfactant that helps keep the alveoli open to oxygenate the lungs. Antibiotics are sometimes injected into infected parts of lungs through a chest tube. So what I want the general public to know, is that we do "inject" medicine into peoples lungs, that yes act like a disinfectant (antibiotics), so why is everyone in uproar over this? If you are a lay person and don't understand what he said then ask a medical person. His statement was so twisted around and misinterpreted, and this is coming from a Respiratory Therapist that has injected medicine in peoples lungs. Lysol brand has perpetrated misinformation and panicked the general public who doesn't know anything about lungs. And Trump never used the word "Lysol". So why did Lysol brand think he was talking about them, that's narcissistic on their part. Why would Lysol brand embrace that? they look ignorant. So people, yes we do inject medicine into the lungs! This is why people need to know the facts and stop panicking people.
Where to begin? First of all, announcing you aren't registered and don't vote isn't being neutral it's telling me you don't give a shit how your country is run and it's thanks to people like you we're in this mess right now. Secondly is there anyone, again not wearing a MAGA hat who really believes the Moron-in-Chief meant "medicine" and not "disinfectant" even if he left out a brand name? It was obvious to anyone not needing to come up with excuses for this dumb-shittery he meant exactly what he said. And why did those in a position to impart actual knowledge immediately and without prompting issue statements and warnings to try preventing those inspired by the Real Estate Swindler's "brainstorming" to drink bleach? Thirdly, does any impartial observer really think this impartial observer is neutral? I don't or you wouldn't be defending the indefensible.
Fortunately for me I left the Republican party long before it became necessary to rationalize my continued membership in a party lead by one of the most despicable cretins on the planet. The Porn Star Spankee isn't just stupid, he's malevolently so. Once upon a time it was possible to be a Republican and maintain a social conscience but not anymore. What conscience any of them have left is reserved exclusively for fetuses.
However, the few decent people left in the GOP, some probably lifelong members, now find themselves facing the choice of supporting the Big Mac Eater-in-Chief or coming over to the dark side - voting for the party that since Vietnam they've been led to believe is anti-American. And so they grasp at straws and delude themselves into believing the alternative is worse. After all, they're all queer baby killers that hate America, aren't they? Yeah, that's it. He really was trying to help. He wasn't really suggesting spraying Lysol into your lungs. It's the media. Yeah, that's right.
Just keep telling yourself that and it'll all be okay.
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