Vox (4/23/20) calls the idea that you can treat the coronavirus by injecting bleach “highly unlikely.”
You probably saw Donald Trump’s ridiculous, false and deadly claim last week: that ingesting chemical cleaners could cure humans of the coronavirus. At a White House press briefing on Thursday (4/23/20), the president said:
I see disinfectant, where it knocks it [coronavirus] out in a minute—one minute—and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it [coronavirus] gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.
He also suggested that exposing patients to bright lights could help cure them, once again confusing what works on surfaces like tables with the inside of a human body.
It’s worth taking a step back for a second and pausing on the fact that the person in charge of the United States thinks injecting bleach might be a good idea. Trump has consistently spread false information about the pandemic, claiming in February that it would be gone by April due to the warmer weather, and insisting that “we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”
His pronouncements have already been fatal: After promoting the drug chloroquine, an Arizona man died and his wife was hospitalized after they ingested fish tank cleaner that contained the substance. Surely more deadly but harder to quantify are his outbursts proclaiming that states should “LIBERATE” themselves from oppressive lockdown measures (some of the lightest in the developed world), encouraging people to go out and demonstrate, thereby spreading the virus.
Unfortunately, for journalists stuck in a corporate media system that promotes deference to authority and finds equivalency even when there is none, the president’s dangerous ramblings need to be treated as legitimate and worthy of discussion, even in apparently adversarial media. Vox (4/23/20), for example, said that it was only “highly unlikely that injecting humans with disinfectants will turn out to be a safe or effective treatment.” The Washington Post (4/24/20) described Trump’s statement as an “unsubstantiated and potentially dangerous” idea. At the risk of stating the obvious, it is not “highly unlikely” but impossible, and Trump’s idea is not merely “potentially” dangerous: No amount of bleach is safe to inject into your body. It will kill human beings, as chemical cleaning product manufacturers immediately warned. (The Post did include a disclaimer: “Do not ingest any bleach or disinfectant.”)
Despite this, USA Today (4/24/20) presented the story as a he-said she-said between two opposing views, describing (4/24/20) Trump’s ludicrous outburst merely as “the latest in a pattern of questionable claims.” “We should inject bleach for our health” is not a “questionable” claim, and would not be treated as such if someone without power or influence made it.
The New York Times (4/24/20) referred to the idea that injecting bleach into your body may cure the coronavirus as an “unproven treatment.”
Perhaps the worst offender of phony both-sidesism, however, was the New York Times (4/24/20), which described the president as “eagerly theorizing—dangerously, in the view of some experts—about the powers of sunlight, ultraviolet light and household disinfectants to kill the coronavirus.”
In other words: “Can injecting bleach kill you? On the one hand, definitely yes. On the other, here is a dummy who thinks it will save you from Covid–19, so let’s teach the controversy.” Refusing to state categorically that ingesting known deadly substances is a bad idea, the wording of the Times article suggests that only “some experts” disagree with the idea, while there are other, pro-bleach drinking authorities out there.
After widespread pushback on social media, the Times amended the offending paragraph, but, if anything, made it worse, changing it to Trump “eagerly theorizing about treatments involving the powers of sunlight, ultraviolet light and household disinfectant that could be harmful if they were used to try to kill the coronavirus.” Injecting bleach “could” be harmful under certain circumstances, but who knows? Certainly not us at the New York Times.
This sort of reporting would be absurd beyond belief in other circumstances involving people without serious power. For example, there were no Times reports stating that, “at the Jonestown camp in Guyana, Rev. Jones eagerly theorized about the benefits of cyanide-laced Kool-Aid that could be harmful in certain circumstances.”
Even CNN’s Anderson Cooper (4/23/20), who has emerged as one of Trump’s most visible and aggressive critics, was anxious not to give an opinion, so strong is the culture of supposed “neutrality” in journalism. He asked his guest, “Is there any evidence about taking a disinfectant that’s used on the table where I’m sitting, and using it internally? That doesn’t seem like a good idea. Am I wrong?”
Cooper, like any adult, knows full well that it is a bad idea, but the spectacle of a CNN anchor asking a doctor about drinking bleach is a bizarre example of what can happen when you combine practices of deference to authority, both-sidesism, and a pretense of neutrality.
The failure of corporate media to call a spade a spade for fear of losing their status as objective arbiters of news has, of late, led to clearly racist actions and statements being laundered as “racially charged” or “racially tinged” or even just “race-related” (FAIR.org, 4/5/19, 11/1/19; CounterSpin, 7/23/19). Likewise, ICE concentration camps are described as “detention centers” (CounterSpin, 1/5/20), which has the effect of making them sound like places unruly school kids who fail to do their homework are sent.
To corporate media: It is OK. Facts are facts, even when the president of the United States disagrees. You don’t have to both-sides this one. Injecting bleach is bad.
Great article – Thank you for this!
Look again. Bleach is bad, but so is sunlight.
There is some psychology, somewhere,
that discredits even voices of authority,
from suggesting vitamin-D, zinc, leafy-greens (GI tract), garlic,
or anything that doesn’t come out of a syringe (a proper one).
VIT-D: you dont have rickets, but you are still deficient,
it helps immunity, esp respiratory!
Vitamin-D is
You’re totally right! I drank bleach and I shit my pants but than I drank Lysol and felt better instantly. Another fake news narrative by the weak lefties. Trump knows a thing or two about health. How do you think he keeps that amazing gunt?
Looking to fill a few inches on the website and had to make a story up? FAIR starts the article by saying that Trump claimed injecting cleaning chemicals could cure people of the coronavirus. Then, I thought their own article and the very next paragraph you quote Trump as saying “ so it’d be interesting to check that”.
FAIR manages to go from “interesting to check that” to their own interpretation of Trump as claiming it cures the coronavirus. What a pitiful attempt at twisting words, just like the rest of the media does that FAIR so often complains about.
MacLeod made up this story up- looks like he’s fully qualified to work for the BBC, CNN, or CBC. Congratulations.
As for giving too much legitimacy for people with power, I agree. Us poor folk in Canada have to deal with the world-wide embarrassment of a man-child Trudeau. We should be giving him and his UN and WHO cronies absolutely zero respect. Just a bunch of power hungry puppets.
Yeah, MacLeod likes to twist things a bit, hoping to create more drama presumably. Regarding the issue of Abby Martin being required to sign an anti-BDS type pledge before she could make a speech at Southern Georgia University, MacLeod phrased it as though she was being required to sign “a pledge of allegiance to Israel”. Martin herself phrased it as “a contractual pledge to not boycott Israel.” Interesting, how a “journalist” can make the leap all the way to “pledge of allegiance to Israel” lol.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/abby-martin-lawsuit-state-georgia-over-bds-law/264798/
Of course, when he doesn’t simply “muse about”, but threatens deadly acts in Venezuela or Iran, the corpress leaves the “neutral” press box and picks up the pom poms on the sidelines.
Donald Trump did not say bleach he said disinfectant. He said “is there a way we can do something like that by injection” You aren’t helping by twisting what Trump said no matter how much you may not like him. It just so happens that intravenous disinfectant (ozone) and using light (UV) are two time tested treatments for killing viruses. Dr. Robert J. Rowen is one of many doctors who use intravenous ozone (a disinfectant) therapy. UV (light) irradiation of blood is another therapy Here is one article about UV blood purification. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122858/ These treatments are not profitable since they can’t be patented. Gates and Fauci have both stated they want to avoid natural herd immunity lest they aren’t able to profit from their patented vaccines or other pricey solutions.
Gates is a dangerous man. His ID chips should make everyone stop and take a real hard look at his plans.
Michael: Check with Snopes and see what they say about Gates, as it seems more logical and believable than what you are saying.
Ha ha! Snopes is about as balanced as FAIR, CNN and InfoWars are. Snopes has been shown many times to be heavily biased and outright wrong. If they are pro-Gates, I’m sure Snopes’ funding can easily be traced back to a “foundation” supporting Gates or the other puppet master billionaires.
I’ve caught Snopes in a number of false claims over the years. The problem with sites that propose to “fact check” is that they’re usually pushing an agenda as well.
Substituting the word BLEACH for DISINFECTANT does not change the fact that an injection of either DOES NOT CURE Covid-19. Your second straw-man fails because neither UV nor ozone treatment inside of patients with Covid-19 is possible. Even if trump mentioned ozone or UV therapy by name, his words would still be false. You said nothing that exonerates boss-tweet. You can’t polish that orange turd.
Trump never said that anyone should drink or inject disinfectant. He said the way disinfectants kill the virus should be studied to see if there was a way to replicate that mechanism inside the body. That sounds reasonable to me.
For years I’ve watched as the media has told one lie after another and people have repeated them because it suited their political bias. I don’t even take the msm seriously anymore. I just assume that whatever they say is propaganda. And the same goes for sites like this one who ~claim~ to hold the msm to account.
Great reply. I was just going to post the same.
As a physician, I will check to see if any of my colleagues can contact The New York Times to offer some pro-bleach therapy perspective.
Gee, if this treatment is effective for Covid-19, why isn’t it being used. Are you implying ignorant medical professionals and immunologists prefer to allow infected victims die rather than use ozone? BTW, there was some person or persons advising people to drink bleach to cure disease.
I actually made a joke to a couple friends a few days ago that Maggie Haberman/NYT would probably run a both-sides headline about Trump’s bleach comment… I was PURELY joking, I didn’t think even NYT would go that far. And yet, here we are. Unbelievable.
This is my first time reading “FAIR”. Well somewhere between 1986 and now you have lost your way, This article is so biased that readers, who are not afflicted with TDS, choke on the spin after the first sentence. Do some research on currently used and advanced scientific research to treat and cure viruses…Please!
If you really want to be “Fair” then be fair or else it’s time for a name change!
Sounds like the only one trying to spin information here is you. There are no known injectable disinfectants that cure Covid-19 disease. This is a fact not spin.
Lol. Truth hurts, does it?
Allan,
You’re a joke. A clown act. Where does the word “bleach” appear in the transcript from the President?
Even worse for you, there’s medical precedent in what the President suggested. Easily found to boot.
This publication is the epitome of media bias.
“It was Paul Ehrlich, however, who made the greatest contribution to the science (chemotherapy) he named. The problem facing medical scientists was to produce a disinfectant that would destroy parasites within a living animal without serious damage to the host.”
https://www.britannica.com/science/chemotherapy
I suspect you don’t have the guts to publish this comment, but we’ll see?
there are a lot of dumb bleach drinking mother fuc*ers in here.
but, i’m not going to stop you from it. I applaud that ignorance.
This wasn’t about pseudo-neutrality. It was deliberately done to reinforce the Trump derangement syndrome the Democrat-collusive “liberal” media is depending on to get people to vote for Joe Biden.
The same can be said for the occasional scare pieces telling people a vaccine is at least 18 months away, which is true, but essentially skimming over the fact there are great many treatments currently in clinical trials, some of which are already approved for other illnesses and could thus be approved quickly given the FDA’s notoriously capricious rules for such things. Especially if there’s profit to be made.
Could this omission be to ensure people remain at a high enough stress level the eternal bombardment of Trumpisms, which by all rights should be made as little of as possible, will also fix in their minds the mistaken idea everything will be lollipops and roses once the crazy man is gone?
Trump’s irresponsible nattering is dangerous, but so are media that continue to offer him the kind of audience that is not necessary and is, in fact, irresponsible, on the grounds he’s the President.
Antibiotics are chemicals that kill bacteria that are injected into the body. Antibiotics are very similar to a disinfectant or could even be considered a disinfectant for bacteria. I think Trump was just suggesting that it would be great if we could find something that could kill viruses similar to antibiotics killing bacteria.
No, antibiotics are not desinfectants. According to the CDC a desinfectant is “a chemical agent used on inanimate objects (i.e., nonliving) (e.g., floors, walls, sinks) to destroy virtually all recognized pathogenic microorganisms”. Nobody is using antibiotics to clean the floor.
Antibiotics target specific forms of micro organisms, that’s why you often have to take several different ones at the same time because the bacteria that infected you might be resistant to one antibiotic but not the other. Desinfectants on the other hand take a “kill them all” approach.
People who infer that the man said inject bleach seem so single minded that they can’t see the nuance of what he actually said. How many stupid people do you know that would actually inject bleach because the man said that they are looking into using a disinfectant internally? It’s like the people who rail about an idea that he promoted injecting bleach must only know really stupid people who they are concerned for because they might believe that he said injest bleach.
Thank you for publishing the exact words trump said. I was curious to see what had generated this controversy. He did not say “inject bleach”. In fact his comments are such a nonsensical mumbo-jumbo it sounds like something Joe Biden would say. It’s clear the media is incurable biased when they can construe such a random off-the-cuff utterance with such monumental significance. I went to this article because it said fair.org. I find little in the article that is fair, balanced or credulous. Journalists today SUCK. Get a new job- you’re all brainless twits
Clinical Trials of Bleach
1919 in Syria, British Medics intravenous bleach (hydrogen peroxide) on severe cases of pneumonia, mortality rate dropped from 80% to 48%. Published in the Lancet.
Ultraviolet treatment for chronic lung disease, pneumonia etc.. as well as the internal sterilisation of blood (killing pathogens) was heavily trialed in the 40s and 50s. Nature has some articles on this entitled the cure that time forgot.
Apr 2020, a new study of Bleach (Chlorine Dioxide) given Orally was started in Bogota Columbia.
Malaria drugs also show promise in past clinical trials.
Trump was correct on all counts, and a short research on Google will give you direct links to the clinical reports.
But out of 9Bn people on the planet, only three or four even bothered to look it up.
Humans are one dumb species.
Ultraviolet checks out, but citation needed on the 1919 Lancet thing on bleach. I can’t find it.
The Bogota study doesn’t support your argument much, there’s no reason to believe it’s anything more than an obviously hopeless act of desperation. Plus the actual intervention was supposed to be done by April 7, so if it worked it’d have been global news by the time you posted.
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