Reckitt Benckiser, the company that produces Lysol products, was forced to remind people that injecting oneself with disinfectant is a bad idea after President Donald Trump seemed to advocate it as a vaccine for COVID-19 on Thursday night.
“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),” the company said in a statement (emphasis theirs). “As with all products, our disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines.”
Doctors were alarmed by the President’s comments as well.
“Please do not ingest or inject disinfectant,” tweeted Dr. John Shields, a surgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. “I feel like one should not have to say this.”
The warnings came in response to Trump’s bizarre suggestion that an injection of disinfectant kills the virus inside the body.
“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute,” he said during the White House’s daily press briefing. “And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? ‘Cause you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.”
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Trump suggests injecting COVID-19 patients with disinfectant. pic.twitter.com/bnzHc56Cxa
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Where were all these disinfectant manufacturers in 2016?
Silence is complicity!
After you, Mr. President.
I hope the Darwin Award plaque producers have a good backlog, the number of awards is about to go exponential.
As do I, doc. One should not have to say that. Even as a lay person, it seems unwise and likely to cause more harm than benefit. Unfortunately yesterday was a missed opportunity for the White House press corps to ask the president if he’s out of his motherfucking mind. I was out of my own listening to them just calmly go along with it. I’m familiar with the Stockholm Syndrome and all but this is not quite the thing amid mass death this moron pretty much directly caused. It won’t do, really. And I feel like one should not have to say it.
And the absolute irony of this is that the ONLY ones completely insane enough to try this are Rump’s acolytes. Rump is now a modern day Jim Jones on a much larger scale.