Friday Fun: Where to Begin …

 Posted by at 2:34 pm  Politics
Apr 242020
 

(Hmmm – Let me see if I remember how to do this …)

To commence, I’d like to start off on the right foot with a beautiful photo courtesy of Webshots …

KIDDING

In the interim I’ve been able to restock my larder with topics.  But I want to begin with a timely one, courtesy of Dr. Donald Trump.  And to lay the groundwork, here are his actual words from yesterday’s proxy rally Coronavirus briefing, directly from the White House Transcript:

THE PRESIDENT: So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. 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.

And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it 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 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 going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.

White House Transcript

There you have it – Dr. Trump is now switching from Hydroxychloroquine to powerful ultraviolet light and/or injection of disinfectants.  So we can all imagine how Hydroxychloroquine is feeling right about now …

There is some concern about bringing the UV “light inside the body” as Trump suggests. Here is one of its more disturbing side effects:

But I want to focus more on his suggestion of directly injecting a disinfectant into the body. I was confused about where this idea came from – until someone provided a snapshot of Trump’s old pharmacy:

The good news is that there are options beside IV administration.

For us pediatricians, that is great news. We all know how scary needles are to most children – so the good news is that Clorox now comes in a chewable tablet.

And for those adults who also don’t like needles, but are not fond of taking kids’ medicine – you can use an inhaler. But to date, only Lysol has developed this delivery mode:

So it appears there are lots of modalities available for administration of disinfectants.

Well, obviously all this goes to prove that we have an EFFING IDIOT in the Oval Office.

As a physician, I truly hope that these “Thought Bubbles” for Dr. Birx, based on her reaction at yesterday’s briefing, are accurate

 

 

 

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