Republicans joking "Don't try this at home" are being complete jerks and endangering people.

[gulliver]

That phrase is used when an expert demonstrates something successfully in a carefully controlled (non-home) environment. It's telling people not to do something that experts can do. That's not what injecting disinfectant is.

Experts can't inject disinfectant into people and get good results. "Don't do this at home" doesn't apply here. It's Republican defenders of Trump trying to twist Trump's idiotic statement into a sneaky "half-joke." But that half-joke gives a dangerous message. "Don't do this at home" implies experts like doctors might be able to do it. And some people probably will do things at home that they are lead to believe experts can do.

The right thing to say to the American People about injecting disinfectant is, of course, "DON'T DO IT!" Not stupid, sneak, semi-jokes about not doing it at home. It's not funny, Republican Trump supporters! You're not funny! You're jerks.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Exactly

Is like how people when dealing with abuse go into denial ,pretend it's a joke and deflect so they never really confront the abuser or the abuse,and the fact it causes harm and pain.

Stop the denial and deflections. The denial of the damage abusers choose to inflict on others,even the ones they claim to care about is a danger in of itself.

Just as much as the other half of this dynamic,the abuser's abuse damages victims.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Loser Republicans defend Loser Donald.

Note: Loser Donald grew up being reminded continuously by his damaged father that there are two types of people in the world -- losers and killers. Loser Donald has been losing all his life and just lying about it.