Accidental Poisonings Increased After President Trump's Disinfectant Comments
Source: Time
President Trumps April 23 musing that injections of disinfectant could help defeat the coronavirus did not do much for his reputation as a reliable arbiter of public health. Whats harder to determine is how many peopleif anytook his advice and in some way ingested the toxic chemicals. The most recent bulletin from the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which aggregates data from its state counterparts, does offer some clues, however.
Even before Trumps comments, accidental poisonings from bleach and other disinfectants were on the rise from Jan. 1 to March 31 of this year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Preventions Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, with people sanitizing surfaces, groceries, smartphones and more as a defense against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Most of the poisonings were the result of inhalation of fumes, but there were ingestion cases as well, typically among children who got their hands on chemicals left out in the open.
Whats key is what happened in the weeks that followed Trumps controversial and widely debunked commentsand there does appear to have been a rise in accidental poisonings thereafter.
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Critically, association is not causation, and with a frightened public doing whatever it can to protect itself from the virus, the same increases in poisonings might have happened regardless of Trumps remarks. But the presidential megaphone is a powerful one, and even dangerous ideas projected through it can influence an awful lot of people.
Read more: https://time.com/5835244/accidental-poisonings-trump/
LakeArenal
(28,806 posts)A clear sample of lowering the surplus population.
The Blue Flower
(5,434 posts)A person doesn't ingest bleach by accident. It can only be with intention.
mopinko
(70,023 posts)keeps trying to argue stats w me, and is insisting that They have the wrong zero point, so all numbers are now mush.
i drew him a picture of 2 parabolas, wrote the equation, one w a zero at zero, and one w a "zero" at 1.
he couldnt point to what diff that made in the shape of the curve, but he's still sure he knows more about the maths than me.
ps, he has a gold plated jd sheepskin, but never took a college level math class.
so, then i tried to explain about how it's addition>multiplication>exponents>calculus.
there are a lot more iterations to that, but i only made it through calculus.
he said "hhuuuuh?" then hung up.
i blocked his number.
paleotn
(17,884 posts)Life is too short to listen to the ramblings of deplorables.
mopinko
(70,023 posts)but yeah.
hadEnuf
(2,177 posts)Poor brainwashed morons with nothing else going for them except to worship a complete asshole and conman.
Blue Owl
(50,288 posts)How is that possible?