The Democrats Have No Good Options
President Donald Trump signed the latest coronavirus-relief legislation as he was managing the fallout of Bleachgate. The president insisted at the signing of the $484 billion package that his comments the previous day—he had mused at an April 23 press conference, “I see the disinfectant that knocks [the virus] out in a minute, one minute,” and asked, “Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?”—had been sarcastic.
After Trump made those comments, the manufacturer of Lysol issued a that nobody should be using disinfectant internally. Authorities in Maryland against ingesting cleaning products, noting that the state’s emergency hotline had already received “several calls” about the possible use of disinfectant to treat COVID-19. New York City’s poison-control center announced that it had an unusually high number of calls
