@EveHarrington when did he say anyone should take anything?
He said they are looking into a few interesting ideas, of which (The scientists and physicians) can try. He says this while looking over at the person off frame he's conferring with.
It really looks to me that he's including everyone watching the broadcast to witness a conversation he's having with the other man off frame. He's talking to a specific person involved in this research.
He also explicitly stated that the possible treatment involving disinfectants would be something needing to be done with physicians. He still isn't looking at the audience or camera while he's saying this.
He never once said the American people should try... x
He didn't say bleach.
He didn't say anyone should drink anything, or inject anything. Or buy lightbulbs of any wattage.
He gave zero mention of how one could even go about doing anything. There were no details of any kind, for either radiation or chemicals.
How is it irresponsible to say the word disinfectant? He never said to do anything with any disinfectant of any chemical composition, poisonous or otherwise.
It's not his fault if a few people somehow misconstrued this as anything other than a press briefing.
And certainly not his fault for the boatload of other people choosing to be offended by this.
It's also pretty clear from the backlash of this, that most people know full well that bleach is not for human consumption.
Every news headline on the left and right are all screaming the same thing. Don't drink bleach!
So either he has enough respect for the American people to not go drinking bleach, or enough faith in the press to automatically preach the opposite of whatever he says, or he had no way of predicting that the world would hear what he said and somehow think "I need to drink bleach".
You're all entitled to your own opinions, but no, sorry, I'm not buying it.
