Well, a certain ex-president made an offhand remark trying to belittle the seriousness of covid and compared actual medicine with disinfectant
The internet being the internet, the meme became “drink/inject bleach!” and I guess some people actually took it seriously despite its obvious insanity.
It was (somehow) worse than belittling COVID. Trump took the tiny amount of knowledge he had on a subject (“this sign says bleach kills COVID in surfaces”), extrapolated it out into a “solution” that was obviously wrong in so many ways, and then insisted that he must be right because he’s an Amazing Genius That’s Smarter Than Anyone Else.
Then, the Trump sycophants online took his statement and ran with it because he’s an Amazing Genius That’s Smarter Than Anyone Else. If doctors told them that bleach was dangerous to use in that way, they were dismissed as liberal intellectual elites trying to stop them from getting the real COVID cure.
It’s stupidity following stupidity while announcing themselves as the height of intelligence.
Well, a certain ex-president made an offhand remark trying to belittle the seriousness of covid and compared actual medicine with disinfectant
The internet being the internet, the meme became “drink/inject bleach!” and I guess some people actually took it seriously despite its obvious insanity.
It was (somehow) worse than belittling COVID. Trump took the tiny amount of knowledge he had on a subject (“this sign says bleach kills COVID in surfaces”), extrapolated it out into a “solution” that was obviously wrong in so many ways, and then insisted that he must be right because he’s an Amazing Genius That’s Smarter Than Anyone Else.
Then, the Trump sycophants online took his statement and ran with it because he’s an Amazing Genius That’s Smarter Than Anyone Else. If doctors told them that bleach was dangerous to use in that way, they were dismissed as liberal intellectual elites trying to stop them from getting the real COVID cure.
It’s stupidity following stupidity while announcing themselves as the height of intelligence.