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[Dave S]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> Billw this is an example of how exaggeration causes cynicism.  Trump never
> suggested injecting or ingesting bleach.  He suggested a injecting a
> disinfectant, which most of us here did inject when they became available.
> A disinfectant fights infections: it helps prevent covid infection but also
> fights existing covid in the body.  The mRNA vaccine is a disinfectant.
> That part about bleach was an extrapolation, injected for political
> advantage.  It worked, for a while.
>

No, vaccines aren't disinfectants. A disinfectant is a chemical that kills
microbes directly. A vaccine prepares the host's immune system to attack a
specific microbe. A world leader should know better than to speculate about
possible medical treatments in public.

Solution: don’t go to political leaders for medical advice.  Go to medics
> for that.
>

Of course.


>   Go to political leaders for political leadership.
>

Good luck with that. Seriously. IMO, the less "leadership" we have, the
better off we are.

-Dave
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