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Media Lies, Blames Trump for Man Consuming Fish Tank Chemicals to
Cure Coronavirus, was first published on Big League Politics.
Liberal media outlets are making wild accusations of false
medical advice after an Arizona couple consumed fishtank chemicals
that contain a substance President Donald Trump said could prove
useful in fighting coronavirus.
An Arizona man died Monday after he
ingested fish tank additives that contain a chemical President
Trump said could be used for new drugs to fight the Chinese
coronavirus. His wife remains in critical condition in the
hospital.
Reporting from the Hill frames the event as if the man and his
wife took medication containing chloroquine phosphate. But the
couple did not take products designed for human consumption,
instead ingesting fish treatment chemicals that merely contain the
chemical.
There’s no reason to believe that the couple even took
anything that was designed as malaria medication. Fish tank
additives certainly aren’t even if they contain chloroquine(in
far differing levels than actual medications).
Liberal windbag George Conway was one of several prominent
commentators who fired off with the desperately reaching accusation
against Trump, claiming that Trump’s comments on the
substance’s potential were enough for the Arizona couple to
assume that consuming fish tank additives would be safe.
Some advice from the woman in Arizona who,
along with her husband, took chloroquine phosphate because @realDonaldTrump
said on TV it was a cure and was safe.She’s in an ICU. Her husband’s dead. https://t.co/xsSoUwLbg0
— George Conway (@gtconway3d)
March 24, 2020
CNN International’s headline also
neglected to clarify that the man had self-medicated with a
fishtank product that is in no way intended for human
consumption.
Liberal Twitter personalities and mainstream media outlets
simply running with an account of events that involved the couple
taking a substance Trump recommended for human consumption were
promptly corrected.
Idk how you bungle a story as badly as Heidi
did with this [it’s the 8th and final tweet in her thread]:
https://t.co/CLE3Kgf2wr— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi)
March 24, 2020
It’s almost as if this should be in the
first tweet and not the last.— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull)
March 24, 2020
Choloroquine phosphate does contain medical value, as Trump
correctly stated. The substance is used in drugs that treat
malaria. But it should go without saying that fishtank chemicals
are not designed for medical use, and President Trump in no way
shape or form endorsed such consumption.
President Trump had said at a Thursday press briefing that
chloroquine-based treatments were showing “very, very encouraging
early results” and that “we’re going to be able to make that
drug available almost immediately.”
The death of an Arizona man and the injury of his wife from
ingesting the chemical is a tragedy. But adults should know that
taking foreign chemical substances not intended for human
consumption without the advice of a doctor is simply a bad
move.
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