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Next person that calls my president a buffoon I will go off, let see youndo better buddy

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Erick, this reminds me of that movie, "Lorenzo's Oil". In that movie, the parents of Lorenzo (their critically ill son) exhaustively searched for something... anything... that would help their child, and eventually did find something that worked. When people need to solve hard problems, many times "brainstorming" or "thinking outside the box" is advised. In the beginning, all ideas are considered (without ridicule), evaluated, and then the best ideas are chosen for action. Although the medical arena is not President Trump's area of expertise, still, his heart's desire is to try to find ANYTHING that might help with this corona-virus crisis, and hurry up about it! He's shouldering a big burden for our country right now, and I think we all need to give him a little grace.

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The thing that makes this even more stupid is that there is a therapy that uses UV light to affect something from inside the human body. The FDA approved Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation over 75 years ago before antibiotics were fully developed. Here's a link from NIH - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783265/ . I've seen it performed and it seemed to help the patients receiving the treatment. The method I saw passed blood from an intravenous needle through the small box with the UV light and back into the body. There's a new version that simply puts the UV light into the IV needle which can remain in place and treat far more blood.

"Dumb" questions from people without the preconceptions of the experts are how discoveries are made. Someone who heard and dismissed the "dumb" question walks away and later, when their subconscious has done its work, they realize it wasn't so "dumb" after all.

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The media regularly takes Trump's comments out of context. In the case of Hydroxychloroquine, numerous doctors are reporting positive results if given early to Corona patients in combination with Azithromycin and Zinc. But the media focuses only on an uncontrolled VA study that gave only Hydroxychloroquine to Corona patients in severe condition to imply it is killing patients instead of the Corona virus killing them. But if that were the case, why would the huge NY controlled study that is in progress not be reporting the extreme danger of Hydroxychloroquine to any and all patients?

Trump did ask a silly question about whether disinfectants or UV light that kills Corona virus on surfaces might be somehow used to kill the Corona virus in patients. Trump's question is silly, but these are serious comments from a Columbia University Researcher David Brenner: "Far-UVC light has the potential to be a ‘game changer. ... It can be safely used in occupied public spaces, and it kills pathogens in the air before we can breathe them in. ... Far-UVC takes a fundamentally different tactic in the war against COVID-19 ... Most approaches focus on fighting the virus once it has gotten into the body. ... Far-UVC is one of the very few approaches that has the potential to prevent the spread of viruses before they enter the body."

But if the media's goal is only to bash Trump, they ignore the fact that Far-UVC " is a kind of ultraviolet light that is not harmful to humans, could be used to kill airborne viruses minutes after they've been breathed, coughed or sneezed into the air."

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I truly admire President Trump. He is kicked daily with resilience like no other (except maybe TIMX watches "takes a licking and keeps on ticking"). However, so much criticism of him is simply because he IS our president and probably just because he is breathing. I do wish he would not talk of matters outside his professional knowledge i.e. medical opinions, and leave speaking of those topics to the numerous of professionals with whom he is surrounded. It is infuriating when he is picked on for speaking of matters that he truly directs, but when he talks of things outside his expertise and misspeaks too, it's hard to defend him when he wanders into the weeds.

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The media response to this is just so out of proportion. If someone said "jump off this cliff" or "take a long walk on a short pier" would a person do so? Where has common sense gone? And as to new technology, who would have thought 100 yrs ago that we would have mini cameras to see inside the body? Nanotechnology that help doctors perform tests or help cure cancer. Laser light that is used to heal wounds? People need to have a return to common sense and quit taking everything that is said so literally.

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Erick, I respect your opinion, but there is something I don't understand. Everybody wants to dump on Governor Kemp, but didn't he get buy-in from the President and Vice President before acting? If the President had told him that he disapproved during their private call do you think Governor Kemp would still have proceeded?

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He would not have. In fact, they had two conversations, and both times the President supported the effort.

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Thank you

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But then again, Columbia University is working on a UV light that could be placed in airports and other locations to kill viruses in the air and on clothing. And with proper testing, I sure can think about the possibility of putting a low-power UV light on the end of a stick and lowering it down your throat into your lungs. Yes/No? Also, the idea of passing money under a UV light as a person at the drive-thru takes it - that would disinfect the money for later handling internally or giving it back out to another customer. I haven't seen anyone talking about that, but maybe I'm just not up on it.

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Erick, by the end of this buffoon's presidency, you'll have more experience as a contortionist than as a radio host.

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It seems that Erick's observation is more of a commentary on the media's coverage of Trump's remark than the remark itself.

Yesterday, CNN had a large banner that said: "On Thursday, President Donald Trump added to his list of dubious or inaccurate coronavirus-related medical claims, dangerously suggesting at a White House briefing that ingesting disinfectant could possibly be used to treat people who have the virus."

I don't like Trump, I didn't vote for him but I'm very concerned with a media that misrepresents information.

Trump did not suggest that 'ingesting disinfectant' could be used to treat the virus. He said; "I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?" Trump said on Thursday. "Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that."

I don't support this president. I do not believe he is qualified and I think the fact that he is inarticulate and injudicious in his speech is just one of many reasons why I feel that he is unqualified. BUT! I don't want the media misrepresenting anyone's words or intentions - especially now when so many people are suffering. They are NOT helping. They are more intent on casting Trump in the worse light possible than they are on reporting the facts of the Covid-19 situation.

Our 'news' media has become a 24/7 cycle of 'What stupid thing did Trump do/say today' it is not necessary and it is coming disturbingly close to indoctrination.

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And my comment is made after observing Erick and others twist themselves into pretzels for the last 3 years defending an unqualified, inarticulate and injudicious man who should NEVER have seen the inside of the Oval Office.

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But your mind is already locked into a complex Chinese puzzle. As Dan Gallery said - your mind is so narrow your notepads are one inch wide. You are so far inside the box you can't even see the walls on the horizon. Wake up - think!

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Calling it like I see it. You don't have to agree.

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In the business world and really in the whole world there is no such thing as a dumb question when you are trying to think outside the box. But, unfortunately, I fear that there are people who would try such things. We may need disclaimers but not ridicule.

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I think the biggest problem we have is that people think Trump is stupid, and they push that as hard as they can. Trump is anything but stupid. I voted for him, and I'll vote for him again - but I will say that the man isn't urbane or polished. Which, really, is one of the reasons I voted for him in the first place. When you need a really good lawyer to go into battle, you don't pick the "nice" one.

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