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No, Poison Control Calls Aren't Suddenly Spiking After Trump's Disinfectant Comments

posted 5 years ago by Satan2016 (26197)
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Doggie fell for it! People are disinfecting their whole house. Of course they are exposed.

https://reason.com/2020/04/25/no-poison-control-calls-arent-suddenly-spiking-after-trumps-disinfectant-comments/

One article making the rounds, from the New York Daily News, is headlined "A spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump's controversial coronavirus comments." But the article makes no mention of anyone deliberately consuming household cleaners. It simply states that 30 people called the city's poison control hotline "over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners."

Fearing that you ingested something doesn't jibe with having intentionally consumed that substance.

But the Daily News piece is far from the only poison-control story being framed misleadingly. A story out of Kentucky that's being shared as "evidence" people have been consuming household cleaners following Trump's Thursday statements is actually about calls to Kentucky poison control centers in March.

"Poison control centers around the country, including here in Kentucky, are seeing a spike in calls related to COVID-19," says the WDRB.com story. Ashley Webb, director of the Kentucky Poison Control Center, told the outlet that "just in March, we saw about a 30% increase in hand sanitizer exposures and about a 50% increase in household cleaners."

In Maryland, over the past six weeks, "calls for toxic exposure to hand sanitizers have nearly doubled since the same time in 2018," according to Fox 5 Baltimore. "In addition, the MD Control Center has had 95 calls for bleach exposure, more than double last year's 46 calls in the same time period."

In Illinois, two people "had 'inappropriate exposure' to disinfectants after President Trump's COVID-19 briefing Thursday," reported WCIA.com on Friday. But a spokesperson for Illinois Poison Control told WCIA that this wasn't unusual and calls had been up 36 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic's start, often related to people doing things like trying to wash produce with cleaners that are toxic for people to ingest.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 5 years ago

Funny thing, in a previous comment I said that without the necessary context, which is how many calls you use to have on average, the piece of news saying only how many calls you had that day could be considered misleading and fake news... which it seems it was. I was right.

The answer to my comment, by the way, was that I was human garbage:
https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/5ea37e2c3c90f35359596dfe/New-York-City-Poison-Control-Center-saw-30-cases-about-exposure-to-bleach-and-other-household-cleaning-products?reply=5ea3ec403c90f353595972a5

[–] Keelai (36155) 5 years ago

Still defending the idiot-in-chief? A president should know injecting disinfectant is dangerous. Stop defending incompetence and stupidity!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

This is why the country is where it's at right now. Idiots like these from Cult45 keep defending him, instead of standing up to him - and they convince each other, and themselves, they are right for doing it.

[–] Keelai (36155) 5 years ago

They literally don't mind dying for him. They have become a death cult. Their stupidity is ruining the country and killing innocent people.

It's time to take back the country from these imbeciles. Complete the census and vote in November for Biden and Democratic senators and congress so Biden has the power to repair Trump's damage.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I completed my census the day it arrived in the mail. I'm voting Blue right down the line (though I live in a Blue state, and wish I was in a 'swing state').

[–] Keelai (36155) 5 years ago

Some of those swing states have idiot governors who are opening too soon. Obviously, they don't care if people die. It's all about the money.

[–] yatzo376 (7752) 5 years ago

Satan loves Trump and Trump lives Satan!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

OK, we will believe you and not what the Poison Control Centers have been reporting all weekend.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/25/845015236/nyc-poison-control-sees-uptick-in-calls-after-trumps-disinfectant-comments

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/494744-poison-control-centers-report-increase-in-calls-pertaining-to-exposure-to

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/04/25/calls-to-poison-centers-spike--after-the-presidents-comments-about-using-disinfectants-to-treat-coronavirus/#362166f11574

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/significant-increase-in-calls-to-illinois-poison-control-after-trump-disinfectant-remarks/2261914/

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

How much Lysol did you drink this weekend ?

[–] kspkap (13626) 5 years ago

Again I repeat: He did NOT suggest ingesting disinfectants! The following is what he said when he turned to his science director and inquired:

“And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds – it sounds interesting to me.”

He wasn’t looking at the reporters when he asked the question! People everywhere are asking questions about what can be done. Trump, not being a man of science, inquired about disinfectants for human use.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Wow - you prove once again: You can't fix stupid.

Relax with the other T-rumptards. They're making themselves a Lysol & Clorox cocktail, with a Tide Pod garnish and toasting T-rump today.

[–] TimMC (9143) 5 years ago

The news media would not lie to me.

You need to check your facts again.

END SARCASM

[–] Burk48917 (11532) 5 years ago

I could easily see people on the left calling and saying they "heard the president told them to drink disinfectant", just so these type of articles could exist. I've seen this story in several states, but none actually mention an increase in drinking Lysol, just asking what would happen. That seems suspect to me, because anyone willing to find out more information would probably go back and listen to what he actually said first.

[–] AssetsonFire (149) 5 years ago

Thanks for the report, OP. We can take this as proof that most people are indeed more intelligent than the president.