Rather than listen to experts, Trump typically just repeats nonsense he hears on Fox News. When floating the idea that people with CV19 can be treated with disinfectants, Trump expanded his circle of trusted sources to include the leader of a crackpot Clorox cult.
As The Guardian reports, Trump had actually received a message earlier this week from the leader of a religious group that worships cleansing the human body with poisonous chemicals like bleach:
[Mark] Grenon styles himself as “archbishop” of Genesis II – a Florida-based outfit that claims to be a church but which in fact is the largest producer and distributor of chlorine dioxide bleach as a “miracle cure” in the US. He brands the chemical as MMS, “miracle mineral solution”, and claims fraudulently that it can cure 99% of all illnesses including cancer, malaria, HIV/Aids as well as autism.
Since the start of the pandemic, Genesis II has been marketing MMS as a cure to coronavirus. It advises users, including children, to mix three to six drops of bleach in water and drink it.
To be clear, that is neither a passage from a Warren Ellis book, nor a deliberate homage to the nuclear bomb-worshipping cultists in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. That is an accurate description of a very real group that reached out to the President of the United States in this reality.
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus ‘cure’ wrote to Trump this week [Ed Pilkington / The Guardian]
