A novel virus requires a novel treatment, and when Trump made those statements, there were basically zero known-effective treatments. Studies can't be designed, approved, executed, followed up on, and reported overnight.

In the context of Trump's statements (quoted by follydude), he ask Dr. Birx if that was something she was looking into. Now, I have no idea if Trump had heard about the work at Cedars-Sinai when he made his statement (which was in the week preceding Cedars-Sinai's application for emergency use), but he probably heard discussion about in some circle before making the statement. The close timing between statement and announcement, plus the fact that Trump is too stupid to envision an internal, light-based treatment on his own, suggests he heard it from someone. His natural inability to speak coherently about it undoubtedly left everyone shaking their head.

To be clear, Trump is an idiot, and I voted for Biden. Trump's handling of the crisis is a wonderful example of how not to do things. But to Sniper's point, most of you are so rabidly blinded by hate that you refuse to evaluate individual statements on their own merit. Similar to the bandwagon of "natural zoonotic transfer" vs the "Lab Leak Conspiracy." Trump's propensity to lie makes him much less credible than The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but you overgeneralize at your own peril.

I certainly hope most of you never sit on a jury.

He knows more than the doctors...
and the generals. And the economists. And the whoever the fuck he dreams up today.
He has like a good...you know what. He's a stable genius...just ask him.
I am not a potted plant. There's no tracking chips or marker chemicals that make you glow like a firefly folks.
Just Shut the fuck up and let the world's best epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists in the world do their damn jobs, folks.
Without needing fucking bodyguards.
Stuuuuu-piiid.....

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It's a democratic hoax

Sorry, I did not do that. I was aware of light treatment.

Exactly what you said is my point - if you cannot speak coherently about something, don't. That is what I am saying.


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