You knew it was just a matter of time before the horror of the incident hit the medical center somewhere in America, and then a day or two to make the local news, and another day to be picked up nationally, so Thursday to this Monday – right on time, we hear news of a Kansas man persuaded by Trump’s impeccable logic. He drank disinfectant.

To our friends who give us the raw meat:

On Monday, The Wichita Eagle reported that a man in Kansas drank a household cleaning product not long after President Donald Trump’s speech last week asking scientists to look into the possibility of injecting disinfectant into the body to treat coronavirus.

“Lee Norman, the state health officer, said the head of the Kansas Poison Control Center reported a more than 40 percent increase in cleaning chemical cases,” reported Jonathan Shorman and Francesca Chambers. “‘Including a fellow over the weekend who drank a product because of the advice he’d received,’ Norman said during a news conference Monday.”

Of course he did. Donald Trump is a cult leader. Would a cult leader ask his followers to drink Kool-Aid for a bad reason or wear Nikes after taking barbiturates, awaiting the comet to come if they didn’t have a damned good reason?

We should not make light of cults that hold such strength as to lead to suicide. And so we won’t. But it’s also why this is more serious than at first blush. This cult isn’t that far from it. Drinking disinfectant because Trump speculated it might help?

“Norman didn’t identify where the man had gotten the advice,” according to the report. However, it occurred just days after Trump’s speech.

Because the story did not say that Norman died due to the toxicity, we assume he lived and we are thankful that a life was not lost because Trump took his third-grade mind out for a walk while talking to the American people.

It was inevitable. And while we are grateful that this man survived, we have to wonder how many of the 56,000 Americans might have survived had we had a competent and caring man or woman in the White House back in January, not a man focused on the Dow Jones like a laser, afraid to deal with the truth – because it might nick the economy down a bit.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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