Man peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

Not sure when and where I lost my capacity to be shocked at our impeached and manifestly deranged President Donald Trump, but it is long gone.

The Guardian reports today that the kooky leader of a group that was pushing bleach as a coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week, right before Trump's wacky presser in which he suggested that Americans might consider injecting themselves with disinfectant.

Oh yes, it can and will get worse.

There is no bottom.

From the Guardian:

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide - a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk - is "a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body". He added that it "can rid the body of Covid-19".

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant "knocks it out in a minute. One minute!"

He went on to say: "Is there a way we can do something, by an 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'd be interesting to check that."

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.

In his weekly televised radio show, posted online on Sunday, Grenon read out the letter he wrote to Trump. He said it began: "Dear Mr President, I am praying you read this letter and intervene."

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Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week