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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 02:15 AM Apr 2020

Trump asked NASA if their technology could sterilize the inside of people's lungs to kill coronaviru

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-asked-nasa-if-their-technology-could-sterilize-the-inside-of-peoples-lungs-to-kill-coronavirus/

According to Cleveland.com, President Donald Trump asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine if an experimental disinfectant fog in development at the Glenn Research Center could be used to sterilize the inside of people’s lungs to treat coronavirus.

“Cleveland’s NASA Glenn Research Center is collaborating with a Kent-based company called Emergency Products + Research (EP+R) to develop a fogging system that can be used to decontaminate rooms and ambulances for coronavirus,” reported Sabrina Eaton. “Bridenstine displayed the devices for President Donald Trump during a Friday meeting at the White House.”

“After Bridenstine explained how AMBUStat’s device fogs rooms, leaving every surface in the room sterilized, Trump asked whether people could breathe it in,” continued the report. “Bridenstine clarified the cleansing occurs without people in the room.”

This line of questioning occurred just a day after Trump caused a stir by asking his scientists at Thursday’s press conference to look into the possibility of injecting people with household cleaner to get rid of the virus.

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WTH? 😳
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Trump asked NASA if their technology could sterilize the inside of people's lungs to kill coronaviru (Original Post) SheltieLover Apr 2020 OP
"How about any of that Zyklon B I've heard so much about?" asked the president. ZZenith Apr 2020 #1
I see what you did there captain queeg Apr 2020 #4
He probably wants to test it on immigrants and asylum seekers he has caged on the border. sop Apr 2020 #5
Yep. The showers are next. shelshaw Apr 2020 #16
Ivanka needs to come out to the podium, take her father by the elbow, and Totally Tunsie Apr 2020 #2
25th amendment please SouthernCal_Dem Apr 2020 #3
NASA should drape a huge exterminator's fumigation tent over the White House. sop Apr 2020 #6
He ordered NASA to send a manned flight to Mars. Rhiannon12866 Apr 2020 #7
Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2020 #8
Well, that would work, too - he wouldn't even need eye protection! Rhiannon12866 Apr 2020 #9
A little in-flight music. Harker Apr 2020 #11
Well, that looks suspiciously like a church Rhiannon12866 Apr 2020 #14
I should've gone with the Pompeii concert. n/t Harker Apr 2020 #15
Doesn't anybody know sarcasm when they hear it anymore?? ClusterFreak Apr 2020 #10
That Trump, such a kidder! (nt) klook Apr 2020 #17
+1 dalton99a Apr 2020 #20
Space Force to the rescue. n/t Harker Apr 2020 #12
A stable jenius. ...nt 2naSalit Apr 2020 #13
And idiots like Trump want to deregulate everything. Baitball Blogger Apr 2020 #18
And then NASA asked him how he knew so much about all this stuff. tanyev Apr 2020 #19
K & R SoonerPride Apr 2020 #21

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
2. Ivanka needs to come out to the podium, take her father by the elbow, and
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 02:22 AM
Apr 2020

gently lead him away, whispering endearments in his ear. It's time.

Dear Mike Pence: What amendment comes after #24? Have you read it lately?

sop

(10,205 posts)
6. NASA should drape a huge exterminator's fumigation tent over the White House.
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 03:54 AM
Apr 2020

The place needs to be thoroughly disinfected. Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner do resemble rats, and Mnuchin looks like a cockroach. Hopefully huffing Lysol will rid the country of all the vermin.

Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #7)

Rhiannon12866

(205,552 posts)
14. Well, that looks suspiciously like a church
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 04:39 AM
Apr 2020

And I've heard that if he even gets close to one, it spontaneously combusts!

Baitball Blogger

(46,740 posts)
18. And idiots like Trump want to deregulate everything.
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 08:05 AM
Apr 2020

Now you understand why they don't see the calamity that their decisions will cause.

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