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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

From Vice [vice.com], on the Boost in the stock of MMS, and Genesis II, and Jim (Not-so) Humble.

As you likely know by now, MMS and other fringe cures are experiencing a fairly stunning moment in the spotlight after President Trump pontificated on April 23 about the possibility that injecting disinfectants could cure COVID-19. After his comments, The Guardian reported that Genesis II's current leader, "Bishop" Mark Grenon, had previously written a letter to Trump promoting MMS as a potential coronavirus cure; Grenon claimed that 30 of his supporters had done the same, and that MMS had also been sent to the White House. A few days later, Trump made his comments promoting disinfectants as a potential cure.

Interesting fact, the founder of this "church",

MMS was first marketed by a Florida-based outfit called the Genesis II Church and its founder Jim Humble, who claims he discovered MMS in 1996 on a "gold mining expedition" to South America. (Humble, incidentally, is an ex-Scientologist who also claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy.)

Meanwhile, the promoters of those fake cures are, in a word, delighted. On the day Trump made his comments, Jordan Sather, a prominent QAnon fan and frequent promoter of chlorine dioxide, tweeted, "The day after YouTube cans two of my videos for talking about using a disinfectant to kill coronavirus (chlorine dioxide).... President Trump says they are looking at using disinfectants inside the body to kill coronavirus. That timing though. Can't make it up." Larry Cook, a major promoter of vaccine misinformation on Facebook and the operator of the biggest anti-vaccine group there, also promoted chlorine dioxide the day after Trump's comments, along with a laundry list of other specious cures:

Can't make it up. Unless you do.

The only exception to the widespread celebration over the new prominence of MMS is the Genesis II Church itself.

"Things have been happening, folks, in the last week or two that is not good," Mark Grenon said ominously on April 24, on a Genesis II broadcast titled "This INSANITY HAS TO STOP!! An Urgent Message to the World from Bishop Mark Grenon 4-26-20."

Grenon said he'd recently written the Department of Justice and the FDA—the people, as he put it, "who are really trying to take away our freedoms"—to protest their treatment of Genesis II. Three U.S. marshals, Grenon told his son and co-host Joseph Grenon, had put "a restraining order on our church door."

Lockdown protests and bleach drinkers, there is a connection.

Rivera's recent excitement on Telegram was due to the fact that former Reagan Administration official and conservative radio host Alan Keyes recently put out a self-produced documentary claiming MMS can potentially cure the novel coronavirus. (Keyes also had Rivera as a guest on his program this past fall.) The documentary, she wrote, could help awaken people who'd previously been curious about the effects of hydroxychloroquine, another specious coronavirus cure Trump has also promoted.

Alan Keyes. Hmm.

On her website, Rivera went even further, telling her supporters that now is the ideal time to take disinfectant-curious Trump supporters and turn them on to chlorine dioxide—"piggybacking," as she put it, on his claims.

"But now, with all eyes on Trump as he discusses a mystery disinfectant, I can't help but hope that we will have more heads turning our way as people began to wonder what he might have been talking about," Rivera wrote. "Please, please, please, share this information with others, in whatever way is best for you. This is a MAJOR OPPORTUNITY to begin a discussion about a timely and interesting application of chlorine dioxide. Although it's controversial, people are beginning to trust less and question more. Help point them in the right direction. The louder 'they' scream, the more power those have who retain a level head and research-backed information."

The old "They" ploy. Did not see that coming. They are not crazy, they are just entrepreneurs.

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