He talked up a bunch of crackpot ideas. I suspect it was just to see if the rubes would go for it, if he approved it. They did. Still do. I don't know if he actually told them to do it, or if it was just the nut ball supporters doing what nut ball supporters do, embracing him as (at the least) giving leave to go with the anti-science cures, rejecting distancing, masks and even the trump admin fast tracked shots, as well as treatments. I am simply pointing out, he went with all the new science, when it was his own ass. Fk the rubes. It's better to live. He just didn't say it, in public, as he wanted to be their leader, but live through it, too. And, they bought it.