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We Can't Believe We Have to Say This, But Please Do Not Drink Bleach to ‘Clean Out’ Coronavirus


Injecting a disinfectant like bleach into your lungs—is it: A. a cool quarantine activity to test out? Or B. a poisonous idea that will lead to hospitalization and perhaps death?

Doctors, scientists, disinfectant companies, and every person with lungs (except the President of the United States) agrees. The answer is B.

During a briefing on Thursday, President Trump wondered out loud if sunlight, and disinfectants like bleach, could potentially “clean out” coronavirus if they could get “inside” the body.

After a science official at the Department of Homeland Security said at the briefing that the agency has studied how sunlight and household disinfectants can kill coronavirus on surfaces in under a minute, Trump took the podium and said, “I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute—one minute—and is there a way we can do something like that by 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 would be interesting to check that.”

When I was an impressionable teen and I tried to convince my parents to let me do things with my friends like wear a three-tiered ruffled mini skirt to an Akon concert or drink caffeine (I had very strict parents), they would say, “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge?”

And now I must say to you, “If the President injected bleach into his lungs, would you inject bleach into your lungs?” If the answer is “Maybe!” I must urge you to reconsider. Try reading a chapter book, or watching the VHS of Miss Congeniality instead! (That is what my parents would have recommended to me.)

Of course, the President is free to speak about whatever he wants, but his words have serious weight for millions of Americans who might actually try out his dangerous idea.

Here are a few of the groups and people who have had to put out statements since the briefing, warning people not to swallow or inject disinfectants:

  • The CDC The center tweeted, “Household cleaners and disinfectants can cause health problems when not used properly. Follow the instructions on the product label to ensure safe and effective use.”

  • Toxicologists “As a toxicologist, I see people all the time who have had an adverse effect of consuming these kinds of products,” Dr. Ryan Marino told CNBC. “These should not be consumed in any way.” Marino said he has seen patients die after consuming disinfectants.

  • Pulmonologists “Any amount of bleach or isopropyl alcohol or any kind of common household cleaner is inappropriate for ingestion even in small amounts. Small amounts are deadly,” Dr. Vin Gupta told NBC.

  • People who worked for the FDA Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC there is no “kernel of credibility or truth to doing something like ingesting bleach or injecting bleach as a treatment for anything.”

  • The literal makers of Lysol “We must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route,” the company said in a statement.

On Friday, Trump told White House reporters that his comment about disinfectant wasn’t serious. “I was asking the question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” he said, when probed, kind of like when you ask your crush “sarcastically” if they will go out with you, or when you work up the courage to invite a casual acquaintance to coffee and they say, “Uh, maybe when things get less busy with work,” but actually you were just being sarcastic.

Quarantine has offered us an array of delicious and easy-to-assemble drinks other than stemless wine glasses full of bleach: dalgona coffee, DIY-Starbucks drinks, White Claw slushies, and wine. You can inject yourself full of prestige television, reality drama, the euphoria of puzzle making, or—and this is by no means a recommendation—stick-and-poke tattoo.

The President missed the mark on this one, but we can always depend on a steady hand from our international leadership: the corporation that makes Lysol.

Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.





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Dalgona Coffee Recipe: How to Make the Internet's Favorite, Fluffiest Quarantine Drink


Nothing—not even a global pandemic—should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe.

Remaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like!

But of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It’s simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter.

Here’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee:

  • Instant coffee
  • Sugar
  • Hot water
  • A hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below)
  • Milk or an alt-milk

Yes, that’s really it.

First, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve.

The definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber Ddulgi, who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing ASMR experience. Like her tutorial, most recipes call for even proportions—a 1:1:1 ratio of instant coffee, boiling water, and sugar.

As someone who has woken up family members every day this week with the whirring sounds of a hand mixer as I manically blend my new favorite ingredients, I must warn you that if you use less than one tablespoon of instant coffee plus one tablespoon of water plus one tablespoon of sugar, there really won’t be enough liquid to whip up. It will look like you are making onion dip for a single ant. Please learn from my mistake:



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Jessica on Love Is Blind Let Her Dog Drink Wine From Her Glass—and People Have Thoughts


Love Is Blind, Netflix‘s new reality show, is a gift that keeps on giving.

It all begins with this wild premise: A bunch of single men and women move into a house where they start speed dating each other to see if they’re a match. But here’s the catch: They can’t see what the other person looks like. The cast gets to know each other inside “pods” where they talk for hours and decide if they want to get engaged. Yes, engaged…after mere days of knowing each other. At that point, they finally get to see the person they’ve decided to spend the rest of their lives with before being whisked away on a romantic vacation.

After the trip, they have to return to some version of real life, where they move in together and meet each other’s family and friends. As you can imagine, there are many dramatic moments as these couples dig into the thornier issues involved in a relationship. But there are also many incredible smaller moments. Exhibit A: when Jessica casually lets her dog lap up red wine from her glass and whispers, “She loves wine.”

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Jessica's dog on Love Is Blind
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It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but many of the show’s viewers clocked it—and they had some thoughts. “This is the most dynamic moment of TV I’ve seen in a long time – from Netflix’s Love is Blind,” one fan tweeted. “A guy telling his fiancé, who he met the week before, that he’s mentally stable while she feeds her dog wine and tells him that she’s not his mom. So much to unwrap in 10 seconds.”

“Why would you watch literally anything else when you can watch Love is Blind and see a DOG drink WINE,” another wrote.

Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix and you should all definitely be watching it—if just for the wine-drinking dog alone.



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I Drink Seltzer to Feel Alive


I am susceptible to trends. I get dressed, thinking I am carefully attuned to the soft voice of my own internal style, and then look into the mirror and see a crumpled copy of an Instagram influencer, circa 18 months ago. I like vitamins and juices. I am receptive to the idea that owning certain things will make me feel better. I believe I am one Tupperware purchase away from tripping the wire that sets off daily gym visits and predawn wake-ups and leaps up the corporate ladder. Even now, as we speak, I am the owner of multiple $18 lip balms.

My possessions and I keep up a quiet, often unsatisfying relationship. I buy things, hoping they will act like psychiatric drugs crossed with religious epiphanies, and they pile up in my apartment like what they are—elegantly packaged plastic. I seek the better-living-through-careful-capitalism that the age of online reviews offers. I get melted candles and sooty charcoal drinks.

There’s only one product I’ve found that costs very little and makes me feel that goop-y, goodly nirvana, that delivers on the inane belief that I am “clean” and, well, that gives me a feeling of both crackling pleasure and puritanism—seltzer.

Violently carbonated water, more than life events or human touch, makes me feel something. It’s a feeling I chased after for a long time—that thing other women seem to get when they come home from work and put on sweats and pull their hair back and drink a glass of wine. I don’t like the taste of wine. But I wanted that feeling.

So I went through a period when I applied a single-use Korean face mask every night. I could not be comfortable until I was in my room alone, looking like a child in a ghost costume on a rainy Halloween. My roommates got used to seeing me coming around a corner and managed not to scream. But the experience didn’t bring me the sense of contentment I was after. It didn’t soothe me.

Still, I wanted to feel better. I wanted to feel good. I wanted that placid, pleasure-laden experience that I’d seen in the movies, often depicted between glasses of wine and the erotic exhale: “That was a day!” But I have never met a drug or an alcohol that felt just right to me, so instead I spent roughly the cost of an econ major’s textbooks on CBD products—gummies, mints, tinctures, and sodas. The business of CBD seemed healthful and kind. Mere conversations with CBD salespeople felt like sinking into a suede beanbag chair. I read that CBD would make me feel calm but not drugged. I just wanted to come home, light a candle, and consume $24 worth of CBD. I do believe that CBD works for many people, but it did not work for me. I had to admit that I was essentially in a seedy folktale of my own creation, trading money for beans.

I had set out to eat or drink or smoke or slather on something that would make me feel luxurious but not extravagant. That thing turned out to be carbonated water from a can. Seltzer, like everything else I like, was brusquely inserted into my life by ad campaigns and influencers who made me think it was my idea. Even though I grew up with a mother who housed liters of Pellegrino the way addicts chain-smoke cigarettes, I started liking seltzer at the same time everyone else did—in 2016, when a drop in soda popularity encouraged seltzer brands to campaign aggressively for the millennial dollar. The Midwestern seltzer brand La Croix became explosively popular, and cans of it came to signify minute, tasteful indulgence. Even in New York City, a can of La Croix from a 12-pack cost 50 cents at most. I started drinking three a day.



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Carrie Bradshaw Would Absolutely Drink Sarah Jessica Parker's New Wine


Sarah Jessica Parker and her Sex and the City character, Carrie Bradshaw, may seem similar, but the actress has said for years they’re really nothing alike. Not even their drink of choice is the same. Carrie, as fans know, was fond of the cosmopolitan but Parker prefers wine—so much so that she just launched her own sauvignon blanc with New Zealand winery Invivo, called “Invivo X, SJP.”

Adding another project to her resume is all in a day’s work for Parker, who most recently starred in and executive produced the HBO series Divorce, has a booming shoe business, and now can call herself a sommelier in the making. Below, we chat with the Emmy winner about her wine, her work, and whether Carrie might ever swap out her signature cocktail for a crisp glass of white.

Glamour: What initially made you want to get into the wine game?

Sarah Jessica Parker: I’d been contacted by Invivo well over a year ago, and I was sort of surprised by the inquiry because I had not ever pondered or fantasized about producing a sauvignon blanc, let alone any wine. And though it seemed far-fetched that I might be able to do it or contribute anything, I spent a lot of time talking to them and learning about their business. After many conversations, I decided I thought it would be a very interesting experience and a privileged opportunity to learn about a business that, beyond being a consumer, I was completely unfamiliar with.

What did you want your sauvignon blanc to taste like as you were making it?

SJP: I think I wanted to pay a nice amount of attention to the conventional idea of what a sauvignon blanc is. People are very serious about their wines, and particularly I think sauvignon blanc drinkers are very specific. So I wanted to apply some of those rules, but I also wanted to distinguish it in some way. And we got there. We got there in ways that I might never have imagined. It was just a wonderful process of blending and splitting that atom and getting it to where we really were excited about it, and that it felt uniquely different in the market, but still could be called, with authority, a sauvignon blanc.

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Here’s How Tyler Cameron Really Feels About That Potential Drink Date With Hannah Brown


Never has America looked forward to two people having drinks more than The Bachelorette‘s newly reconciled (well, kinda) Hannah Brown and Tyler Cameron, but here we are. This season’s wildly dramatic finale ended with the former couple agreeing to a date to see where things go.

It wouldn’t have been surprising if Tyler had said no: After all, the runner-up was crushed when Hannah broke up with him right as he was about to propose. But after her engagement to Jed Wyatt fell apart, Hannah admitted she still has feelings for Tyler.

Whether or not that will lead to a relationship is still to be determined—and rightfully so—but Tyler’s now had at least 12 hours to let Hannah’s revelation sink in. So where do things stand? When are those drinks happening? And has he laid into talked to Jed? Here, Tyler opens up about all that and more.

Glamour: Let’s jump right into everything that happened on the finale. How angry are you with Jed now that you know he wasn’t honest with Hannah?

Tyler Cameron: Yeah, I’m just very disappointed in him, in the whole situation. My heart aches for Hannah because when it was down to me, Peter, and Jed, I felt like she was in great hands. As soon as it was just me and Jed, I thought, Okay, if it’s not me, Jed’s going to be the one that takes care of her.

I feel like his feelings for her were genuine, but I was just disappointed to see all this coming out. I don’t think he handled things the right way, and his initial intentions for the show weren’t the right intentions. I was just disappointed overall.

Did you ever have concerns about him during the show, or did you not know about those red flags?

No, not at all. I had no idea about any of his past, so this was all news to me. It was news to all of us. We were pretty blindsided by it, just like you guys were.

Have you talked to him since? If not, what would you want to say to him now?

No, not much. I’d just tell him that I’m disappointed, and I hope he can start taking steps in the right direction. This can be a learning lesson for him.

Many of us still don’t quite understand why Hannah chose Jed in the first place. Did you ever get a clear explanation or understanding from her about why it wasn’t you in the end?



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