“Please don’t force people to go back in the use of expensive alcohol, in replacement of the disinfectants,” the lawmaker wrote on Facebook. | CMarquezINQ
Fernandez also noted that the public, instead of purchasing alcohol, which is also in scant supply, have learned to make their own disinfectants by heeding the advice of DOH back then on how to formulate their own disinfectant by mixing chlorine-based disinfectant.
“Thereby producing a 55ppm disinfectant which is an alternative to alcohol, which during those times was hard to find, and using this disinfectant is much cheaper,” he said.earlier said it does not recommend spraying or misting disinfectants as there is no evidence that it kills the virus. It further said that misting can also cause pathogens to be dispersed during spraying and such practices could also result in skin irritation and inhalation of chemicals.
“To DOH, Di ako mamatay sa skin irritation, di rin maapektuhan ang lungs ko, may facemask nga diba?” he said.He also downplayed the DOH’s environmental concerns for disinfectants, noting that the world is “healing by itself right now.” “And more importantly wag nyo ng pakialaman ang environmental problems natin ’cause the world is healing by itself right now, magalit pa sa inyo ,” he said.
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