Madness. Actual madness.
We are learning more and more about the spread of Covid-19, and there is anecdotal evidence that the disease had been prevalent far earlier in society than originally suggested. We're still in a period of trial and error in treating the disease, with many drugs being trailed.
One of the more surreal and troubling suggestions for fighting the coronavirus came from the plinth of the President of the United States yesterday as he opined from the Oval Office that UV light and/or bleach applied to the body might halt the disease.
You can watch the clip below.
...WHAT pic.twitter.com/CCOYIsfSm7
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) April 23, 2020
Basically what Trump is suggesting here is that by stepping into a tanning booth, we can beat the virus. Here's the exact quote:
Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light ... and then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re gonna test that,” Trump said, addressing Bryan. “And then I see disinfectant, where it knocks it [coronavirus] 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’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”
Did President Trump just say that NBACC is working on a way to get UV light "into the body"? Like the anti-vampire bullets from Blade?
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) April 23, 2020
DO NOT INJECT YOURSELF W DISINFECTANTS OR UV LIGHT! Fuck me, @realDonaldTrump is a moron. This has turned into a horrible episode of “Jackass”. 😱
— Stephanie Miller (@StephMillerShow) April 23, 2020
Doctor Deborah Birx is the Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the Trump administration. Watch her stunned reaction to Trump's UV light claim.
Here is Dr. Birx's reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/MVno5X7JMA
— Daniel Lewis (@Daniel_Lewis3) April 24, 2020
Now imagine it with the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme playing. The suggestion has also been poo-poo-ed by the Australian chief medical officer in case you were looking for a second opinion.
This was the Australian Chief Medical Officer's response to US President Donald Trump who earlier suggested disinfectant and UV light could treat coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/uO9SOCIVUC
— SBS News (@SBSNews) April 24, 2020
