Remember when people went ballistic when Trump suggested UV light therapy could be a treatment. (probably still isnt but it was considered a scientific impossibility that UV light does anything to a virus at the time).
Citation required. UV light as a disinfectant is fairly well known.
It's not because he suggested UV light that people went ballistic. It's because he suggested shining it inside people's bodies. In that same press conference he also suggested using bleach inside the body.
And you wonder why we call it fake news.
Here is the actual quote:
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200713/fact-check-did-trump...
In a briefing where they presented "a study that found sun exposure and cleaning agents like bleach can kill the virus when it lingers on surfaces." he suggested putting a "disinfectant" inside human bodies. Totally different thing. Let's just use one of the other disinfectants that's safe to put inside the body instead. [1] /s
It's fortunate that being a good communicator isn't one of the required skills in his job. /s
I think your bar for calling something "fake" needs to be revised.
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
"Not only does consuming or injecting disinfectant risk poisoning and death, it's not even likely to be effective.
Equally, by the time the virus has taken hold inside your body, no amount of UV light on your skin is going to make a difference.
And since UV radiation damages the skin, using it to kill the virus could be a case of - to borrow a well-worn phrase - the cure being worse than the disease."
> And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in 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
What the original post mentions is directly hitting the virus. If we hit the body with enough UV light to destroy the virus inside us we would destroy the body too.
We know that he won’t stop being who he is though, so we are being extorted by the situation to change.
I think your reply was kind of self-defeating in this context.
People never contested that UV light could kill the virus (there were many experiments running at the time, and I think some conclusions too).
The Trump suggestion is stupid simply because UV light isn't selective, and whatever it did to the virus inside your body, it would do exactly the same to your body too. Just like his suggestion of injecting bleach - it would almost certainly kill the infection, just as soon as it would kill you.
"Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," Trump said at the White House coronavirus press briefing, adding: "Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way."
It was absolutely not considered a scientific impossibility that UV light would have an affect on the virus outside the body.
"A Cedars-Sinai research team is in the pre-clinical stages of developing a technology that harnesses intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light for treating viruses and bacteria. The technology has not been tested or used on patients. Cedars-Sinai has filed for patents related to the technology and has signed a licensing agreement with Aytu BioScience with the aim of potentially enabling near-term use as a COVID-19 intervention for critically ill, intubated patients."
It was a suggestion to explore it (all possibilities).