Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[The_Yoda]

Pemalite said:

Phoenix20 said:

There is no perfect model or strategy to combat a Global Pandemic.
Comparing one country to another country is pointless.
A long recession is a huge financial cost to pay to minimise the loss of lives. The economic crisis will create a high rate of bankruptcies, huge loss of jobs and many business failures. 

Who cares. It's only money... Life is far far far more important.

John2290 said:

Not all disinfectants are dettol or bleach and yeah there is disinfectant treatments, the name of which escape me now, I was reading up on and well as UV treatments within the lungs in the past and plenty of patents to attach UV light to the end of a ventalators tube. Oddly enough, what trump was asking about had basis in reality. 

Trump needed to ask the question off screen, to an expert... Not posit the question to the entire planet that makes himself look ignorant and uneducated.

Either way... I would need some evidence to backup the assertion that injecting any disinfectant is safe... Because I would be wearing a Hazmat suit at any disinfectant spill job. Heck, even lemon juice/vinegar spill would require the use of a hazmat suit because they would be toxic in such high quantities.

We know UV can be dangerous. It is Radiation.

he didn't say ingest disinfectant - period

"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, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

Missing those three words this whole time has bothered me.  There is a great deal of wiggle room in those three words.  That said if he hadn't said that in a press conference then how do you expect him to take credit later if something is found that 'cleans' the body of the virus

I can almost hear the oaf now "That was my, idea, a really great idea, ahead of it's time, where we cleanse the body of the virus"