Who Called UV Light? Not the WHO. It was RTE. That's Who.

The Chloroquine Wars Part XCVII

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." -Charles Mingus

I was just on the phone with Steve Kirsch, and I mentioned how schools worried about COVID spread could be using UV lights (also nursing homes, hospitals, places where hypochondriacs gather, etc.). It's a topic I've written about numerous times (here, here, here, and elsewhere) to varying degrees. In fact, I was talking about it on Facebook early last year during the pandemic. It always seems to surprise people. Why?

After we got off the phone, Steve sent me this article.

Noblesse oblige!

I don't want to hold back my thanks to these scientists. They're playing Captain Obvious late in the game. But perhaps that's a matter of getting up the courage or piercing the collective psychosis. The mainstream media and fact-checkers-for-hire did do quite an excellent job of equating disinfectants with bleach (the primary precursor of which is used in some of the vaccines, sigh). Really fantastic propaganda job. Some of my friends in science even played along with that gaslighting. It's a long road coming back from that in my book.

We likely could have brought R under 1 quickly with strategic use of UV light alone given that most non-household spread happens indoors at a handful of specific locations. We could have made schools unscary [without masks]. But unscary doesn't sell newspapers or vaccines.

Remember where you heard it first (whether it was me or some other crazy spreader or dangerous disinformation).