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).
Have you seen James Lyons Weiler's article on QUATS
https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2020/10/19/quats-in-schools-and-in-your-home/
One of the many reasons I refuse to fly.
There's an indoor playground I like taking my preschooler to in the oppressive Texan summer. On their Facebook page they showed how "safe" they were being by having a grown man in a full hazmat suit spraying some unnamed cleaning chemical on the playground
It did not go as they planned.
They have since switched to a hydrogen peroxide solution.
I am way more scared of the cleaning chemicals used in gym or church nurseries than any infectious disease. UV lights would be a huge improvement.
This is already a thing. Like, they have robots already that will go into hospitals and flash high-powered UV lights in empty rooms to disinfect surfaces. Also, there has been some research on an intravenous UV light that could be used as a treatment for people with certain diseases...I think that's what Trump might have been referring to but everyone jumped on it as if he was suggesting people drink bleach.