Coronavirus: The New ‘Miracle Cure’!!! (Patreon)

It really sucks that I made one of the earliest numerical analyses on the spread of the coronavirus and pretty much nailed it- right down to advising coughing into your elbow- its almost impossible to find this video on google. This video was curiously released on the same day Donald Trump was saying how there were only 15 cases in the USA and most of them were getting better. He said that the USA was the best prepared country in the world and that no one had died of the coronavirus, but 20 000 a year die of the flu. My prediction at the time was, unless contained this could contaminate the whole world in about 2 months.

About a month later, with 500 cases in the country, Donald Trump declared a national emergency, but did little else. This was an incident which required a federal response, but the President basically left the states to fend for themselves. 

He did however start promoting a ‘miracle’ drug called Hydroxychloroquinone. There had been thousands of people claiming all sorts of things treated coronoavirus. In reality, there was no more reason to believe this one than any of the others. Why should a drug that inhibits a parasite (malaria), stop a virus? This went on for another month with the president –at the end of a LONG paragraph saying how great the drug was adding ‘it may not work’ at the end. This is snake oil salesmanship 101. He ordered almost 30 million doses of the drug- tragic when you think what could have been done if the resources had been competently deployed.

Now the FDA recommends that the drug only be administered in hospitals, after problems with erratic heartbeats in patients. The FDA also states that there are currently no effective drugs against the coronavirus.

The ‘miracle drug’ appears not to have been so miraculous after all.

Now Trump, presumably still in looking for a quick fix has suggested shining bright UV lights inside the human body or injecting disinfectants. He also made it clear that his doctors are looking into this(!) This would actually be very effective at killing the virus. Sadly it would also kill the patient.

Its sad that its come to this. The folder this was stuck in was called drink bleach. A more accurate title would have been inject disinfectant. :-\