{"id":24026,"date":"2020-04-24T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2020-04-24T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:41:19","slug":"ninety-nine-percent-of-household-germs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24026","title":{"rendered":"Ninety-nine Percent Of Household Germs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VirusWell, Donald Trump appears desperate to outdo himself with everything he says and does. You will no doubt have heard his latest medical endorsement of the possible use of bleach or detergent<\/a> \u2013 injected or consumed \u2013 to get rid of COVID-19. He even iced the cake by referring to UV light \u2013 used internally as well as externally \u2013 as a possible \u2018cure\u2019 for the virus!<\/p>\n

Whatever he meant \u2013 whatever he was thinking \u2013 it is what other people<\/strong> will think that matters. Stupid people, in particular.<\/p>\n

There has already been a case of someone in Arizona dying because he took Trump\u2019s previous endorsement of Chloroquine<\/a> literally and dosed himself up on the stuff used to clean aquariums. His wife was apparently in a critical condition after doing the same. In the immediate aftermath of Trump\u2019s latest rant, Reckitt Benckiser \u2013 the manufacturers of Lysol and Dettol \u2013 have had to issue warnings not to ingest or inject their products.<\/p>\n

The problem is that stupid people don\u2019t know<\/strong> that they\u2019re stupid. In many cases, they actually think they\u2019re smart. I suppose \u2018stupid\u2019 is perhaps a bit strong, but the alternative \u2013 that they are just average<\/strong> people \u2013 is potentially even more worrying, since it means that there\u2019s a lot more of them around.<\/p>\n

Sticking with the bleach thing for a moment, household products are not manufactured under conditions that make them anywhere near suitable for internal use. They are even further away from being suitable for intravenous<\/strong> use. An example would be calcium supplement tablets. The raw material in those is often calcium carbonate \u2013 but the quality of that material is nothing like the calcium carbonate that would be used in cement, which is another of its applications. The stuff in the tablets is purified in a lab to make it suitable for ingestion. The stuff used in cement pretty much comes straight out of a limestone quarry.<\/p>\n

Household cleaners share a similar gulf in how \u2018clean\u2019 they are, with the additional problem being that you don\u2019t use bleach \u2013 particularly chlorine-based bleaches – internally for anything. They are corrosive and<\/strong> toxic. Even gentler bleaches like the peroxides are used highly diluted and for external purposes (tooth whitening, for example).<\/p>\n

But the problem seems to be that stupidity \u2013 or averageness \u2013 isn\u2019t confined to Trump, the Americans, or any other nation, although there does seem to be a link between education and being prepared to do things that it might have been best not to.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s summarise the problem we have. There\u2019s a virus. It spreads easily. It kills a lot more people than seasonal flu does, even though it isn\u2019t<\/u> flu. There is no vaccine at the moment. No one alive can remember<\/u> anything like what we have right now. In order to protect as many people as possible, the government ordered the lockdown we are all currently dealing with. No one person\u2019s life is any more valuable than anyone else\u2019s \u2013 no matter what their health or age.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read that last paragraph carefully. It contains no opinion \u2013 just facts.<\/p>\n

Now ask yourself this. What has changed in any of that during the last month? Absolutely nothing<\/strong> has.<\/p>\n

And yet there is an article today indicating that, with the next pulse of warmer weather getting underway, people are breaking the lockdown rules<\/a> in greater numbers than at any time since the lockdown began.<\/p>\n

In my own industry, I continue to see people who are putting money and themselves above all else. They desperately want to return to work, and will try any argument to convince themselves they should be allowed to. There are still<\/strong> people saying that it\u2019s \u2018no worse than flu\u2019. There are still<\/strong> people whose argument is \u2018I need money, so we should be allowed back to work\u2019. There are instructors desperately searching for key workers to teach, even though they have children and are in daily contact with vulnerable people. There are instructors desperate to return to work by the time \u2018the kids go back to school\u2019 (or conversely, want the lockdown lifted just to suit whatever the schools decide to do so that they can work without having to worry about childminding). There are older people arguing \u2018I don\u2019t want to be imprisoned for the rest of my life\u2019, as if that is a reason for the lockdown to be lifted. There are people still<\/strong> desperately trying to believe that wearing a mask and gloves means you\u2019ll be safe sitting in a car with six or more different pupils every day, and who would gladly go back to normal if that\u2019s all they had to do. Some would work tomorrow \u2013 with no protection whatsoever \u2013 if they were \u2018allowed to\u2019. Others repeatedly quote \u2018Sweden\u2019, as if that somehow means we ought to pretend nothing has happened.<\/p>\n

I could go on, and on, and on with more examples.<\/p>\n

These are the \u2018average\u2019 members of society I was referring to. They simply do not have a clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, Donald Trump appears desperate to outdo himself with everything he says and does. You will no doubt have heard his latest medical endorsement of the possible use of bleach or detergent \u2013 injected or consumed \u2013 to get rid of COVID-19. He even iced the cake by referring to UV light \u2013 used internally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,83,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-covid-19","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}