A Year Ago

 It was a year ago that, with a sense of duty and conviction, that the country watched as a former game-show host with a very pointed distaste for science suggested some possible cures for the coronavirus.  "I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."

Apparently some duty-bound Americans decided to take him up on that. "Accidental" poisonings from disinfectants like bleach and hand sanitizer saw a spike of one hundred twenty-two percent after the twice-impeached former president stood at a podium with cameras and microphones pointing at him. He was surrounded by doctors and scientists, but this not Doctor Anthony Fauci. It was on another occasion a month before that they shared a stage when Fauci did a facepalm as he listened to the leader of the free world spout off about whatever was on his mind. It wasn't science. 

Which is probably why Doctor Fauci wasn't around when the failed real estate developer chose to prattle on about his ideas for cures. He had some ideas about how to harness the power of the sun, which was thought at the time to be a good way to kill off the virus. "So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing, And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too." 

His suggestions were met with stunned silence, which might be the only rational response to a man who insisted that the sound of wind turbines causes cancer. 

All of these bright ideas came after his obsession with hydroxychloroquine, a treatment most often prescribed for mosquito bites and malaria. The man who managed to bankrupt three casinos, not by running some Ocean's Eleven caper but merely by mismanagement, was prescribing medicine that he picked as "a real game changer."

You know what turned out to be a real game changer? 

Science. Instead of flopping about and playing doctor, there were actual physicians and researchers who worked tirelessly to deliver a vaccine.

A day after the rest of the planet turned mostly as a group to point a finger and laugh, the nitwit who made these pronouncements made another. He said he was "being sarcastic." Which, as it turns out is yet another science that he does not understand. 

"Good job, Mister President." That's sarcasm.