I know we all laughed. Boy, did we need a good laugh. The press conference was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Any woman who has ever had a boss who was less intelligent and more powerful than her will immediately empathise with the female scientist who sat, eyes twitching to prevent them rolling, pulling at her fingernails and trying not to breath in case she said something that caused her to lose her job. If you read social media this morning though, you will find that it’s all her fault for not calling him out. Nice to have a woman to blame. When asked about it in the UK daily briefing the politician, rightly, refused to start a war with a volatile president of a country we are going to need post-Brexit and allowed our female scientist to openly laugh at him.
“Never inject yourself with anything,” she said, “It’s important to use properly tested medicines.”
Her eyes twinkled. The politician’s mouth quivered at the corners. They were both safe in the knowledge that most people in the UK think Donald Trump isn’t the sharpest tool in the box.
It has also inspired some absolutely brilliant videos of women drunkenly lip-syncing his speeches, which is the best way of hearing what he said.
When I saw the clip I was reminded of the how the Long Suffering Husband used to wonder why someone hadn’t invented a human ‘draino’ to flush out the blocked arteries of people like my dad. It’s the kind of simplistic solution that people who are used to being able to fix things would suggest. The LSH is a Mr Fix-it. If you mention that something doesn’t work very well you look round and it’s fixed - A shelf has appeared, a stack of bricks have been moved or a vegetable bed has been dug.
Donald Trump isn’t a Mr Fix-it but his enormous wealth and power has meant that any time he has come up against a problem he just tells someone and it gets sorted. This could be the first time he has ever come across something that couldn’t be fixed simply. Clearly, this is why we should pick leaders who have faced a struggle but we won’t learn.
Anyway, back to science.
They have been doing some interesting work on transmission. They noticed that in the cruise ship, which saw no sunlight and was left empty and uncleaned the virus droplets had survived on surfaces for 17 days. This was far longer than anyone had thought, so they started to look at what killed it on surfaces. Not surprisingly, disinfectant and sunlight (uv) worked and this led to Trump’s simplistic extrapolation.
I was also quite interested in the sunlight theory. I jumped on it because any excuse to be outside seemed good to me. I could see it as a way of getting back to school: everyone loves outdoor learning.
I know we are all laughing but what if what we all need is a bit of sunshine inside our bodies? Next Saturday is World Naked Gardening Day. As the weather is so nice, we could extend it: have a whole week. I mean, now that we are socially distanced, where’s the harm? We won’t see anyone to offend, it will save on the washing and every time you bend over to pull a weed you’ll get some sunshine where it doesn’t normally shine.
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