We're seeing the dangers of a public-health effort being led by an ignorant crank who thinks he’s a genius. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images/Angie D’Amico/Shutterstock. Photo-Illustration: Megan Paetzhold President Trump, encouraged by research suggesting that sunlight can kill the coronavirus, excitedly speculated last night that perhaps a new cure could be found by somehow bringing sunlight into the body of an infected patient. The possibility of a breakthrough cure excited him enough that he proposed another method, injecting disinfectant into the lungs somehow.
It is true that Trump did not mean to steer his audience to try home remedies. But what he meant to do was, in some ways, equally stupid. He was brainstorming cutting-edge cures off the top of his head, in full view of television cameras. Leaping from the discovery that sunlight can kill the virus to suggesting, hey, maybe we can discover a cure that brings sunlight into the body is literally the response a young child would have.
Trump’s belief that his genius allows him to identify cures for the coronavirus is one of the ways he has hampered the government response. He spends his hours binge-watching cable news and talking on the phone with friends who often pump him full of quack ideas. The people Trump trusts most share his attraction to magical thinking and inability to grasp even the most basic scientific principles.
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