@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
we use UV to disinfect water by drawing the water "through" a reactor. In this case a reactor tube is the entire lung??? Sounds really stupid. I know disinfection at a point can be accomplished by IR or (short wave) UV. The UV only burns the surface It doesnt travel sub -surficially. As I understand the covid inserts itself and grows in inter brachial tissues.
I dont have a lot of knowlege to say yea or ny but both sides I believe are kinda dimheaded, unless that companis tool is like a "laser pen" cept it uses uv.
Whatever, Trump still has his hd up his ass and really doesnt know what the **** hes talking about.
Maybe not, but the right way to answer a question about a potential treatment/technology is to respond with what you know, not treat the questioner dismissively. Remember, Trump's question could represent any number of people who have expressed the same thought and this is their chance to hear what professionals have to say about it.
The first thing they should do is say whether such a treatment has ever been tried. You say yourself that there are UV pens to sterilize water and putting the thing inside a lung would be . . . but the first thing to do is just say whether or not such a procedure has ever been tried, or even considered, and if it has been considered why was it rejected.
The next thing to do would be to think critically about potential effects of exposing the inside of a lung to UV light. The tissue is very sensitive, but we know for example that UV light is used to harden dental sealant and that it doesn't harm gums. So the question is whether it could be used on lung tissue at levels strong enough to kill germs without harming the tissues.
That is a reasonable question that should be answerable without ridiculing the question. Of course it is always important to say that untested treatments always pose unanticipated risks and that you yourself wouldn't want to be the first to try it out on yourself or your family, but then you could also say how you would feel if you had a family member who wants to try such an experimental treatment but is obstructed from doing so by regulations and/or liability concerns of medical authorities and insurance companies.
