Closing Thought–18Dec 20
I want to close out the week with some humor.
I know we all (most of us) will be pleased to see the back of Trump and the Gang That Could Not Shoot Straight…..and someone once said that maybe because of their lack of concern and the infection of so many with the virus maybe the White House should be disinfected……or maybe its all those Trump “cooties” that needs killing…..
Is that truly needed?
“Nuking” the White House “with chemicals is not needed” to protect the incoming Biden administration from COVID-19, J. David Krause, an environmental and occupational health consultant, told
Image from a CleanSpray promotional video.
This article was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico
and was reported in collaboration with the Institute of American Indian Arts’ journalism program. It is republished here by permission.
When the college baseball season opened last February, the New Mexico Lobos were having one of their best years ever. Then COVID-19 hit. “We had a really good team and we were winning and then it just stopped everything just turned off like it never happened,” said Ray Birmingham, the baseball coach at the University of New Mexico.
A few months later, Birmingham was in Dallas when he heard about a new business, CleanSpray Technologies, that boasted that it could disinfect an area in 90 seconds or less with a safe and environmentally sustainable liquid system. Birmingham jumped at the opportunity to install the system at UNM and get the Lobos back on the field. “I thought it was a great chance to help,” he said.
Alex Hogan/STAT
The federal government is putting $29,000 in taxpayer funds toward a type of cleaning that many experts advise against: misting a disinfectant all over the White House.
A Virginia-based contractor will spray a disinfectant mist throughout the East and West Wings before President-elect Biden moves in, according to a federal contract first reported by TMZ and Politico. The same contractor has done the same procedure for the Navy, including at a weapons station in Virginia.
But prominent expert organizations are clear: misting or fogging disinfectants is not a good way to fight Covid-19.
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The World Health Organization specifically recommends against misting as a way to combat Covid-19 in both health care or non-health care settings, saying it is not only unhelpful, but can harm people in the space. So does the American Industrial Hygiene Association, which represents workplace safety and cleanliness experts. And according to the EPA, just three disinfec