Something In the Air Tonight?

It would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic! A councillor in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), has suggested using aircraft and helicopters to spray his tourist town with hand sanitiser (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/16/brazil-covid-coronavirus-spray-hand-gel-from-planes). The councillor thought this would help curb the Covid-19 pandemic in his area. His 'logic' included observations that a) Business people already sprayed their crops from planes and b) The virus was in the air. Presumably, he won't remember napalm (a mixture of a gel agent and petroleum, used with horrific outcomes in the Vietnam war). Gel and alcohol isn't too different, even if it should be a bit too dilute to be inflammable. The sooner, however, we get scientific understanding into political decision making, the better!