Are our leaders suffering from coronavirusitis?

The likely reinstatement of Captain Brett Crozier as commanding officer of the US Navy aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, and his return to take the ship back out to sea after weeks of being quarantined with an epidemic of coronavirus is the clearest evidence that since this pandemic started some people in high positions have been affected by what I can only call coronavirusitis. It's a kind of madness. Crozier was technically at fault for crying for help by writing a letter to so many admirals and captains urging greater assistance and permission to remove all his 4,800 crew from the ship. But that wasn't madness. That was a warship skipper desperate to do what he thought was best for his crew. What was madness was what followed. Thomas Modly, acting Navy Secretary, took personal affront at being told that he, the civilian navy boss in charge of all personnel, had failed in his duty, especially when the letter was leaked to the ship's home port newspaper. S he fired Crozier. Then to make matters infinitely worse he flew out to Guam where the carrier was docked and berated Crozier in front of the crew over the tannoy system, telling the sailors their much-liked captain was either too stupid or too naive not to have realised the trouble he had caused by writing his SoS letter. That was total craziness. It was coronavirusitis gone mad. He, too, had to resign when he returned from his trip. Mark Esper, the US Defence Secretary, now has to decide whether to approve the US Navy chiefs' apparent recommendation that Crozier be reinstated. Esper knows that Trump is on Crozier's side. He said no man should ruin his career from one slip-up. Esper should never have allowed Modly to fire Crozier. He should have stepped in and overrruled Modly. But he didn't, he supported Modly and now he has the tricky task of reversing everything. The whole saga is a case of people overreacting and behaving madly. Now we have Trump suggesting, sarcastically or not, that it might be a good idea to inject the body with disinfectant to kill the virus. You only have to read the label on household disinfectant bottles to know that you don't under any circumstances put the stuff anywhere near your lips, let alone down into your stomach. That's another craziness brought on by Covid-19 that is making even presidents say the most ridiculous things. I fear as the pandemic progresses there are going to be a lot more incidents of coronavirusitis.