Well if it’s good enough for Breitbart…
About that game-changing drug combo…
Trump has been a cheerleader for the drug hydroxychloroquine, pointing in a tweet and in person to a French study as evidence that one particular drug combination might be “one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.”
And ranting and raving about it every chance he gets, in defiance of the advice of all the people who know something about it, as if he were a toddler saying there is too SO a monster in the garden.
But now the medical society that published that French research has issued a statement saying the study “does not meet the Society’s expected standard.”
Dr. Kevin Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York City, gave an even more pointed assessment of the French research.
“The study was a complete failure,” he said. “It was pathetic,” added Art Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at the New York University School of Medicine.
Therefore, of course, Trump will talk it up even more often and louder.
How did Trump get such a bug up his ass about it?
On March 16, Musk, the Tesla CEO, tweeted that it “maybe worth considering chloroquine for C19.”… Two days later, Breitbart and The Blaze wrote glowing articles about chloroquine.
Ah, that’s how. It’s the Right-wing Drug of Choice. Trump talked it up the next day.
Meanwhile, people who actually need the drug for conditions that it’s been shown to alleviate can’t get it because of everyone hoarding it. No word from Il Douchebag about them.
But….but…there is a monster in the garden! I saw it! Or at least I heard it roar! Well, I heard something…
WaM, that’s also an experience with people like me who have to take regular shots and struggle to get the alcohol/wipes/etc that we need. I asked Walgreens, and they said “oh, they might be in the next shipment. Come in tomorrow and check.” I asked if they could set some aside for people with actual medical conditions that require that. Them: No, it’s not allowed.
It should not only be allowed, but required, that anything being hoarded by people who do not need it, that is needed by other people for a life-threatening condition, should be set aside and doled out only to those with a legitimate need. This is not a great time for letting the market decide.
But iknklast, we must let the market decide all! All bow down to the all-powerful, all-seeing market!
Unless we’re talking about the cruise ship or airline industries.
The alt-Goop quality of far-right health fads is looong standing.
Back in the 50s the quack cancer drug, Krebiozen was entwined with fringy Catholics and Chicago politicians. The quacks promoting it skipped the country, on Vatican passports, when the gig was up.
Orwell noted that a major French fascist magazine was supported entirely by advertisements from ‘spirit mediums’ and quack medicines.