That's not true. Here are your words. You wrote these in direct response to me.
Yes I know that's what I said. I'm just saying I misspoke and didn't mean to include you in that.
Okay I'll take you at your word. But not without a follow up response from me.
It's not a good idea to lump people into a pile so you can slap a label on them. The truth is that I couldn't put up a good political argument here if my life depended on it and everyone seems to know it but you. Medications? I'm not a doctor. I'm a patient and I'm fairly confident I can pick away at the implications of the President taking a drug that is not approved for this specific use and announcing it in the middle of a public Q&A in terms of it creating a perfect storm of risk for himself and the influence of the announcement on the American public.
Why you are not addressing those things is beyond me because you are the doctor, not me, buddy.
I'm really sick of you right now. Thought you should know.
I have a close friend who takes this medication for one of its approved uses. She has had trouble off and on making sure she has an adequate supply on hand. That trouble began when Trump started promoting its use. I’m sure this latest statement by him will make her situation worse. If we considered only the medical evidence, there is no justification for taking HCQ prophylactically. The only reason this is an issue is his followers treating everything as a political battle. I hope whichever doctor prescribed it for him has his malpractice insurance paid up. And his informed consent conversation videotaped.
YES.
There is the potential for people running scared and beating a path to their doctors to twist their arms to prescribe this for prophylactic use when it's completely unproven scientifically that it does any such thing at all to prevent or ameliorate the impact of the virus should one contract it. Then where will your friend be? SOL because the supply is dwindling on account of this?
He is not only putting himself at risk. He's putting folks who are easily influenced at risk for taking a potent medication with a list of possible side effects as long as your arm and damaging the supply for those who take it regularly for it's approved uses.
At the time this drug was being touted as a possible promising therapeutic for CV-19, I got excited and looked it up right away. Guess who can't take it?
Me.
So at the very beginning of this mess, I felt like if I contracted the virus I'd be twisting in the wind. So there is but one example of how reports about these medications influences the public mindset. At the time I was very hopeful and then I realized that if this were the only medication proven to help treat the virus (a long with Z-pak) I was essentially screwed. And that's where it stood at that moment in time for me.
tl;dr <- and we know our favorite racist jackoff won’t read it! - Woman Who Took Hydroxychloroquine For 19 Years To Treat Lupus Still Got COVID-19
- Doc
Not if you post the link I won't read it. You're a prick and I'm putting you on ignore.
That's because you're a cowardly hypocrite who avoids reading or learning anything that conflicts with what you would rather believe. You're like the smoker who became so alarmed and frightened by what he was learning about the deadly health hazards of smoking that he gave up reading.
That's because you're a cowardly hypocrite who avoids reading or learning anything that conflicts with what you would rather believe. You're like the smoker who became so alarmed and frightened by what he was learning about the deadly health hazards of smoking that he gave up reading.
Remember the old days when there were no block or ignore features? Heck, people hunted you down like a dirty dog trying to make you respond.
I have a close friend who takes this medication for one of its approved uses. She has had trouble off and on making sure she has an adequate supply on hand. That trouble began when Trump started promoting its use. I’m sure this latest statement by him will make her situation worse. If we considered only the medical evidence, there is no justification for taking HCQ prophylactically. The only reason this is an issue is his followers treating everything as a political battle. I hope whichever doctor prescribed it for him has his malpractice insurance paid up. And his informed consent conversation videotaped.
Or perhaps we could try making some more of it?
Thank you for admitting this is is a supply and public healthcare rationing issue and not really about what's best for an indivuduals health as determined by the indivdual in consult with his physician.
People are able to pressure their doctors to prescribe them what they want to take routinely. Further, some doctors are prone to errant judgements about prescriptions themselves and are not immune from falling into a political cult that might bias those decisions. The political campaign behind hydroxychloroquine, including the President repeatedly pushing it and given a personal testimonial to using it, is going to result in more people taking a drug for a purpose for which there currently is no support. This already is leading to shortages for use of the drug for which there is actual evidence of efficacy, and may involve increased risk of harm for people given several preliminary studies that have found evidence of that.
I think it should be your right to shoot heroin into your eyeball, but I also think it's bad when people encourage you to do that.
That's because you're a cowardly hypocrite who avoids reading or learning anything that conflicts with what you would rather believe. You're like the smoker who became so alarmed and frightened by what he was learning about the deadly health hazards of smoking that he gave up reading.
That was a shining example of accurate analysis with flair.
So, I recently commented that Trump telling people to "open up the economy" was his version of Jim Jones recommending Kool-Aid.
It would be more accurate to say that Trump recommending hydroxychloroquine is like Jim Jones recommending Kool-Aid. I suppose since Trump's death percentages are lower than Jim Jones', he needs more than one avenue.
ETA: It occurs to me that Trump might be subconsciously trying to kill his base. When the outbreak started to become really serious to everyone back in early March, I remember thinking, Trump wants people to die. I don't think he likes being President, deep down inside. He sure does suck at it, and that would make sense if you knew his heart wasn't in it.
So, I recently commented that Trump telling people to "open up the economy" was his version of Jim Jones recommending Kool-Aid.
It would be more accurate to say that Trump recommending hydroxychloroquine is like Jim Jones recommending Kool-Aid. I suppose since Trump's death percentages are lower than Jim Jones', he needs more than one avenue.
ETA: It occurs to me that Trump might be subconsciously trying to kill his base. When the outbreak started to become really serious to everyone back in early March, I remember thinking, Trump wants people to die. I don't think he likes being President, deep down inside. He sure does suck at it, and that would make sense if you knew his heart wasn't in it.
Knowing he was going to take this kind of abuse from the media and the deep state and still being able to plough through all of it is why Trump is my champion. Nobody else could have endured it and would have folded every time just as the weak Republicans have done so many times when up against the radical left. He has won my love and loyalty since he first came down the escalator. I wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice myself to protect him or further his cause. And yet all he continues to do is win. I think he's going to win again.
"Endured"? What could a lesser man have done that would have been any more pathetic and cowering than the way Trump has responded to the media? He's a whiny bitch and all he does is play the victim card. Mark Cuban slammed him on the Hannity show for this pointing out that he has no leadership at all in any situation, saying he would never hire him to run any of his companies because all he does is whine and make excuses, even when he is in the most powerful position in the world and surrounding himself with absolute loyalists who suck up to him, all he does is make excuses and blame the media because he knows idiots like you want to her that.
"Endured"! LOL All of Trump's problems with the media are of his own making. If he weren't such an incompetent buffoon and a compulsive liar, the media wouldn't have any reason to call him out.
