He’s still hitting hard on the anti-malarial drug combined with Z-mycin will cure everybody. Remember, he’s asmart guy, and the reports look good to him!
Noticeably absent from the Presidential press conference was Dr Anthony Fauci, from NIH, who put the brakes on Trump’s previous attempt to prescribe the drug combo.
Fauci claimed the “good reports” were merely anecdotal evidence.
If you google this stuff, you’ll find other anecdotal evidence this combo KILLS some people.
But Doctor Trump is a smart guy. I wonder if he even knows what anecdotal evidence means?
~VOW
He keeps on about it because he’s a liar and a con man. Con men will say whatever it takes to lure you into their confidence; they will work anything into their patter except an admission of being wrong. It’s like if he was trying to sell you a real estate deal and you said the construction timeline just wasn’t possible; he wouldn’t negotiate with that, he’d just lie, and say he knew a guy or a company or a technology that could make it possible.
“And if I say I wanna set you free
Don’t you know you’ll be in misery
They call me (Dr. Trump)
They call me Dr. Trump (calling Dr. Trump)
I’ve got the cure you’re thinkin’ of (calling Dr. Trump)
And even though I’m full of sin
In the end you’ll let me in
You’ll let me through, there’s nothin’ you can do…”
I wonder if they purchased it online, or from a Mexican pharmacy, and those tablets contained something other than chloroquine - a drug that in itself can have some nasty side effects, as can hydroxychloroquine, which can also be used for malaria but is more commonly used for rheumatoid arthritis and other similar autoimmune diseases.
The pharmacy world is abuzz with chatter about what to do when physicians and other practitioners who can prescribe (mostly NPs and PA-Cs) prescribe this for themselves. However, the “shortage” is mainly due to hospitals, which don’t use much of this, ordering it so they may have some on hand if they need it.
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.*
“A little hyperbole never hurts” may be mostly true when you are hawking internet steaks or running an oceanfront casino into bankruptcy, but when you are responsible for the health and welfare of the nation…we’ll, as we’ve already seen, Trump takes “no responsibility at all”.
It was a different chemical entirely, not just a “non-pharmaceutical version”, and reportedly they already had it in the house, having used it in the past to (what else) clean their fish tank.
Some people are just stupid - I don’t think you can blame this on Trump.
I had a husband who drank chloroquine.
He died, he died.
Trump said it would cure the virus.
He lied, he lied.
Why oh why is my husband dead?
Couldn’t that virus have killed a liberal instead? (with apologies to Lisa Simpson)
It may not be reasonable to pin this particular incident on Trump, but as candidate and then President he’s spent four years promoting mistrust in government, promulgating “deep state” conspiracies where none exist, belittling career bureaucrat like Dr. Fauci, attempting to dismantle medical services, public health, and social welfare programs of all kinds, and generally acting like the Fox News addict that he is except with millions of Twitter followers clueless enough to believe every word “seriously if not literally”. Trump is responsible for creating a situation in which many people feel they have to fend for themselves because that is exactly what he has set out to do.
The combination may work, and yet be risky at the same time. There is a difference between someone like Gov Cuomo who is trying to use this combination as a possible solution to solving some of his problems, and a con-man like Trump foolishly telling everyone “We’ve got a cure.”
I know exactly which anti-malarial drugs everyone’s talking about. Had the chance to use them when I was planning a trip into dense forests of SE Asia, where dengue and malaria are real threats. I decided not to when I found out that they’re typically only about 50-70% effective as a prophylactic, and yes, they have really nasty side effects.
Right, “we’re looking into whether there’s something to this” is fair enough. “This is something already proven safe” creates a different expectation on those lacking knowledge.
But now watch someone at the next presser bring up the matter of the fatality, ticking him off and leading him to triple or quadruple down on it. Really, what use is it to keep confronting him with “admit you were wrong” lines of questioning? It’s not going to happen,
It’s not that this POTUS wants you (or me) dead. It’s that he doesn’t care if a few million Americans die. We, the owned, are expendable - just liabilities on the national spreadsheet. Putin’s puppy pisses on us. Sad.