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How Trump (And his mindless minions) came to tout hydroxychloroquine as a 'CURE'... May 13, 2020 8:08 pm RL

President Donald Trump’s obsession with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus may have started in part because of a self-described philosopher in China who is a fan of white nationalists, tweets anti-Semitic rhetoric and calls chloroquine “a Nazi drug that is here to teach a lesson to leftists about bias.”

Weeks before Trump first promoted the drug, a Twitter conversation about hydroxychloroquine between “philosopher” Adrian Bye and two cryptocurrency investors set off a chain of events that would bring the unproven drug to the attention of Elon Musk, Fox News pundits and Trump.

Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine as potentially “one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine” and repeatedly promoted its use on the coronavirus. He has asked about it both in public and privately, until recently mentioning it on a nearly daily basis, and the Trump administration has allegedly pressured health officials to distribute it despite their concerns about its safety. The drug’s bizarre path to Trump’s embrace highlights a dangerous information pipeline from questionable sources in right-wing media to the president.

Hydroxychloroquine can have dangerous side effects and in some studies was associated with an INCREASED risk of death…
Coincidentally, we haven’t heard from SDAI since he was claiming that it was a miracle drug… perhaps he really did drink the kool-aide?

  • Corona Cures and time-release placebos. by hank 2020-05-14 06:25:31

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