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Sure that was the really early hype, and then doctors across the world started using it to see if they could help their own patients and the results were promising.....and then word got to Trump and he said something about it......and then partisans decided the drug was poison and everyone who took it was going to die despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people take the drug every single day and would die without it.
Since that time, there has been more experimentation with different drugs and other combinations have shown promise as well...fortunately Trump hasn't said anything about them, so we don't have people trying to actively get people to not take their medicine.
I truly am convinced that if Trump came out suggesting that drinking water was a good idea, we'd have Democrats across the country dying of dehydration out of spite.
No one said "the drug was poison and everyone who took it was going to die." Give us some links that support your claim.
Sure that was the really early hype, and then doctors across the world started using it to see if they could help their own patients and the results were promising.....and then word got to Trump and he said something about it......and then partisans decided the drug was poison and everyone who took it was going to die despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people take the drug every single day and would die without it.
Since that time, there has been more experimentation with different drugs and other combinations have shown promise as well...fortunately Trump hasn't said anything about them, so we don't have people trying to actively get people to not take their medicine.
I truly am convinced that if Trump came out suggesting that drinking water was a good idea, we'd have Democrats across the country dying of dehydration out of spite.
Not quite. Fux news started hyping the study before it had even been published.
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Before the study was even published, in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (IJAA), a lawyer falsely claiming an affiliation with Stanford University appeared on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight to declare the results: a “100% cure rate against coronavirus”. From Fox News, it was only a matter of time (hours, in fact) before the drug was being hailed as a “game changer” by the president of the United States.
Trump made his first endorsement of hydroxychloroquine on 19 March. Export controls, shortages, overdoses and scientific recriminations rapidly ensued, but the controversy could not extinguish the power of presidentially endorsed hope. Across the globe and throughout diverse communities on the internet, hydroxychloroquine had been anointed the miracle cure for Covid-19.
No one said "the drug was poison and everyone who took it was going to die." Give us some links that support your claim.
That's exactly the narrative that was being pushed, it was the intention behind the story of the morons that ate fish tank cleaner and died. The goal of pushing that story was to suggest that hydroxychloroquine was poison.....as the fish tank cleaner was.
You had dumb people who first heard of the drug when Trump mentioned it suggesting that it would kill people if they took it.....despite the long history of people taking the drug without a problem.
If Trump mentions another drug, you guys are sure to do the same thing over again. It's just unthinking knee jerk opposition and it's been that way for years now.
I truly am convinced that if Trump came out suggesting that drinking water was a good idea, we'd have Democrats across the country dying of dehydration out of spite.
If you are truly convinced of that, then your partisanship has made you as irrational as anyone who would stop drinking water.
That's exactly the narrative that was being pushed, it was the intention behind the story of the morons that ate fish tank cleaner and died. The goal of pushing that story was to suggest that hydroxychloroquine was poison.....as the fish tank cleaner was.
You had dumb people who first heard of the drug when Trump mentioned it suggesting that it would kill people if they took it.....despite the long history of people taking the drug without a problem.
If Trump mentions another drug, you guys are sure to do the same thing over again. It's just unthinking knee jerk opposition and it's been that way for years now.
So give us some links to support that claim, then. You have roughly 200 pages of posts to choose from here. Surely you can find dozens if that narrative is as prolific as you seem to think it is.
If you are truly convinced of that, then your partisanship has made you as irrational as anyone who would stop drinking water.
First and foremost, I'm not a partisan. I'm neither a Republican or Democrat and I never have been.
Secondly, the reason I'm convinced of that is that I've seen years of knee jerk unthinking opposition to everything the president says. I've seen far too many that have what can easily be described as a pathological condition related to the president. I have no reason to think that many of them would die of dehydration rather than take the advice of the president to drink water.
Their pathological condition overshadows any intelligence those people might possess.
That's exactly the narrative that was being pushed, it was the intention behind the story of the morons that ate fish tank cleaner and died. The goal of pushing that story was to suggest that hydroxychloroquine was poison.....as the fish tank cleaner was.
You had dumb people who first heard of the drug when Trump mentioned it suggesting that it would kill people if they took it.....despite the long history of people taking the drug without a problem.
If Trump mentions another drug, you guys are sure to do the same thing over again. It's just unthinking knee jerk opposition and it's been that way for years now.
The intention behind the story?????
The story is facts. Those "morons" heard the President touting hydroxychloroquine and decided to use it. The President's words carry weight. And that is an issue. The President shouldn't tout specific treatments until we know more. It's not that he mentioned the drug, he actively touted it. Repeatedly.
First and foremost, I'm not a partisan. I'm neither a Republican or Democrat and I never have been.
Secondly, the reason I'm convinced of that is that I've seen years of knee jerk unthinking opposition to everything the president says. I've seen far too many that have what can easily be described as a pathological condition related to the president. I have no reason to think that many of them would die of dehydration rather than take the advice of the president to drink water.
Their pathological condition overshadows any intelligence those people might possess.
Your criticism of Democrats in this thread do not support your statement that you are not partisan. Maybe you should look at what you've been saying.
The story is facts. Those "morons" heard the President touting hydroxychloroquine and decided to use it. The President's words carry weight. And that is an issue. The President shouldn't tout specific treatments until we know more. It's not that he mentioned the drug, he actively touted it. Repeatedly.
No, they didn't use it. They ate fish tank cleaner. That's not hydroxychloroquine.....clearly the fake news worked on you.
And if Trump suggested drinking water, I'm sure you'd be back here talking about people who drowned to death or died from drinking sea water.
Your criticism of Democrats in this thread do not support your statement that you are not partisan. Maybe you should look at what you've been saying.
Despising Democrats due to how unhinged they've become over the past few years does not suggest that I'm a partisan, it suggests that I don't like the current state of Democrats.
Of course, to a partisan, if you aren't a Democrat, it means you are a Republican and vice versa.
Partisans are small minded people like that.
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