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The Big Gamble: Hydroxychloroquine


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On 4/9/2020 at 10:57 AM, Magox said:

I kind of view this as a poker game.  On one hand you have Trump and the other you have the media.

 

Trump looks at his hand and he thinks he has the winning hand.  Whatever he is seeing, he believes he can win with.  The media, not really knowing exactly what they have, other than they believe that Trump is full sh*t and lies all the time, believe that whatever Trump believes is wrong.

 

This is truly one of the biggest gambles that Trump is making, and every time he touts Hydroxychloroquine as a possible savior, he keeps upping up the ante, and the media keeps calling him.

 

If Trump ends up being right on this, it vastly improves his chances at winning the November elections because he could then say that:

 

A) I banned China Travel that saved thousands of lives, when Biden and everyone else was against it.

B) I promoted Hydroxychloroquine despite all the negative press.  And I was right, they were wrong.  I saved thousands and thousands of lives.  Thank God that doctors listened to me.

 

It will be a powerful fact that he will be able to weaponize against Biden and the media.

 

On the other hand, if he is wrong.  The amount of criticism he will get from the press will be almost unbearable.  It will be played on loop all the way till the day of the elections.  He can recover, but it will hurt.

 

 

With all that said, this is a sad state of affairs that this is a political matter.  It's only political because Trump is promoting it and the media hates him.  At a time when there is a pandemic raging throughout the world, prescribing a relatively safe drug that has shown strong anecdotal instances of helping people, I don't see how anyone could be against doctors prescribing a potentially life-saving drug that has minimal health risks on an off-label prescription.  This is up to doctors and their relationship with their patients.   It's mind boggling, and it truly is yet another example of the corporate establishment media being a broken entity.

Trump's son makes big money from promoting this drug.

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1 hour ago, 3rdnlng said:

Looks like a good read for @TH3

I read it....Is the 5A line that this woman was a Democratic donor and supporter so her and her husband drank a HQ sound alike, have one of them die, and then be able to blame Trump for his death as some sort of tragic plan? 

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40 minutes ago, TH3 said:

I read it....Is the 5A line that this woman was a Democratic donor and supporter so her and her husband drank a HQ sound alike, have one of them die, and then be able to blame Trump for his death as some sort of tragic plan? 

The case could be more easily stated that the people who ingested a tablet that came from a package that clearly stated "not for human consumption" are were pretty stupid. The fact that they were democrat donors further confirms it. 

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Trump hasn’t been pounding this drum lately. 
 


Still need more robust tests but this is the second Good size study to conclude this. I hope it’s wrong or there is some flaw in it. 

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30 minutes ago, shoshin said:

Trump hasn’t been pounding this drum lately. 
 


Still need more robust tests but this is the second Good size study to conclude this. I hope it’s wrong or there is some flaw in it. 

What a horribly poor written article. 

 

FWIW, that is the first article I have read NOT praising hydroxychloroquines results. Color me skeptical about this study!

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24 minutes ago, pop gun said:

What a horribly poor written article. 

 

FWIW, that is the first article I have read NOT praising hydroxychloroquines results. Color me skeptical about this study!

 

I've read lots of anecdotes but the only two studies I've seen, the one mentioned (paper here) and this one, show no benefit unfortunately. 

 

Novartis has a bigger study in progress with proper controls so that will be a better measure. 

 

I hope it works somehow. We need all the help we can get and a cheap and well-known drug like Hydrochloroquine would be a godsend.

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