Mediots had a severe Never Trump Moment, when President says that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for close to 2 weeks and is still alive.
Posted on 05/19/2020 7:31:23 AM PDT by sickoflibs
The press dispenses erroneous medical advice while condemning erroneous medical advice…
You just knew when President Trump made the announcement that he would be taking doses of Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative step threat the press would lose its mind over this. Our media has been especially imbalanced over the use of HCQ in regards to the coronavirus outbreak. All because it has been recommended by Trump journalists have only been able to report on the negative aspects of the drug. We only see reports on the dangers it poses, how it is unproven, and yes, how it is reckless of Trump to recommend people take it.
The very fact that the drug is only available through prescription, on the recommendation of a medical professional, is a detail the press seems incapable of absorbing into its bloodstream. Now that the president is actively taking HCQ the very same people who have demanded we only listen to medical experts are dispensing a medical diagnosis and declare Trump is being irresponsible. Politico has a piece where its headline declares this is ”A crazy thing to do,’’ and then manages to invalidate itself in the process.
The article, co-written by David Lin and Zachary Brennan, is long on hysterics but very short on medicinal details. That the piece only harbors negatives while pretending there is no medical basis or support for taking HCQ for coronavirus applications is expected these days from the media. Just look at the opening paragraph to get the full taste of the hyperbole.
President Donald Trump’s startling admission Monday that he is taking hydroxychloroquine despite testing negative for the coronavirus alarmed health experts, who cautioned that people who follow his lead risk serious heart problems and other complications from the decades-old drug.
Just to pick apart their hyperventilating prose – to call this ‘’startling’’ shows them falling right into Trump’s trap, something the press rushes into on the regular. Those health experts that were ‘’alarmed’’ by this announcement were those whom Politico managed to find to bolster its position. And to warn people off of following tRump’s lead displays an abject ignorance, or willful avoidance of the reality that people cannot rush out and begin taking HCQ over the counter of their own will. This exposes the press condemning untrained medical advice while dispensing the same.
In highlighting the dangers — and ignoring the benefits — Politico’s writers manage to invalidate themselves in the process. They appear to have had to search far to find the right support for their position, finding David Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology at the University of Toronto, who provided the alarming quote for their headline.“That seems to me to be a crazy thing to do. If the drug had no side effects, it would be a reasonable thing to do.” Then Politico makes the assessment that Trump is particularly at risk, because of underlying heart issues he has, based on his White House Medical records.
It is only later, after this hype, that they manage to quote Trump’s own doctor, Sean Conley, who states the potential benefits of the president taking HCQ outweighed the risks. There is something else Conley has on his side — Trump’s full slate of records, and personal examinations to make the proper diagnosis. He is not sequestered in another country declaring the application of the drug ‘’crazy’’ — and he is not a pair of journalists making best-guess patient assessments.
But in all of this talk of dangers and risks they also completely deflate this hype with their other critique. They are concerned that Trump’s words would be a problem because it will cause a run on the drug, creating a shortage of HCQ for the millions of patients who currently take it as a regular treatment. That means that millions are taking this ”dangerous’’ and ”unproven’’ drug — one that has been on the market for decades now.
Then, just to perfectly wrap up their backward thought process, the Politico duo mentions that touting HCQ could pull people away from another possible drug treatment, the recently hyped drug Remdesivir. The amusement here is this drug from Gilead has not had any clinical trials, is barely available, and costs into the thousands of dollars for treatments — all negatives which do not apply to the generic HCQ, made by numerous companies.
This is the way of our media complex these days. They call for us to listen to experts, while dispensing medical misinformation, ignoring the numerous medical experts who encourage HCQ use as they criticize those who supposedly forego medical advice, and resort to recommendations based solely on political positioning. When it comes to Politico reporting it is best to get a second opinion.
Hydroxychloroquine is a dangerous drug and people shouldn't just run out and buy some and take it(BTW you need a doctors prescription) .
Trump is risking his life by taking it.(libs seem really concerned)
If people start taking it for COVID19 there might be a shortage of it for those that take it.(wait, I thought you said it was poison)
Then you got Neil Cavuto telling his viewers its' like taking Cyanide .
Compilation of evidence on treatment of COVID-19 and infection fatality rates
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6Cls-Oz2ZAgJuyDbnICEGjMvQPEyM-aaXARUomR9Ww/edit?usp=sharing
My own HCQ collection
http://freerepublic.com/~pollard/index
Neal Cavuto carried on so much that he lost any respect I would ever have for him.
Not that I ever had all that much before but he acted so silly.
Mediots had a severe Never Trump Moment, when President says that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for close to 2 weeks and is still alive.
Partisan Media Shills update.
They know it works and the president is protected. If they believed it was dangerous they would beg the president to take it for his own safety.
Maybe his MS was acting up. It does affect mental status at times, especially in more advanced stages.
“journalists have only been able to report on the negative aspects of the drug.”
There are statistically NO NEGATIVE ASPECTS.
(Taking the right drug “hydroxychloroquine” NOT “chloroquine”, taking the proper PRESCRIBED amount for the prescribed time.)
The DECADES of use, by MILLIONS of people, with minimal side effects, is PROOF enough. We don’t need your double blind clinical studies to know that Aspirin relieves headaches and fevers.
They appear to have had to search far to find the right support for their position.
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Cavuto is either woefully ignorant of medical knowledge and refuses to obtain such or has become a "never Trumper." I suspect both.
I took the drug for a year when I worked in Nigeria to prevent Malaria. All the other guys on the drilling rig also took it as did Millions of Nigerians. They were not dropping dead and we were not dropping dead.
Is their some danger in taking this drug? Yes there is but it is very low. If you have a prolonged QT interval it should be used with caution or if at all. If you have a G6PD deficiency it definitely should not be used.
It would be a very simple screening process for those very few that have the two mentioned problems. If they do not, the drug is very safe. The left wing anti Trump media will never print what I just posted nor the stories which are many of the success of the triple therapy, HCQ, azithromycin, and zinc.
Fasci is a snake and should be fired and Trump knows this. He knows the success of the Triple therapy used early. He also knows it is safe with proper screening. He is also a great admirer of Hillary Clinton by deed and letter. He is trying to destroy the economy and thus Trump. The optics of firing Fasci would be bad, thus he has not been fired.
cpdiii clinical pharmacist
You are right on and my wife’s arthritis MD was prescribing this for his patients, without a hint of problems, beginning in the 70s.
WHY PARACHUTES SHOULD NOT BE USED
We have never had a double blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes. This study would consist of 100 volunteers jumping from altitude. 50 of the chutes would be packed in a manner they would not deploy.
Thus 50 would hit the ground at about 180 miles an hour and the other 50 would gently float to earth. This would be a legitimate double blind study. This study has never been done due to a lack of volunteers for the study.
Thus based on Dr. Facie’s criteria of a double blind study all successful uses of a parachute are anecdotal as the use of HCQ triple therapy. Facie is a political snake.
Does your clinic stock HCQ and has there been much demand?
It’s only controversial because Big Pharma can’t make billions off of it and neither can MSM.
Be sure to give some paratroopers placebo instead of a parachute
I’d love to see Fauci fired, or at least put out to pasture.
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