After NY Times Caves On Hydroxychloroquine, Twitter Hero Posts Screenshots From EVERYONE Who Mocked Trump For Promoting It

Trending Politics ^ | April 3, 2020

[monkeyshine]

It isn't my first thought but worth consideration. My first thought is just that these are technocrats and bureaucrats and statistical purists with turf (regulatory and ideological turf) to protect. It does indeed cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring a new drug to the market. And the FDA is probably somewhat captured by big pharma makers. But imo the bigger problem at the FDA in particular has to do with ever moving goalposts. For example because it is so expensive and takes so much time to move a new compound through Phase I, Phase II, and usually 2 Phase III tests before it can be approved 9-12 months after you finish all the data crunching and file the New Drug Application (not counting the expense of R&D before you even do Phase I testing), smaller companies are indirectly forced to position their drugs to niche markets, relapsed patients, second line therapies, or co-therapy with the already approved drugs.

It is very difficult to prove your drug is better than Chemotherapy, for example. And the FDA moves the goal posts. Chemotherapy was approved on the basis that it shrinks tumors. Yes it does. But it also indiscriminately kills a lot of other cells. It's nasty stuff. And at one point drug companies were all focused on trying to prove they could shrink tumors, when they really should have focused on other things like quality of life, or extending life or both. Things like that.

IMO, FDA should take a back seat and act as a sort of Underwriters Laboratories for those drugs that prove themselves out over time... and perhaps as a clearing house for publicly available information about any and all drugs so that people, doctors and experts can make their own informed decisions without some bureaucrats with other interests of their own standing in the way.

[monkeyshine]

Yes, but in most cases you’re talking many years. Then some people develop eye trouble as the most common after effect of long-term use. But few are suggesting that everyone take this drug for years. They want to take it for a few weeks or months as a prophylactic, or have the option to take it for 5-7 days if they should test positive and/or show symptoms to keep the virus in check while the body builds an immune response (antibodies).

[monkeyshine]

These governors should resign immediately to avoid the embarrassment of humiliation at their next election.

[scouter]

But I won’t rest until Fauci admits it works. I do believe he’s an honest man, as far as his lights lead him, but he was less than fully supportive of this initiative of Trump’s, and kind of downplayed it.

[an amused spectator]

"The Trump Pills" works as well as "The Trump Cure".

Good to have both in your quiver. ;-)

[an amused spectator]

This is not just a documented fact. Chris Cuomo has just come out and told the world that his family and Fauci are long time friends and that Fauci has downplayed that drug combo to Cuomo who is infected.

Ah! But did Fredo come out and say that he WASN'T taking the Trump pills?

Or did he just say that Fauci downplayed them to him?

Two different things altogether.

BTW - Fredo is having hallucinations - a known side effect of HCQ, as attested by other Freepers in the know.

[an amused spectator]

Note that Fredo didn’t deny that he was taking HCQ...

[SteveH]

> Note that Fredo didn’t deny that he was taking HCQ...

i did note that... and that no one from cnn pinned him down on it when they had a chance. it was like telegraphing something... (but what?) lol

[SteveH]

has anyone plowed through the cnn covid-19 town hall april 2 broadcast for mention of hcq yet? i skimmed some of it but came up with nothing so far. it would be very odd if hcq never came up in a real town hall meeting (however, this is cnn, so allowances apparently need to be made)...

[JohnnyP]

He’ll take it on the QT (for me, but not for thee).

And the media will cover for him. They all probably have their own stash of it.

[snarkytart]

lets see how Michigan voters remember this.

We all know it’s more important to make POTUS look bad. The call it snake oil and then 3 weeks later run their mouths about him not caring or doing enough. Seems to me he was on it right away.

[snarkytart]

POTUS needs to dump him asap..or quietly move him in the background.

All these jackyls want is POTUS to look bad and lose the election. Second, they want to rape the tax payer with a new bill. These meds exists and are cheap.

[Cobra64]

Why not include “all” recipient in your post?

[Grampa Dave]

“These governors should resign immediately to avoid the embarrassment of humiliation at their next election.”

They are liberals without any sense of reality or shame.

So, they will continue to sabotage our President via the media.

Then, the mediots in the media will lie and try to make them the heros.

[Grampa Dave]

“THE TRUMP CURE”

I will cite it as “THE TRUMP CURE”

[Grampa Dave]

NY Times Caves On Hydroxychloroquinenow known as "“THE TRUMP Corona CURE”!

[Grampa Dave]

I went there and signed, when it was first posted. Thanks!

NY Slimes Caves On Hydroxychloroquine now known as "“THE TRUMP Corona CURE”!

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“The Trump Cure!” I love it!!!!!! Take the Orange Pills haha!!!

[mercier]

Better than Trump pills call it Trumpazine. Wish I could take credit for this powerful pill but I can’t.

[Billthedrill]

Better than Trump pills call it Trumpazine.

I'm stealing that. ;-)