I had a doctor friend last night tell me that HCQ is “snake oil”. The Big Pharma brainwashing is deep.
>> a doctor friend
Not a doctor FRiend?
I asked my primary care physician about HCQ and Ivermectin and his expression showed a nervousness and he quietly told me that they were dangerous and should not be considered for use. I got the impression that he was afraid to express his own opinion - he, like many doctors now, are salaried employees and risk losing their job if they stray from corporate positions.
It’s a sad reality that you cannot trust the word of a doctor to not be swayed by propaganda. Marcus Welby is long gone. Today they are part of a machine, or a political movement. Honest and freethinking doctors are long gone.
The main reason, as I recall, was that HCQ was being prescribed “off label”. And that it had bad side effects.
Here is a true story concerning off label and bad side effects of thalidomide. As some will remember, this drug was used in the 50’s through the 70’s.
Thalidomide is a drug that was developed in the 1950s by the West German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal GmbH. It was originally intended as a sedative or tranquiliser, but was soon used for treating a wide range of other conditions, including colds, flu, nausea and morning sickness in pregnant women.
After numerous birth defects were discovered linked to it, it was basically “law fared” out of existence. In 2006, in the Philippines, a clinical trial was being done with thalidomide on multi myeloma patients, (cancer of the white blood cells). My wife had just been diagnosed with this and her doctor suggested that she enroll in the clinical trial.
This was after six months of flying to Manila every month and having plasma infusions over three days each time. On the clinical trial she received the thalidomide and lab test monthly but did not require in patient care.
Of the 25 patients in the trial after two year she was the only one left. The rest had died and the sponsor cancelled the trial. However, under the contractual terms of the trial she was to continue receiving the thalidomide and labs for the rest of her life.
A year later the sponsor was trying to get out of providing the thalidomide and was requiring that she would need to go to Manila every two weeks to get her meds instead of them mailing them to us as they had been doing and only having her go to Manila every three months.
My wife decided to stop taking the meds because to stay in the program would have meant moving to Manila. We are now in 2021 and she is still alive, (at 76).
My point is there was no way to positively say off label use of HCQ was a good or bad idea unless it was studied, but the NIH and Fauci did not want to accept the studies and real life observations already out there for some reason, unknown to us.