Posted on 03/24/2020 7:29:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Nevada’s Governor Steve Sisolak (D) on Tuesday issued an emergency order barring the use of anti-malaria drugs such as chloroquine for Coronavirus patients.
Last week Sisolak shut down casinos and only kept open essential businesses like grocery stores and health care facilities.
In addition to barring the use of chloroquine for Coronavirus patients on Tuesday, Nevada’s governor also banned social gatherings of more than 10 people.
The Associated Press reported (emphasis our own):
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s governor on Tuesday night issued an emergency order banning gatherings of more than 10 people in the state indoors or outdoors, a more aggressive move to try to stop the spread of the coronavrius.
Sisolak said the order does not apply to private homes or the homeless, but includes places like social clubs, parks, libraries and sports fields.
Sisolak signed an emergency order earlier Tuesday barring the use of anti-malaria drugs for someone who has the coronavirus. The order restricting chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine came after President Donald Trump touted the medication as a treatment and falsely stated that the Food and Drug Administration had just approved the use of chloroquine to treat patients infected with coronavirus. Sisolak said in a statement that there’s no consensus among experts or Nevada doctors that the drugs can treat people with COVID-19.
Anyone who violates the order will be charged with at least a misdemeanor crime and it remains in place until April 16 (after Easter).
President Trump on Saturday expressed optimism about two drugs that he said could be “one of the biggest game changers” in medicine – hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
Hydroxychloroquine is a drug used in the treatment and prevention of malaria. Azithromycin is an antibiotic that is used to treat many different types of infections in the respiratory system, eyes, ears, and skin, as well as sexually transmitted diseases.
A 52-year-old Coronavirus victim recently said he expected to die but hydrochloroquine saved his life:
”An hour after an IV with the medicine, he says his heart felt like it was beating out of his chest. “They had to come in and get me calmed down and take care of me. I had another episode about two hours later where I just got to the point where I couldn’t breathe and my heart was pounding again so they gave me some Benadryl through the system and something else. I’m not sure what it was. It allowed me to go to sleep and when I woke up at exactly 4:45 in the morning, I woke up like nothing ever happened.”Miraculously, he’s since had no fever or pain, feels fine and he’s able to breathe again.
“To me, there was no doubt in mind that I wouldn’t make it until morning,” Giardinieri said. “So to me the drug saved my life. … I just want everyone to know there’s an option. You don’t have to just sit there and hydrate. There’s a medicine that’s working.”
But now Coronavirus patients in Nevada will not have access to these anti-malaria drugs because the governor said so.
On the upside, here come the lawsuits.
The Party of Death strikes again!!
Idiots will re-elect him anyway.
Shocking. This man in an imbecile. This order could kill people.
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Yep. And that, my FRiend is his intent. Unstated but absolutely clearly intended.
The governor is practicing medicine without a license.
Yes and he is our imbecile. There is a recall petition going around but we know he’s not going away.
Probably no later than Friday.
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You can’t give the homeless an exemption. If they can congregate, so can I.
They don’t want anything that could help.
The plan is to crash the economy and make it stick so that the misery lasts into November.
And no one will be allowed to crowd into a stadium to cheer the President.
THAT will be prohibited by the tin pot dictators.
After the last few days of Pelosi’s corruption, Schumer’s obstruction, and every Rat governor imposing draconian rules, it’s plain for anyone awake to see.
I honestly don’t get it. Why would he do such a thing? This is the proverbial “biting off your nose to spite your face”.
As has been brought up on this board before, I wonder what the Governor would do if he were near death, and was offered this drug as his last hope. Would he say “no”, because Trump, because Science?
This is incredible. I think the death of the idiot with the fish cleaner spooked the guy.
I guess if you get the Rona in Nevada you need to travel to another state if you have someone who can drive you.
He just figures that when his state’s citizens die, they will automatically vote for him and the rest of the RAT party.
.... Red faces will ensue when other states show massive recovery rates while ... Nevada ...... sinks into a panic State ..... Well .... so to speak .....
Things have changed in Nev. since they razed the Sands.
And not for the better.
Have to keep the supplies for the elite.
I question his legal authority to do this.
How about a Republican governor banning the use of RU486 by EO? That would provoke some interesting reactions.
Though, as we all know, progressives love to rule by fiat because the process of legislation and decision making should not be left to the hoi polloi.
I do not believe something on this level will be left to the courts, but rather America’s foundational document is likely to be followed.
Hopefully the order will be rescinded before things get bad.
Impeach the moron. He’s also going to let millions of fish die because their tanks won’t be cleaned (that’s the cue for libs to get mad at him).
Just wait for them to kick off? A big nudge helps...
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