Posted on 04/12/2020 5:25:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One morning during my last semester in college, I woke up with a strange rash on my face. When it didn’t go away after exhausting a tube of over-the-counter cortisone, my mother persuaded me to see a doctor. The diagnosis was lupus: a life-changing autoimmune disease in which the body literally attacks itself. The physical effects of the disease are cruel, including excruciating joint pain, organ damage, dramatic hair loss, and debilitating fatigue—most of which I have experienced again and again, often for long stretches, throughout my life. And while lupus can be managed, it has no cure.
For three decades, I kept this private and spoke of my condition only with my family and a handful of close friends. I had no intention of changing that until the coronavirus changed everything.
Millions of Americans find themselves vulnerable to COVID-19 because of underlying health challenges, but this pandemic has unearthed particularly deep fractures along our nation’s racial and gender fault lines. This is especially true of lupus. Roughly 1.5 million Americans live with lupus, and we are overwhelmingly female and disproportionately black or brown. For black women like me, lupus tends to take hold at a younger age with more serious, life-threatening consequences. For us, the coronavirus could very well be a death sentence.
Worse still, the pandemic is amplifying the inequities of the health system in tragic ways. For instance: when the president of the United States decided to hype—as a coronavirus treatment—the primary medication used for controlling lupus, he put an already disadvantaged group of patients in even greater jeopardy.
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Same here. The Karens will whine about seeing people out hiking, riding bikes, etc. and demand more government controls to “shut down the state” to “stop the virus.” They will say it is just a “temporary” minor change then talk how it is the “new normal.”
Glad you are here, but there are other avenues for family gatherings that do not harvest and track your data. There is a reason FB is ‘free’. You are their commodity.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of ours was having a time since his usual pharmacy didn’t have it. He called his Dr. and got it at a different location.
Maya Harris is Kamala's sister.
So, she can get Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) whenever she wants.
She just has to drop a dime to Sis.
...as opposed to those on a respirator, unable to catch their breath.
I had no problem getting my 120 pills for the month at my Walmart pharmacy. I call B.S.
She just has to snap her fingers when she wants the drug.
I have not heard of even one bonafide, demonstrable case.
It's owned by a mutual fund in his blind trust. I believe less than $500.
Maybe people screaming that everyone should stay home could note whether their entire income stream has been stopped. About half of Americans get some kind of government check: Social Security, gov job, etc. Many people can work from home via computer. Tens of millions, however, went from earning money working to zero income.
Imagine that ... the sister on Biden’s VP short list dissing hydroxychloroquine.
probably less than $100. The left is just so dishonest.
Yeah...no one’s complaining about the $25M that Rumsfeld owned, in Gilead, during Bush’s SARs era/pandemic preps.
Do you know anyone who is on the drug long term who has not been able to get their prescription refilled? Maybe it's just the media screaming about it.
The NY Slimes didn't think anyone would bother to run the numbers before they ran their hitpiece...
Typical demon rat selfishness ... as if those with the deadly virus who can die from it in 10 to fourteen days are less important than the users for RA or Lupus.
One article I looked at says one patient last week was told by her pharmacist he can’t get any.
Kaiser Permanente is saying there is a worldwide shortage and
telling patients who need it “ Thank you for the sacrifice you will be making for the sake of those that are critically ill; your sacrifice may actually save lifes.”
This is the first time that I have heard this good news. Somehow the MSM is not broadcasting it very much, if at all.
#FakeNews
There is no shortage of Hydrochloroquine.
People who took hydrochloroquine on board cruise ships for malaria or lupus didn’t get sick.
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I’ve read similar stories.
Do you happen to have a link, confirming this?
I have two friends who have AI diseases and are on Plaquenil, daily.
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