Posted on 04/25/2020 7:17:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks for publishing. The idea of withholding meds because of Fauci’s word is an abomination.
I think the politicization of HCQ is the most sordid chapter in this whole sordid mess. Hate to imagine what generations in the future will think when they look back on this.
This needed to be written....
The media needs to do some serious reflection after this is over on how/why they politicized a drug that has been prescribed for decades with very low risks of side effects.
I know I am asking for too much here. I have read and listened to arguments for and against it. The arguments for it appear to be based on solid anecdotal evidence that it has helped many people. The arguments against it appear to be centered around “Trump.”
Life’s of reason
Everything is political in this country. The cure suggested by Trump is political. The actual disease is political. They have twisted his unfortunate comment about bleach into something that he didn’t say.
Do not doubt that the entire hysteria and insanity over this stupid bug is to Get Trump.
The left is doing nothing to help. In fact, they want more people dead and the economy shut down. Then, no matter what happens, they will use everything against Trump and blame him for the deaths and the recession.
It’s presidential election campaign time, and the left isn’t going to let the massive deaths go to waste.
Once upon a time in America the “County Medical Society” was the arbiter of “What is acceptable.” That produced a “patchwork of policies.” Areas like the region around, let’s say Kirksville, Missouri were dominated by Osteopaths because the largest Osteopathic Med School was there. Osteopaths spent decades earning the trust and confidence of their community. Curiously, an “Allopath” couldn’t even START a business there.
Other places Osteopaths had a great deal of difficulty even getting recognition from their County Medical Society. There were places where they wouldn’t even let them join. But what a “County Medical Society” provided was “protection for the public”. If you had an inclination to provide a treatment that was NOT “usual and customary” one KNEW you had to earn the approval of your peers. You had to make a presentation of your idea, your method, your results, your complications, all of it. Having successfully done so you “earned peer approval” even if there were some skeptics.
Having failed to make your case you were ASSURED that your peers would contact the State Board and your license would be pulled. Once upon a time that was the way things worked. Nowadays it appears things are a “free for all”. We have FBI agents doing the job of the County Medical Society and the County Medical Society has only a small portion of the local physicians even know there is such a thing.
“Everything is political in this country. “
Not necessarily or because it’s absolutely necessary?
Self reflection in media? Please
This past Monday I called my Dr to get a script of Hydroxychloroquine with a Z-pack (already have the zinc) to have on standby in my medicine cabinet. Doc had no problem at all giving me the script I simply asked for over the phone but proceeded to inform me that either calling it in to my pharmacy or even me taking a written prescription personally that the pharmacy would not fill it unless it was accompanied by a positive Covid19 test result.
I pressed the matter somewhat harping on the fact that since when is it up to the dang pharmacist to make any determination over a Dr’s.
Anyway, Dr ended up giving me a personal supply from her own stash she was holding onto for herself and employees.
That right there tells me a lot.
1) pharmacy’s are holding onto it having either limited supplies or simply holding onto what they have for bonafide cases and expecting its use.
2) even the Dr knew enough to hang onto a stash for herself and employees just in case.
Tell Fauci and his researchers to spend their time studying this disease that they know nothing about. Then maybe they can find a vaccine or a cure. But for treating the patient in the here and now leave the practitioners alone ! Let them prescribe and share results and outcomes with each other. And stop waiting till the ventilator is rolled in to try something. This isn’t about science. It’s about Medicine.
>>Hate to imagine what generations in the future will think when they look back on this.<<
Well, if the present ongoing studies of HCQ, which hopefully wrap up soon, support its use against Covid-19, then it’s going to be fun to imagine what voters think of the following:
—Leftist media figures who worked overtime to disparage its use
—Governors who forbade its use in most cases
—Doctors who refused to prescribe it even when asked by patients without contraindicated conditions
—Doctors of nursing home patients who refused to even try it.
And I would bet that 95% of the members of those four groups, including the doctors, are liberals who vote Democrat. Hopefully, if HCQ proves highly effective, voters get the connection, along with viewers and readers of the leftist press.
And you can’t get a test unless you have symptoms. These stips are coming from the Governor. Since when is a governor a doctor for the state? Insane.
Good story. We have to remember that even the revered docs are merely cogs in a great big wheel, too.
I know. I am asking for a miracle.
Seriously though, the media is doing great harm to our nation and government. The nation is caught in hyperbolic news cycles of hysteria and the government responds by spending billions we don’t have on a problem that requires millions and some simple coordination (like ventilators).
The need to start calling it by the brand name Plaquenil, and interview the RA, Lupus, Sjogren’s. Venus Williams might give the idiots a interview as she has Sjogren’s.
My niece takes it for both Lupus, Sjogren’s, and the Veterinarian gave it to her dog the other night for seizures.
The need to start calling it by the brand name Plaquenil, and interview the RA, Lupus, Sjogren’s. Venus Williams might give the idiots a interview as she has Sjogren’s.
My niece takes it for both Lupus, Sjogren’s, and the Veterinarian gave it to her dog the other night for seizures.
Anyone who gets turned down by a pharmacist could just choose to “share” with that pharmacist...
It is way past the time for Fauci to go. His association with Gates and Big Pharma says it all.
REPLACE THE GOVERNOR ASAP...............
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