RE:RE:An HCQ study Fauci and media will findI've seen this politically motivated argument before and it isn't even a good one. It's all specious/boogeyman arguments that would apply to penicillin or any other prescription (and likely non-presciption) drug. The only reason the media is pushing back on admitting to the potential of hydroxychloroquine is because Trump endorsed it. Certain emotional media types can't handle him ever being right and thus lose their ability to think or argue rationally. C'mon, do they really actually think doctors in aggregate prescribe meds to patients without checking for pre-existing conditions and side effects? The drug has been in use for something like 40 years. The risk factors and side effects are well known and documented and easy to look up if you have access to the internet.
My mom took hydroxychloroquine for arthritis and had to stop because her doctor was monitoring her and became worried about one of the main side effects, blindness. So she was only on it for 15 years, yes YEARS. Sometimes anecdotal evidence means something. Pretty sure I could handle a 6 day course if she did 15 years.
It helps to do a bit of research when making arguments for or against something. Google makes that a lot easier these days. For instance, they've known that chloroquine treatment of coronavirus had potential for at least 15 years. Check out this study from SARS https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7646092_Chloroquine_is_a_potent_inhibitor_of_SARS_coronavirus_infection_and_spread
That one study should indicate that you better dig into it a lot further before dismissing it because: 1) we might run out and 2) doctors don't check for side effects and might kill people. Hopefully, in the meantime, you don't catch the virus and have to make the decision to turn it down because the official reports of its efficacy aren't unanimous enough.
BTW, how many people are dying needlessly because we have to wait for the "official" study before we admit it might work and at least give it to people on compassionate grounds at their doctors' recommendations? and just how many offical studies will it take before you can concede it might be worth trying? Michigan and Nevada governors and province of BC, among others, kneejerk outlawed any prescription of hydroxychloroquine, all because of the automatic emotional backlash to Trump mentioning it might offer hope.
Being on a junior exploration board, we should know more than most about how to do a risk analysis, think for ourselves, and think ahead to probable outcomes. It's why most of us are here, hoping to make real money. We understand that not much in life is black and white and lots of times we have to make an early educated guess to optimize the outcome in our favour. For instance, if we wait for GBR to prove up all of its ounces and submit an offical PFS before making a move, we are too late. It is the same with coronavirus, we need to be able to weight the benefits vs the risks, and most of us here have the brainpower to do exactly that. Right now, from the reading I did months ago when I first heard S.Korea mentioned hydroxychloroquine, it appears to the downsides are miniscule if your doctor is breathing, and the upside is possibly saving your life. That is my risk assessment though and I only endorse it to my family at this point. Do your own due diligence and make your own decisions.
Goaweigh wrote: This isn't a politically motivated argument. I'm certain everyone on all sides acknowledges that it works in many many cases, maybe in most cases, but it also has a negative effect called death in certain circumstances and underlying conditions. Scientists just don't behave like polititians, they are differant animals, they are wired differantly, very cautious. You must know that.
You know what happens if you open the flood gates on this drug before determining which groups shouldn't take it ? Everyone rushes to their Doctors and demands the drug and then those that shouldn't take it Die. And of course there may be a supply issue, there simply isn't enough to go around at the moment, they can't even make enough masks for caregivers so how do they make 5 doses ( 10 pills ) for 50,000,000 people, and those are only the people who would rush to their doctors on day 1. Everyone would want this drug if they were told it would prevent catching the virus. That's 360,000,000 people in NA alone.
This isn't a political issue, rational Liberals on both sides of the boarder don't want to stay at home nor do they want to die any more than your Trump loving red neck hillbilly does.
It's just so stupid.
But do you know what the most shocking thing is to me ? It's not that Dr. Fauci is getting death threats, that's a given in a place as kooky as the US, it's the fact that Donald Trump doesn't have the decency to stand at the podium and say to his kooky constituants :
" Could you idiots please stop sending death threats to this very decent man, we are all doing the best we can to save lives so stop with that stupid shite " !
But of course that's beyond the capability of that moronic narcisstic egomaniac.
Happy Easter !