This was bound to happen after sociopath and mentally unfit Donald "Moron Vector" Trump started riffing recklessly about "miracle" cures at the coronavirus daily briefings. Here's a warning from Banner Health about chloroquine, which Trump has been touting in an effort to
"Medical toxicologists and emergency physicians are warning the public against the use of inappropriate medications and household products to prevent or treat COVID-19. In particular, Banner Health experts emphasize that chloroquine, a malaria medication, should not be ingested to treat or prevent this virus. [snip]He's desperately looking for an off ramp to his bungling of the response to the pandemic, looking at the stock market dropping in parallel to his reelection hopes, not at the public good. The fact that he's looking at sending people back to work in a matter of days just when COVID-19 cases are multiplying each day is a sign of his depravity and malignant narcissism.
A man has died and his wife is under critical care after the couple, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate, an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks. Within thirty minutes of ingestion, the couple experienced immediate effects requiring admittance to a nearby Banner Health hospital.
Most patients who become infected with COVID-19 will only require symptomatic care and self-isolation to prevent the risk of infecting others. Check first with a primary care physician. The routine use of specific treatments, including medications described as ‘anti-COVID-19’, is not recommended for non-hospitalized patients, including the anti-malarial drug chloroquine." (our emphasis)
UPDATE: File under "sadder but wiser"? The wife of the man who died had this advice--
“Don’t take anything. Don’t believe anything. Don’t believe anything that the President says and his people… ’cause they don’t know what they’re talking about. And don’t take anything, be so careful. And call your doctor.” (our emphasis)
Here's what I did for MY therapy in seclusion day. 80's Music Videos. I'm SO appreciative they're still out there! Oh man, Michael, Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, etc. Best day I had!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I ended it with a funny: Steve Martin's SNL skit King Tut !! Please watch. !!!!!
Oh, AND, BeeGees, Queen, Everly Bros., Mungo Jerry, Curtis Lee's Pretty Little Eyes, And, I KNOW, FM, shut up already !!!!!!! Heh, heh, heh ……...
ReplyDeleteI love a good stroll down musical Memory Lane, too!
ReplyDeleteI'm watching bits and pieces of trump's press conference tonight. He's desperate. Dr. Birx looks like she was threatened with jail by Barr. Why is Barr there? As a mob warning to the press to not ask difficult questions? As a warning to the doctor to fall in line with trump? Dr. Fauci is nowhere to be found. Is he fired? Is he still alive? This is a nightmare. WASF
ReplyDeleteF.M. -- Great choices for seclusion therapy!
ReplyDeleteAnon. -- Yes, where is Dr. Fauci? Is he being sidelined by Trump et. al.? After he spoke the truth this past weekend, he may be on Trump's shit list. Dr. Birx seems a bit too comfortable with Trump's distraction and misleading happy talk. The press group has been thinned out, too, and that's not a coincidence.
Could also be a sign of Trump's abject stupidity and/or dementia. I'm an old, and old white I know people somehow think he is really getting into his groove managing this clusterfuck. Add you cannot convince them otherwise. When you lay out the facts they come up with the most ridiculous reasons for his daily double speak. I'm not so worried about Covid-19, expect I will bust a brain vessel before the bug gets to me.
ReplyDeleteI just assumed Dr Fauci got tapped out and replaced with someone more tolerant of Trump's bullshit.
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