France is pushing chloroquine hard. A FriAMer has relatives there. Just because the first person that told people about this was an idiot does not make the information wrong.
davew On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 2:53 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > Elon Musk had a serious brush with malaria about 20 years ago, and is > evidently one of the insistent sources pushing for chloroquine. Sorry, I > don’t have references. > —Barry > On 24 Mar 2020, at 0:42, Steven A Smith wrote: >> My first reaction to this was: THANK YOU DEAR LEADER! >> >> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/man-died-chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus >> >> But, I don't know if we can attribute this kind of accident to POTUS45 >> or not... my gut instinct is that his constant raving about it is what >> triggered these people to give it a whirl. >> >> I have one toe in the survivalist/prepper community and they are known >> for aquiring and stockpiling antibiotics sold for fish/aquariums. All >> the major human antibiotics have fish equivalents FishMox and FishFlox >> for example. There is much discussion/lore/wisdom in that community >> around which products/sources are actually pharmaceutical-grade and >> honest-dosage and well-regulated. I didn't know of chloroquine >> phosphate or it's use... they are saying "cleaning" but I think they >> mean disinfecting. It sounds to me that the problem was dosage, not >> contamination, but the product they used may have been cut or mixed with >> something toxic to humans. >> >> I've a friend who lived in Ghana for years with Peace Corps who >> contracted malaria and was medicated with one of the chloroquine drugs. >> He understood then (25 years ago) that it was the third world's >> "silver-bullet" and in his case it turned his symptoms around >> (life-threatening) in hours (on an IV).... his response to this >> prescription-from-POTUS is that the death rate in the third world could >> spike if the first world diverts their supply (probably coming from >> China?) abruptly for our own use. >> >> I also heard that patients depending on these chloroquines in the first >> world are already finding that the supplies are drying up and many >> cannot get their usual refills. Doh! >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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