Trump calls study on HCQ treatment for vets with Covid “a phony study put out by the VA”— Maegan Vazquez (@maeganvaz) May 19, 2020
“(T)hey gave it … to people that were ready to die … everybody was old” and had “bad problems with hearts," diabetes
POTUS say researchers were “obviously not friends of my administration”
And the children who are dying of Covid-19, or a syndrome connected to it? The young adults dying of strokes due to covid-19? And if you're not with Trump, you're against him. Always a good quality to have in a national leader.
Jake Tapper quotes him and raises another point:
Asked by @mkraju why he was promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine, the president said, “If you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead. It was a Trump enemy statement.”— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 19, 2020
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A survey? What, they did a poll, and Never Trumper Doctors were in the majority? Is that how he imagines this is done? Or is that his only way of understanding?
He's not only disgusting, he's as dumb as post and as useless as a stump.
It's hard to explain how committed his followers are to hydroxychloroquine as a cure. I have watching a neighbor, a very person, the kind who is always the first to offer when help is needed, spiraling away on supporting every Trump position on the pandemic. He was a very moderate conservative, but has migrated literally into conspiracy territory. First it was touting on Facebook that coronavirus was nothing more than the flu. Then when Trump latched onto hydroxychloroquine as this magic cure, reposting articles from a series of right wing sources on how the drug is the cure. That faded away once the news starting coming back on the drugs failure, to be replace with more dubious and articles and fervent comments on ending the lock down, herd immunity, and now how the "Mainstream Media" (his scary quotes, not mine) is censoring the honest voices. With Trump's confession of taking hydroxychloroquine, the articles are back on its effectiveness and the lying studies denying the TRUTH. I am cynical enough to believe that Trump made the statement on taking the drug to fire up his base and draw them closer to him. The same applies to not wearing a mask. It's a message to his followers.
ReplyDeleteWatching normal people getting sucked down this hole is both disheartening and disconcerting. I fear a spike in deaths, and a very strong minority resistance to any reimposition of quarantine. Without general cooperation there will be little ability to control or reduce any outbreaks.