Interesting: The same people who say we have to shut down the country based on nothing but guesses and "models" are the exact same people saying we must not prescribe hydroxychloroquine until we have full 10,000 participant double-blind trials and conclusive scientific proof.It seems the alleged "Science-Lovers" and Twitter scolds are willing to roll the dice on some speculations, but are extremely aggressive that we don't gamble on other ones.
So strange that sometimes we take suggestive evidence as conclusive proof that we must do something dramatic and destructive -- shutting the country's economy down -- but in other case, suggestive evidence is not enough to encourage doctors to prescribe a well-tested drug with minimal side-effects.Why? There is no scientific reason for this -- it's entirely driven by the Orange Man Bad Axiom. They want to shut the economy down because they know it's the only way to stop the Bad Orange Man. They do not want any remedy for coronavirus discovered because that would result in the economy being reopened.
Isn't it awfully convenient that we need very little evidence to do something which will harm Trump's reelection chances, but we cannot prescribe a drug which could improve his reelection chances until three years from now when all the studies are completed, peer-reviewed, and published? What other reason could there be for this except the obvious, ghoulishly partisan one?
I got nothing to add.
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Can anyone think of a country that would be more succeptible to mass deaths from a pandemic than India? The entire country, a gigantic septic sardine can, has fewer cases than the state of New Jersey. Why is Florida way below the national average in both cases and deaths despite having a huge population of over 65s and having gone on lockdown weeks after states like Michigan and Ohio? There is neither evidence that social distancing works, nor that the virus was virulent and deadly enough for it to be necessary in the first place.
India also has massive numbers of malaria cases, which means that huge numbers of people are on anti-malarial medicine.
Like Hydroxychloroquine. Remember that name?
There's already a cure for this. It was developed in the very same lab at the same time. Purely speculation, but were I running things, if I had a bunch of expensive sciency kinda guys working on a potentially deadly thing, I'd have another group of sciency guys working on a cure for when my spendy ones get sick. That's just smart money. You'll see it in November if Trump gets beat; in 4 years if he doesn't.
China and putin are laughing their asses off
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