This is up to and including failing to alert the nation about emerging intelligence findings regarding the Trump campaign.
I hear you on this, but man... imagine the circumstances he was in when having to make that call. It was looking pretty sure Trump was going to lose the election, and everyone knows the political spasm the GOP would have had with this revelation during the run up to the election. Trump was already talking about the election being rigged. They would have attached the two immediately.
No president should be promoting unproven drugs, and this one is showing it is not effective against covid 19 and when you look at side effects, it is harmful for people to take.
Well let's see how much harm it does to these 10,000 British healthcare workers. Don't they know that science has proven this drug to be more harmful than it helps. Surely this wouldn't happen in a beacon of liberal western European socialism that bases its political decisions upon science and eschews people acting on their gut feelings.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has revealed that it is following U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead on experimenting with hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus preventative.
The state-run, socialised healthcare provider will be giving hydroxychloroquine to as many as 10,000 health workers at at least 20 hospitals as part of a clinical trial led by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (Moru), to confirm anecdotal evidence that it can prevent people from catching the Chinese virus.
The announcement may give satisfaction to President Trump, who was slammed by left-liberal politicians and commentators when he revealed that he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a possible preventative.
The American leader told reporters on Monday that they would “be surprised at how many people are taking [hydroxychloroquine], especially the frontline workers, before you catch it,” before revealing that he is taking the drug himself.
Chuck Schumer, who leads the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, branded the President “reckless” and claimed that “All the experts say at best it doesn’t help” following the revelation.
“I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group,” added Nancy Pelosi, Schumer’s 80-year-old counterpart in the House of Representatives — before going on to suggest the President should be extra cautious because he is “morbidly obese”.
Assuming you didn't get your degree from a cracker-jack box, when you went to school, did they explain to you the difference between a clinical trial of a drug and prescribing drugs for off-label uses as an unproven treatment?
Assuming you didn't get your degree from a cracker-jack box, when you went to school, did they explain to you the difference between a clinical trial of a drug and prescribing drugs for off-label uses as an unproven treatment?
It's a shame I can't put you on ignore as well. You're becoming all bite and no substance.
Obama's sort of on the opposite end of Trump where his intense desire to appear bipartisan and above the fray ended up making him relatively ineffective as a President and actively harmed the country when a more forceful action was needed. This is up to and including failing to alert the nation about emerging intelligence findings regarding the Trump campaign.
My issue with the Obama administration was less this, which I don't entirely agree with though I can see why you might feel that way. It seemed to me that the White House under Obama suffered from having big ideas that they seemed to think was the extent of what they needed to do. They were not particularly effective in building their foundations under their castles in the sky. When they pursued executive actions as an option, it often seemed as if it was the White House acting independent from congressional Democrats. In that vein, the Obama separation from Congress seems to be partial due to having hostile forces on the right, but also his not being a charmer who could influence building necessary coalitions. He could have used a little of Clinton's talent for schmoozing.
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A Wisconsin woman was reportedly surprised to learn of her COVID-19 diagnosis after taking hydroxychloroquine for nearly two decades, the same drug President Donald Trump recently said he is taking to ward off the virus.
Kim, who asked to be identified by her first name only, has been taking hydroxychloroquine as a lupus treatment for 19 years, according ABC affiliate WISN. The drug has long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and malaria. It has not been approved to treat or prevent COVID-19.
"When they gave the diagnosis, I felt like it was a death sentence. I was like, 'I'm going to die,'" Kim told the outlet. "I'm like, 'How can I be sick? How? I'm on the .' They were like, 'Well, nobody ever said that was the cure or that was going to keep you safe' and it definitely did not."
Kim said she had believed she would not contract the virus because Trump touted the drug as effective, even though most medical experts urged caution. Despite only leaving her house to go to the grocery store, she started to experience troubling symptoms in mid-April.
So hydroxychloroquine may very well be an effective prophylactic against COVID-19. You just might have to take it for more than 19 years before it becomes effective.
So hydroxychloroquine may very well be an effective prophylactic against COVID-19. You just might have to take it for more than 19 years before it becomes effective.
It takes over five years at a higher dose than what is used in treating lupus to develop bull's eye maculopathy. 10 years in practice and I've still yet to see anyone who has gone blind from it. It doesn't happen that often. You guys talk about hydroxychloroquine like it's vancomycin or chloramphenicol. It seems pretty tame to me. It seems she stayed observed the lock down and that wasn't a panacea either.
Ajax wouldn't die for Trump. He wouldn't die for anyone. His posting history suggests a talented but skittish individual who is very scared of losing what he has. Ajax may wish he were the heroic type who would die for the cause, but he's not. Good lord, what other optometrist out there making his career-high salary, and bragging about it online, can't afford to go without work for six weeks and so desperately looks for temporary employment elsewhere?
Anyway, Georgia If I recall correctly, disregarded Trump's guidelines for re-opening. If Ajax were to live in Georgia (and it's 33% likely that he really does), then it's 99.999% certain that he (would rush) rushed to re-open his practice against Trump's orders in order to save his own skin. If he can't follow Trump's reopen guidelines, then he certainly isn't going to "die" for the guy. The best defense he has here is that Trump didn't really support his own guidelines, he just had to concede something in order to make it look like at least an 11-year-old is driving the boat vs. a 7-year-old. That might be true, but if so, it's the responsibility of those who love and support Trump, to abide by his misinformation so that the greater glory goes to Trump. You have to abide by the lie, within the lie, within the lie. Is it really that difficult?
So what explains the comment? Ajax wanted to get attention and piss people off. 70% of the Trump supporters I personally know are quite obviously only motivated to piss off people they don't like. That's what Ajax is doing, this isn't some "commitment to the cause" thing. My Trump-supporter friends I'm pretty sure don't believe Trump will have a material effect on their standard of living. For some of them, who share my employment history, I could absolutely prove this to them (because I know their greatest fears, and Trump is f'ing them worse than anyone) at the expense of them terminating our friendship.
Real quick: for those who followed professional wrestling: Trump is what we call a negative hero, and rednecks who watch wrestling took a turn post-Hulk Hogan to negative heroes like Stone Cold Steve Austin. Vince McMahon at one time was the pro-good squeaky-clean counterpart to Jesse the Body Ventura. In order to keep things interesting, he morphed himself into an evil boss type, and I'd have to look for the reference, but it all started when he came on stage one night and made a move against the "good" wrestlers. He remarked that the result was opposite of what he expected, and he was cheered like crazy, and so he "went with it" as the brutal, total dick ruler of the WWF. If you read a little about the evil McMahon, the personality captures the core of Trump's personality as a president. The dumb of the dumb believe Trump, but the smart but angry, like Ajax (and my former colleagues), find an outlet for their frustrations through his entertaining antics.
It's sad, but I think the French postmodernist Jean Baudrillard called it more than he knew in his suggestion that capitalism reduces to a structuring of the masses by media -- his example was people as televisions receiving TV signals. And though he meant all of this in a highly abstract and figurative way, he might have accidentally hit upon the truth that Americans really are structured by their television entertainment options, and there isn't much more to them than that.
I don't know Gad. Ajax is/was a stormfronter who was a legitimate fan of Adolf Hitler. I think Trump, for him, represents the closest thing to an authoritarian white supremacist running the country and that is living the impossible dream. He knows what's happening and loves it. While there's an insincerity about his arguments, I think there is a deep sincerity of his love for Trump. As is typical for that crowd, it's hard to parse out exactly where the trollish bad faith starts and the cultish corruption of rational thinking ends, but there's a genuineness at the bottom of it.