Gotcha!

[jon-nyc]

I have never inserted my head in this issue at all, but I happened to notice a tweet the other day saying that Trump had been oddly silent on HCQ the previous few days. Maybe he had a heads up.

[Doctor Phibes]

On a completely unrelated note, I've got 200 kilos of fish-tank cleaner, going cheap, if anybody's interested.

[Loki]

Trump went to war on this one, I suspect CNN.

He won on vents and looks like he lost on this one.

No one keeps score of course over the last 3.5 years.

[jon-nyc]

Like I said, I never had an opinion on HQA (still don’t, there will be more studies).

But re the politics of it, I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of Trump to tout it as enthusiastically as he did, and I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of the media to assume that just because Trump said it it would turn out to be false.

[mark]

@jon-nyc said in Gotcha!:

Like I said, I never had an opinion on HQA (still don’t, there will be more studies).

But re the politics of it, I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of Trump to tout it as enthusiastically as he did, and I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of the media to assume that just because Trump said it it would turn out to be false.

This.

[Loki]

@jon-nyc said in Gotcha!:

Like I said, I never had an opinion on HQA (still don’t, there will be more studies).

But re the politics of it, I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of Trump to tout it as enthusiastically as he did, and I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of the media to assume that just because Trump said it it would turn out to be false.

I agree 99%

Initially the drug was the only hope so it might have been important way back when to offer the oxygen mask and life preserver.

[Rainman]

I would ask for it, anyway.

I'd ask them to bring me the pills along with some eggs and toast.

Are eggs good for you now? When I was a kid, eggs were like, poison. Then, it was "eat egg whites only." Then, it was eggs are good for you.

Oh, and also a cup of coffee. Maybe a glass of wine, if it's in the evening.

[Improviso]

Don't forget the bacon. Bacon is now on the good list.

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Gotcha!:

enthusiastically as he did, and I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of the media to assume that just because Trump s

And whiskey

Eggs, bacon, pills and whisky

[Copper]

Doesn't the virus head for the lungs?

Breathalyzer tests work because the alcohol is partly breathed out in vapor form.

Alcohol meets virus in the lungs - bye, bye virus.

That's just my own observation, no Harvard study yet.

[Jolly]

@Rainman said in Gotcha!:

I would ask for it, anyway.

I'd ask them to bring me the pills along with some eggs and toast.

Are eggs good for you now? When I was a kid, eggs were like, poison. Then, it was "eat egg whites only." Then, it was eggs are good for you.

Oh, and also a cup of coffee. Maybe a glass of wine, if it's in the evening.

My SIL was quite ill. A hop, skip and a jump from the vent, ill. They put her on the cocktail and she turned around. Not dramatically, but turned around. Yes, that's anecdotal, but until something is proven to work, I'd take it.

[Ivorythumper]

@jon-nyc said in Gotcha!:

Like I said, I never had an opinion on HQA (still don’t, there will be more studies).

But re the politics of it, I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of Trump to tout it as enthusiastically as he did, and I thought it was characteristically irresponsible of the media to assume that just because Trump said it it would turn out to be false.

Trump didn't "tout" it. That's the rhetorical language of the memetic narrative that the Left keeps playing back, as if he were a snake oil salesman peddling a miracle cure. And then of course it had to be because he was making money from investments in a pharma company that makes HCQ. Go back to the original presser (March 17, I think) when it was first mentioned -- he listed several hopeful directions for a cure.

CQ/HCQ was also part of the S Korean recommendations from mid Feb.

This "touting" is all political BS.

[jon-nyc]

as if he were a snake oil salesman peddling a miracle cure.

[Axtremus]