Sorry to get your knickers in a twist, Jed. I don't really understand how your
Microsoft Word analogy applies to this situation. I have no idea why Big Pharma
supplied all the chloroquine at no cost. It certainly looks like a P.R. move.
They were specifically requested to do so. Think what they would look like if
they refused. It won't cost them much. Chloroquine is very inexpensive to
make, more or less like shoveling up dirt. Of course you are right that
chloroquine is FDA approved for malaria treatment, but can then be used for any
other purpose.
Watching the behavior of Fauci and Birx is instructive. They were both
reciting the usual FDA/CDC line about needing endless testing because reported
successful results were all "anecdotal". They were either ignorant of what's
been going on in the world, or were doing their job as shills for the major
drug companies. No doubt they will start shifting their opinions around to fit
events as they develop.
Incidentally, there are apparently no cases of covid19 in areas where malaria
is prevalent. I have a half-baked hypothesis about that. Obviously, not
everyone in these areas is taking chloroquine. But it just might be that those
people who have been exposed to the virus but are taking chloroquine are now
breathing out dead virus. Since vaccines are killed or crippled viruses, maybe
such people are inadvertently vaccinating others around them. OK, I told you it
was half-baked.
On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 03:47:24 PM UTC, Jed Rothwell
<jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm happy to see that rare cooperation between Trump and Cuomo will see a
large scale "trial" of chloroquine and Zithromax, already known to work as a
treatment for covid19. I hope this will expose FDA/CDC as owned by the
pharmaceutical business, as exemplified by the behavior of Fauci and Birx. Big
Pharma wouldn't want anything as inexpensive as chloroquine to be an effective
treatment.
This makes no sense. Big Parma makes millions of doses of these drugs. Big
Pharma has absolutely no say in which drugs are used, for what purposes. This
is decided by the FDA and individual doctors. What you say is equivalent to
saying, "Microsoft wouldn't want people to use Microsoft Word to write letters
to the editor." Microsoft has no control over what people do with its software.
Big pharma has no control over what doctors and and patients do with their
products.
In point of fact, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world has
provided millions of doses of these drugs to the state of New York for free.
So, obviously they are not trying to prevent the use of it!