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Speculation on treatments for Covid-19 has already killed people: https://ktla.com/news/arizona-man-dies-after-taking-form-of-chloroquine-used-for-aquariums-in-

Speculation on treatments for Covid-19 has already killed people: https://ktla.com/news/arizona-man-dies-after-taking-form-of-chloroquine-used-for-aquariums-in-apparent-attempt-to-treat-coronavirus/amp/ https://ktla.com/news/arizona-man-dies-after-taking-form-of-...

Cthulhu_ 7y ago
Speculation is fine; this guy died from self-medicating. There is a difference. We shouldn't resort to censoring to protect stupid people.
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trentnix 7y ago
Guess what? ALL discussion about treatments for Covid-19 is speculation. That a Darwin award winner and his insane, political activist wife, neither of whom had Covid-19, ingested toxic chemicals (probably after indulging in mind altering chemicals) is not very good evidence that discussion on Hacker News should be curtailed in any way.
PaulHoule 7y ago
Don't mess with pet meds no matter how tempting it may be. We have horses so we have phenylbutazone which is tempting to use instead of aspirin, ivermectin which you might be tempted to use instead of otc parental for roundworms, also a huge jar of thyroid hormone that might help you lose weight. I stay away.
jpxw 7y ago
This man was killed because he drank fish tank cleaner. Frankly, I don’t believe his death is causally linked to certain people speculating that hydroxychlorouine might be an effective treatment.
- freehunter 7y ago
  So he came up with the idea of drinking this chemical by himself?
catalogia 7y ago
Censoring comment sections on HN just because one moron in a million might take it upon themselves to do something stupid and get themselves killed? Have you heard of the expression "the cure is worse than the disease"? It applies as much to what you and cowpig are proposing as it does to what that man chose to do.
jshevek 7y ago
All events are the result of a complex web of causal histories. The choice of which factors to focus on sometimes depend on the biases of the speaker. In this case, a Darwin award seems more appropriate to me than blaming anyone for speculating based on low quality data.

Cthulhu_ 7y ago

Speculation is fine; this guy died from self-medicating. There is a difference. We shouldn't resort to censoring to protect stupid people.

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trentnix 7y ago

Guess what? ALL discussion about treatments for Covid-19 is speculation. That a Darwin award winner and his insane, political activist wife, neither of whom had Covid-19, ingested toxic chemicals (probably after indulging in mind altering chemicals) is not very good evidence that discussion on Hacker News should be curtailed in any way.

PaulHoule 7y ago

Don't mess with pet meds no matter how tempting it may be. We have horses so we have phenylbutazone which is tempting to use instead of aspirin, ivermectin which you might be tempted to use instead of otc parental for roundworms, also a huge jar of thyroid hormone that might help you lose weight. I stay away.

jpxw 7y ago

This man was killed because he drank fish tank cleaner. Frankly, I don’t believe his death is causally linked to certain people speculating that hydroxychlorouine might be an effective treatment.

freehunter 7y ago
So he came up with the idea of drinking this chemical by himself?

catalogia 7y ago

Censoring comment sections on HN just because one moron in a million might take it upon themselves to do something stupid and get themselves killed? Have you heard of the expression "the cure is worse than the disease"? It applies as much to what you and cowpig are proposing as it does to what that man chose to do.

jshevek 7y ago

All events are the result of a complex web of causal histories. The choice of which factors to focus on sometimes depend on the biases of the speaker. In this case, a Darwin award seems more appropriate to me than blaming anyone for speculating based on low quality data.