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Call me crazy, but there is something interesting I observed. Before Trump started advocating for it, there were some articles touting Hydroxychloroquine as a p
by mydongle 6y ago
Call me crazy, but there is something interesting I observed. Before Trump started advocating for it, there were some articles touting Hydroxychloroquine as a potential Covid-19 treatment, and that it was worth trying. Immediately after Trump started advocating for it, Hydroxychloroquine became like a poison, that will kill everyone. Isn't that great? I wish more things would receive this level of scrutiny before being inflicted on vulnerable and desperate people.
- twirlip 6y agoI believe it's the same phenomenon that we saw with the stock market crash after Trump gave his first coronavirus address.
- acdha 6y agoThis is an artifact of the way the news was presented where you read it: this is an old drug with well-understood side-effects and actual experts (pharmacists, doctors, patients) pointed those out almost immediately. The problem is that the people hyping it through either desperation or greed have a lot more time to spend promoting an idea than, say, medical professionals during a pandemic — a dynamic which got much worse when the full weight of Fox News and the President of the United States jumped on board the hype train.