The continued freak out over hydroxychloroquine

Published 07-30-2020

If our country was more serious about actually solving this pandemic, it should be looking no further than the anecdotal and on the ground evidence from doctors around the country regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine.

The efficacy of the drug... in combination with a Z-Pack and Zinc... is nothing short of amazing. Both in treatment and prevention, across more than one country, it has shown to work.

The out and out assault against a 70 year old generic tablet that is used to treat a broad spectrum of chronic diseases is beyond mind blowing. It’s not just absurd, but outright deadly.

Instead of clearing the way for widespread use of the drug, especially to front line medical and essential workers, our medical institutions like the FDA, CDC and NIH are teaming up with Big Tech to silence anything positive regarding the use of the drug.

See, President Trump got behind the drug combination early in the pandemic. And the White House Press Corps can not let him be right, about anything. Ever.

Our biggest problem in this pandemic is one that I have mentioned before. And it effects every aspect of our fight in the pandemic.

We make hardly any of it here. And there’s no profit in a generic drug. No capitalizing to fund research, no vaccination trials and grant funding.

All it takes is a stroke of a pen, and honest brokers to tell the truth.

Hysterical shrieking about drinking fish cleaner aside, hydroxychloroquine is safe for most populations, when used under the direction of your doctor.

I have a horrible feeling, that like the no mask edicts four months ago, hydroxychloroquine is not touted because our in county manufacturing is not robust enough for widespread dissemination of the drug nationwide, and countries that do manufacture the drug aren’t allowing it to be exported.

What’s most absurd in all of this is the NIH published a paper in 2005 with the title “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” This isn’t new science, or even a new pandemic. Health organizations have symposiums and seminars that “war game” these exact types of viruses, as well as the solutions and treatments.

The head of the NIH both then and now is the same. I’m saddened but not shocked, that a lifelong government doctor is siding with multi national pharmaceutical companies and worldwide health organizations that never seem to solve the crisis they purport to fight but consume larger and larger amounts of funding in the process.

We’ve allowed the tools to fight viruses and disease to be exported, allowing others to do the dirty work in facilities we would condemn on sight. And it was all done in the name of higher GDP and bigger profit margins. It has to stop.

We can no longer depend on the world to supply necessary resources to our country. We can not be reliant on those that consider us a mortal enemy to be overtaken and destroyed. It’s more than a strategic disadvantage. It’s national suicide.

I’m glad to see those in the Trump Administration who’s focus is on the economics of this pandemic and shutdown looking at funding the right kind of moves.

Welcome news this week came from Peter Navarro, who highlighted an $800 million loan to Kodak Company to begin manufacturing critical pharmaceutical drug supplies (profile of the company’s plan in the Wall Street Journal).

These kind of loans and incentives are what’s necessary to begin to right the disadvantages we find ourselves in regarding drug manufacturing.

It shouldn’t be limited to the pharmaceutical industry, or companies listed on the Dow. It’s going to take work from all of us, and companies that haven’t even been conceived yet. It’s going to take moving towards more self-reliance, both personally and economically, but most especially regarding our government.

It’s going to take demanding for more than the cheapest and most profitable, whether its drugs or telecommunications equipment.

And for goodness sakes, don’t take medical advice from political reporters.