04-24-2020, 02:13 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
The value of this study is not that it can be used to officially approve or disapprove this treatment officially, it's that it has apparently convinced Trump and others at the WH and on Fox News to stop saying that this is the miracle cure that everybody should try because "what have you got to lose?" ...
Color me pessimistic. They'll simply latch onto the next Miracle Cure, for the same reasons they latched into that one. We know this from past behavior.
It requires acknowledgement of wrongdoing, which is persona non grata with them both. Witness the reporters who ask him every day why he no longer talks about hydroxychloroquine. He instantly pivots to another reporter or claims to know nothing about the information that refutes his dangerous behavior.
[Edit: I forgot about the new lab “study” they’re now quoting about heat and light. In a news weeks it’ll be some new distraction of course. ]