Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Trump touted coronavirus vaccine derivative, chloroquine, kills Arizona man


Strong words of experience from someone who has been there: "Listen to doctors, not Donald Trump"...

Dr Anthony Fauci speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during the daily press briefing
Dr. Fauci has urged caution on chloroquine

The above from the wife of the Arizona man who died after taking chloroquine, when hearing Donald Trump pushing it in press conferences and also by his minions, that it could cure coronavirus and was safe to take. The BBC says...
"The drug has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis but is unproven for use against the novel coronavirus."
In these press conference the wife mentions, Trump went off on his usual tirades of telling the American public he was there to save lives and here's the drug to do it, chloroquine, which has been approved to fight malaria, but is also an ingredient used in cleaning fish tanks, thus, an obvious toxicity. The Arizona couple, in their sixties, took the Oval Office lunatic's advice, the wife commenting...
"We saw his press conference. It was on a lot, actually," she said. "Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
 "We were afraid of getting sick," she told NBC.
Reporter talks to dead husband's wife...


She is still in intensive care and her husband is dead. Here is what the wife advises...
"The wife of an Arizona man who died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate to protect himself from the novel coronavirus urged the public on Monday not to "believe anything that the president says" and rely on doctors instead."
But here's the kicker...
"The couple had used chloroquine previously as a treatment for their koi fish and still had some remaining in their home. This additive is formulated differently than the drug used to treat malaria."
And there you have it. They hear the White House maniac recommend the drug, chloroquine, recognize the name from the fact they have it as a treatment for their koi fish, and to my knowledge Trump did not add a disclaimer in pushing the drug saying it was also used to clean fish tanks. I must say, this couple should have used more common sense in self-medicating this drug, but Arizonans are dire-hard Trump fans and this idiot does have the authority of the White House.

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It goes in here, not in your mouth

So what we have is tragedy in the desert that could easily have been prevented if Donald Trump had just kept his mouth shut and let the experts make the statements that so severely affect people's lives. As a matter of fact, Dr. Andrew Fauci, who serves as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), nixed T-rump's touting of the three drugs, including chloroquine saying the results were so far anecdotal, needed more testing for coronavirus. But...
"The president has repeatedly touted chloroquine as a "very powerful" treatment against the coronavirus and falsely claimed it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration."
And finally, the Arizona wife pleads...
"The president has repeatedly touted chloroquine as a 'very powerful' treatment against the coronavirus and falsely claimed it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration."
It is impossible to understand how Donald Trump can live with what he has done.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

The idiots are active: Trump approval up 5 points


Just when you think the people of this country might come to their senses, they assume a mantle of stupidity that is amazing beyond comprehension...

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I knew the United States was populated by a number of idiots; yes, these same people elected Donald Trump in 2016 and have been avid supporters since. But just in the last few hours Gallup released poll results that the Oval Office lunatic's approval rating has jumped 5 points from 44 to 49. Based on his handling of the coronavirus issue. In a blog post yesterday, I pointed out the U.S. is second from the bottom in testing, behind So. Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and four more countries.

This moron even denied the virus was even a problem for several weeks, which put us behind making curbing the disease a game of catch-up. And just recently T-rump has been heavily touting three drugs used for treating malaria as miracle cures for coronavirus, one of which is chloroquine. A derivative of this with the same name used to clean fish tanks was self-medicated by an Arizona couple. The husband died, the wife is in ICU.

Is there any hope at all for these people?...READ MORE...

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Will Donald Trump dump Dr. Fauci?


What if Trump dumps Dr. Fauci for disagreeing with him?...

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If Donald Trump ousts Dr. Andrew Fauci, who serves as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the transparency of the true status of coronavirus in the U.S. is dead...

Here is CNN's Chris Cillizza's take on the U.S coronavirus situation...
"In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Antony Fauci has rapidly become America's security blanket."
Nothing could be truer, with an idiot daily spewing misinformation from the White House via tweets like the one provoking an Arizona man and his wife to take the chloroquine drug - actually a derivative they had on hand with the same name the couple used to treat their koi fish. Cillizza comments...
"Fauci's blunt, fact-based approach to the crisis -- as a member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force -- has been a refreshing alternative to the President's tendency to exaggerate and bluster in the now-daily press conferences on the virus and its spread."
Today Trump has begun to refute another Fauci, and every other medical professional across the country, premise of social distancing...
"Trump, within the last 48 hours, has begun to chafe at those [social distancing] restrictions as the economy continues to free fall. Tweeted Trump Tuesday morning:"
 "Our people want to return to work. They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. We can do two things together. THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM! Congress MUST ACT NOW. We will come back strong!"
All just to protect his November election. God help us.

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Trump talks very soon, very quick


Also, in Donald Trump's news conference, there were repeated uses of the words "soon" and "quick" to describe the end of coronavirus... 

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Dr. Fauci still skeptical over hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
A rambling, sometimes incoherent coronavirus news conference was held yesterday by "Dr." Donald Trump, who professes to know more than the doctors who advise him, this time doing it without his top COVID-19 aide, Dr. Anthony Fauci. I believe one of Fauci's last comments was that he didn't want to embarrass Trump, going on to try and explain why he doesn't correct his boss during press conferences. Was this his swan song?

In Monday's news conference, the Oval Office lunatic was touting his latest finding that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, both of which are used to treat malaria, could also work to cure coronavirus. Dr. Fauci says any results on its success so far are anecdotal, which might account for the fact he was shuttered today. By the way, if we lose this man, we lose all access to accurate information on the status of COVID-19 in the U.S. Dr. Fauci...
"Fauci’s statements at a White House briefing Friday amounted to clinical cold water thrown on the president’s repeated upbeat assessments on the U.S. fight against the virus, also known as COVID-19."
Here's Trump's news conference, if you have the stomach...


It should also be noted that in Phoenix, a man has died and his wife is under critical care after the couple, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate, an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks, also touted as a possible coronavirus  cure. The medication was self-ingested and one must wonder if they were Trump supporters. Banner Health reports they both were treated there and made this statement...
“We are strongly urging the medical community to not prescribe this medication to any non-hospitalized patients,” said Dr. Brooks.
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Fish tank cleaner?
The CDC says...
"a single 'small study' shows the combination helped against the SARS strain that causes Covid-19, the CDC said, but 'did not assess clinical benefits.'"
The agency also commented that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine taken in combination...
"can disrupt the heart's electrical activity and warns against prescribing the paired drugs to anyone with chronic medical conditions, such as renal failure or hepatic disease."
While Donald Trump rushes ahead on the two medications for market approval, the health community, including Trump's own CDC, move cautiously urging that more testing be done. New York begins trials this week for the two drugs plus the antibiotic azithromycin. The healthcare community says don't be too optimistic, but the New York region is desperate, having been recently designated the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. We can only wish the tests luck!
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Monday, March 23, 2020

Trump afraid more for economy than coronavirus prevention


Donald Trump's Sunday tweet says, “fear of the virus cannot collapse our economy,” which is correct but will indicate a softening on the COVID-19 FIGHT to some

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We had a conversation recently with someone who is a staunch T-rump supporter who stated to my wife when she spoke of the seriousness of the virus, 'Oh, it's just a virus." That is about as irresponsible as it gets considering just about any virus should be approached as something to worry about. But these people just follow Trump's lead and when he takes the least bit of emphasis off something they have acknowledged as an inconvenience, they run with it.

And that is what will happen now that the Oval Office lunatic seems to be prioritizing the economy over the coronavirus pandemic and rashly making a comparison with why quarantine virus cases, "at a time when officials are considering releasing nonviolent elderly criminals." This makes no sense, but, then, nothing Donald Trump ever says makes much sense. He does have a positive when advocating social distancing so the virus would “have no place to go.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has called Trump's approach to the COVID-19 pandemic a "scatter-shot response to the crisis." She has more to say...
“The president will not take responsibility,” she said. “He’s a notion-monger, just tossing out things that have no relationship to a well-coordinated science-based governmentwide response to this. Thank God for the governors, who are taking the leads in their states, and for some of the people in the administration, who speak truth to power.”
A good illustration of the number of double-digits in Donald Trump's camp...no matter what...


It is easy to detect in these statements the fact that he is still highly concerned that a down economy will hurt his chances for election, and he has made it perfectly clear in the past that he will let nothing interfere with this. Here's what he said earlier in March...
"President Trump has boasted for months that the booming stock market, low unemployment and strong economy leave Americans 'no choice' but to give him a second term in November — 'whether you love me or hate me.'”
And then the bottom dropped out with the coronavirus heightening, followed by the White house maniac's slow response to the onslaught of the disease putting us second from the bottom in testing with seven other major nations. Now he is desperate to fix the problem before the election in order to prove he is the hero of the people, their savior, as he would like to think. And this is where the idiot's efforts will be spent, and we may end up with no election in November.
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Trump coronavirus racism and lack of virus testing unconscionable


That, and there is something else to consider...testing...

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The increase on Donald Trump's approval for coronavirus handling would be good, except it doesn't consider all the facts. The U.S. lags miserably behind other countries in testing, thus, the number of cases is no doubt drastically more than those recorded so far. As an example, Forbes is reporting...
"As of March 11, South Korea had conducted 4,099 tests per million of its inhabitants while the U.S. only managed 26. The most recent government data was compiled by website Our World in Data and it shows that by March 17, South Korea's number of tests per million people climbed to 5,567 while the U.S. figure increased to 125 tests per million of the population. Even though that should climb steadily over the next couple of days, it is still cause for serious concern."
In other words, T-rump is being given credit for doing a job that is much less than even half done. But, it gets worse. The favorability increased, incidentally, right after he adopted the racist approach of calling COVID-19, the "Chinese virus." His double-digit followers loved it, as did those others who make up the 55% approval rating. RawStory's explanation...
"This is the kind of crisis that opportunistic racists barely dared dream of before. Indeed, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been all but pleading for weeks for Trump and his fellow right-wing talking heads to move away from denialism and towards racist exploitation."
The obtuse oaf explaining his racism...


[Trump] "like all racist trolls, is playing dumb when called out for it. He’s said it’s 'not racist at all, no, not at all' and that he wants 'to be accurate' and that the virus 'comes from China.'” And listen to this...
"Trump’s racist trolling is sending Carlson into bouts of near-orgasmic ecstasy. On Tuesday, he swooned that the president’s 'Chinese virus' rhetoric was an example of 'Trump at his very best.'”
Which points out the fact of just how racist Fox News is, as well as being the country's largest purveyor of misinformation. Carlson plods on with absurd conspiracy theories that aren't worth mentioning, and then Sean Hannity agrees with lowlife Rush Limbaugh "that the coronavirus crisis was a hoax." Between Fox News and Donald Trump, COVID-19 could be the "death" of the United States.

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

CURRENT NEWS BULLETIN: Coronavirus at the gas pumps


BEWARE: Gas pumps are high traffic areas and coronavirus can last on surfaces from several hours up to several days...

Thanks to our daughter, we have become aware of the fact that gas pumps are a likely source for coronavirus, and precautions should be taken when getting gas. This includes the keypads as well as the hose nozzle. Grab a paper towel where you wipe the windshield or buy cheap rubber gloves from Costco. Consumer Reports says, "invert the gloves and throw them away, and also any paper towels you might have used."

By the way, my wife always carries a small container of disinfectant in her purse and in the car, just in case needed.

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Laura Loomer has Donald Trump by the balls...again

  Donald Trump - Laura Loomer The Donald Trump mass firing across the U.S. government are unconscionable on their own, but letting a fellow ...