[FRIAM] Choroquine-phosphate Death

[Barry MacKichan]

Elon Musk had a serious brush with malaria about 20 years ago, and is 
evidently one of the insistent sources pushing for chloroquine. Sorry, I 
don’t have references.

—Barry

On 24 Mar 2020, at 0:42, Steven A Smith wrote:

> My first reaction to this was:  THANK YOU DEAR LEADER!
>
> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/man-died-chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus
>
> But, I don't know if we can attribute this kind of accident to POTUS45
> or not... my gut instinct is that his constant raving about it is what
> triggered these people to give it a whirl.
>
> I have one toe in the survivalist/prepper community and they are known
> for aquiring and stockpiling antibiotics sold for fish/aquariums.   
> All
> the major human antibiotics have fish equivalents FishMox and FishFlox
> for example.   There is much discussion/lore/wisdom in that 
> community
> around which products/sources are actually pharmaceutical-grade and
> honest-dosage and well-regulated.   I didn't know of chloroquine 
> phosphate or it's use... they are saying "cleaning" but I think they
> mean disinfecting.  It sounds to me that the problem was dosage, not
> contamination, but the product they used may have been cut or mixed 
> with
> something toxic to humans.
>
> I've a friend who lived in Ghana for years with Peace Corps who
> contracted malaria and was medicated with one of the chloroquine 
> drugs. 
> He understood then (25 years ago) that it was the third world's
> "silver-bullet" and in his case it turned his symptoms around
> (life-threatening) in hours (on an IV).... his response to this
> prescription-from-POTUS is that the death rate in the third world 
> could
> spike if the first world diverts their supply (probably coming from
> China?) abruptly for  our own use.  
>
> I also heard that patients depending on these chloroquines in the 
> first
> world are already finding that the supplies are drying up and many
> cannot get their usual refills.   Doh!
>
>
>
>
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