[FRIAM] Choroquine-phosphate Death

[Prof David West]

France is pushing chloroquine hard. A FriAMer has relatives there.

Just because the first person that told people about this was an idiot does not make the information wrong.

davew


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 2:53 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote:
> 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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