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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 24 Mar 2020, at 0:42, Steven A Smith wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">My first reaction to this was: THANK YOU DEAR LEADER!<br>
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<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/man-died-chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus" style="color:#777">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/man-died-chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus</a><br>
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But, I don't know if we can attribute this kind of accident to POTUS45<br>
or not... my gut instinct is that his constant raving about it is what<br>
triggered these people to give it a whirl.<br>
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I have one toe in the survivalist/prepper community and they are known<br>
for aquiring and stockpiling antibiotics sold for fish/aquariums. All<br>
the major human antibiotics have fish equivalents FishMox and FishFlox<br>
for example. There is much discussion/lore/wisdom in that community<br>
around which products/sources are actually pharmaceutical-grade and<br>
honest-dosage and well-regulated. I didn't know of chloroquine <br>
phosphate or it's use... they are saying "cleaning" but I think they<br>
mean disinfecting. It sounds to me that the problem was dosage, not<br>
contamination, but the product they used may have been cut or mixed with<br>
something toxic to humans.<br>
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I've a friend who lived in Ghana for years with Peace Corps who<br>
contracted malaria and was medicated with one of the chloroquine drugs. <br>
He understood then (25 years ago) that it was the third world's<br>
"silver-bullet" and in his case it turned his symptoms around<br>
(life-threatening) in hours (on an IV).... his response to this<br>
prescription-from-POTUS is that the death rate in the third world could<br>
spike if the first world diverts their supply (probably coming from<br>
China?) abruptly for our own use. <br>
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I also heard that patients depending on these chloroquines in the first<br>
world are already finding that the supplies are drying up and many<br>
cannot get their usual refills. Doh!<br>
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