And thus begins the Bullshit loop
Faux News repeats
Trump Repeats again “He heard it on the News”
Conservative Entertainment complex and every whakadoo right wing site picks it up
Trump says “Everybody’s saying”
Becomes their truth
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Trump is desperate to be proven right on this drug cocktail. For multiple reasons.
When this started my pharmacy manager spouse made it clear that the side effects of ZPac and Plaquenil (Hydroxchloroquine) when prescribed together would cause any pharmacist to stop and call the doctor for a discussion. The term is “contraindicated.”
Not only is the combination risky for those with known or unknown heart disease or arrhythmia issues (older patients), Plaquenil also may have negative interactions with insulin or other diabetes drugs. “Underlying conditions.”
I’m not a doc and neither is my spouse, but she knows her profession. And because doctors are not always trained in pharmacology, they will rely on pharmacists as the last double check in prescribing.
Enough people have raised flags with this nonsense. It’s time for the Surgeon General to tell Trump to shut the fuck up and leave medicine to the adults.
It’s time for doctors to just say NO!
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We need Groucho, Twain, Vonnegut, Orwell and many more.
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Can anyone here spell psychosomatic??
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Or, correlation is not causation…
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I posted this last night in another thread.
Professor Émile Ferrari, the head of the cardiology department at Nice University Hospital in Nice, France, told a local news outlet he has had to stop treating patients with hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin because of adverse cardiac effects.
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You know how in grade school, high school, and college there were people who seemed smarted because they tested well, as in they studied for a test, marked the correct answers, and got good grades. Doesn’t mean that they retained the information after being done with the test.
Would this be part of the Dunning-Kruger effect or something in addition to it?
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I think it’s that people like this have decided to cede their critical thinking skills over to authorities they’ve decided to trust or who continually tell them what they want to hear.
In this case, it’s Donnie who has the thinking bias, sickneffingtired’s boss is just willing to believe whatever he says because it’s comforting.
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They only said zero because they are still jealous of 45* and ungrateful to him for his suggestions to the firefighters to pour water on the Notre Dame Cathedral fire. Now they reject his awesome medical knowledge too. tsk tsk
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These are the drugs that are owned by a company Trump has financial interests in. At least that is what I read in the Times. If the CDC has stopped pushing these drugs I would imagine that somebody at the CDC is to stupid or to naive to work there. A snake oil salesman has to have snake oil to sell.
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Now if they could just remove Trump from office.
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I hope that someday, when we put this shitshow, and its perpetrators behind us, that someone will be able to educe the etiology of the mental condition known variously as Conservatism, tRumpism, Dumb-as-shit-Rightwing-Nutterism, etc. Is it a virus? Is it a toxin? A vitamin deficiency? We desperately need an answer, and a cure.
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You can train yourself to be good at standardized tests, but that does not mean you get it. The true sign of intelligence is the ability to make connections between what is on the surface are two unrelated ideas. When thrown a complete curveball, you can relate it to somethng that you know…
I recall in my undergraduate days a number of students that had very nice scholorships (NSERCs) they all flamed out once they hit the real tough courses in their senior years or first year grad school.
For example, my senior course in Classical Electodynamics had a final exam, open book, that conisted of 4 questions, one of which was “What is Light? Be sure to discuss the relationship between the dielectric and permittivity properities of the vacuum”. What was hilarious is that basically the entire class went to index to look up “light”. Another question was compute the difference in energy levels between the 1S states of Hydrogen and Helium in the classical approximation…
I was the the only one to get better than C amongst the undergrads in the class even though I had been blackballed by the system for earlier “academic transgressions”…
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Your OneWordAnswer™: No.
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It would tend to confirm, and reinforce, their erroneous self-apprehension, if they weren’t correcting for the fact that they were using the results of one skill (test taking) to validate their erroneous self-impression.
It sounds like a categorical confusion: they’re not differentiating their ability with tests from their apprehension of the material they’re tested on.
It’s very self-inflating, but still delusional.
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No, because when he finds out the CDC will update their site bigly to reflect the miracle drug!
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Why on Earth is everyone bending over backwards and jumping through hoops to please Trump? If the experts in anything change the wording on websites to keep from upsetting one man, they are risking our lives, their reputations and losing any shred of credibility they have. All for one person on the face of the Earth.
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Bad link.
Jared will have them change the website.
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Thanks for the Groucho reference. But to paraphrase a favourite Groucho quote, ‘I’d never belong to an administration that would have me as a member.’ That would work for me.
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