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    Lawmaker With COVID: My Health Choices Are Up To Me.

    https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/louie...022633898.html

    Lawmaker With COVID: My Health Choices Are Up To Me. Critics: That's What Women Assert.
    I guess there goes his argument about this then:
    Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tweeted that his course of treatment battling COVID-19 is up to him and his doctor — not “government bureaucrats.”

    Funny, critics pointed out, that’s exactly what women want when it comes to reproductive health.

    Gohmert, who is opposed to abortion rights and believes women should carry unwanted pregnancies to term, has been slammed on Twitter for defending his own health care choices since he tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19. His anti-abortion beliefs are on the extreme end of the spectrum. He once told a woman she should have carried her brain-dead fetus to term “just in case.”
    Funny how it only works one way.
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    He is not carrying a child.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    He is not carrying a child.
    A good thing on multiple levels..

    Gohmert is suspected of infecting other members of Congress by not wearing his mask. Congress member from New Mexico per an article that I read yesterday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    He is not carrying a child.
    Deflection as usual.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FredK View Post
    This is idiotic. Only a fool would think they were the same.
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

    don"


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    Quote Originally Posted by FredK View Post
    Deflection as usual.
    Deflection my ass. My statement most sustinctly makes the point that making a choice for ones self does not remotely equate to making a choice for two and exterminating one of them, thus no hypocrisy here.
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    Maybe your health choices aren't really up to you?

    https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-jun...aaps-sues-fda/
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

    don"


    Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

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    ^^^
    Well, that was an interesting read, but I’ve never seen a pleading like that, which is ostensibly a court petition. I appreciate many of the references, but then much of it is disjointed and superfluous at the same time, plus nowhere does it ask for any relief unless I missed it.

    In another post I commented that my reading of the literature is that HCQ is one of the proven safest drug available and cheap, so even acknowledging that the efficacy is in dispute, I reason that this taking it prophylactically is a No Brainer. I have verified with my pharmacist that in Texas the Board Of Pharmacy has removed the strictures on pharmacists filling prescriptions without a doctors note describing necessity. However, when I went to my doctor’s office to obtain a prophylaxes prescription, I was informed that he would not entertain writing one. I was unable to talk directly to him about it. That is odd because I have had several long talks on other subjects, and know him to be one of us conservative nuts. Too bad I can’t quiz him on his thinking or pressures, but I’ll be moving on to another doctor if I can find one here who will prescribe HCQ.
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    Yes, I was suspicious of it's authenticity or at least of the AAPS. Could be an association started by a kid in his moms basement.

    Your adventures with HCQ are interesting. These days I spend alot of time standing around dumbfounded trying to understand whats really going on. The matrix is looking like a real possibility- and I hated those movies.
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

    don"


    Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

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    Mike’s Congress-person, Louie Gohmert, caught the virus and says he has been cured, while crediting his mild recovery to a Hydroxychloroquine protocol. He is sad that not everyone has access to the drug. Me too.

    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/08...ference-960659

    What will the forces keeping the drug from the American public say, when in subsequent years it comes to be known that widespread use of the drug in early stages and prophylactically could have saved untold tens of thousands of deaths and more debilitating disabilities in the U.S.? If that does not come to be, what would be the harm in trying it...the side effects are minimal as billions of doses over 7 decades have proven? HCQ is a NO BRAINER.
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    I'd be a little cautious following that "gentleman's" example---or believing anything he said.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I'd be a little cautious following that "gentleman's" example---or believing anything he said.
    Me, too!
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Me, too!
    If I lived there Mike, I'd be working hard to send him into retirement
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Below is a website designed to display all of the 50+ studies of HCQ as used in COVID treatment. As you will see, the vast number of results are positive and most of the negative results are of patients treated late in progression of the disease. Graphs too.

    https://c19study.com/

    Viruses exist only to reproduce and must obtain the building blocks to do that by attaching to body cells and sucking the nutrients out of the cells to do that. Zinc is a well-known inhibitor of virus attachment to body cells, but the zinc in a pill will Not be absorbed by itself, it must be facilitated by another substance/drug. That is where Hydroxychloroquine comes in...it puts zinc into cells in the lung where it can block the COVID virus from attaching. HCQ was used successfully in past pandemics such as the SARS outbreak and even lauded by Fauci then.

    Because I cannot find a doctor here yet to prescribe the drug, I am taking an over-the-counter plant supplement, Quercetin that is said to serve the same zinc transportation job into cells, but at a lesser efficiency. It is a flavonoid derived from plants and has long been available over-the-counter for use against blood pressure, allergy and inflammation issues. It is a strong antioxidant. Some in the medical community support its efficacy, while others do not...so what else is new. No one says Quercetin has any bad side effects to be worried about. HCQ is said by some to have potential side effects for those, like Dave, with heart arythmias, although many doctors treating Lupus and Arthritis Using HCQ with thousands of patients dispute that. Zithromax unquestionably is contra-indicated for those with heart arythmias.

    Quercetin/zinc—Cheap+no side effects+possible prophylaxis=NO BRAINER

    HCQ is long out of patent and costs ~$.50/pill, while Remdesiver is covered by patent to Gilead and costs ~$4000 per treatment.
    Quercetin is $0.11/pill @ Amazon.

    Oh, and btw, many reports are out there that Quercetin cured people’s runny noses from seasonal allergies, and my wife is saying it has stopped her runny nose that she got nearly every time she went outside. Calls it a miracle w/o any COVID ramifications.
    Last edited by wacojoe; 08-17-2020 at 12:06 PM.
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