He’s volunteering as a lab rat?
Good idea, some people get emotionally attached to real lab rats.
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Much as I hope for any relief medical science can provide, I fear the takeaway if hydroxychloroquine is found effective will be “See, Trump really DOES know more than those know-nothing ‘doctors’ and their ‘let’s do some kind of basic tests before making widespread recommendations for any new medical procedure’ garbage!”
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The group stressed the recommendation applies only to hospitalized patients where the “clinical condition is sufficiently severe to warrant investigational therapy.”
Meanwhile it’s already leading to these sorts of headlines:
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if you’re going to die anyway, we will be happy to perform experiments on you first
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“What I understand is that we had three million masks that were stopped by U.S. officials coming out of 3M in South Dakota,” he told reporters at a news conference Monday.
Good that they’re letting some of the masks through, but I wonder what’s going on at 3M. Are they seizing all output, doling them out to the states as party favors, and giving the rest to private interests to sell to the highest bidder, or what?
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My understanding is that 3M is having a tiff with the White House about shipping the masks To paying customers. 3M wants to ship, and the White House wants to grab them without specifying why, where, or for whom.
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I’m just wondering if they’re seizing orders from hot spot states that have paid for those shipments and really need them right now.
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Feels a lot like pleasing an abuser. If they weren’t going to look at it before Trump started banging on they shouldn’t be doing it now.
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Yeah good point, I should have read the article.
No matter what you think of Fox news and its despicable coverage, this lawsuit is a SLAPP suit and an attack on the 1st Amendment. That it’s filed by a group that purports to be about “transparency” and “ethics” and is run by a guy who claims to make his living as a public records advocate is shameful. Speak out all you want about how awful Fox News and its coverage has been. Tell everyone you can that it’s spewing propaganda and misinformation. But that doesn’t mean you get to sue and claim that it’s an “unfair or deceptive” practice. That’s just not how any of this works at all.
Meanwhile, the Daily Beast spoke to West as well, in which he notes that he’s a former automobile mechanic and then proceeds to brag about how much money he makes suing the government over public records requests.
“This might seem strange to you,” he added, “but I make a very good living beating the government in court”—mostly suing local jurisdictions, politicians, and taxpayer-funded agencies using Washington’s public records and open records laws. “I’ve gotten a number of six-figure awards… I have a collection of European sports cars. I drive a Jaguar. I have three Mercedes 450 SLs and an Alfa Romeo. My house overlooks the water, and it was purchased with money from the liquor control board.”
West won a $192,000 settlement after filing an open-meetings lawsuit against the agency that governs Washington’s legalized marijuana industry.
The Mirror learned of the closure when attempting to pick up public records from DPS Monday morning.
Well-oiled machine.
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Good information there, but I prefer charts that compare the rates among countries on a per-capita basis to give a better idea of the relative effectiveness of the different government policies. Such charts are sometimes difficult to find but Kevin Drum updates his daily.
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Elsewhere on bOING:
I read it. It’s damn sobering.
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Not everyone who experiences a cytokine storm will die, fortunately. Such is the case of Jonathan Raskin, a 69-year-old pulmonologist who practices medicine in New York City, and who contracted coronavirus a few weeks ago and is currently in recovery. After self-isolating at home, Dr. Raskin’s temperature swelled to 102.8°; he spent several days in the hospital in a very bad state (by his own admission) before slowly recovering. As a pulmonologist, Dr. Raskin’s insights into what was happening to his own body are particularly keen, as he had a medical understanding of what was happening as it happened to him. … [he says:]
I had to laugh…as mentioned, I’ve always thought God has a sense of humor — make that an ironic sense of humor —so this was one of those moments. “Take that Raskin,” I thought. If you are ever very sick, try not to lose your sense of humor, it helps.
Dr. Raskin would have died but for his choice to stop by his ED, felt like shit for days after being admitted, ended up w necrotic lung tissue, and has asthma now as a result of his dance with death, as he continues his convalescence now ostensibly out of danger.
JFC
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But at the end of the day…
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My impression is that it is one of the treatments medical science was exploring, but Trump blew it out of all proportion and context before researchers even had a chance to gather the data.
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