The headline above, courtesy of BuzzFeed, one of the minor members of the Democrat/”resistance”/ media collective currently dedicated to spreading misinformation to undermine the President’s leadership during a major crisis, alerts us to just how low these people—I say “these people” because they are not like me and hopefully not like you—will stoop for their political agenda.
That deceptive description is not a fair or accurate description of what happened. This is….
An Arizona couple dosed themselves with chloroquine phosphate believing it would protect them from becoming infected with the Wuhan virus. The man’s wife had told him that she had heard President Trump mention the drug as a possible treatment for the disease. What they swallowed, however, was not the medicinal form of chloroquine, which is used to treat malaria in humans. This form was an ingredient listed on a parasite treatment for fish.
Morons.
The man died after being rushed to the hospital with symptoms of poisoning, and the wife is still in intensive care. She told NBC News she had watched briefings in which President Trump talked about the potential benefits of chloroquine. No drugs are approved to prevent or treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, but some preliminary research suggests it may be useful as therapy.
“We were afraid of getting sick,” she told reporters, so when she saw the same chemical listed on a solution she had previously to used to treat her goldfish, a dim metaphorical lightbulb flickered on in her panic-addled brain.
“I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?'” she explained. She told her husband, who hadn’t seen the briefing, and he evidently thought, “Well, sure! Let’s take the fish medicine! No need to chack with a doctor or even google the stuff! What a good idea!” They both mixed a small amount of the fish medicne with a liquid and drank it. Soon they became violently ill.
How surprising.
Now, goaded by the news media, she’s blaming her husband’s death on President Trump, since the alternatives were the goldfish or herself.
“Oh my God. Don’t take anything,” she told reporters. “Don’t believe anything. Don’t believe anything that the President says and his people, because they don’t know what they’re talking about.”
There is a lesson in this for the President, though not one he is likely to heed. He should not use briefing to lightly toss off hopeful developments regarding potential developments, because some Americans are unimaginably stupid, like these fools. Trump talked about the drug, and (of course) tweeted about it, but nobody should have to explain to adults of sound mind that taking the drug as a medical treatment with the guidance of a doctor is not the same as self-medicating with a fish tank additive that happens to include the drug.
On my personal tally, the husband’s death lags only behind the bizarre incident of about a decade ago as the most idiotic demise I’ve ever heard of. In the all-time winner, a man inadvertently sawed off his hand in a home workshop mishap. The pain was excruciating, and he recalled that he had read that one way to reduce pain from an injury in one part of the body was to inflict pain somewhere else. So, in a quick-thinking masterstroke, he took his nail gun and fired several nails into his skull. And it worked! His arm didn’t hurt as much! Unfortunately, the nails in his head killed him. The article he read never warned him of that.
Donald Trump wasn’t President then, so the news media had no alternative but to report that the man died of his own astoundingly terrible judgment.
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Ethics Alarms 
By all means, blame Trump for your idiocy, your lack of research capability, and you clear inability to even pick up the phone (and call a doctor) before taking FISH MEDICINE. If “Mr. Nail Gun” had done his deed during Trump’s tenure, that clearly would have been Trump’s fault as well. This is getting ridiculous and completely out of control.
How do we know what the nail-gun-to-the-head guy was thinking moments before he fired the fatal nails to his head? Did he record his thought process somewhere?
Unfortunately, the story is buried in my old website, currently off line. However, my recollection is that he was not killed by the nails immediately, and explained his “reasoning” to the doctors who tried to save him, unsuccessfully.
The reporter consulted with experts who said that indeed, his theory was sound, but that nails in the head was probably not the wisest execution of it. I was impressed that he used a nail gun, since with only one hand, he couldn’t pound nails the old fashioned way.
https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2001-01-25-3348021-story.html
THANK YOU! Wow, that was 19 years ago! How time flies when you’re shooting nails into your head!
Jack, you said: “Donald Trump wasn’t President then, so the news media had no alternative but to report that the man died of his own astoundingly terrible judgment.”
But a decade ago Barack Obama was!(President then, that is). So why did the main stream media not blame Obama for the “death by nail-gun” incident?
What an armor-piercing question that is!
The news media wouldn’t have blamed Obama if he HAD told them to drink fish medicine.
Darwin never sleeps. He does invite some to sleep (or medicate) with the fishes.
There’s a huge difference between the President talking about the potential for a specific kind of drug being a possible remedy for the virus and someone taking it upon themselves to ingest a product that just has the same ingredient.
ugh, I mean huge “difference”, not different.
Fixed it.
A man who is his own pharmacist has a fool for his client.
Or something like that.
I wonder what the other fish ingredients were…
Too bad he didn’t live to see Okeechobee County Florida Commissioner Bryant Culpepper’s advice to use a hair dryer to blow hot air up your nose to kill the virus. Much safer than taking a fish parasite treatment; barring your nose hair catching on fire.
Unfortunately for me, this painted a vivid picture in my mind of being absolutely, positively, completely, and totally unable to avoid the smell of burning hair. {Shudder}
–Dwayne
On the news last night, they were complaining about people hoarding the hydroxichloroquine. People are buying it up. They media and officials were complaining that if the research shows this drug is effective, that there will be a shortage because of theses people hoarding it. However, this is a prescription drug. They can’t get it unless it is prescribed. That means doctors are misprescribing it. Why not go after the physicians. They are granted the monopoly on distributing these medications specifically for reasons like this. Why does no one ever hold them accountable?
These are the people who cause warning labels. I would place odds that somewhere on the package is the phrase, “Not for human consumption.”
I suppose it’s surprising these people lived this long. They had plenty of time to try substituting Sodium Hydroxide (lye) for Sodium Chloride (salt).