There's a reason why Republicans are pushing hydroxychloroquine again, and it's ugly

[Nevilledog]

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/7/29/1964352/-Reopening-schools-cutting-unemployment-and-hydroxychloroquine-are-all-the-same-story

On Wednesday morning, Republicans are in the second day of a full-on blitz attempting to sell the idea that hydroxychloroquine is effective as a treatment against COVID-19. That effort comes in the form of not just statements from Donald Trump, but supporting tweets and emails from Republican candidates and a full-court press from Fox News. At first, the idea that the GOP is latching onto claims from a doctor who believes medicines come from alien DNA to justify renewed support for a drug proven ineffective months ago seems baffling. Even if everyone from Ron DeSantis to Peter Navarro has joined in buying hundreds of millions of pointless doses, and they have, the billions wasted on the drug hardly seem to justify a second round of life-threatening propaganda.

But the hydroxychloroquine story isn’t about whether or not the drug is effective—and to be clear, it’s not. The reason Republicans are supporting this fresh round of out-and-out lies about a treatment that is more harmful than helpful isn’t because they’re getting rich off the pills. It’s because they really, really need to convince people that it’s safe to go back to work and send their kids back to school. Because hydroxychloroquine, schools reopening, and the GOP “plan” for COVID-19 are all a single story. It’s the story of Republicans needing working class people to go out there and generate money—for the wealthy.

On Monday, Republicans finally produced a draft of their take on the next round of addressing COVID-19—a round that, though a third the size of what’s needed at this point, is still much larger than the entire economic stimulus program that Barack Obama fought for and signed in 2009. The Republican plan not only cuts unemployment compensation for those unable to work because of the pandemic, it sweeps in $30 billion for critical pandemic items like more F-35 fighters and a new FBI building. It took that kind of “sweetening” to get enough Republicans to agree to having any plan at all.

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[Sogo]

1. Those people really don't have souls....nt.

[DSandra]

2. What do you expect from the party of sociopaths?

[JI7]

3. I'm not sure I believe this. I think they ARE hoping to get money from it . Of course the other

stuff is true also.

But I think the reason they have focused on this specific thing is because they have financial interests.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I agree.

[flibbitygiblets]

5. me too

they've invested in it, heavily,-otherwise why promote a proven loser drug?

If the goal is to get the kiddies back in school and the working poor back to work, and businesses reopened, why not push a drug that actually helps? Or fucking masks for goodness sake?

[Garion_55]

7. i think a lot of the right wing media invested in this drug early on

im guessing there was a conference call between the adminstration and right wing media where they all agreed to invest in this drug and the adminstration would push it hard and i believe even ordered millions of doses already that are useless.

if you listen to some of the right wing radio hosts they are seriously ANGRY and PISSED OFF that this drug is not being taken seriously and not being prescribed by doctors everywhere.

they accuse liberals of turning this drug into a political issue when its they other way around, they turned it political.

if the drug works fine, the doctors will run the tests and give us the results and we will know then. right wingers dont even want that. they just want the drug out there now in every home.


no, someone somewhere with trumps ear, my guess hannity, is losing a bundle on this drug just sitting in warehouses and is desperately trying to get trump to hock it to the country again.

i would look into PRAGAR-U or whoever that guy is. he was blowing a fucking gasket the other day that no one is taking this drug. im certain he has money tied up in this drug.

[DSandra]

6. Face it, we the people have always been expendable to them

Just think how they have treated people in foreign countries, why would they treat us much better if there was no incentive to?

Examples:

Tech Industry: Foxconn
Garment industry: sweatshops
Drug industry: price gouging
Oil Industry: wars in the Middle East
Arms industry: The dead and injured in mass shootings and other shooting related incidents across the country.

[Quixote1818]

8. Makes some great points. I think it's also just about making the waters muddy

when you are losing on an issue then you try to cast doubt on the facts and science. You muddy things up with a few BS doctors and then scream conspiracy!!!!