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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis apparently floating all over Facebook, and being praised by many as a lifesaver.
I don't have a Facebook account, but someone else lets me look around on their account.
Does anyone know anything about this? Send $90 to these people, and they will send you Covid meds.
I think Zuckerberg should be in a prison cell.
I didn't dive into this too far...maybe someone knows more about this than I do.
This shit needs to be illegal.
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/how-do-i-get-covid-19-medication/
paleotn
(17,912 posts)and people hocking fake vaccine so I'm not the least surprised.. FB is really the dark web with a nicer interface.
LearnedHand
(3,388 posts)Go read their About Us page. They are all up in the COVID conspiracy theories, and the suppressed COVID medicines you can buy are hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Fuck this fucking anti-science conspiracy shit.
So glad Facebook has peoples backs (NOT) on the spread of COVID disinformation.
Edit: Fixed spelling.
sop
(10,167 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Maybe he and Jared are trying to sell it off.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)I don't know that this particular scam is connected to that, but I reckon at this point you can buy it cheap and sell it to MAGAs at a handsome profit.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)CNN Expansion, Mel Alonso
By Melissa Alonso, CNN
Updated 2:10 PM ET, Wed January 27, 2021
(CNN)Oklahoma state officials are trying to return the state's $2 million stockpile of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine -- which had been touted by some as a treatment for Covid-19 -- back to the medical distributer.
In July, the US Food and Drug Administration revoked an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat Covid-19. The agency now says hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing Covid-19.
"We are working with the department of health to try to return the stockpile," Oklahoma Attorney General's Office Communications Director Alex Gerszewsk confirmed to CNN in an email.
Gerszewski did not provide further details on the effort.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/us/oklahoma-hydroxychloroquine-stockpile/index.html
Oops - Utah did it, too:
By Robert Gehrke
| April 26, 2020, 8:00 a.m.
| Updated: 7:01 p.m.
The state of Utahs contract to buy a bunch of antimalarial drugs its backers touted as a treatment for COVID-19 was disastrous in almost every imaginable way.
There is still no reliable evidence that the drugs help treat this virus, just as the experts have been saying from the start.
After a Veterans Administration study found no benefits from the drugs and, indeed, potential harms, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration warned against using them outside of a hospital setting.
And Utah taxpayers are the proud owners of $800,000 in useless pills. Well, sort of. The pharmacy, Meds In Motion, still hasnt delivered them, nearly a month after the contract was signed.
More: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/26/robert-gehrke-not-only/
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)This isnt a link to Facebook. If your friends are sharing it theyre stupid, but thats not Zuckerbergs fault. Report it and move on.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)he does not have processes in place that prevent the sharing of dangerous information on HIS website?
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)But yeah blame Facebook and not the stupid and malicious people actually spreading it.
Indykatie
(3,696 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)to immediately remove dangerous propaganda, and instead relies on his "product" (Facebook users), many of which may be gullible, to "report" such things, thus alleviating him of his responsibility to not be a vehicle of misinformation.
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)Lets blame the rich for our gullibility.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)recognize such propaganda? Therefore sharing it and allowing it to spread virally via a popular website that shirks its responsibility to act as a good corporate citizen and not allow their website to be used as a dumping ground for medically false articles during a pandemic that has already killed a half a million people in this country?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Amd doesn't facebook/Zuckerberg have some sort of personal amd organisational responsibility too?
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I'm on there all the fucking time and I haven't seen it.
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)Their page is mostly complaints about Facebook censoring them for false information.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)a total of over 30 affirming responses on those personal pages.
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)Dont even have an account?
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)As I said, I do not have an account and i was looking around on someone else's account. Therefore, I do not post or comment under someone else's name.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)When I had Covid last month, my doctor told me to take Pepcid, zinc, vitamins C and D. I had a very mild case and recovered quickly.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)I just havent heard that mentioned in connection with Covid before.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)My appetite was just fine. My niece had it at the same time, unrelated to mine because we hadn't seen each other, and she also was told to take pepcid.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)When I first saw this article, it was posted publicly on the personal page of a person I know who currently has Covid.
It looks like he has a mild case, and he has dozens of anti-vax posts discouraging people from getting the vaccine because "he has had common colds that were worse".
I hope you continue to feel well.
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)Not your science denying friends fault. Got it. And again, how do you know this if you dont use FB?
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)My friend's account was up on the screen.
I asked if I could look around.
I looked up some people I knew.
These people post publicly.
I saw the ad.
I showed it to my friend and said...look at this shit.
He looked up a few of that person's friends who coincidently, had the same mindset, and also shared it.
There were many affirming responses to the ad.
My friend who owns the account reported the ad.
Capisce?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)I've been vaccinated now, too. No way am I anti-vaxx! I've also had worse colds, more upper respiratory infections, though not flu. I felt like I was getting a cold, with a cough, runny nose and body aches. No gastro involvement, no nausea, and I could smell and taste things just fine.
By all accounts due to a pre-existing condition, I should have been much sicker. But I don't want it again because I might not be so fortunate then.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)the drugs mentioned. I suspect as long as legal, it is another scam to get money for useless drugs.
If anything, the AMA should look into it.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)Understand?
sweetloukillbot
(11,009 posts)They reported themselves?
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)I saw it, showed my friend, and he reported it.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)In the upper right-hand corner of the ad are three black dots, click on them and a little window will drop down offering you a choice of actions. Take your pick of what you want to do. Another window will open asking you, "Why?" (or words to that effect)
CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)ABOUT THE FOUNDER
AFLDS founder Simone Gold, MD, JD, FABEM, the doctor who went viral, is a board-certified emergency physician and author of the best-selling book I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture. She graduated from Chicago Medical School before attending Stanford University Law School to earn her Juris Doctorate degree. Dr. Gold worked in Washington, D.C. for the Surgeon General, as well as for the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.
Dr. Gold is a frequent guest on media outlets across the country. She has appeared in USA Today, the Associated Press, the Guardian (UK), New York Times, and many other publications. She has been featured on such nationally syndicated programs as The Tucker Carlson Show, The Ingraham Angle, The Glenn Beck Show, The Charlie Kirk Show, The Dennis Prager Show, Day Star Television, and others. In July 2020, she organized the first-ever Americas Frontline Doctors White Coat Summit in Washington, D.C., which drew 20 million views online. Dr. Gold is Americas leading voice of common sense and scientific clarity in the fight against COVID-19.
MuseRider
(34,107 posts)show your friend how to block all the crazy stuff. I managed to make it through Trump without all of that, even with a couple of "friends" who were supporters. This stuff is out in the public everywhere, there is not a way to stop people who want to see it. Fuck Zuckerberg, you can make your page as friendly to you as you would ever want. The crazies are going to get this in a million places not just Facebook. I hate defending Facebook because I know what a horrible mess it really is when not protected from all of that. If it is out in the public it will be on Facebook or any other public place that allows everything.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)I wouldn't know how to block anything. It's his account, so I guess he chooses not to block things. I do know that he reports a lot of stuff though.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)when he thought it was going to be a smash of a cure. They should be about to go over their expiration date by now, not that that would matter. They'd just change the date.
He has more time to grift now.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)and that's about a 95-99% probability.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)from some lookalike Health & Human Services con artists claiming that they can verify our ownership of our home for just $91.
We paid cash, have deed in hand & also filed all of the closing docs with our lawyer, along with everything our daughter will need when we kick off.