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LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 11:59 AM Feb 2021

This 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/

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This apparently floating all over Facebook, and being praised by many as a lifesaver. (Original Post) LuckyCharms Feb 2021 OP
There have been vaccine thefts.... paleotn Feb 2021 #1
Oh ugh! LearnedHand Feb 2021 #2
Looks like some scammer got stuck with a warehouse full of Hydroxychloroquine. sop Feb 2021 #3
Didn't Chump buy up a huge supply at one point? Totally Tunsie Feb 2021 #29
The state of Utah bought up millions of doses and are now trying to unload it. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #36
I thought that was Oklahoma? csziggy Feb 2021 #39
Dr. Simone Gold was inside the capitol during the riot. LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #4
What does this website have to do with Zuckerberg? sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #5
Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #6
You mean like reporting it? sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #7
That Was My First Thought Too Sweerloukillbot. Why Even Share Obvious Scams? Indykatie Feb 2021 #8
I blame the multi-billion dollar company who does not provide enough resources LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #10
Fuck personal responsibility sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #11
And for those who do not have the mental capacity to LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #13
Gosh the idea of duty of care passed you by... uriel1972 Feb 2021 #17
I must need to upgrade my account. bluedigger Feb 2021 #9
I had to do some digging to find it sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #12
Just looking around casually, I've seen it on 4 pages already, with LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #14
I thought you don't use Facebook sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #20
I don't "use" Facebook. LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #24
I haven't seen it either. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2021 #16
Was the Pepcid for specific symptoms you were having? tanyev Feb 2021 #22
No, I just had a cough, runny nose and body aches. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2021 #41
Very glad to hear that you recovered quickly! LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #23
So your friend is sharing it and it Zuckerbergs fault sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #25
I'll try to say this real slow... LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #30
Thanks. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2021 #40
Telemedicine is legal, as is Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). . i do not know of riversedge Feb 2021 #15
Did you or your friend report the ad? eom DonViejo Feb 2021 #18
Yes. n/t LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #19
How did you report it if you don't have a FB account? sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #21
The person who owns the account reported it. LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #26
Is this the one who was sharing it? sweetloukillbot Feb 2021 #28
My friend was not sharing it. LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #31
How do you get on the account to use it?... DonViejo Feb 2021 #33
Read the founder's bio. That's ALL you need to know. Oh, and she was arrested for her 1/6 DC stunt CurtEastPoint Feb 2021 #27
Perhaps you should MuseRider Feb 2021 #32
I get your point, but LuckyCharms Feb 2021 #34
That's probably Trump trying to unload the millions of Hydroxychloroquine pills he bought Frustratedlady Feb 2021 #35
Basic rule of thumb: If it's being sold on Facebook it's probably crap... Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #37
$90 must be the magic price. We got a scam letter today displacedtexan Feb 2021 #38

paleotn

(17,912 posts)
1. There have been vaccine thefts....
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:06 PM
Feb 2021

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)
2. Oh ugh!
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:11 PM
Feb 2021

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 people’s backs (NOT) on the spread of COVID disinformation.

Edit: Fixed spelling.

Midnight Writer

(21,753 posts)
36. The state of Utah bought up millions of doses and are now trying to unload it.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:49 PM
Feb 2021

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)
39. I thought that was Oklahoma?
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 03:07 PM
Feb 2021
Oklahoma state officials are trying to return the state's $2 million stockpile of hydroxychloroquine
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:

Robert Gehrke: Not only did Utah buy unproven meds to treat coronavirus, it paid way, way too much for it

By Robert Gehrke
| April 26, 2020, 8:00 a.m.
| Updated: 7:01 p.m.
The state of Utah’s 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 hasn’t delivered them, nearly a month after the contract was signed.

More: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/26/robert-gehrke-not-only/

sweetloukillbot

(11,009 posts)
5. What does this website have to do with Zuckerberg?
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:14 PM
Feb 2021

This isn’t a link to Facebook. If your friends are sharing it they’re stupid, but that’s not Zuckerberg’s fault. Report it and move on.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
6. Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:16 PM
Feb 2021

he does not have processes in place that prevent the sharing of dangerous information on HIS website?

sweetloukillbot

(11,009 posts)
7. You mean like reporting it?
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:20 PM
Feb 2021

But yeah blame Facebook and not the stupid and malicious people actually spreading it.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
10. I blame the multi-billion dollar company who does not provide enough resources
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:26 PM
Feb 2021

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.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
13. And for those who do not have the mental capacity to
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:34 PM
Feb 2021

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)
17. Gosh the idea of duty of care passed you by...
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:42 PM
Feb 2021

Amd doesn't facebook/Zuckerberg have some sort of personal amd organisational responsibility too?

sweetloukillbot

(11,009 posts)
12. I had to do some digging to find it
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:31 PM
Feb 2021

Their page is mostly complaints about Facebook censoring them for false information.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
14. Just looking around casually, I've seen it on 4 pages already, with
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:37 PM
Feb 2021

a total of over 30 affirming responses on those personal pages.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
24. I don't "use" Facebook.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:58 PM
Feb 2021

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)
16. I haven't seen it either.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:41 PM
Feb 2021

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)
22. Was the Pepcid for specific symptoms you were having?
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:55 PM
Feb 2021

I just haven’t heard that mentioned in connection with Covid before.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,733 posts)
41. No, I just had a cough, runny nose and body aches.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 03:39 PM
Feb 2021

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)
23. Very glad to hear that you recovered quickly!
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:56 PM
Feb 2021

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)
25. So your friend is sharing it and it Zuckerbergs fault
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:59 PM
Feb 2021

Not your science denying friends fault. Got it. And again, how do you know this if you don’t use FB?

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
30. I'll try to say this real slow...
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:06 PM
Feb 2021

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)
40. Thanks.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 03:34 PM
Feb 2021

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)
15. Telemedicine is legal, as is Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). . i do not know of
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:38 PM
Feb 2021

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)
33. How do you get on the account to use it?...
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:10 PM
Feb 2021

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)
27. Read the founder's bio. That's ALL you need to know. Oh, and she was arrested for her 1/6 DC stunt
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:00 PM
Feb 2021

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 America’s Frontline Doctors White Coat Summit in Washington, D.C., which drew 20 million views online. Dr. Gold is America’s leading voice of common sense and scientific clarity in the fight against COVID-19.

MuseRider

(34,107 posts)
32. Perhaps you should
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:10 PM
Feb 2021

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)
34. I get your point, but
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:19 PM
Feb 2021

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)
35. That's probably Trump trying to unload the millions of Hydroxychloroquine pills he bought
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:03 PM
Feb 2021

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)
37. Basic rule of thumb: If it's being sold on Facebook it's probably crap...
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:51 PM
Feb 2021

and that's about a 95-99% probability.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
38. $90 must be the magic price. We got a scam letter today
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 03:02 PM
Feb 2021

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.

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