GOP's Ron Johnson responds to good news on vaccines with unhinged rant about hydroxychloroquine
Source: raw story
March 12, 2021
President Joe Biden on Thursday night delivered good news on America's vaccination campaign, as he announced that every American should be eligible to sign up for a vaccine by May 1st.
Instead of celebrating this news, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) took to Twitter Friday to bitterly complain that Biden and the Centers for Disease Control had not embraced hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug that former President Donald Trump falsely claimed would be a "game changer" for treating COVID-19.
"Does Joe Biden wants (sic) us to continue living in a state of fear?" Johnson wrote. "This pandemic could have been defeated months ago & tens of thousands of lives saved if courageous frontline doctors and early treatment had not been censored and silenced as we awaited a vaccine."
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However, multiple studies have found that hydroxychloroquine is not effective at treating COVID-19, and Trump himself was not treated with the drug when he was hospitalized after coming down with COVID-19 last October........................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/ron-johnson-hydroxychloroquine/
The man is insane!
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iemitsu
(3,888 posts)The way he defends the use.
I'm glad I never sunk so low in my long working life.
PatSeg
(47,260 posts)Kind of bizarre to be pushing the drug now.
Garion_55
(1,915 posts)Laura Ingraham was the first to mention it to trump and soon after ALL the right wing radio hosts started pushing it out to their audiences.
We have a million doses or some shit sitting in a warehouse unused. Who paid for those?
Warpy
(111,141 posts)The material on quinine drugs and their antiviral action was out there, just a little harder to find than logging on to FB. I quickly discovered that they'd known about the antiviral action for decades but that it was dosage dependent, meaning if they fed people enough of the stuff to suppress viral replication, they ran into things like cardiac dysrhythmias and kidney problems. I came across in vitro studies in the 50s and again in the 80s. In vitro (in the lab) doesn't often translate to working in people.
However, Dumdum and his investor class forced hospitals to reinvent the wheel and I'm sure a few people died who wouldn't have if only they'd been given standard treatment, which at the time wasn't great but didn't kill them outright.
I hope right wing fast buck artists got hosed, it serves them right. I just wish Dumdum would face consequences for trumpeting that shit before any scientific investigation including a documents search had been done. Sadly, he'll skate on that one. People also listened to that asshole and a few died taking aquarium cleaner tablets that contained chloroquine.
What Johnson can't seem to admit is that it's his own fault for taking medical and investment advice from a medically ignorant blowhard.
(We paid for those doses, of course, who else? Perhaps they can be donated to anti malarial efforts in the developing world)
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)Very common among RepubliQans, the idiots.
Tanuki
(14,914 posts)in a bid to sabotage President Biden's and the Democrats' high approval.
rurallib
(62,379 posts)Seems like it's the former guy who deserves Johnson's wrath.
I often wonder who dresses these people as they do not seem smart enough to dress themselves.
sop
(10,101 posts)sitting on a stool at the end of the bar, holding forth on everything that's wrong with "the Democrat party."
NBachers
(17,081 posts)maxsolomon
(33,244 posts)The other candidate was a baby killing communist!
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)maxsolomon
(33,244 posts)Being governed by these kinds of ignorant reactionary Sociopaths is what made me leave the Midwest permanently.
groundloop
(11,513 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bottoms up!
Dan
(3,537 posts)Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)Grimelle
(219 posts)And I agree,
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)Trump took hydroxychloroquine and it was a game changer.
He got COVID.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)I hope it's an even race, and that it ends soon. Everything trump touches turns to shit. Everything.
liberalmediaaddict
(766 posts)doesn't mean someone is a good person. Or highly intelligent. Comrade Johnson needs to STFU and retire.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)dance time.
iluvtennis
(19,833 posts)to treat Covid.
Rebl2
(13,462 posts)years for rheumatoid arthritis-yes its approved for RA. I had to stop it in 2016 because it caused some damage to my eyes. So mr Ron, go ahead and take it if you can find a dr. to give it to you, but be warned it can cause eye damage in some cases.
question everything
(47,434 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,546 posts)you know who was at the helm, not Mr. Biden.........
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Talitha
(6,561 posts)Graham, Cruz, Johnson and others... they all seem to do it willingly and whole heartedly. And let's not forget Shawn Spicer's sudden appearance on Dancing with the Stars, wtf was that all about?
I just don't get it.
Either someone REALLY has the goods on them -
OR - someone's dangling an awfully huge carrot in front of them -
OR - it's some sort of sick loyalty test.
Maybe a combination?
I just don't get it.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)And with the help of Putin, once again, they may succeed.
We have to continue to turn out in massive numbers.
Keeping their feet to the fire and ridiculing them on social media can only help.
crickets
(25,952 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)One would think that was the last thing you'd want to give someone with a potentially fatal disease.
Make7
(8,543 posts)It says here that Trump was in charge months ago when this pandemic apparently could have been defeated.
HuskyOffset
(888 posts)Keep in mind, he's working in an oxygen deprived environment, what with being so far up his own ass.
Dem_in_Nebr.
(299 posts)StevenJoseph
(2,657 posts)JudyM
(29,192 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)Are now still pushing the quackery and slamming vaccines.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90536
TxVietVet
(1,905 posts)Not a doctor .
marble falls
(57,010 posts)aggiesal
(8,907 posts)he's been everywhere spouting one Qanonsense mismessage after the other.
Owl
(3,639 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)and have become an asset for this mental breakdown that you currently going through, your "guy" "dude" was running around telling people to inject Clorox into ones arms and playing doctor, some of his followers were drinking the shit, and just a reminder "dude" you were given shots to be protected before anyone else............ your insurrectionist seditious buddy down in Florida, got shots before he left the WH, and he did it behind fucking close doors and didn't tell anyone, do you understand why he did that? Because he lacked any empathy none, zero, zilch, nada.............
Because he is a narcissist megalomaniac, psychologists have said so from afar, there is even a book out about it, he and his fucking enabler's of this shit have Blood On Your Hands.........and you voted to keep him in office twice when he could have been removed and I think and I believe Dr. Fauci and the Biden team are truying to keep me safe, you on the other hand..........I don't think so.........you are dangerous and should be expelled from office..............go back to Russia..........and then you said this racist's BS
https://www.rawstory.com/ron-johnson-insurrection/
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Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)How much hydro have you and family been taking, Ron?
februari
(22 posts)And all the clowns are GOPers.
LudwigPastorius
(9,104 posts)In most other countries, he'd be institutionalized instead of being in a position of so-called authority
Ziggysmom
(3,394 posts)Mr Golddigger thinks he knows more than the CDC
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-johnson-defies-cdc-guidance-covid-vaccination-after-infection-1575431
Omaha Steve
(99,494 posts)NOT important news.
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monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,741 posts)How did he beat out Russ Feingold?
truthisfreedom
(23,139 posts)WHO announced recently that it's less than useless in treating Covid 19.
Maxheader
(4,370 posts)They used to have as guvnr....little snotty scotty...
tonekat
(1,811 posts)He just shouts out crazy stuff now, he's not fit to serve.
onetexan
(13,020 posts)& add bleach into the mix. Lets see if that boosts his immunity? if he's playing armchair doctoring he shld start with himself. What a disgraceful dumb shit.