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Related: About this forumBull Session: Louie Gohmert Has a Cure for the Coronavirus--Imagination!
Gohmert: Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty; Pills: David J. Phillip/AP
As so many of us are now trapped inside, unable to experience the outside world except through masks or Netflix, weve increasingly had to rely on the power of our minds to imagine anything beyond our current state. When will COVID-19 no longer be a threat? What will a cure look like? What other measures might we be forced to take to prevent the viruss resurgence, and for how long? Who will you see and where will you go on that mythical, beautiful day when everything finally reopensand how will our world have been transformed? These are questions that are currently left open to hypotheses and dreams, as distant and unknowable as the afterlife. But if you want to view paradise, theres nothing to it: come with Texas congressman Louie Gohmert and youll see a world of pure imagination, one where all our problems can be washed away by a magical powder.
Gohmert first alerted the world to this powder during an interview with Tylers KLTV, when he was asked about the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine thats been championed by President Trump as a possible treatment for the coronavirus. This despite potential heart complications, a lack of clinical trials, and studies showing it has no statistically significant effect. Nevertheless, Gohmert said he believes hydroxychloroquine could be just as powerful a weapon against the pandemic as the powder already being used in Germany that, when mixed with water, kills the virus on contactand that Louie Gohmert, apparently, just made up.
It is being used in Germany as a mist, Gohmert said. Health-care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital, and it kills the coronavirus completely dead, not only right then, but any time in the next fourteen days that the virus touches anything thats been sprayed, its killed.
Gohmert also claims to have spoken to an Arizona-based plant thats manufacturing the powder, saying he urged them to fast-track it for use in the United States. But when pressed by PolitiFact for more details about what this powder consists of, or even the name of the company where its supposedly being produced, Gohmerts office didnt respond to multiple requests. According to the sites Madlin Mekelburg, however, she did get responses from officials at Germanys Federal Ministry of Health, the German Society of Hospital Hygiene, and the German Hospital Associationall of them saying this magic powder simply doesnt exist.
Read more: https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/louie-gohmert-cure-coronavirus-imagination-bull-session/
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Bull Session: Louie Gohmert Has a Cure for the Coronavirus--Imagination! (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Apr 2020
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Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)1. He should call his magic little potion "Shazayum"
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NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)2. Once again we're reminded you can't fix stupid
And Louis Gohmert is the gold standard of stupid.