For the *checks notes* millionth time (seriously how does this still come up): HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE DOES NOT WORK FOR COVID-19 THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK https://twitter.com/TheSciBabe/status/1287906636514828289 …
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As soon as Trump spoke positively about it, his political opponents came out against it, and will remain against it regardless of the data. Really not complicated.
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also it's cheap so there's no profit in it
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Yeah, well, cloth masks aren't all that special either...
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Sure, but the fight about those has many elements (i.e. laws etc), HCQ is literally just a drug that was a potential treatment for COVID-19. There's no reason for it to be political!
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It's so perfectly unspecial. That's the key. Lacks rhetorical weakness of homeopathy. Not already part of any fad diet/supplement scam. Can be framed as both separate from Big P (off patent) *and* credible threat to Big P (as it's a "real" drug).
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And you have to remember that Trump supporters, as mind-meltingly preposterous as this is, *believe that he is the enemy of Big Pharma*. The transformation of the Alex Jones audience, for one example, into a a virtual proxy for the Trump base, laid the groundwork for this.
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