FATAL VERSION

I can understand politics, but there should be a line that is never crossed. That is when someone says or does something, for purely political purposes, that actually does great harm. Shortly after we learned about COVID 19, President Trump casually mentioned that he had heard good things about Hydroxychloroquine. He said it had been used from a long time and it appeared to help some people. He wondered if it would help treat COVID 19.

This was instantly trashed by Democrats and the MSM. Neil Cavuto raged on Fox News that people should not take this, it would kill them. Trump was routinely mocked for saying this. Some accused him of telling people to drink bleach. In a hysterical response, not based on a shred of real science, some states banned hydroxychloroquine and others greatly restricted its use. In some cases, such as at the VA, they banned using it early, when it was effective, and only allowed it to be used as a last-ditch effort, when it was unlikely to be effective. They then published the results creating the impression that this was dangerous.

I am sure all of us can remember lectures of how irresponsible it was of Trump to mention this. That we should only listen to the science and to the scientists like Dr. Fauci. The same Dr. Fauci who said the science shows that hydroxychloroquine is not effective as a coronavirus treatment.

Anthony Fauci: Science shows hydroxychloroquine is not effective as a coronavirus treatment – CNNPolitics

Trump was right. His critics were wrong, dead wrong as it turned out. They were either uninformed or deliberately lying to you. They could not risk giving Trump credit for a good idea, even if it really was a good idea. Especially if it was a good idea.  We may never know how many people suffered and perhaps died needlessly, but it is a big number.  Here are the real facts, based on world-wide COVID 19 studies.

HCQ for COVID-19: real-time analysis of all 237 studies (c19study.com)

It turns out there have been 237 studies, 171 of which were peer reviewed. 195 of them compared treatment and control groups. It has been widely used by millions of people world-wide, usually in countries too stupid to follow the science used by governors in blue states. The results show that 67% of people who took this benefited and the mortality rate was decreased by 75%. These are stunning results. If doctors in the U.S had just prescribed this treatment, when Trump casually mentioned it, a lot of lives could have been saved. There is also no evidence of negative evaluations other when it than used solely as a last ditch-effort, you know the only way it was authorized by the VA and blue state governors.

This is shameful, but odds are you will never see this reported in the MSM. Don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from Neil Cavuto. The most likely response will be to ignore this. Just because hydroxychloroquine is cheap, has been used safely for decades and has obviously helped a lot of people world-wide is no reason to tell anyone. Why risk making Donald Trump look good?

No, follow the science, lock down society even more, require everyone to wear one, two or even three masks and wait patiently for the vaccine. Meanwhile, the vaccine only available because of the leadership by Donald Trump is being delayed because of political correctness giving it first to people who don’t need it and often don’t want it, while forcing those who want and need it the most to wait. Give to first responders, who don’t want it. Then give it school children, who are extremely unlikely to benefit from it. Give it to teachers, who have little threat from students, so the Teachers Union can still tell them to stay home. But this is great, because they can still blame everything on Donald Trump and nothing else matters.

Now to be clear, this study could be wrong. The odds that an ineffective treatment generates these types of positive results is estimated to be 1 in 4 quadrillion. More than enough to convince Democratic governors that the risk is totally unacceptable. The good news is that, at best, this would have only saved about 320,250 of the 427,000 COVID deaths, so the damage was obviously minimal.

Thank God for Democrats. Thank God for the MSM. But especially thank God that no one listens to Donald Trump anymore.

TDM