As the President mentioned today, there are a few medicines that are being tested out for effective treatment of this corona virus. Some of them are existing medicines that were used for other diseases like malaria. It’s too soon to say anything with certainty but maybe in a week or two we’ll be able to emerge from our bunkers and breath the air like free men again instead of hunkered down like troglodytes.
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Why not try what they used to cure malaria? Intravenous injection of quinine. Chesty Puller, in his biography, mentions he was treated for malaria that way and it didn’t just put it in remission, it cured it. If this cloroquine or whatever is an offshoot of quinine, why not just go directly to the well and give it a shot? People say covid19 is more dangerous than the flu as we have no vaccine or treatment for it. Well, we have vaccine for the flu, almost half the populace is vaccinated yearly, and we have treatments for the flu, but… Read more »
It’s my belief that once this madness goes on for another week or two we will be forced by economic necessity to start going back to work. The politicians will just have to put the best face on it. Fifty percent unemployment will become unmanageable. And that is what President Trump is alluding to with the treatment options. If they can show that the majority of critical cases can be treated then we can concentrate on those and let the bulk of the population resume their normal lives.