I am of the same sentiment, and I’ve been afraid to post a less-than-perfect argumentation. So thanks for being the nail that stands out. I’ll add these reservations:
HCQ seems disqualified on LW, but not for me. The fact that a fraudulent study was posted in The Lancet is weak evidence that it works. Same for the fact that French government unduly forbid its selling right after the publication of that article but didn’t cancel that interdiction after the article was pulled. To this day, French government and mass media keep pretending that a drug that was freely sold for decades suddenly became dangerous. From what I’ve absorbed passively, African countries do a lot better than us, and they also use HCQ.
On average so far, my government has taken measures that signal care but deeply harm us citizens. The last thing they’re trying is to criminalize filming police in a way that allows identification. Therefore, if they support a vaccine, this is medium evidence that a vaccine is against my best interests.
I have a question: viruses mutate all the time. There are already multiple strands around the world. Will the same vaccine work on all of them? How long is it guaranteed to work?
I have a friend who has been taking HCQ for a chronic illness since long before the pandemic, as it’s been historically used for. They have to go in for regular retinal checks to ensure that they aren’t going blind, and they are other significant concerns. They’re on it because those risks aren’t as bad as the effects of their chronic illness that HCQ relieves. But those risks are still bad. And if HCQ doesn’t help, then they definitely don’t want to give it out to everyone.
Assuming that’s true, then that risk is associated with chronic intake of HCQ. But the recomended use against Covid is to take it only after noticing symptoms, and before hospitalization. It’s a short use.
I am of the same sentiment, and I’ve been afraid to post a less-than-perfect argumentation. So thanks for being the nail that stands out. I’ll add these reservations:
HCQ seems disqualified on LW, but not for me. The fact that a fraudulent study was posted in The Lancet is weak evidence that it works. Same for the fact that French government unduly forbid its selling right after the publication of that article but didn’t cancel that interdiction after the article was pulled. To this day, French government and mass media keep pretending that a drug that was freely sold for decades suddenly became dangerous. From what I’ve absorbed passively, African countries do a lot better than us, and they also use HCQ.
On average so far, my government has taken measures that signal care but deeply harm us citizens. The last thing they’re trying is to criminalize filming police in a way that allows identification. Therefore, if they support a vaccine, this is medium evidence that a vaccine is against my best interests.
I have a question: viruses mutate all the time. There are already multiple strands around the world. Will the same vaccine work on all of them? How long is it guaranteed to work?
I have a friend who has been taking HCQ for a chronic illness since long before the pandemic, as it’s been historically used for. They have to go in for regular retinal checks to ensure that they aren’t going blind, and they are other significant concerns. They’re on it because those risks aren’t as bad as the effects of their chronic illness that HCQ relieves. But those risks are still bad. And if HCQ doesn’t help, then they definitely don’t want to give it out to everyone.
Assuming that’s true, then that risk is associated with chronic intake of HCQ. But the recomended use against Covid is to take it only after noticing symptoms, and before hospitalization. It’s a short use.