Posted on 07/31/2020 8:29:26 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
As the world battles the novel Coronavirus pandemic, there is a surge in demand for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a common anti-malarial drug that, in some quarters, has been touted as a possible “miracle drug” in the fight against COVID-19. The world has knocked the doors of India to get supplies of this drug, given that it produces nearly half the world's HCQ tablets.
It'll be interesting to note that the history of this "game-changer" drug goes two centuries back all the way to the British imperial expansion in India. According to a Twitter thread by a user named Primordial Kāshyap, hydroxychloroquine's roots go all the way to Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan's defeat at the hands of the British East India Company.
In 1799, when Tipu Sultan was defeated by the British, the whole of Mysore Kingdom (in present-day Karnataka) with Srirangapatnam as Tipu's capital, came under British control. For the next few days, the British soldiers had a great time celebrating their victory, but within weeks, many fell ill due to malaria, because Srirangapatnam was a marshy area with severe mosquito trouble.
The local Indians had over the centuries, developed self-immunity, and their all spicy food habits helped to an extent. Whereas British troops and officers who were suddenly exposed to such tropical environment of southern India started bearing the brunt.
To quickly overcome the mosquito menace, the British Army immediately shifted their station from Srirangapatnam to Bangalore (by establishing the Bangalore Cantonment region), which was a welcome change, especially due to cool weather, which the Brits were gravely missing ever since they had left their shores. But the malaria problem still persisted because Bangalore was also no exception to mosquitoes...
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"Gin and tonic [quinine] has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire"
Winston Churchill
This one issue should make us aware of just how evil Democrats have become.
Satan(D)
Cheers to that Churchill quote!
Dems put politics over all human life...babies, elderly and anyone, in between.
Make HCQ and Zinc Sulfate an OTC drug and pandemic is over. If you get a fever or cough, take the drugs and in the mean time take Zicam twice a day.
Nice graphic! Looks like operation Mockingbird continues unabated...
Make HCQ over the counter and the pandemic is over what is wrong is trump scared
The front line doctors met with Mike Pence a couple days ago and explained why it should be over the counter. They haven’t said what the result of the conversation was but at least they’re trying to get through an override that horrible Dr. Fauci who on TV this morning said hydroxychloroquine is in effective. The studies that have been done were not the good ones you know. Ford doesn’t know what they’re doing etc.
BUMP & SAVE
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