Posted on 07/30/2020 11:19:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the past few days, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have removed from their sites a video in which a group of doctors endorse the use of hydroxychloroquine, in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax and zinc, as an effective treatment for early stage COVID-19. The social media platforms claim the doctors' message violated their policies against publishing what CNN described as "false and dubious claims."
Why are these social media giants deciding what treatments work or don't work? How do they know whether claims of hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness are true or false?
Before taking down the Breitbart News-posted video, it had garnered 14 million views on Facebook and 40,000 on YouTube. Among others retweeting it was President Trump, who famously has taken hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic measure and been lambasted by the media for his confidence in the medication.
To many, this appears to be just the latest effort by liberals in various media to refute that the anti-malarial medicine, in combination with other drugs, has helped save lives - simply because they don't like Trump.
While that might be dismissed as "just politics," the larger issue that should concern us all is whether social media sites alone should decide what we can and can't read, view or hear - and where allowing them to do so will ultimately lead.
CNN scorned the people behind the presentation, describing them as "a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves 'America's Frontline Doctors.'" The CNN reporter especially derides one speaker "who identifies herself as a doctor" as saying masks are not necessary, and claiming recent studies debunking hydroxychloroquine are "fake science" sponsored by "fake pharma companies."
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When someone dies or has a loved one die, then they should sue the sh*t out of all of the social media giants for practicing Medicine without a license and pushing a party as a function of contributions. Haul their asses to court asap!
“Stop this pandemic by making HCQ and Zinc Sulfate over the counter drugs.”
All the leftie states would just declared them controlled substances.
Right now the Big Pharma push is in the same direction as the Orangemanbad push. I wonder which would have won if President Trump had announced that HCQ is poisonous and no one should take it. The gut reaction on CNN and MSNBC would have been to pass out pills like camdy on the air. Joe and Mika would have linked arms while taking theirs.
Sign the petition:
Petition Title: Permitting over-the-counter (OTC) use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to protect against COVID-19 under an emergency EO.
PPE may be unavailable or inadequate, more importantly infringes on Constitutional protections.
In most states, physicians and pharmacies face unprecedented barriers to prescribing HCQ for prevention or early treatment of COVID-19.
Prevention and early treatment is key.
HCQ is safer than other OTC drugs, including aspirin, acetaminophen, diphenhydramine, and Plan B.
HCQ has been used for more than 65 years in hundreds of millions of patients, and has been available OTC in many places.
A number of studies and the experience of many physicians show that early HCQ, especially with zinc supplements, is highly effective.
The only way to assure that powerful bureaucracies or vested interests cannot prevent patients from exercising freedom to choose is to make the drug available OTC
(AAPS) petitions.whitehouse.gov
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the other day, does that count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHCTaUFXpP8
Why are they the arbiters of anything?
Dr Simone Gold was on Tucker Carlson and said she has hired attorney Lin Wood (Nick Sandmann’s attorney) to protect her against liberal media slander.
OK. I didn’t really study Rocket Science. You caught me on that one. But I do love Holiday Inn Express. That should count for something.
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