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“Hydroxychloroquine”…Hate Speech?

In a section of my recent book, “The Keneally Chronicles,” a fictional college town in the Southwestern United States decides that in order to save itself from Covid-induced economic catastrophe, the citizens were going to purposely expose themselves to Covid. Certain precautions were taken to protect the town’s most vulnerable, but en route to the wished for goal of herd immunity, some of the townsfolk got sick, and some got very sick. 

When I was describing this section of the book to one of my Democratic friends, he rolled his eyes. When he asked how Dr. Giraud, the physician in this fictitious town of Santa Lucia, was going to treat those that became ill, I responded, “With a combination of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Azithromycin.” … His eye-rolling then intensified to the point that I was afraid that he might fall off of his chair.

Now almost a year later, in fact just within the last week, I was reminded of my friend’s body language critique of my fictitious town and Dr. Giraud’s treatment strategy of using HCQ. 

As reported by Houston Keene of Fox News, Sen. Ron Johnson (R,WI) was banned from YouTube for one week. The ban and removal of videos were over “experimental treatments” to the coronavirus, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

“The video in question is of a speech Johnson gave where he torched the Biden and Trump administrations for “not only ignoring but working against robust research [on] the use of cheap, generic drugs to be repurposed for early treatment of COVID” and noted he held two hearings on the matter.”

To be clear, I do not know whether the use of either of these drugs is going to be proven useful in treating Covid, however I do not understand why using these drugs on a empirical basis to treat a potentially deadly disease was such a big no-no. They both have long standing excellent safety profiles in many many countries when being used to treat things other than Covid. Certainly the side effect profile would not change depending on which disease was being treated. (I would assume that even the wonks at YouTube would know this!) The fact that YouTube can sensor a speech by a sitting Senator is another chilling topic for another day.

Personally, I believe that HCQ was blackballed during this Covid saga, because President Donald Trump touted the hydroxychloroquine treatment when he was office.

From another column by my new favorite columnist, Wayne Allen Root:

“Multiple studies show that the use of Hydroxychloroquine across the globe reduced death and boosted survival rates by 84%, 100% and in one study, 200%.”

If this turns out to be true, it could mean that potentially hundreds of thousands of lives in the USA alone could have been saved! Even if HCQ turns out to be only a reasonably successful drug in treating Covid (helping in as little as 25%) will any of the HCQ-naysayers own up to their malfeasance ? Or rather will they attempt to  justify their chicanery by saying, “well at least we got rid of the mean-tweeter?”

[The answer to how the town of Santa Lucia fared with their self-induced, self-contained local Covid epidemic, you will have to read 

The Keneally Chronicles, available on Amazon.]

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