However, the result of the nasty guy’s hype is the government started stockpiling the pills – as in more than 94 million pills. There are currently 63 million pills in federal warehouses and 31 million in state warehouses.
The people who really need the drug – to treat lupus, arthritis, and malaria – are having a hard time getting it because it’s all in government stockpiles.
From Bill in Portland, Maine’s collection of late night commentary:
Remember when Trump was pushing hydroxychloroquine as the coronavirus miracle drug? The FDA officially this week withdrew their support for it and now the government is stuck with 66 million useless doses. So I guess we know what the Trumps will be giving trick-or-treaters for Halloween for the next 30 years.
—Jimmy Kimmel
I’ve read a couple stories now about the nasty guy planning an October surprise – some big event that month to change public opinion before the election but leaving too little time for the opposition to respond (though stories about it four months ahead of time seems to defeat the purpose).
The plan is the nasty guy will announce the availability of a vaccine against the virus. The big problem would be that no vaccine would actually be ready by then – more accurately no vaccine would be certified to actually prevent an infection of the virus (the sole reason for it to exist) and to not cause harm to those who get it. Even so, the nasty guy could pull some regulatory strings and demand that something be made available. The nasty guy would be seen as the savior, boosting his chances to be reelected.
Joan McCarter of Kos sees a couple problems. First, the nasty guy has a very bad track record dealing with this virus. So bad that if he rushed a vaccine into a public’s hands a majority of people wouldn’t trust it. Second, if this first vaccine is shown to not be effective or to have serious side effects there would be a lot less trust for any future vaccine, no matter how safe and effective it is.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred with the opinion that Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the DACA case. However, she wrote her own opinion to add a bit more. That little bit more was to chide her colleagues, especially Roberts, that they should have considered the nasty guy’s actions as racist and draft their opinion accordingly.
The nasty guy has already tweeted that he intends to try to overturn DACA again. And advocates will take him to court again. Actual DACA people hope the litigation lasts at least until the next Democratic president.
A few days ago I wrote that the military pushed back against the nasty guy and his desire for them to attack citizens. Kerry Eleveld of Kos felt that the military would refuse such an order and that they might even escort him out of the White House at the end of his term.
Alas, the nasty guy has an answer to that: purge the military. Mark Sumner of Kos provides details and added:
Just as with Mitch McConnell’s blanket replacement of the federal judiciary, Trump’s team is reweaving the fabric of the Pentagon at every level. Those whose loyalty is to tradition, the services, and law, are being driving out in favor of those who support Trump. And only Trump.
With this post I now have 70 posts tagged with coronavirus. Out of the 750 tags I’ve used over the years (240 get displayed on this blog’s website) this one is now 37th most used. That high a rise in less than four months.
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