Episode 871 Scott Adams: It's Time to Stop Using an Obama Afghanistan Strategy Against a Virus [Watch]I stipulate I'm absolutely not qualified to weigh in with an informed opinion on the science, but this looks like something to ask those who may be. $20 and "a bit of diarrhea" or "drown in your own lung juice"? Centralized planning by those whose incompetence and power obsessions got us into this mess, or take matters into our own hands?
It does seem worth asking your doctor what he'd do if things got up close and personal.
One other thing Adams mentions briefly toward the end is pressure from the people as a factor in government deciding to reopen businesses, and that makes me wonder if we will start to see civil disobedience. I know many are desperate. As I mentioned in an earlier post, younger feral son Qusay is a chef at a local restaurant (who is still working thanks to take-out and catering orders while most of the staff has been "furloughed") and he told us one of their food suppliers had a "friends and family" sale to unload inventory that's not moving and get some cash coming in, and to mitigate its losses.
True, cities can retaliate against individual businesses by pulling their licenses, but if a critical mass of the tax base joined forces and had a reopening "strike," what are they gonna do? Send the cops in to round up them and their customers?
When the choice is between dying and trying, what have people got to lose?
[Via Carlos Perdue]
UPDATE - This seems relevant:
“What does Governor Doug Ducey know about medicine? He’s a stupid politician. You, my doctor, who specializes in respiratory illnesses, is a far better expert on the subject. You more than anyone should know when it is safe to give this test, and to whom. That you are allowing a politician tell you how to treat your patients is to my mind literally unethical.”[Via Michael G]
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"...wonder if we will start to see civil disobedience."
Here, in a major American metro area that bills itself as "the capital of Latin America", civil disobedience is a 24/7/365 phenomena. Lane markings, traffic signals, stop signs, bicycle lane markings, speed limits, crosswalks, common civil behavior to your neighbors, are all perhaps OK ideas that can and are ignored at will. In spite of a new "stay at home" order layered on top of last week's "shelter in place" order, this morning's jaunt to the sidewalk to pick up The Miami Herald was interrupted by six people strolling down my sidewalk.
Want to see civil disobedience? As our tourism folks used to say, "Come To Miami, The Rules Are Different Here."
The law in California is that it's legal for a pedestrian to cross an undivided street anywhere except between two signs. In my neighborhood there are a lot of asswipes who are in a hurry when they come home from work, and they think it's their right to accelerate towards you at night and make you run out of the way if you're crossing the street. There is one particularly bad area. If I cross it, I carry a rock. Someone does it, I get out of the way and the car gets the rock.
Once upon a time you could BUY quinine (chloroquine is a synthetic quinine) OTC as "Legatrin", a medicine for night leg cramps. I used to use it because for some reason there as a period in my 20s (or maybe 30s. I don't remember 'cause it was so long ago) when I really suffered with cramps in my calves at night. Then suddenly Legatrin went away. Now there is an OTC medication called legatrin but it is acetaminophen (generic Tylenol) and diphenhydramine (generic Benadryl). Now the FDA only authorizes quinine for treatment for malaria due to "safety and efficacy" reasons. Since the stuff runs $12.50/dose and your insurance probably won't cover off-label prescription by your Doc, you're pretty much screwed if you have leg cramps at night.
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