Trump eyes new unproven coronavirus "cure"

[Threegoofs]

From Jonathan Swan at Axios (which I think should be considered MSM at this point)

Trump eyes unproven COVID-19 "cure" promoted by MyPillow CEO - Axios

Trump eyes new unproven coronavirus "cure"
Jonathan Swan


To the alarm of some government health officials, President Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to permit an extract from the oleander plant to be marketed as a dietary supplement or, alternatively, approved as a drug to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works.

Driving the news: The experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to Trump during an Oval Office meeting in July. It's embraced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, a big Trump backer, who recently took a financial stake in the company that develops the product.

Lindell told Axios that in the meeting, Trump "basically said: …'The FDA should be approving it.'"
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Why it matters: A senior administration official familiar with the internal conversations told Axios, "The involvement of the Secretary of HUD and MyPillow.com in pushing a dubious product at the highest levels should give Americans no comfort at night about their health and safety during a raging pandemic."

The snake oil salesmen in the administration are now actually working on actively selling snake oil. I wonder if the CEO of My Pillow is the next director of the CDC, or will take over for Azar or maybe Fauci.

 

[Helix]

Eating poison will pretty much cure every disease, and will ensure that you won't ever catch anything again.

Or breathe

 

[Moot]

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How many pills can a pillow pusher push if a pillow pusher pushed pills?

 

[Threegoofs]

Eating poison will pretty much cure every disease, and will ensure that you won't ever catch anything again.

Or breathe

The dose makes the poison, and from what I see, the concentrations needed for oleandrin to make it to therapeutic levels are equivalent to the lethal concentrations in the blood.

Cardiac glycosides are nothing to fool with.

 

[apdst]

The dose makes the poison, and from what I see, the concentrations needed for oleandrin to make it to therapeutic levels are equivalent to the lethal concentrations in the blood.

Cardiac glycosides are nothing to fool with.

Is radiation poison?

 

[Threegoofs]

Is radiation poison?

Umm.... yes? Sorta?

An odd question, but the principle certainly applies.. the dose makes the poison with radiation, too.

 

[apdst]

Umm.... yes? Sorta?

An odd question, but the principle certainly applies.. the dose makes the poison with radiation, too.

Sorta? :lamo

 

[apdst]

Umm.... yes? Sorta?

An odd question, but the principle certainly applies.. the dose makes the poison with radiation, too.

Sorta? :lamo

 

[tacomancer]

From Jonathan Swan at Axios (which I think should be considered MSM at this point)

Trump eyes unproven COVID-19 "cure" promoted by MyPillow CEO - Axios



The snake oil salesmen in the administration are now actually working on actively selling snake oil. I wonder if the CEO of My Pillow is the next director of the CDC, or will take over for Azar or maybe Fauci.

Oleander poisoning: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

 

[Threegoofs]

Sorta? :lamo

Well, a poison is something that you would generally ingest, or possibly apply topically.

Radiation can be in those forms, but it also can be dosed in a way that does not touch the person physically, therefore calling it a ‘poison’ is a bit odd.

I mean.. visible light can be harmful when concentrated in a laser, but I dont think we’d call light ‘a poison’, would we?

 

[Threegoofs]

Oleander poisoning: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

Oh, yeah. Oleander is probably a top ten plant poison.

We used to grow it in our medicinal garden - not for use, obviously.

 

[Luce]

If you eat oleander, I can promise that you won't die of Covid19.

People are really stupid.

 

[year2late]

President Trump reminds me of the forsythia guy in Contagion. Let us see if he starts on hydroxychloroquine level snakeoilsmanship.