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Raider Outlaw said:
Come on. You can't get it from someone with it touching your food or the containers and bags you're using just like it didn't make sense to cover your mouth and nose up when you went outside. Just like in December it wasn't contagious between people. The experts said so. I'm just waiting on this collective my bad next.
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Actually W.H.O. Said it wasn’t in mid January. Surprised they haven’t deleted that Tweet yet.

“No clear evidence of human to human transmission”

Seems like they were wrong...

The fucking World Health Organization.
 
Sounds like someone who holds a very powerful office has stock in the drug company that he’s pushing everyone to try. If this was any other person people would demand his resignation, but since it’s this particular fellow, we just come to expect it and roll our eyes.
 
What we currently know about using hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19
The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil, is also prescribed as an anti-inflammatory drug for conditions like arthritis and lupus. It’s a derivative of another anti-malaria drug, chloroquine.

Hydroxychloroquine is an appealing prospect because it’s already been tested in humans and is available in a low-cost generic form. Doctors in several countries, including the United States, France, China, and South Korea, have reported success in treating Covid-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, sometimes paired with the antibiotic azithromycin.

But these are anecdotes that don’t offer much insight into how effective the drug could be in a wider population.

A laboratory study of hydroxychloroquine showed that it could prevent SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, from entering cells in a petri dish. While it shows a plausible mechanism for the drug, the effects on cells in a dish can be different from those in living people.

Human trials of hydroxychloroquine, by contrast, have so far yielded mixed results. A tiny study by researchers in France found that the drug could clear the infection in a few days. But the study sample included only 36 patients, and the trial wasn’t randomized, meaning the administrators were deliberately picking which patients received the treatment, potentially skewing the results.

Other studies have been even less promising. A study in China found that hydroxychloroquine was no better than standard medical treatments without the drug. This study was also small, 30 patients, but the treatment was randomized. Another study in France among 11 patients found that hydroxychloroquine was ineffective at best, with one patient dying, two transferred to an intensive care unit, and one patient who experienced a dangerous heart problem and had the hydroxychloroquine treatment stopped early.

In Sweden, some hospitals have stopped offering the drug after some patients reported seizures and blurred vision.

The listed side effects of hydroxychloroquine are long and well-known. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported problems like irreversible retinal damage, cardiac arrhythmias, muscle weakness, and a severe drop in blood sugar. There are psychiatric effects as well, including insomnia, nightmares, hallucinations, and suicidal ideation. The drug can also have harmful interactions with medicines used to treat diabetes, epilepsy, and heart problems.

These side effects are a big reason why the World Health Organization no longer recommends hydroxychloroquine as the routine treatment for malaria.

Some health workers have been hoarding hydroxychloroquine as a means to ward off the illness. Several patients who need the drug for approved uses have reported trouble getting their prescriptions filled. But there’s no evidence that the drug works as a prophylactic for Covid-19.

Some of the rules for drugs like hydroxychloroquine have now been relaxed to allow doctors to experiment with treatments for patients in dire need during the pandemic.

The FDA has granted emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to fight Covid-19. But expanding the use of these drugs to sick but not critical patients still warrants further testing due to the potential side effects.

High blood pressure and diabetes, for example, already make the infected more likely to suffer severely from Covid-19. So a treatment like hydroxychloroquine could worsen those underlying conditions, or could result in a dangerous interaction with the medicines used to treat those conditions.

More than 50 clinical trials for the drug are now planned or underway around the world. But while randomized controlled trials do help health workers figure out how to safely deploy drugs, they don’t guarantee the drug will work for everyone, nor will they eliminate risks completely.
 
boknowsvt said:
Sounds like someone who holds a very powerful office has stock in the drug company that he’s pushing everyone to try. If this was any other person people would demand his resignation, but since it’s this particular fellow, we just come to expect it and roll our eyes.
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Its a non patent drug. It’s cheap.

I think most folks just want to know does it work? And can they get it?

But those questions were being highly politicized up until the last couple of days.
 
Just ordered all the sauces for our Stay Home Order version of “Hot Ones.” I am BEYOND excited to say that every sauce we’ll be eating has been on the show. Here’s the menu (Sauce, Scoville):
1. Howler Monkey Original, 600
2. Tapatio, 3000
3. Heartbeat Red Habanero, 4000
4. Paddy O’s Potion, 8,800
5. Torchbearer Son of Zombie, 24,000
6. Adoboloco, 32,000
7. Bravado Black Garlic, 71,000
8. Da Bomb Beyond Insanity, 135,600
9. Mad Dog 357, 357,000
10. Hellfire Fiery Fool, 550,000
 
TheNextStep said:
Just ordered all the sauces for our Stay Home Order version of “Hot Ones.” I am BEYOND excited to say that every sauce we’ll be eating has been on the show. Here’s the menu (Sauce, Scoville):
1. Howler Monkey Original, 600
2. Tapatio, 3000
3. Heartbeat Red Habanero, 4000
4. Paddy O’s Potion, 8,800
5. Torchbearer Son of Zombie, 24,000
6. Adoboloco, 32,000
7. Bravado Black Garlic, 71,000
8. Da Bomb Beyond Insanity, 135,600
9. Mad Dog 357, 357,000
10. Hellfire Fiery Fool, 550,000
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I've had the Son of Zombie and actually thought it tasted great... hardly had a bite to it for me. I've had the Secret Aardvark off the show and that had a little more bite but still love that stuff. Hottest I've ever had was probably eating 12 Blazin' BWW wings, that stuff is pretty wild for a franchise sauce and had my gut hurting for a full 24 hours.
 
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TheNextStep said:
Just ordered all the sauces for our Stay Home Order version of “Hot Ones.” I am BEYOND excited to say that every sauce we’ll be eating has been on the show. Here’s the menu (Sauce, Scoville):
1. Howler Monkey Original, 600
2. Tapatio, 3000
3. Heartbeat Red Habanero, 4000
4. Paddy O’s Potion, 8,800
5. Torchbearer Son of Zombie, 24,000
6. Adoboloco, 32,000
7. Bravado Black Garlic, 71,000
8. Da Bomb Beyond Insanity, 135,600
9. Mad Dog 357, 357,000
10. Hellfire Fiery Fool, 550,000
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If you make a video please share the link lol..
 
Armyr8rfan said:
Rose McGowan and Alyssa Milano fighting on Twitter.

Man ten years ago I’d have paid money to watch them scissor.

Who am I kidding. I still would ;).
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Or all 3?

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Armyr8rfan said:
If you make a video please share the link lol..
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I’ll be one of four doing it. I think the girls are planning a Facebook live thing. If they do broadcast it or something, I’ll let you know.

I’ve had scorpion pepper sauces and I’ve had Carolina reaper sauces.... but never on a wing, totally coated, having to chew all up. The whole thing was my idea and I’m still totally in.... but now that I ordered the shit, im a little nervous!
 
TheNextStep said:
Just ordered all the sauces for our Stay Home Order version of “Hot Ones.” I am BEYOND excited to say that every sauce we’ll be eating has been on the show. Here’s the menu (Sauce, Scoville):
1. Howler Monkey Original, 600
2. Tapatio, 3000
3. Heartbeat Red Habanero, 4000
4. Paddy O’s Potion, 8,800
5. Torchbearer Son of Zombie, 24,000
6. Adoboloco, 32,000
7. Bravado Black Garlic, 71,000
8. Da Bomb Beyond Insanity, 135,600
9. Mad Dog 357, 357,000
10. Hellfire Fiery Fool, 550,000
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Did you order a case of TP too?
 
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