(I’m not sure quixotic is the perfect word, but the urge to double-q a headline got me.)
The White House can spend all June planning a campaign hate rally with fireworks on South Dakota’s dime at Mount Rushmore, but it can’t get back to us with a simple answer to our question about what to do with over a million doses of hydroxychloroquine that Governor Kristi Noem shook her tailfeathers to procure but which now sit uselessly on our state shelf:
Weeks after halting a South Dakota study into effects of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19, state officials and health system leaders continue to wait for direction from federal officials on what to do with doses that were routed here for the experiment.
That’s according to state Department of Health spokesman Derrick Haskins.
“We have not received guidance from the federal government. Each of the state’s health systems received an allocation of the drug,” Haskins said.
In a followup Monday, he added, “We don’t have any reason to believe that guidance will not be forthcoming” [Bob Mercer, “S.D. Still Seeks Guidance on Hydroxychloroquine,” KELO-TV, 2020.07.13].
Oh, no, Derrick, O prince of the awkwardly spun double negative—we have plenty of reason to believe the Trump Administration would be less than forthcoming with practical guidance on what to do with a huge stockpile of an otherwise useful drug that Il Duce and his local Snow Queen misallocated for a political pet project that rolled snake eyes.
So, South Dakota–whose governor has a philosophy and provides advice to its public during a pandemic that goes no deeper than that of Robert Fulghum’s 1986 book title “All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten”–is looking to Big Brother in DC to tell it what to do with its self-encumbered stash of worthless COVID-19 medication? The irony. South Dakota could use a dose of its own medicine.
Indeed, Dave: Bill Janklow probably would have already shipped those pills off to people with malaria, or put them on EBay alongside the state cement plant to make us some cash.
Noem isn’t waiting to figure out how to use those stockpiled pills for good; she’s waiting for someone on Team Trump to tell her the plan for using those pills to make Donald look good.
Or maybe the pills are all for Donald. Maybe he still believes HCQ is a wonder drug, so he’s told all of the states to keep those stockpiles handy for when he needs them for his own self-medication.
Give them to the people who regularly use the meds. Yeah, “give.” Some chronic medical conditions require regular doses of hydroxychloroquine. If Kruel Kristi does nothing, in January President Biden can order the give away.
That’s a really good idea, Ms. Geelsdottir. grudznick approves.
Kristi is in sooo deep in this entire Trumpian mess of Republican “governing”.
1. The pipeline is refusing to obey a Federal Court shutdown order brought by SD Indians.
2. Kristi gave SD personal data to Brad Parscale, Trump campaign mgr.
3. Kristi shut down CDC’s investigation of Smithfield pandemic spread April 22.
4. “The administration’s order came just hours after four former CDC directors wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Tuesday that “no president ever politicized [the CDC’s] science the way Trump has.”
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/warnings-of-a-possible-cover-up-as-trump-orders-hospitals-to-stop-sending-coronavirus-data-to-cdc/
Trump is denying a covid steroid medication to hated jurisdictions. Of course he punked Kristi to commander hydroxy. It is on a shelf next to Shantal Krebs’ promo photos, btw :)
She belongs with names like “traitors” Kevin McCarthy, Devon Nunes, Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell.
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BREAKING: Brad Parscale is out as Trump’s campaign manager. Apparently there *is* a limit to how much you can grift in this administration (and it’s a waterfront mansion, a pair of condos, a yacht and a Ferrari).
Is this website some kind of middle school project? Do readers know that stuff printed here is literally not real? It’s not just not real, it’s directionally incorrect. It’s worse than saying something untrue but meaningless because you are saying, against all evidence, that the best know early treatment for a pandemic IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, has no value. If people with COVID 19 listened to you they would actually be about 1400% more likely to die. Not sure how you can sleep with that.
Always fun to receive cheap shots with no evidence. But sure, let’s open the door. Spencer, just what information posted here do you consider “directionally incorrect” and on what basis do you deem it so deadly? (And remember, this isn’t a middle school project, so we expect reliable references.)