[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

They might have taken or done something wrong, because this chloroquine is something of which quite some experts have already said it might not specifically help cure COVID-19, but it's a medicine with a pretty good safety record. There are of course others with way more side effects and worse results.

 

All in a mess. A president gave the wrong advice. Citizens follow the advice given. A citizen died. Pretty sad tale.

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1 minute ago, up and down said:

 

All in a mess. A president gave the wrong advice. Citizens follow the advice given. A citizen died. Pretty sad tale.

Yeah, a little disclaimer should be (as the experts also say) to only take stuff like this on doctor's advice, like most medicines. It's not by definition a dangerous drug, but if you're not a trained professional you might just not know what you're doing.

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17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, a little disclaimer should be (as the experts also say) to only take stuff like this on doctor's advice, like most medicines. It's not by definition a dangerous drug, but if you're not a trained professional you might just not know what you're doing.

 

The president also plan to test this drug on people as well to see it works out or not. So we may see more death after this? Ha ha.

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5 minutes ago, up and down said:

 

The president also paln to test this drug on people as well to see it works out or not. So we may see more dath after this? Ha ha.

 

That is not as ridiculous as people make it sound. If you've got an absolute emergency situation, and you are in desperate need of a medicine...and there are hundreds (and soon maybe thousands) of people basically just waiting to die, it is at some point not entirely impossible to understand testing these medicines on people for whom there is basically no hope already anymore. It doesn't make it any less sad, but there could well be a scenario where that is pretty much the only option left - apart from waiting for a way, way longer time and by doing so losing thousands and thousands of more people.

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Just now, heywoodu said:

 

That is not as ridiculous as people make it sound. If you've got an absolute emergency situation, and you are in desperate need of a medicine...and there are hundreds (and soon maybe thousands) of people basically just waiting to die, it is at some point not entirely impossible to understand testing these medicines on people for whom there is basically no hope already anymore. It doesn't make it any less sad, but there could well be a scenario where that is pretty much the only option left - apart from waiting for a way, way longer time and by doing so losing thousands and thousands of more people.

 

Yes you are right too. Lots of countries are racing against time to find the vaccine for Coronavirus.

[Vic Liu 1,701]

When China suffered from the virus most, there always rumors spreading every now and then saying XXX is an effective medicine and causing people panic buying that medicine. While doctors clarified some medicines are effective for some patients but not a single one medicine is a universal functioning one. All medicine is helping your immune system and other direct damaged organs, at last it still counts on yourself.

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Just now, Vic Liu said:

When China suffered from the virus most, there always rumors spreading every now and then saying XXX is an effective medicine and causing people panic buying that medicine. While doctors clarified some medicines are effective for some patients but not a single one medicine is a universal functioning one. All medicine is helping your immune system and other direct damaged organs, at last it still counts on yourself.

 

You are right about this part.

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1 minute ago, Vic Liu said:

When China suffered from the virus most, there always rumors spreading every now and then saying XXX is an effective medicine and causing people panic buying that medicine. While doctors clarified some medicines are effective for some patients but not a single one medicine is a universal functioning one. All medicine is helping your immune system and other direct damaged organs, at last it still counts on yourself.

Exactly why people should follow doctor's orders.

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3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Exactly why people should follow doctor's orders.

 

Totally agreed that people should follow doctor's orders.

[Griff88 2,022]

45 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Exactly why people should follow doctor's orders.

But nowadays more and more people believe that their doctor is random WhatsApp messages