Oak-la-homa – Where The Wind Comes Sweepin’ Through Your Brain
You’re gonna love this.
Oh yeah.
They’ve got themselves a $2 million stockpile of a dandy malaria drug. So if malaria ever hits Arkansas, guess who is going to make a killing by jacking up their prices and selling on the border.
The Governor, Kevin Stitt, purchased this stuff just a few days after Trump first said it cures Covid. While most people said he was just kissing up to Trump and the rightwing, the Gov defended it saying it was better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
The Attorney General has tried to return it to wherever they bought it and to make a long boring story short, nope. So, they are trying to sell it to some other fools. But, come to find out, there are no fools around better than Oklahoma fools. What keeps Texas from falling into the Gulf of Mexico? Oklahoma sucks.
Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.
There is a doctor here in Houston (a GP with an office on Bellaire) who was pushed on FaceBook who was supposedly holding a clinic last Saturday. He was treating with HDQ. Bet he would have bought it. I looked into him – he only said he graduated from UT med in Dallas. Never listed anything further. Wish I had saved his name, I would tell him he could get his meds!!
1Plus, it may have been stored improperly – if they were stupid enough to buy this much, they’re probably too stupid to store it in a temperature-controlled environment. (Think non-air-conditioned warehouse in an Oklahoma summer). Buying pharmaceuticals outside the normal supply chain is asking for counterfeit product, defective product, lawsuits…
2After reading the Big Foot hunting season story the other day, I thought we were done with OK for a while, but then we find out they want to return drugs? Hahahaha!
3At least the people who quickly bought bleach after Trump suggested injecting it as a germ killer, can clean their toilets and scrub the corners of the shower stall with the extra Clorox in their pantry. Because they’re still alive and didn’t follow Trump’s advice.
4So if Paxton can spend Texas tax dollars to sue the government, why can’t the Oklahoma AG file suit against Trump for fraudulent claims and recover that way?
5Gotta say that this day is setting new standards for weird news:
1. Did Kellyanne Conway post nude picture of her daughter?
2. Seditionist caught because he yelled “Trump 2020” so much Delta threw him off a plane
3. Lin Wood’ tapes confirm attack on law partner.
4. QAnon seditionist who attacked Guardsman believed trump is time traveler.
Oklahoma stockpile just barely makes the list.
6Harry Eagar @ #6
I don’t completely discredit the idea that Trump is a time traveler. Should a future America develop time travel, it might be the best way they can get rid of him. Humanely, safely and permanently.
I can think of about 80 million people today who would push that button if it were available.
7Austin legend John Kelso once opined that the only reason Oklahoma had public schools was so residents would be able to see where they signed on their mobile home rental contract.
8Of course, the upside of all of this is that we can all pronounce hydroxychloroquine now. Some (not me) might even be able to spell it without looking it up.
9Maybe they can try sending it to mar a lago postage collect.
10This is good ammunition for the next time I get in a disagreement with some Okie here in Dallas.
The stuff is still a valuable treatment for malaria. I hope OKC can find a way to put it in hands that can use it.
11And probably more commonly used for rheumatoid arthritis.
12Rumor has it (starting right here) that Stitt is waiting for mosquito season so he can import and spread some malaria, then sell the HDQ for a big profit and make a bundle.
13Oklahoma (Texas too) used to be hotbeds for malaria, and will be again if the rightwingers succeed in dismantling the public health system.
Another fun history fact: The Centers for Disease Control is in Atlanta because Southern politicians failed to control the yellow fever epidemic of 1905 because of intercity and interstate rivalries; so they petitioned the national government to take over.
If Southerners knew any history, their peabrains would expode.
14Stitt could donate the hydroxychloroquine to chronic discoid erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus centers to distribute to those who have difficulty affording their meds and countries where malaria is a significant problem before he wastes it. If it’s pill form the expiration is approx. 3 years. Liquid forms, if Stitt was that stupid have a much shorter shelf life.
15Doubt Snake Oil Salespeople offer refunds.
16Sam@8, Kelso was one of the snarkiest men in town. Loved to toss back a few and absorb his witticisms at the old Horseshoe Lounge.
17Maybe OK could make it a requirement to take a dose of it before you get your Bigfoot Hunting License.
18The former el president took more action to get hydroxychloroquine than he did getting vaccine supplies. We know he Took no action on coronavirus for the last several weeks of his maladministration. Now 50 states are short on vaccines, and mark my words, within the next few weeks, repugnanticans will be blaming Biden.
19What Jane & PKM said. If it’s still good, there are places where malaria is a real problem, and people who need hydroxychloroquine who can’t afford it. Unless it’s already unfit for use, perhaps Oklahoma can donate it?
20Harry: Hookworm infection is beginning to become a problem in Alabama, Georgia, and parts of LA. You know the old stereotype of Southerners being mentally slow, lazy, and lethargic? Those are the symptoms of hookworm. It also has been linked with a lowered IQ.
The Rockafellar Foundation led a large scale effort to eliminate it back before WW II, several large corporations participated, and it was mostly successful. Hoookworm lifecycle is encouraged by untreated sewage and poorly maintained cess pools.
Of course now it’s seen as a problem for Black and brown people, therefore of no concern to the government or anyone important (that is, anyone with the money to fix the problem).
So a return of yellow fever and malaria, accelerated by global warming? Sounds like Republican governance policy.
21I had not heard about hookworm recently; wearing shoes usually works pretty well to interrupt transmission.
I also was not aware that the Rockefeller Foundation did a hookworm campaign. Just after World War I it did a pellagra campaign. One symptom of niacin deficiency is the slack-jawed, vacant look associated with southern rustics.
It is one of the weirder ironies of American history that it was the Rockefeller Foundation that taught southerners to eat collards.
22If it’s no longer viable for use in humans, I believe you can use it to disinfect fish tanks. A couple in Arizona took tablets with chloroquine because trump told them to; the man died.
If it’s still good, OK could pile up some moral cred by giving it to Doctors Without Borders, which treats malaria all over the world.
Do we know who they bought it from?
23Mike Lindell, probably
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