Yeah....about the people behind the My Pillow guy, pushing oleandrin derivatives...

[Roland99]

4 facts about oleandrin, an unproven coronavirus treatment reportedly pitched to Trump
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/4-facts-about-oleandrin-an-unproven-coronavirus-treatment-reportedly-pitched-to-trump-2020-08-17

So where is the COVID-cure buzz coming from? A July 2020 study out of Texas showed that, in test tubes, oleandrin could inhibit the coronavirus in monkey kidney cells. But this study has not been peer-reviewed or published yet. And while Phoenix Biotechnology exec Whitney also told Axios on Saturday that “we have provided” human clinical evidence to the FDA, he would not share what that evidence is. The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) also conducted some preliminary testing of oleandrin against SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19). The results were “inconclusive,” a spokesperson told Axios.

“You’d certainly want to see more work done on this before even contemplating a human trial,” Professor Sharon Lewin, the director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne, told Axios.

What’s more, one of the authors of the Texas study, Robert Newman, is the chairman of the Phoenix Biotechnology advisory board — the company developing the oleandrin product.

[stillcool]

1. reminds me of an old Andy Griffith show...

where the guy pushing his cure-all is filling his bottles with booze, and Aunt Bea gets soused. Things haven't changed, just the profit margin

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. Here you go.....

Even looks like the My Pillow elixir salesman.

[stillcool]

5. that's it!!

cracks me up...still.

[brush]

2. Everyone who grew up in areas where oleanders are common hedges...

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are taught early on that they are poisonous. The plant grows up to ten feet high and has very sweet smelling blossoms. Pink, white and reddish. Very sweet smelling and toxic. It's common knowledge to those familiar with the plants.

[PoiBoy]

6. This... exactly..

...as a kid, every parent called it the dead man's plant.. and if you got the milk on you.. wash it off ASAP... we passed that on to our kids and they are passing that on to their kids... hawking this plant as a cure is criminal...

[ChazII]

7. We had those plants as a hedge

when I was a child. Yes, we were taught that they were poisonous. In the early 70's many families, including mine, got rid of them.

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. What's with republicans and all these quick-fixes for covid-19?

Why do they think there is some miracle cure out there and that science and data can be ignored?

Because they're ignorant, lazy assholes and they don't understand or care about science.

And they think they should be able to make a fortune from the rubes, because conning people out of their money is what they've always done.

[gratuitous]

9. President Short Attention Span wants to wish the whole thing away

And in support of that delusion, his aiders and abettors in the Republican party have signed on to Trump's unrealistic expectation. That's why McConnell and the Senate sat on their thumbs for two months, joining in the wishful thinking that the virus would just go away like magic in the warmer weather. When that didn't happen (duh, Ralph), Senate Republicans found themselves with no contingency plans, no Plan B, no plan at all. So they just blew town, squirted some residual bile about their inaction being all the Democrats' fault, and hid out from voters and the media.

Things are so late now, exactly 11 weeks until the election, that they can only hope for an answered prayer to save them. They have no ideas, no plans, and they're just hunkering down waiting for the bad news. Some Senate Republicans figure they'll ride out this latest blue wave and keep their cushy no-show jobs, and some of them may even be right. The alternative for Senate Republicans is too horrible to contemplate: That concerted government action could end this pandemic nightmare, but that prospect is worse for them than another quarter million dead Americans.

So nothing's going to happen. A lot of nothing is going to happen.

[Trenzalore]

8. Wasn't there a pro-trump group promoting bleach a month or two ago

Of course a poison is going to kill the virus in a test tube. Doesn't mean it won't kill healthy cells too.

These guys are bouncing from one quick fix to the next which isn't surprising from the group promoting tax cuts for 40 years with no evidence it helps the economy.

[Blue Owl]

10. Hey Mike, stick to stuffing your shitty pillows

and leave the medical advice to the doctors.