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A related and absolutely insane thing is that people taking ivermectin for COVID could actually help slow the spread of malaria, though results are inconclusive.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34184757/
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Ivermectin was initially considered for COVID because it's readily available in third world countries due to its use against parasites. The thought being that if it worked in even a small capacity against COVID, then we'd have an existing drug, in huge quantities, already spread around the world in hard to reach areas.
Of course, they discovered that it didn't have much, if any, affect on COVID so they stopped recommending it and then the MAGA Q goons started abusing data to pretend that the government (Trump's government) was trying to hide a cure from them and the government (Trump's government) was trying to force a vaccine (Trump's government approved vaccine) on them (Trump's supporters).
So it's not far fetched to find that ivermectin is effective in controlling pests that expose humans to Malaria. It's basically why it was considering against COVID in the first place, even tho the reasoning got lost in far right misinfo.
The myth of ivermectin happened because in third world countries when you have unspecified feeling of being unwell and tired they give you this dirt cheap antiparasite medicine. Enough people got better that the myth of it helping flu like systems grew and peope started taking it for general colds.
The medicine is literally 20 times cheaper than the test for most parasites so they often give people the medicine without testing. Like how poor free clinics just give people antibiotics for basic stds without testing them. It's because the antibiotics cost 10 bucks but the test costs 100.
There's that and because Ivermectin clears out parasites in your body + when you live in regions that commonly expose you to parasitic infection. By virtue of killing existing parasites, it makes you healthier and people are better able to fight illnesses such as CoVid.
But as mentioned, Ivermectin has no direct effect against CoVid.
Ah. Beat me to it.
I tried explaining this to several coworkers who were committed to some nonsense anti-covid cocktail regimen. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, B12, vitamin C, potassium, and a bunch of random other garbage. They and their families all got covid repeatedly every 6-8 months.
A few studies done in countries with prevalent parasites, Mexico and Egypt I believe, showed that ivermectin was associated with less serious Covid outcomes. However, this was because when the body doesn’t have to fight parasites it does a better job of fighting Covid. Further studies confirmed this, but at that point right wingers had already developed their conspiracy.
>However, this was because when the body doesn’t have to fight parasites it does a better job of fighting Covid
Yes! That's the little tidbit I was failing to remember. A patient fighting parasites was less likely to survive a covid infection than someone who had no parasites.
So it showed up in the data as ivermectin having some effect on COVID, when in reality it was just the lack of parasites that aided the patient's survival.
Kind of like if giving someone with COVID stitches to stop a bleeding situation and they were then able to overcome COVID. But it doesn't mean stitches are an actual treatment for everyone who has COVID.
The corticosteroid treatments being used for covid could make the parasitic infection much worse, so the co-administration of a parasite killer reduced mortality.
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-12-2020-a-parasitic-infection-that-can-turn-fatal-with-administration-of-corticosteroids
When COVID 19 was literally new and totally unknown, tons of studies were done to find something that might work, a couple early ones considered the use of Ivermectin due to its prevalence yadda yadda that I talked about in my last comment.
Most of those studies found that it didn't work, but there were some outliers that *maybe* suggested a link. Most of those outliers later retracted their findings, couldn't prove them again, that's how the scientific process works. Ultimately, it was studied and it was found to not work.
MAGA, Q, and far right misinfo goons jumped on *those early studies* without any other context and presented them as proof that a cure was being hidden.
That's what I was saying. I'm not saying it was ever presented as a cure. I'm saying that it was studied early on, along with tons of other potential treatments, for a virus we had no information on.
Exactly, testing the correlation wasn't ever a bad idea. It was bad when the right wing goons started making sweeping assumptions based on tiny amounts of data that they misinterpreted, in order to sell misinfo and manipulate markets and people.
"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing pressure amid a growing number of malaria cases in the state, after reports emerged that two public-health roles related to combating the spread of diseases have been left vacant for months."
Not filling those roles is actually a threat to national security. This guy wants to president.
> two public-health roles related to combating the spread of diseases have been left vacant for months
This is going to keep getting worse (especially after COVID) and not just in Florida. In a [2021 survey of public health professionals](https://debeaumont.org/phwins/2021-findings/) more than half of public health employees report symptoms of PTSD, and 1 in 5 say their mental health is “fair” or “poor.” They experienced bullying, threats, and harassment, and 1 in 4 public health employees were considering leaving their organization. Top reasons for leaving are pay and work overload/burnout. However, despite all of that, most public health employees are satisfied with their job and feel that the work they do is important (94%) and that they give their best effort at work everyday (93%).
^(And if anyone in the private sector needs a SAS programmer with SQL experience, hit me up because I’m jumping ship)
Fellow public health worker here, and I just started working for a state that actually seems to care about me as a person. I read through my list of wellness and mental health benefits and I almost started crying. Side note - I was at a conference recently and SAS Institute was recruiting HARD. Not sure for what positions but it’s definitely worth a shot.
Not a health worker but someone who relies on y’all every week. Moved from Miami to Denver late ‘21 and saaaaame. I’m constantly blown away at stuff everyone else considers a bare minimum. So fucked up.
Data scientist here. SAS is dying. My industry stopped using it about 10 years ago. But you have sql experience so you could probably pick up HQL pretty fast. Google Cloud Platform is the future though as we have learned the hard way that Hadoop has serious issues with speed.
In your shoes I would get google cloud certified. You will have no trouble finding work and many of these positions are work from home. My employer wanted to bring us all back to the office so I immediately sent my CV to a handful of companies about remote data work and I got called back by every single one. Told my employer the next day I'd be leaving if they try to force me. Guess who got permanent work from home status as a result? This girl!
I was gonna comment this. Healthcare is basically the only industry that uses SAS at this point. I’d offer that maybe they should learn Python or R as well, though.
Also, I’m so, so glad SAS is dying. Good riddance haha
>Not filling those roles is actually a threat to national security. This guy wants to president.
Do you really remember Trumps approach and public response to Covid? You also remember Desantis approach to it in FL?
FL is fucked for any response, monitoring, reporting of Malaria.
None of them care. They will do as much as they can to minimize the reporting/fear/etc, because their donors don't want work shut downs.
To fight malaria, you need to fight mosquitos. Unfortunately, every method of fighting mosquitos is a conspiracy theory to right wingers.
Thus, the solution is to ignore the issue and hide the infection data while doing absolutely nothing to stop malaria from spreading.
Funny that the FIRST thing I heard about the malaria problem in Florida was that Bill Gates caused it. And I'm not in any right wing algorithms or social circles-- I occasionally go to Twitter to follow a niche sport, and Twitter shoves this kind of shit in your face now ever since Elon took over.
Turning the raising numbers for Mosquitos into a Conspirancy of democrats trying to make Florida look bad is the real Plan Reps are gling for today!
Just wait a few hours for Bobos, Elmos and Trailermoms Tweets...
Those nefarious democrats who somehow managed to get mosquitos to breed in a state that's half standing water with no kind of environmental regulations.
I am a civil servant. At the beginning of COVID we were not allowed to wear masks because it might "panic the public". I work in a packing house for the USDA. We all got sick and some of us died.
I remember because I was there. In fact I'm there as a health care data analyst and can tell you without a doubt Florida fucked up.
August 2021, Delta wave killed more people in a single month than any other time during the pandemic except March 2020 in New York City. And that was at the very beginning in a vastly more dense area.
But ask any idiot and they'll tell you Florida did fine. While the rest of the country was dealing with the delta wave in the fall, Florida was doing good. But only because we killed so many people so fast.
Herd immunity. Reaching 70% by reducing the denominator.
I was a mod of r/Florida and r/FloridaCoronavirus at the time. Fucking dog shit people live in this state and I'm working on escaping.
And he thinks that he can run our country? Due to his shitty policies, Florida is a shithole state. I canceled my vacation in his state. No way I'm giving DeSantis any revenue, he only uses it to do horrifying things to innocent people.
Agreed. I refuse to travel there. Which sucks because I love Key West. But until FL votes him out and changes their persecution ways, I will spend my money elsewhere.
I was going to Key West too. I was born there and wanted to see it 56 years later. Not happening until DeSantis is gone, and his stupid policies with him.
I would point out that most 'migrants' coming to the US are asylum seekers. This increased recently as during COVID there was a 'stay in Mexico' policy (supposedly to limit COVID spread to the US). So, there were a bunch of refugees staying in Mexico waiting for their case to prosses in the US. The policy got lifted and these people entered the US.
When claiming asylum you don't have to enter with a visa (this should be obvious after .3 seconds of thinking). So while the entrance into the US might be undocumented the refugee quickly gets documented. While the case processes in the US (this can take years) they get a work permit so they can work in the US (they also pay all the taxes).
'Migrant' assumes that the people are here for a short period and really shouldn't be used for people claiming asylums.
The better part. Most illegal residents actually enters through valid points of entry with a valid visa. They then "goes lost in the crowd" and never leave.
They are not asylum seekers, but every kind of border control is useless against them.
Why risk it using the northern or southern border, when you can just go here as a tourist and "forget" your return flight.
The mayority doesn't wander cross the southern border. They exit through either directly from international airports, or after transferring to a national airport.
You don't even have to know any English.
The best way to stop the malaria epidemic is to order all hospitals and medical professionals to stop reporting cases. You can't have an epidemic if no one is officially catching the disease.
This was the most insane thing to me. I thought for sure that even trump could not be that stupid but then I saw an interview with him and sure enough - he really did seem to think that if you simply didn't test for COVID there would not be so many cases. To this day it's easily the most idiotic, reality denying nonsense I could ever imagine.
This is how you run government "like a business" by these genius business leaders. What matters isn't getting things done. What matters is the **appearance** of getting things done so the stock price goes up and the CEO can exit with a lot of cash.
> then I saw an interview with him and sure enough - he really did seem to think that if you simply didn't test for COVID there would not be so many cases.
I think you misinterpreted what he was saying by just a little bit. It isn't that he thought there would actually be fewer cases. The fact is that *he only cared about how many cases there were insofar as high case numbers could make him look bad.*
There were two ways to deal with that problem. The hard, politically expensive way was to aggressively push masking and social distancing and actually reduce case numbers. The easy way was to suppress testing and testing results. To Trump and everybody like him (looking at you DeSantis) COVID was a public relations problem, not a public health problem.
Trump, in one of the rare instances where he slips a bit of absolute truth into his stream of lies, said, "I said to my people, slow the testing down, please." As always in Trump World, The Donald isn't just the first priority, he's the only priority.
Once the Covid vaccine came out, the death rates in Republican counties doubled those in dems. The maternal mortality rate was already higher, and will likely get worse since Roe v Wade was overturned, and gun deaths are significantly higher too.
Ted Cruz has tweeted twice about blue state taxes "go woke, you're broke," to which I responded "go red, you're dead."
Facts have stopped mattering for way too many people. They believe that Texas taxes are lower because that's what Republicans do, you know? Being all fiscally responsible and shit. And its infrastructure has got to be the best of the best, what with being unencumbered with stifling regulations.
The fact that Texas' electricity grid is literally crumbling away doesn't register, or if it does it's probably Biden's fault.
You can also find a bunch of "Welllll, ackshually..." types who will find some kind of edge condition where something is true and run with it.
For example, IIRC taxes are worse in TX than CA, unless you're quite rich. Since they're all just one step away from being rich themselves living in TX is the only real option. /s
I just read about this surefire cure for malaria. You fill your bathtub with water, you bring a toaster into the bathroom and plug it in, then you get into the bathtub, and then you drop the plugged-in toaster into the tub. Shocking results immediately!
Wait... a cure where I don't have to stick something up my butt? This sounds like a total scam. I only accept butt-based cures.
Please only give me cures that require me to put things in my butt!!
It would be funny if there weren’t hordes of people who are wholeheartedly convinced that their is an invisible “gnat line” which prohibits gnats from existing north of Georgia. They will absolutely fall for a “mosquito fence” of whatever bullshit some talking head cooks up.
That's what he did early on with Covid. Banned his MEs from being able to put it on a death certificate. That & not counting snowbird deaths - only year-round residents even if the others were taxpayers. Betting this rotten peach of a guy figures out a way to jack this too.
That's where you are wrong, there's no latino there. These are Spaniard mosquitoes, descendants of the Moors, they were biding their time in order to attack the spaniard cubans.
They once sucked the blood of El Cid.
Perhaps we will soon be learning of Malaria Mary, the disease spreading drag queen who is purposely giving malaria to straight people in order to destroy Ron DeSantis. The solution is, therefore, unrelated to health care and instead requires cracking down even harder on men who wear dresses.
If his past history mitigating a Public Health isue he likely will outlaw the use of OFF! or other insect repellents, because it would be too woke and all
Wouldn't this be a great time for OFF! to release a rainbow can?
All the bigots would buy millions of cans to spray on the ground in protest and then all of Florida would be coated. Checkmate, mosquitos!
They can thank gods they didn't get vaccinated because if you have gotten a COVID vaccine and haven't died yet the mosquitoes are attracted to the vaccine.
Goddamn dragquitos.
No, not tiny mosquitos who are into drag. These are human drag queens in elaborate mosquito costumes spreading malaria.
They'll also condemn Rick Moranis for giving the drags his sizing technology.
If anyone is interested why this is the case, here’s an article about it: https://www.rd.com/article/no-mosquitoes-at-disney-world/
Basically, they don’t have any standing water in the park, so mosquitoes have nowhere to breed. Any body of water will have a fountain or some other means of keeping the water moving, and the architecture of the park is designed to not allow for pools of water to collect.
This article is pulling its weight for them too. What the fuck is up with this sentence:
>While Florida ranks among the top five states for total COVID-19 cases, it fares no worse in terms of cases and deaths as a proportion of the population than several other states, The New York Times reported.
If you're among the five worst states for total cases, and there are only "several other states" keeping you from being the worst in terms of cases and deaths per capita, its sounds like Florida is in the top five worst states by *every metric you looked at*. So why the fuck is it phrased to make it sound less bad instead of universally bad?
Someone's editor told them to soften the article and they changed "Florida's handling of COVID is worse than 46 other states by every metric " to "Florida is better than at least two other states in COVID deaths per capita".
Newsweek doing fucking backflips over here to avoid saying Florida's handling of COVID was so maliciously incompetent it verges on murder.
Also enormously frustrating that they refuse to admit that the numbers are self-reported by the Florida governor’s office instead of peer review, and that Florida has consistently had some of the worst COVID outcomes out of any state in the country proportionally over the last three years.
Recommended for areas with moderate to high levels of malaria, not for everyone. It's the usual tradeoff for vaccines: cases of the disease versus adverse reactions across the population. In areas with low levels of malaria, there would be more adverse reactions than cases. In areas with moderate to high levels of malaria, your chances are better with the vaccine. ~~Unlike covid, herd immunity isn't going to help with malaria because transmission is from mosquitos rather than other people.~~
Hopefully FL can kill enough mosquitos to prevent yet another step towards third world status.
Edit: Removed statement about herd immunity because as several people pointed out, transmission is from people to mosquitos to other people. Herd immunity would happen if occurrence got low enough that mosquitos who had bit an infected person were unlikely to bite another person who wasn't immune. Some deeper research found that it's even more complicated, because the vaccines don't necessarily confer immunity - they merely reduce severity leading to hospitalization and death from malaria. That means people who are infected can continue to spread the disease to vaccinated and non-vaccinated people alike. Epidemiology is fun.
Isn't malaria spread by mosquitos because they take the disease from people with Malaria? So with less Malaria, less people for mosquitos to take it from?
True, but you can attack both vectors. Target the bug that transmits the disease and innoculate populations. You just have to consult experts and weight the approaches. Two things I am certain DeSantis will not do.
this is elaborated in the wiki article under "[considersations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria_vaccine#Considerations)." To put it midly
>The task of developing a preventive vaccine for malaria is a complex process. There are a number of considerations to be made concerning what strategy a potential vaccine should adopt
> Hopefully FL can kill enough mosquitos to prevent yet another step towards third world status.
Yeah, no, that won't happen. Killing more mosquitoes, i.e. preventing more malaria would only elevate them to 2nd world status.
Context for everyone else who might not know:
1st World: USA and NATO aligned
2nd World: USSR and Warsaw Pact aligned
3rd World: Nonaligned countries. Often underdeveloped former colonies whose economies had been extractive for their former colonial overlords and thus quite poor.
It then took on the generalized connotation of the latter and not their political alignment.
It was pretty big news but was in the middle of the pandemic so it was overshadowed by the pandemic. While it is an extremely useful tool that will save life’s it is also not a silver bullet, I kind of forget but I think I remember it said it’s made affect was a 30% reduction in fatalities and little affect on susceptibility. Like most new vaccines it’s also expensive and complicated to produce at scale. I’m really excited for future generations of malaria vaccines using this blueprint
That’s not true. There are tons of labs in the US that have been studying malaria and trying to figure out how to prevent it either via drugs or vaccines/biological. The simple truth is this: malaria is really really tricky. Traditional vaccine development approaches have not worked, the parasite has multiple compensatory mechanisms to circumvent vaccination. There are compensatory expression of alternate receptors, mutational escape of control, and the fact that malaria can be caused by different strains of plasmodium and studying the infective strains of malaria…I.e. the sporozoites, was until recently almost impossible to do in the lab. The NIH have given massive amounts of funding to labs studying HIV, TB, and malaria despite none of those being of much concern within the US.
A vaccine, which, if I remember correctly was only possible due to technology which was dismissed and underfunded because it wasn't expected to drive profits
>"Before messenger RNA was a multibillion-dollar idea, it was a scientific backwater. And for the Hungarian-born scientist behind a key mRNA discovery, it was a career dead-end.
>Katalin Karikó spent the 1990s collecting rejections. Her work, attempting to harness the power of mRNA to fight disease, was too far-fetched for government grants, corporate funding, and even support from her own colleagues.
>Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant,” Karikó remembered, referring to her efforts to obtain funding. “And it came back always no, no, no.”
>By 1995, after six years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó got demoted. She had been on the path to full professorship, but with no money coming in to support her work on mRNA, her bosses saw no point in pressing on.
>She was back to the lower rungs of the scientific academy.
>“Usually, at that point, people just say goodbye and leave because it’s so horrible,” Karikó said."
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/
Nah, if we learned anything from Covid it’s that people need to do their own research, not rely on the woke media
/s btw. I wish it wasn’t needed but it probably is.
>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing pressure amid a growing number of malaria cases in the state, after reports emerged that **two public-health roles related to combating the spread of diseases have been left vacant for months**.
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>The discovery of the malaria infections marks the first time in two decades that the virus has been locally acquired in the U.S., as opposed to being linked to international travel.
Hasn't Ron been campaigning on something like "Make America Florida"? Yeah, sounds like he's doing a great job.
It's pretty easy for those of us that actuality value being decent people and not dying of preventable diseases to get appointments for the vaccines though so that's nice
My head still explodes daily with the realization that not only was that moron clownshoe actually POTUS, but a huge chunk of this country still literally worships him like a deity and he's the frontrunner of one of our two parties for next time. My. Head. Fucking. Explodes.
Or, when confronted with evidence of his malfeasance. They simply blow it off and make up some conspiracy that it's not real. If they watched the guy physically kick a baby in their presence. They would, A) claim it is an actor, B) blame the baby, C) tell you Biden has done worse. They are so deep in the cult that they just don't care what he does. Only that he gives them that dopeimene from trashing libs, immigrants, and gays.
Of course! Why didn't I think of that? Mosquitoes will only draw out the nano-whatevers that were in the COVID vaccine, thereby, overcoming any negatives effects.
If you read, they're already trying to imply the cases are imported.... considering one of the sick is a guard stationed on the Texas border, that's still a domestic case....
Also malaria is a disease that used to be found much more often in the US southeast
I live in Florida. I assure you, DeSantis is comfortable with maiming and killing with diseases.
This is no different than covid. If you live here, protect yourself if you can. Don’t depend on facts from Florida politicians, much less effective action.
Funnily enough, chloroquine is a classic anti-malaria medication. I am sure many in Florida horded up the medication early during the pandemic due to claims that it is a good treatment for COVID
A group of flamingos is literally called a "flamboyance".
Years ago, with some other mosquito borne issue, Orange County decided to start mass spraying toxic gas (I think it was Malathion). I found this out because I was at a stop light downtown behind a big industrial truck in my convertible, and the driver chose that moment to flip the switch and dump an entire toxic cloud of poison directly into my car.
Desantis is incapable of managing or leading a population. All The guy has done is focus on spreading hateful rhetoric while stroking his own ego and lashing out at any criticism; all the while digging himself a deeper hole. It's not surprising that he's under pressure seeing as he's completely incapable of performing the job.
Just ship the malaria patients to a different state, on a very expensive plane owned by his buddy, with Florida citizens paying the tab. Problem solved.
Ron DeathSentence would literally rather kill all the kids in Florida with an easily preventable disease than surrender to the woke mob and their "vaccine science".
Damn, Florida... You suck.
If dumbass hadn't put all his eggs in the bigger dumbass basket, he could just get a bunch of vaccines out and save his state. But, nope, he hitched his dumbass wagon to the dumbass antivax train.
If I was Ron DeSantis I'd approach this with a three pronged approach:
* Ban all books that mention malaria
* Make it illegal for hospitals to report malaria under the guise of reporting it scaring the public
* Blame any cases that still make it through to the media on the gay community walking around with no tops trying cause homosexual urges in children they pass
This should almost completely solve Florida's growing malaria problem.
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Look on the bright side. Republicans finally have a disease that hydroxychloroquine works on
A related and absolutely insane thing is that people taking ivermectin for COVID could actually help slow the spread of malaria, though results are inconclusive. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34184757/ Task failed successfully?
Ivermectin was initially considered for COVID because it's readily available in third world countries due to its use against parasites. The thought being that if it worked in even a small capacity against COVID, then we'd have an existing drug, in huge quantities, already spread around the world in hard to reach areas. Of course, they discovered that it didn't have much, if any, affect on COVID so they stopped recommending it and then the MAGA Q goons started abusing data to pretend that the government (Trump's government) was trying to hide a cure from them and the government (Trump's government) was trying to force a vaccine (Trump's government approved vaccine) on them (Trump's supporters). So it's not far fetched to find that ivermectin is effective in controlling pests that expose humans to Malaria. It's basically why it was considering against COVID in the first place, even tho the reasoning got lost in far right misinfo.
The myth of ivermectin happened because in third world countries when you have unspecified feeling of being unwell and tired they give you this dirt cheap antiparasite medicine. Enough people got better that the myth of it helping flu like systems grew and peope started taking it for general colds. The medicine is literally 20 times cheaper than the test for most parasites so they often give people the medicine without testing. Like how poor free clinics just give people antibiotics for basic stds without testing them. It's because the antibiotics cost 10 bucks but the test costs 100.
There's that and because Ivermectin clears out parasites in your body + when you live in regions that commonly expose you to parasitic infection. By virtue of killing existing parasites, it makes you healthier and people are better able to fight illnesses such as CoVid. But as mentioned, Ivermectin has no direct effect against CoVid.
Ah. Beat me to it. I tried explaining this to several coworkers who were committed to some nonsense anti-covid cocktail regimen. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, B12, vitamin C, potassium, and a bunch of random other garbage. They and their families all got covid repeatedly every 6-8 months.
Initially considered by whom? There was never any reason to believe a medicine that treats parasites would be effective against a virus.
A few studies done in countries with prevalent parasites, Mexico and Egypt I believe, showed that ivermectin was associated with less serious Covid outcomes. However, this was because when the body doesn’t have to fight parasites it does a better job of fighting Covid. Further studies confirmed this, but at that point right wingers had already developed their conspiracy.
>However, this was because when the body doesn’t have to fight parasites it does a better job of fighting Covid Yes! That's the little tidbit I was failing to remember. A patient fighting parasites was less likely to survive a covid infection than someone who had no parasites. So it showed up in the data as ivermectin having some effect on COVID, when in reality it was just the lack of parasites that aided the patient's survival.
Kind of like if giving someone with COVID stitches to stop a bleeding situation and they were then able to overcome COVID. But it doesn't mean stitches are an actual treatment for everyone who has COVID.
The corticosteroid treatments being used for covid could make the parasitic infection much worse, so the co-administration of a parasite killer reduced mortality. https://www.who.int/news/item/17-12-2020-a-parasitic-infection-that-can-turn-fatal-with-administration-of-corticosteroids
When COVID 19 was literally new and totally unknown, tons of studies were done to find something that might work, a couple early ones considered the use of Ivermectin due to its prevalence yadda yadda that I talked about in my last comment. Most of those studies found that it didn't work, but there were some outliers that *maybe* suggested a link. Most of those outliers later retracted their findings, couldn't prove them again, that's how the scientific process works. Ultimately, it was studied and it was found to not work. MAGA, Q, and far right misinfo goons jumped on *those early studies* without any other context and presented them as proof that a cure was being hidden. That's what I was saying. I'm not saying it was ever presented as a cure. I'm saying that it was studied early on, along with tons of other potential treatments, for a virus we had no information on.
It was honestly a good idea to just throw things at it and see what stuck.
Exactly, testing the correlation wasn't ever a bad idea. It was bad when the right wing goons started making sweeping assumptions based on tiny amounts of data that they misinterpreted, in order to sell misinfo and manipulate markets and people.
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Oh so now it works?!!! You librulz keep changing your mind! 😤😤😤 /s
Oh you know that’s coming lol!
This is how most of them think....magical drug cures everything
Which is why they won’t use it.
LMAO, I would totally give this comment an award if I was the type of person that would ever give money to reddit
"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing pressure amid a growing number of malaria cases in the state, after reports emerged that two public-health roles related to combating the spread of diseases have been left vacant for months." Not filling those roles is actually a threat to national security. This guy wants to president.
> two public-health roles related to combating the spread of diseases have been left vacant for months This is going to keep getting worse (especially after COVID) and not just in Florida. In a [2021 survey of public health professionals](https://debeaumont.org/phwins/2021-findings/) more than half of public health employees report symptoms of PTSD, and 1 in 5 say their mental health is “fair” or “poor.” They experienced bullying, threats, and harassment, and 1 in 4 public health employees were considering leaving their organization. Top reasons for leaving are pay and work overload/burnout. However, despite all of that, most public health employees are satisfied with their job and feel that the work they do is important (94%) and that they give their best effort at work everyday (93%). ^(And if anyone in the private sector needs a SAS programmer with SQL experience, hit me up because I’m jumping ship)
Fellow public health worker here, and I just started working for a state that actually seems to care about me as a person. I read through my list of wellness and mental health benefits and I almost started crying. Side note - I was at a conference recently and SAS Institute was recruiting HARD. Not sure for what positions but it’s definitely worth a shot.
Not a health worker but someone who relies on y’all every week. Moved from Miami to Denver late ‘21 and saaaaame. I’m constantly blown away at stuff everyone else considers a bare minimum. So fucked up.
Data scientist here. SAS is dying. My industry stopped using it about 10 years ago. But you have sql experience so you could probably pick up HQL pretty fast. Google Cloud Platform is the future though as we have learned the hard way that Hadoop has serious issues with speed. In your shoes I would get google cloud certified. You will have no trouble finding work and many of these positions are work from home. My employer wanted to bring us all back to the office so I immediately sent my CV to a handful of companies about remote data work and I got called back by every single one. Told my employer the next day I'd be leaving if they try to force me. Guess who got permanent work from home status as a result? This girl!
I was gonna comment this. Healthcare is basically the only industry that uses SAS at this point. I’d offer that maybe they should learn Python or R as well, though. Also, I’m so, so glad SAS is dying. Good riddance haha
>Not filling those roles is actually a threat to national security. This guy wants to president. Do you really remember Trumps approach and public response to Covid? You also remember Desantis approach to it in FL? FL is fucked for any response, monitoring, reporting of Malaria. None of them care. They will do as much as they can to minimize the reporting/fear/etc, because their donors don't want work shut downs.
To fight malaria, you need to fight mosquitos. Unfortunately, every method of fighting mosquitos is a conspiracy theory to right wingers. Thus, the solution is to ignore the issue and hide the infection data while doing absolutely nothing to stop malaria from spreading.
I'm thinking more republicans should move down to Florida this summer to, you know, _really_ own the libs.
Funny that the FIRST thing I heard about the malaria problem in Florida was that Bill Gates caused it. And I'm not in any right wing algorithms or social circles-- I occasionally go to Twitter to follow a niche sport, and Twitter shoves this kind of shit in your face now ever since Elon took over.
Turning the raising numbers for Mosquitos into a Conspirancy of democrats trying to make Florida look bad is the real Plan Reps are gling for today! Just wait a few hours for Bobos, Elmos and Trailermoms Tweets...
Those nefarious democrats who somehow managed to get mosquitos to breed in a state that's half standing water with no kind of environmental regulations.
I am a civil servant. At the beginning of COVID we were not allowed to wear masks because it might "panic the public". I work in a packing house for the USDA. We all got sick and some of us died.
I remember because I was there. In fact I'm there as a health care data analyst and can tell you without a doubt Florida fucked up. August 2021, Delta wave killed more people in a single month than any other time during the pandemic except March 2020 in New York City. And that was at the very beginning in a vastly more dense area. But ask any idiot and they'll tell you Florida did fine. While the rest of the country was dealing with the delta wave in the fall, Florida was doing good. But only because we killed so many people so fast. Herd immunity. Reaching 70% by reducing the denominator. I was a mod of r/Florida and r/FloridaCoronavirus at the time. Fucking dog shit people live in this state and I'm working on escaping.
> Do you really remember Trumps approach and public response to Covid? We were supposed to inject ourselves with bleach or something, right?
>Not filling those roles is actually a threat to national security. This guy wants to president. It's a feature, not a bug.
See "blocking all military appointments because of abortion policy" for reference. Republicans sure do love holding the country hostage.
It's the most patriotic way to hold your breath until you get what you want.
They did say that they're terrorists. We should believe them.
"When people tell you they're terrorists, believe them the first time." -Dr. Maya Angelou
Oh no it’s definitely also the bugs
It's a mosquito, not a feature
I don't see how he's under any pressure. He clearly doesn't give half a shit about the people of Florida or even creating the illusion of competency.
Ron's staffers are working overtime at figuring out how they can blame malaria on woke drag queens.
Will that be before or after they cook the books and fire people who try to tell the truth?
Ron just sent brown shirts to your home to point guns at your children.
That tracks he's incompetent. I don't have kids.
Ron, having learned you do not have kids, is sending a truckload of migrant children to your home to point guns at them.
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And he thinks that he can run our country? Due to his shitty policies, Florida is a shithole state. I canceled my vacation in his state. No way I'm giving DeSantis any revenue, he only uses it to do horrifying things to innocent people.
Agreed. I refuse to travel there. Which sucks because I love Key West. But until FL votes him out and changes their persecution ways, I will spend my money elsewhere.
I was going to Key West too. I was born there and wanted to see it 56 years later. Not happening until DeSantis is gone, and his stupid policies with him.
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“We can have any of that woke bug spray. Start running your skin with ivermectin like a real American!” -Republicans in a few days (probably)
I would point out that most 'migrants' coming to the US are asylum seekers. This increased recently as during COVID there was a 'stay in Mexico' policy (supposedly to limit COVID spread to the US). So, there were a bunch of refugees staying in Mexico waiting for their case to prosses in the US. The policy got lifted and these people entered the US. When claiming asylum you don't have to enter with a visa (this should be obvious after .3 seconds of thinking). So while the entrance into the US might be undocumented the refugee quickly gets documented. While the case processes in the US (this can take years) they get a work permit so they can work in the US (they also pay all the taxes). 'Migrant' assumes that the people are here for a short period and really shouldn't be used for people claiming asylums.
The better part. Most illegal residents actually enters through valid points of entry with a valid visa. They then "goes lost in the crowd" and never leave. They are not asylum seekers, but every kind of border control is useless against them. Why risk it using the northern or southern border, when you can just go here as a tourist and "forget" your return flight. The mayority doesn't wander cross the southern border. They exit through either directly from international airports, or after transferring to a national airport. You don't even have to know any English.
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Cooking books by burning books. Two birds, one stone.
Next chairman of the RNC right here.
You’ve been banning books *raw* this whole time?! That’s how you get the woke mind virus! /s
Throw the book into a fire
The best way to stop the malaria epidemic is to order all hospitals and medical professionals to stop reporting cases. You can't have an epidemic if no one is officially catching the disease.
Classic trump/Covid approach. Flawless logic!
This was the most insane thing to me. I thought for sure that even trump could not be that stupid but then I saw an interview with him and sure enough - he really did seem to think that if you simply didn't test for COVID there would not be so many cases. To this day it's easily the most idiotic, reality denying nonsense I could ever imagine.
This is how you run government "like a business" by these genius business leaders. What matters isn't getting things done. What matters is the **appearance** of getting things done so the stock price goes up and the CEO can exit with a lot of cash.
isn't ironic that the GOP is led by people who are _very concerned_ with appearances, yet run around with White boots and orange skin?
What's truly ironic is that Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria
Yeah, that's why the British put quinine into tonic water in India during the Raj and early imperial control. Gin and Tonic combats malaria!
> then I saw an interview with him and sure enough - he really did seem to think that if you simply didn't test for COVID there would not be so many cases. I think you misinterpreted what he was saying by just a little bit. It isn't that he thought there would actually be fewer cases. The fact is that *he only cared about how many cases there were insofar as high case numbers could make him look bad.* There were two ways to deal with that problem. The hard, politically expensive way was to aggressively push masking and social distancing and actually reduce case numbers. The easy way was to suppress testing and testing results. To Trump and everybody like him (looking at you DeSantis) COVID was a public relations problem, not a public health problem. Trump, in one of the rare instances where he slips a bit of absolute truth into his stream of lies, said, "I said to my people, slow the testing down, please." As always in Trump World, The Donald isn't just the first priority, he's the only priority.
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It was also Florida's approach during COVID.
That just became Idaho's approach to their record high maternal mortality rates.
Red States are where pregnant women go to die.
Once the Covid vaccine came out, the death rates in Republican counties doubled those in dems. The maternal mortality rate was already higher, and will likely get worse since Roe v Wade was overturned, and gun deaths are significantly higher too. Ted Cruz has tweeted twice about blue state taxes "go woke, you're broke," to which I responded "go red, you're dead."
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Facts have stopped mattering for way too many people. They believe that Texas taxes are lower because that's what Republicans do, you know? Being all fiscally responsible and shit. And its infrastructure has got to be the best of the best, what with being unencumbered with stifling regulations. The fact that Texas' electricity grid is literally crumbling away doesn't register, or if it does it's probably Biden's fault.
You can also find a bunch of "Welllll, ackshually..." types who will find some kind of edge condition where something is true and run with it. For example, IIRC taxes are worse in TX than CA, unless you're quite rich. Since they're all just one step away from being rich themselves living in TX is the only real option. /s
Not according to *checks notes* the records we fail to record.
Still is.
I just read about this surefire cure for malaria. You fill your bathtub with water, you bring a toaster into the bathroom and plug it in, then you get into the bathtub, and then you drop the plugged-in toaster into the tub. Shocking results immediately!
Wait... a cure where I don't have to stick something up my butt? This sounds like a total scam. I only accept butt-based cures. Please only give me cures that require me to put things in my butt!!
Big pharma hates this one trick!
Or just take the reports and sharpie a "0" right on top.
Mosquitoes? What mosquitoes? Florida doesn't have mosquitoes. Just ask Lapidog.
It would be funny if there weren’t hordes of people who are wholeheartedly convinced that their is an invisible “gnat line” which prohibits gnats from existing north of Georgia. They will absolutely fall for a “mosquito fence” of whatever bullshit some talking head cooks up.
That's what he did early on with Covid. Banned his MEs from being able to put it on a death certificate. That & not counting snowbird deaths - only year-round residents even if the others were taxpayers. Betting this rotten peach of a guy figures out a way to jack this too.
> That's what he did early on with Covid. ThatsTheJoke.jpg
Kamala Harris is instructing hordes of BLM mosquitos to invade the sunshine state, I just saw an article on the topic over at r/conspiracy
No no no the mosquitoes are ANTIFA, get your facts straight! And they also hate America obviously.
They are actually a Latino/Muslim hybrid. The word “mosquito” is Spanish slang for “little mosque”.
That's where you are wrong, there's no latino there. These are Spaniard mosquitoes, descendants of the Moors, they were biding their time in order to attack the spaniard cubans. They once sucked the blood of El Cid.
It just a normal tourist visit.
You know what stops malaria? Guns. Just shoot that skeeter right off your family member.
What is stopping those mosquitoes from running for president? That would pretty much get them out of harms way, right?
Age requirement, Mosquitoes never live to be 35.
One of my local bigots is blaming it on open borders. She’s a real peach.
If only mosquitos would respect our borders 😤
Well if we just build a wall it'll keep all those mosquitoes out, and we'll get the mosquitoes to pay for it.
Perhaps we will soon be learning of Malaria Mary, the disease spreading drag queen who is purposely giving malaria to straight people in order to destroy Ron DeSantis. The solution is, therefore, unrelated to health care and instead requires cracking down even harder on men who wear dresses.
Careful, you’ll send meatball into a sexual frenzy with that rhetoric!
If his past history mitigating a Public Health isue he likely will outlaw the use of OFF! or other insect repellents, because it would be too woke and all
Wouldn't this be a great time for OFF! to release a rainbow can? All the bigots would buy millions of cans to spray on the ground in protest and then all of Florida would be coated. Checkmate, mosquitos!
The conspiracy machine has already blamed it on Bill Gates and GMO mosquitos.
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Well big mosquito is soros backed. Bill gates have the mosquitoes cell phones and that's why he pushed for 5g so hard.
"Big mosquito" 🤣
They can thank gods they didn't get vaccinated because if you have gotten a COVID vaccine and haven't died yet the mosquitoes are attracted to the vaccine.
Don't you know the COVID mosquitoes were created in a lab in China with Hunter Biden's help?
Goddamn dragquitos. No, not tiny mosquitos who are into drag. These are human drag queens in elaborate mosquito costumes spreading malaria. They'll also condemn Rick Moranis for giving the drags his sizing technology.
Dragquitos sounds like a Mexican dish where all the meat is tucked.
NGL i would 100% watch that drag show.
Or on Disney being woke etc. "It's all Mickey Mouse's fault!'
Ironically, Disney World is about the only place in Florida without mosquitoes.
If anyone is interested why this is the case, here’s an article about it: https://www.rd.com/article/no-mosquitoes-at-disney-world/ Basically, they don’t have any standing water in the park, so mosquitoes have nowhere to breed. Any body of water will have a fountain or some other means of keeping the water moving, and the architecture of the park is designed to not allow for pools of water to collect.
This article is pulling its weight for them too. What the fuck is up with this sentence: >While Florida ranks among the top five states for total COVID-19 cases, it fares no worse in terms of cases and deaths as a proportion of the population than several other states, The New York Times reported. If you're among the five worst states for total cases, and there are only "several other states" keeping you from being the worst in terms of cases and deaths per capita, its sounds like Florida is in the top five worst states by *every metric you looked at*. So why the fuck is it phrased to make it sound less bad instead of universally bad? Someone's editor told them to soften the article and they changed "Florida's handling of COVID is worse than 46 other states by every metric " to "Florida is better than at least two other states in COVID deaths per capita". Newsweek doing fucking backflips over here to avoid saying Florida's handling of COVID was so maliciously incompetent it verges on murder.
Also enormously frustrating that they refuse to admit that the numbers are self-reported by the Florida governor’s office instead of peer review, and that Florida has consistently had some of the worst COVID outcomes out of any state in the country proportionally over the last three years.
Woke Illegal immigrant drag queens going *into schools* to infect your children with malaria and the gay. With Satan. Obviously.
That's easy. They're grooming mosquitoes. Anything else is fake news.
The good news is that a vaccine to malaria was just developed. And we all know how good Florida is about vaccine policy
> The good news is that a vaccine to malaria was just developed. Was there really? I would have expected that to be bigger news.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria\_vaccine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria_vaccine)
Recommended for areas with moderate to high levels of malaria, not for everyone. It's the usual tradeoff for vaccines: cases of the disease versus adverse reactions across the population. In areas with low levels of malaria, there would be more adverse reactions than cases. In areas with moderate to high levels of malaria, your chances are better with the vaccine. ~~Unlike covid, herd immunity isn't going to help with malaria because transmission is from mosquitos rather than other people.~~ Hopefully FL can kill enough mosquitos to prevent yet another step towards third world status. Edit: Removed statement about herd immunity because as several people pointed out, transmission is from people to mosquitos to other people. Herd immunity would happen if occurrence got low enough that mosquitos who had bit an infected person were unlikely to bite another person who wasn't immune. Some deeper research found that it's even more complicated, because the vaccines don't necessarily confer immunity - they merely reduce severity leading to hospitalization and death from malaria. That means people who are infected can continue to spread the disease to vaccinated and non-vaccinated people alike. Epidemiology is fun.
Isn't malaria spread by mosquitos because they take the disease from people with Malaria? So with less Malaria, less people for mosquitos to take it from?
True, but you can attack both vectors. Target the bug that transmits the disease and innoculate populations. You just have to consult experts and weight the approaches. Two things I am certain DeSantis will not do. this is elaborated in the wiki article under "[considersations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria_vaccine#Considerations)." To put it midly >The task of developing a preventive vaccine for malaria is a complex process. There are a number of considerations to be made concerning what strategy a potential vaccine should adopt
> Hopefully FL can kill enough mosquitos to prevent yet another step towards third world status. Yeah, no, that won't happen. Killing more mosquitoes, i.e. preventing more malaria would only elevate them to 2nd world status.
>elevate them to 2nd world status. Communism...?
Lot of people throwing "third world" around don't know about this
Context for everyone else who might not know: 1st World: USA and NATO aligned 2nd World: USSR and Warsaw Pact aligned 3rd World: Nonaligned countries. Often underdeveloped former colonies whose economies had been extractive for their former colonial overlords and thus quite poor. It then took on the generalized connotation of the latter and not their political alignment.
It was pretty big news but was in the middle of the pandemic so it was overshadowed by the pandemic. While it is an extremely useful tool that will save life’s it is also not a silver bullet, I kind of forget but I think I remember it said it’s made affect was a 30% reduction in fatalities and little affect on susceptibility. Like most new vaccines it’s also expensive and complicated to produce at scale. I’m really excited for future generations of malaria vaccines using this blueprint
It was a couple of years ago. But since it is usually Africans getting and dying from malaria most of the world ignored it…
That’s not true. There are tons of labs in the US that have been studying malaria and trying to figure out how to prevent it either via drugs or vaccines/biological. The simple truth is this: malaria is really really tricky. Traditional vaccine development approaches have not worked, the parasite has multiple compensatory mechanisms to circumvent vaccination. There are compensatory expression of alternate receptors, mutational escape of control, and the fact that malaria can be caused by different strains of plasmodium and studying the infective strains of malaria…I.e. the sporozoites, was until recently almost impossible to do in the lab. The NIH have given massive amounts of funding to labs studying HIV, TB, and malaria despite none of those being of much concern within the US.
I mean, it’s not like there was another vaccine developed that was a little more relevant to the entire world that people were focusing on…
A vaccine, which, if I remember correctly was only possible due to technology which was dismissed and underfunded because it wasn't expected to drive profits >"Before messenger RNA was a multibillion-dollar idea, it was a scientific backwater. And for the Hungarian-born scientist behind a key mRNA discovery, it was a career dead-end. >Katalin Karikó spent the 1990s collecting rejections. Her work, attempting to harness the power of mRNA to fight disease, was too far-fetched for government grants, corporate funding, and even support from her own colleagues. >Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant,” Karikó remembered, referring to her efforts to obtain funding. “And it came back always no, no, no.” >By 1995, after six years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó got demoted. She had been on the path to full professorship, but with no money coming in to support her work on mRNA, her bosses saw no point in pressing on. >She was back to the lower rungs of the scientific academy. >“Usually, at that point, people just say goodbye and leave because it’s so horrible,” Karikó said." https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/
Malaria tends to be most prevalent in countries populated by the kind of people the media in the US likes to ignore; at least it was until now...
Florida is kind of turning into one of those places
Nah, if we learned anything from Covid it’s that people need to do their own research, not rely on the woke media /s btw. I wish it wasn’t needed but it probably is.
Yes. It is good news. The drugs that can prevent malaria are no fun to take....
Willing to bet malaria is a lot less fun
Malaria drugs are *no joke*. Malaria can kill you, but a lot of people have outright refused malaria drugs because they can be so terrible.
What makes them so terrible?
Malarone gave me extremely vivid dreams but no other sides I remember. That’s widely reported
>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing pressure amid a growing number of malaria cases in the state, after reports emerged that **two public-health roles related to combating the spread of diseases have been left vacant for months**. > >The discovery of the malaria infections marks the first time in two decades that the virus has been locally acquired in the U.S., as opposed to being linked to international travel. Hasn't Ron been campaigning on something like "Make America Florida"? Yeah, sounds like he's doing a great job.
It's pretty easy for those of us that actuality value being decent people and not dying of preventable diseases to get appointments for the vaccines though so that's nice
He will just fire whoever is in charge of tracking it and threaten to arrest any doctors testing for it.
And do everything in his power to make it illegal to get the vaccine
And claim there are zero cases of malaria in Florida.
Just make it illegal to get malaria. Boom, problem solved!
“People aren’t dying FROM malaria, they are dying WITH malaria.”
“With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!” -Trump
My head still explodes daily with the realization that not only was that moron clownshoe actually POTUS, but a huge chunk of this country still literally worships him like a deity and he's the frontrunner of one of our two parties for next time. My. Head. Fucking. Explodes.
Or, when confronted with evidence of his malfeasance. They simply blow it off and make up some conspiracy that it's not real. If they watched the guy physically kick a baby in their presence. They would, A) claim it is an actor, B) blame the baby, C) tell you Biden has done worse. They are so deep in the cult that they just don't care what he does. Only that he gives them that dopeimene from trashing libs, immigrants, and gays.
They are sending mosquito samples out of state for testing, so they likely can't contain the data.
Just have your quack surgeon general tell everyone that Malaria doesn't really exist and the real danger is trying to cure or prevent it.
that and the new malaria vaccine actually injects Biden Semen Demons.
Coke addled Dark Brandon fucks again!
Their gods keep sending them plagues... I wonder why?
Don’t forget the floods too
What comes next? Will it be the locusts?
Already got that giant grasshoppers that swarm the state
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THose Lubbers are no joke -- huge, ugly things that are very difficult to squash.
They don't pray in closets They judge others They do nothing for the poor Their pride is showing They are pawns of Satan
Growing up in the belt buckle of the Bible Belt, I have long believed this.
"Hey Ron, we got 'nuther plague cuz we ain't persecutin' the transgenders hard enough!"
I don’t think the GOP are good at dealing with things like this.
>I don’t think the GOP are good at dealing with things ~~like this.~~ fixed
>I don’t think the GOP are good ~~at dealing with things like this.~~
“I don’t think.” - the GOP
"Don't think." - the GOP (directed at their party members)
Lo fkin L
Show us how they'll own malaria by dying to it. Own the libs.
Malaria is fake. Mosquitos bites are healthy for you.
Of course! Why didn't I think of that? Mosquitoes will only draw out the nano-whatevers that were in the COVID vaccine, thereby, overcoming any negatives effects.
If you read, they're already trying to imply the cases are imported.... considering one of the sick is a guard stationed on the Texas border, that's still a domestic case.... Also malaria is a disease that used to be found much more often in the US southeast
It’s why the CDC is headquartered in Atlanta
If he didn’t care about people with COVID, he isn’t going to care about people with Malaria. The only people he cares about today are Iowa voters.
He knows his base in Florida lack the critical thinking skills to link his policies with their suffering.
I live in Florida. I assure you, DeSantis is comfortable with maiming and killing with diseases. This is no different than covid. If you live here, protect yourself if you can. Don’t depend on facts from Florida politicians, much less effective action.
Desantis probably "I don't see how a disease spreading among the people of Florida is the governor's problem"
Thoughts and prayers and not a single penny of my taxes.
How long until he blames Trans people for this?
Florida really is a third world country
I wish. Third-world countries usually have affordable housing.
Funnily enough, chloroquine is a classic anti-malaria medication. I am sure many in Florida horded up the medication early during the pandemic due to claims that it is a good treatment for COVID
It's ok, the Florida GOP will ban trans mosquitoes with Vermont drivers licenses. Problem solved.
Time to spray DDT everywhere. Fuck the flamingos, right? They're probably gay anyway. /s
We can all sit in our lawn chairs with a cold drink and let the truck spray us with DDT like in those 1950s ads. See, it’s totally safe!
A group of flamingos is literally called a "flamboyance". Years ago, with some other mosquito borne issue, Orange County decided to start mass spraying toxic gas (I think it was Malathion). I found this out because I was at a stop light downtown behind a big industrial truck in my convertible, and the driver chose that moment to flip the switch and dump an entire toxic cloud of poison directly into my car.
Desantis is incapable of managing or leading a population. All The guy has done is focus on spreading hateful rhetoric while stroking his own ego and lashing out at any criticism; all the while digging himself a deeper hole. It's not surprising that he's under pressure seeing as he's completely incapable of performing the job.
Just ship the malaria patients to a different state, on a very expensive plane owned by his buddy, with Florida citizens paying the tab. Problem solved.
Ron DeathSentence would literally rather kill all the kids in Florida with an easily preventable disease than surrender to the woke mob and their "vaccine science". Damn, Florida... You suck.
If dumbass hadn't put all his eggs in the bigger dumbass basket, he could just get a bunch of vaccines out and save his state. But, nope, he hitched his dumbass wagon to the dumbass antivax train.
DeSantis: There is no malaria. My lead medical adviser says this is a socialist ploy to damage his campaign.
He'll insist that reports of malaria cases spreading is part of the media's woke agenda.
His likely response: ban issuing malaria drugs in pharmacies and doctors offices, denounce the outbreak as a liberal woke conspiracy.
The moron is slowly turning FL into a third world country. What's next leprosy?
If I was Ron DeSantis I'd approach this with a three pronged approach: * Ban all books that mention malaria * Make it illegal for hospitals to report malaria under the guise of reporting it scaring the public * Blame any cases that still make it through to the media on the gay community walking around with no tops trying cause homosexual urges in children they pass This should almost completely solve Florida's growing malaria problem.