Status Updates From Panic Attack: Playing Polit...

'Despite frequent admonitions... our course must be defined by "science"... coherence was lacking regarding all facets of the pandemic... people tried to turn the use of hydroxychloroquine into a scandal due to... lack of RCT studies supporting it, but... using ventilators and canceling non-emergency medical care... were also unsupported by RCT studies.'

'Once (POTUS) stepped into the hydroxychloroquine controversy by announcing he was taking it prophylactically, the political football was up in the air. Everyone started scrambling to intercept it, with questionable characters on both sides of the argument. On the heels of the fabricated data scandal from Surgisphere, a new movement emerged... this one composed of physicians claiming efficacy of HCQ.'

'How did the commentary develop that... one... party became known as pro-science and the other anti-science? We might certainly read this phenomenon as just another chapter in the popular representation of Republicans being anti-science conspiracy theorists and Democrats as oppressive socialists, but that doesn't really explain how regulatory standards, testing and... immunity... serve as grounds for... warfare'