Ron DeSantis is nuts. Howard Dean says Ron DeSantis is more insane than Donald Trump. At least Trump rolled over at the last minute and told his followers to get vaccinated. DeSantis is going to play out his nutty hand until the very end and he doesn’t carry that he’s rendered his state a public health crisis. The latest development is that Florida poison control centers are being deluged with emergencies due to ingestion of the horse dewormer ivermectin and DeSantis is fine with that. In fact, he heard about ivermectin from a doctor — a psychiatrist in California, to be precise. Good to know DeSantis is talking to a shrink, we just wish it was about his own problems and not the coronavirus. Tampa Bay Times:
The surge of interest in the parasite drug, ivermectin, prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to issue a national alert advising against its use to treat coronavirus. The maker of the drug, Merck, has also said there is “no scientific basis” to claim that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.
Dr. Mark McDonald of Los Angeles is among a fringe group of outspoken medical professionals who have pushed ivermectin as an alternative to widespread vaccination against coronavirus. McDonald called ivermectin “effective, safe, inexpensive treatment” in a Aug. 5 Twitter post, and he shared an article by the Jerusalem Post citing a recent study of the drug in Israel.
A wave of online misinformation about ivermectin has led to increased demand, and some people have turned to a version of the drug meant for farm animals. That sparked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to tweet: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
Florida Poison Control Centers, a state-funded non-profit, has treated 27 ivermectin-related cases in August, with most involving drugs made for livestock. That’s more cases tied to the drug than the center saw in all of last year.
Last year it was fish tank cleaner. This year it’s horse dewormer. I don’t want to even conjecture where we might be next year. Flea spray? Furniture polish? Tanning lotion? Trump might get jealous about that.
McDonald called people who think ivermectin is a drug for horses “ignoramuses” in a tweet posted Monday. (The drug can treat parasites in both humans and animals like horses.)
In a phone interview, McDonald made clear Friday that people “should not get (ivermectin) from a feed lot.” But he said people are ingesting livestock medicine out of desperation because the federal government was preventing doctors from making the drug available.
McDonald accused the Food and Drug Administration of sidelining ivermectin because it already has spent billions of dollars to “mass vaccinate the population.” […]
Dr. John Sinnott, the chairman of internal medicine at University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine and an epidemiologist at Tampa General Hospital, said it was “evil” for people to promote ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment “because it detracts from appropriate care.”
“Any physician who espouses this should be reported to their state medical association,” Sinnott added.
McDonald was one of several doctors summoned by DeSantis for a July closed-door discussion on mask policies in schools. In his comments, he argued that “masking children is child abuse,” according to video of the meeting later released by the governor’s office. He also likened mask mandates to apartheid, South Africa’s racist system of segregation during the 20th century.
What’s that you say? Why in the world would DeSantis be consulting with a psychiatrist about a global pandemic? Look, seeing as how it’s DeSantis, it’s amazing he hasn’t conjured up a witch doctor from another dimension. Expect that next.
Now this you’re going to love.
McDonald is one of several medical professionals from outside the state’s network of public health experts who DeSantis has leaned on for guidance throughout the pandemic. DeSantis has also regularly turned to Dr. Scott Atlas, a Stanford neuroradiologist favored by former President Donald Trump. Atlas reportedly clashed with other White House coronavirus task force members last year for urging Trump to let the virus run its course without government interventions.
I take it back, DeSantis has found the witch doctor. And anybody know where the demon spooj doctor is, Stella Immanuel? I expect her and the magnetic spoons M.D. to show up as well in Florida. They’ll be burning masks under a 5G tower, while DeSantis sticks pins in a COVID molecule shaped doll. just wait and see.
If you want to know how really nuts DeSantis is, read this. The person writing it is a journalist at Vox.
The way that cable news typically works is there's a makeup room right next to the greenroom. Shortly before your segment, they slather makeup on your face. Then, when your segment is over, you go back to the makeup room to get some wipes to remove it all.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) August 12, 2021
When I get there, the congressman is in the middle of the makeup room, ranting about some bizarre conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton and Russia (I think), and he's going on about how Jim Jordan is about to uncover it all.
He's not really talking to anyone in particular.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) August 12, 2021
If he wasn't wearing a suit and a Member of Congress pin, I would've assumed he was just some random person with a very serious mental illness who had somehow gotten past Fox's security and then set himself up, street preacher-style, in the first room he found with people in it.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) August 12, 2021
Friends, the unhinged man, who was ranting in the general direction of the makeup ladies at 10:40pm on a weeknight, was Ron DeSantis.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) August 12, 2021
And this guy wants to run for president. And Fox News is now grooming him for that very thing. Don’t want to ruin your sleep tonight, just saying.
It sounds like this is more than political theater for DeSantis. It sounds like mentally, he is really out there in nutjob land.
Maybe DeSantis and Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn (and the list could go on…) could get a group rate in the looney bin.?????
I really wish folks who are going to “write stories” on Twitter would learn how to format them so they’re f***ing coherent.
Number one (and considering this guy’s supposed to be a *writer* for Vox, the sins are all that much worse), he doesn’t give an actual DATE for this event. Just starting off with something along the lines of “this happened back in whenever” would help–especially as the “big reveal” to the story involves a MAJOR change in the subject’s occupation.
And number two comes from that point: He starts talking about a “Congressman” and then “reveals” the nutjob to be DeSantis. A better way for that to have been written would have been “Friends, the unhinged Congressman . . . was now-Governor Ron DeSantis.”
For a “journalist,” he certainly doesn’t seem to be much of a writer.
I agree. He does not write well, even with newsworthy content!
He writes quite well, for telling a long story in a form that’s intended for sound-bite stuff.
Reading down the tread, someone suggested 2017, during “Uranium One”.
Having run psychiatric admissions at Duke, I can attest to the fact that there isn’t a large group of people who meet the criteria for a true psychiatric diagnosis. Most folks are overwhelmed by things that have happened, or things they are unable to cope with. Having said that, delusional thinking & acceptance of ‘facts’ that aren’t real does meet the criteria for involuntary commitment. If you believe u are superman & try to fly off a building, you’ll find a very unforgiving fact, i.e., gravity. You become a danger to yourself & others,(u could land on someone). Someone should take out papers on him. U just might find a magistrate to issue the custody order. An average guy doing these things would either be staring at a jail cell or a seclusion room in a hospital. U know. Until they were able to face reality. Having power & a public pulpit should not excuse killing people with a deadly virus. If a terrorist was known to come in to spread a KNOWN killer of millions of people, they would be arrested or killed to stop them. Why does a title & a suit make a difference? Even more reason.
Last year it was tRump killing citizens with Covid and getting away with it. This year it’s DeathSentence, Abbott and Noem doing their worst, plus a few others. I just don’t know anymore.