A Plague In Its Own Right

Trump Derangement Syndrome

By now we are all be familiar with what is known as "Trump Derangement Syndrome" [TDS].  It designates a state of affairs where reflexively anything which President Trump says or does immediately becomes verboten or subject to ridicule.  

If, for example, Trump were to say on national TV, "I believe it is important for humans to breathe" a phalanx of dedicated Trump Derangement Syndrome types would mock, ridicule, and reject breathing.  In other words whatever Trump says or does, it is is immediately rejected.  Well, hyperbolically at least. 

What follows is a classic example of TDS  First, the story:

10,000 Health Workers to Trial Hydroxychloroquine as Preventative

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart London

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has revealed that it is following U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead on experimenting with hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus preventative.

The state-run, socialised healthcare provider will be giving hydroxychloroquine to as many as 10,000 health workers at at least 20 hospitals as part of a clinical trial led by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (Moru), to confirm anecdotal evidence that it can prevent people from catching the Chinese virus.   The announcement may give satisfaction to President Trump, who was slammed by left-liberal politicians and commentators when he revealed that he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a possible preventative.

The American leader told reporters on Monday that they would “be surprised at how many people are taking [hydroxychloroquine], especially the frontline workers, before you catch it,” before revealing that he is taking the drug himself. . . .

British researchers, it turns out, are keen to test the efficacy of "hydroxy".

“Based on the known pharmacology of hydroxychloroquine, coupled with the emerging knowledge surrounding SARS-CoV-2 viral replication and Covid-19 pathophysiology, we were very keen to test the effectiveness of this molecule in a preventative rather than late-stage treatment setting,” said Dr Anthony Grosso of Accord Europe, a British pharmaceuticals manufacturer which has donated more than two million tablets for the NHS study.

“If drugs as well tolerated as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could reduce the chances of catching Covid-19, this would be incredibly valuable,” explained Professor Martin Llewelyn, the study’s British lead.

“If these drugs offer even a degree of protection, it would be a very big deal. We know from previous studies that these drugs have anti-viral activity, but as a treatment it seems to be relatively modest,” he said .  “It seems the best chance of these drugs having a role could be in prevention,” he concluded — exactly the reason President Trump has been using the drug.

But, in the US, those afflicted with TDS immediately fell subject to an attack of the rabid syndrome:

As Breitbart News put it: 

Why is the Establishment Media so determined to attack hydroxychloroquine? "As soon as [Trump] said something positive about it, the media has been on a jihad to discredit the drug. It’s quite strange.”

And . . .

Chuck Schumer, who leads the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, branded the President “reckless” and claimed that “All the experts say at best it doesn’t help” following the revelation.

"All the experts", eh.  How's that for a startling manifestation of prejudice.  It appears there is no hope for those smitten with  TRS.