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Trump Is Now Doing to Himself What He?s Done to the Country
Defying the medical consensus and heedless of the risks, the president announces he?s taking hydroxychloroquine.
12:19 PM ET
David A. Graham
Staff writer at The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/trumps-hydroxychloroquine-microcosm/611836/
If Trump wishes to put dangerous medicines into his body, that is of course his prerogative. It?s a free country. But with his hydroxychloroquine two-step, he risks encouraging other Americans to put it into their body too. In that way, Trump?s announcement that he?s taking hydroxychloroquine echoes his handling of the pandemic: poisoning the entire body politic with chaos, misinformation, and distrust.
Defying the medical consensus and heedless of the risks, the president announces he?s taking hydroxychloroquine.
12:19 PM ET
David A. Graham
Staff writer at The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/trumps-hydroxychloroquine-microcosm/611836/
If Trump wishes to put dangerous medicines into his body, that is of course his prerogative. It?s a free country. But with his hydroxychloroquine two-step, he risks encouraging other Americans to put it into their body too. In that way, Trump?s announcement that he?s taking hydroxychloroquine echoes his handling of the pandemic: poisoning the entire body politic with chaos, misinformation, and distrust.