“ALOHA, BELOVED,” SAYS A SMIL-ing young woman from her kitchen. “About three, four days ago I made ‘the cure’…to what’s going around. It’s actually called hydroxy-chloroquine,” she explains. Hydroxychloroquine is the drug that ignited fierce debate soon after the coronavirus pandemic began. Following multiple studies, a broad consensus of medical experts, as well as the Food and Drug Administration, rejected claims that it could prevent or cure COVID-19 even as some, including then-President Donald Trump, continued to tout it.
The woman lifts up a plastic jug containing a murky yellow liquid. “It’s made out of grapefruit peel and lemon peel and it’s slow simmered and it’s supposed to ‘cure’ that,” she continues. “I’m telling you, hydroxychloro-quine, quinine, can heal anything.”
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