WA congressional candidate Loren Culp advises supporters to buy unproven COVID treatments

[brooklynite]

Source: Seattle Times

Washington congressional candidate Loren Culp is promoting unproven treatments for COVID-19, advising supporters to send a few hundred dollars to a Florida telemedicine clinic that dispenses drugs medical researchers say are ineffective and potentially dangerous.

Culp, a Republican endorsed by Donald Trump in his effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, says he knows several people who have recently gotten sick with COVID and been hospitalized, including a few who died.

“I want to make sure you and your family have everything available to combat this virus if you or someone you love gets it,” Culp wrote in a Feb. 9 email to supporters, with the subject line, “A Personal Message about the Chinese Virus.”

Culp said he recently paid the Florida clinic for drugs including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Most doctors won’t prescribe them, he wrote, because of “lies coming from Big Pharma, the US Government, the media, and of course Dr. Fauci.”

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[Rural_Progressive]

1. We may have to chose between this clown and Dan Newhouse

We live in a beautiful area, neither of us are urban people, we generate our own power, pump our own water, have acres to raise sheep and a 10,000 sq garden.

What we don't have are neighbors who haven't been brainwashed by right wing radio and the Moody Bible Institute into voting for people who work against their best interests.

[maxsolomon]

6. Moody Bible Institute?

Hadn't known they were a force in Central WA. Don't really know much about them...

[Rural_Progressive]

15. Oh you can pick up a Moody Bible radio station

pretty much anywhere you travel in Central WA all the way from the Canadian border to the banks of the Columbia River to the south. They just reinforce the message you get from listening to all the right wing stations available in the same area.

[Ferryboat]

2. Barney Fife exists!

This guy ran for governor on a resume as a sheriff in a town so small his partner was his dog.

Republic is a nice town, love visiting the area but to think this guy is climbing onto the national stage of federal governance is appalling.

[Johnyawl]

5. And after the election Republic terminated him...lol

...he cried and complained cause they didn't throw him a party, give him a gold watch or any severance pay. I LMAO reading that article.

[Stuart G]

8. K and R your post..Yes, Barney Fife exists. I know him well. I am a member of the Barney Fife...

Association..(Yes, I am a founding member) and we try to remember Barney as best we can. We try to
recall his fine moments on TV, as well as his not so fine moments. We are in awe of Barney in ways that
most people have no idea about. I will go into that in another post. But we must remember Barney because
there was only one Barney Fife. Please, Please and Please do NOT FORGET BARNEY FIFE.....................

..................................well ....What did you expect on Barney Fife? ...oh, oh...time to hide again

[hoosierspud]

3. Wait a minute!

He claims that he won the governor's race in 2019. How can he run for Congress at the same time he's governing the state?

[keithbvadu2]

4. Then there is no problem obtaining those drugs. Just send money.

[Brainfodder]

9. Candidate Culp has their M.D. and PhD in Chemistry from where again?

Apparently calling this false BS wasn't with enough PANACHE the first few thousand times + all the deaths?

[jmowreader]

12. Trump University Medical School, of course

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. Is there a way I can make money off of Trumptard covid deniars, by recommending

unproven and possibly very bad treatments for COVID to them?


I welcome all recommendations. Charity begins at home. If the end result is fewer Trumptards voting in future elections, well... that is a plus.


Maybe just promoting a few T-shirt designs...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Just bottle any foul thing and label it Ivermectin.

[Tacan]

13. Loren Culp dropped out of High School in his junior year.

He was the Chief of Police in a small town of Republic. He was Chief because He was the only person in the department. He has been accused of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl that, suprise, suprise he didn't investigate, and He still has not conceded his loss in the Governor race. A real loser.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. "lies coming from Big Pharma..."

Who in the hell do they think MAKES stuff like "ivermectin".

Media > Company statements > Company statement
Merck Statement on Ivermectin use During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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February 4, 2021 11:45 am ET

KENILWORTH, N.J., Feb. 4, 2021 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today affirmed its position regarding use of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to-date, our analysis has identified:

--- No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies;
--- No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and;
--- A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.

We do not believe that the data available support the safety and efficacy of ivermectin beyond the doses and populations indicated in the regulatory agency-approved prescribing information.

(snip)

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

(and as a note, Merck was the originator working with Japanese researchers in the late '70s to develop it and eventually patent it in the early '80s, where the patent, after a couple extensions, finally expired in the late '90s leading to the generics that are out there now but Merck has a generic division that still sells it as a generic)

Merck Sets Generic Drug Sales

By Milt Freudenheim

Sept. 8, 1992


An announcement by Merck & Company that it would market lower-priced generic versions of its products signals that even the world's most powerful drug companies cannot ignore the possibility of sharp revenue declines when important drugs lose patent protection.

Merck said Friday that it was creating a generic drug division, West Point Pharma, based in West Point, Pa., that would market diflunisal -- a lower-priced exact copy of its analgesic Dolobid, which has $100 million a year in sales. Dolobid lost its American patent protection in 1989 but has not yet faced a generic competitor.

(snip)

He predicted that many Merck drugs would eventually be converted to generic versions so that the company could offer "one-stop shopping" to large health maintenance organizations like Kaiser Permanente. He compared the Merck strategy to "I.B.M.'s deciding recently to market 'clones' of its PC computers at low prices."

Merck will have more time than most drug makers to test its generic strategy. Next on the list may be Merck's ivermectin, the world's largest veterinary drug, with $565 million in 1991 world sales ($265 million in the United States). Ivermectin loses its patent protection in April 1997. And Mevacor, Merck's $1.4 billion-a-year cholesterol-lowering drug, goes off patent in 1999.

(snip)

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/08/business/merck-sets-generic-drug-sales.html

[Aristus]

16. This guy is back? Stay down on the mat, dude!

Ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He lost because they voted for him out in Spokanistan, where nobody lives, and we voted for Jay Inslee in Pierce, King, and Snohomish counties, where everyone lives.

Go away, asshole!