God bless the Internet. And state and local journalism. Really.
From Oklahoma's undeniably illuminating Frontier, which I somehow stumbled on a few minutes ago:
"The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of [hydroxychloroquine], once touted by former President Donald Trump as a way to treat the coronavirus." The state's governor ordered the useless heap.
"[He] purchased the hydroxychloriquine stockpile in early April, days after Trump began to tout it as a treatment." Even though "health officials nationwide immediately began to caution people against using the drug," Oklahoma's governor "wasn’t alone in his support of hydroxychloroquine."
State representative Justin Humphrey — who had sought "to establish a Bigfoot hunting season in Oklahoma and made waves in 2017 when he referred to pregnant women as 'hosts'" — also "promoted [it] as a viable treatment after he had contracted COVID-19."
The governor "defended the purchase at the time," arguing that "the drug had multiple other uses" — such as a potion for those millions of Oklahomans who yearly come down with malaria, or perhaps for those many housewives who hanker to use it as an aromatic compound in their monthly home production of house paint.
"A spokesman for [the] Oklahoma Attorney General … told The Frontier this week that the AG’s office was working with the state health department 'to try to figure out a solution.'"
Uh, grow a brain?