Read the article linked here. Discuss how the skills of rhetoric can save lives–in other words, was the death in this article preventable if other messaging had occurred?

In the article linked above, it becomes known that an American got a hold of a drug President Trump said would cure COVID-19, and died. Our President used an app called Twitter to put out word saying:

“HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.”

Trump uses the Food and Drug Administration to help back up his claim that hydrocychloroquine and azithromycin together can be great medicines. Any normal person would immediately believe this since it’s coming from America’s president, and the FDA is mentioned.

Chloroquine, a drug that helps treat diseases such as lupus and malaria, was taken by an American couple to help treat themselves for coronavirus. They ended up in the hospital close after taken the pills where the husband died, and the wife is in bad shape.

I believe that two things could have happened to prevent this man from dying. Firstly, someone needs to approve our President’s tweets before they go out. It is clearly insane and dangerous to follow what most of this man posts. Second, people can’t just believe anything they read on the internet. Check for credibility. Dig deeper before deciding to believe something. Free speech protects people to say whatever they want, whether it’s true or not. It’s our job to look into it and not just believe everything we see. If this couple had minds for themselves; they could have not reacted in fear and did more research before taking the drug.