Lupus patients are definitionally immuno-compromised. My fiancée hasn't left the house in a month. We have had to cancel all of her doctors appointments, including the benlysta infusions to treat her lupus, and of course she can no longer get her hydroxychloroquine. 1/x https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1246537529693741062

I live in constant fear that every trip to the grocery store is going to be the one where I bring something home that's going to kill her. Meanwhile she's having a flare in her disease that we no longer have the drugs to control 2/x

And the most I can do is watch as the disease which has already damaged multiple organ systems and derailed her entire life is able to rage unabated because Donald Trump seized on a badly designed study and started a run on the drug she needs to control her condition 3/x

"maybe that's true, maybe not..." he says. AS WITH EVERYTHING ELSE, HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT. He'll just throw off whatever chaff he can use to sell false hopes to the people willingly duped by him and make it look like he's doing something useful. 4/x

And the worst part in all this is that it appears to be happening for no goddamned reason beyond that the President is a moron. Plaquenil DOESN'T WORK AS ADVERTISED IN TREATING COVID19. 5/end https://twitter.com/First10EM/status/1245744547528916992

I'm grateful to all the well-wishers responding to this thread. Your kind words and encouragement mean a lot to me and to Elisabeth.