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Re:Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of C... by jacquesm on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:46AM (#22602663)
You can buy all kinds of super dangerous stuff in the cleaning aisle of your average supermarket. General availability is no indicator of toxicity. Ok, those are not made for ingestion. But even ignoring that factor you could list alcohol, tobacco and 30 different items from the grab-for-yourself stand at the local supermarket. You could likely kill yourself with just a handful of tablets from there if you knew what you were doing.
Re:Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of C... by swiley on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:01AM (#22602741)
I was pretty excited when I realized you can buy fairly pure, concentrated sulfuric acid in the cleaning isle at Walmart. Nothing cleans dirty glassware quite like it! Accidentally got a stopper stuck in a flask? No problem, add some H2SO4 and just pour the stopper out a few days later.

Restricting what people can buy because they might hurt themselves with it doesn’t work (because everything can be misused) and only creates problems because sometimes restricted things turn out to be really important.

Re:Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of C... by robertlagrant on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:00AM (#22602733)
This seems a legit argument in 1000 years by a historian who wanted to logic why drugs clearly couldn't have needed prescriptions.