b'Editorstudies, by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, long-time director of the National Institute of Aller-gies and Infectious Diseases and lead medical advisor on the White House coronavi-rus task force. In this one of several clashes egged-on between Trump and Fauci by the press corps, the President was accused of playing doctor and urging citizens into the undo risk of taking an unproven drug therapy for Covid-19. Anyone who has served in the military or other U.S. Government capacity in Southeast Asia, or Africa, has likely been given hydroxychloroquine to prevent malaria sickness.On the very day that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his approv-al of the use of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 patients in his state, commentators on CNN and MCNBC ignored that part of the story even as they continued to criticize Trump for offering unqualified medical advice, while supplying false hope.Wild-eyed news editors smelled blood in the water when an Arizona couple in their 60s, after hearing Trump promote hydroxychloroquine both as a potential lifesaving treatment for Covid-19 and as possibly offering protection against getting sick from the virus, decided to ingest an aquarium product that contained chloro-quine from their home. They both immediately became violently ill and were rushed to the hospital, where the husband soon died from cardiac arrest, and the wife was Closer than ever for longer than expectedadmitted in critical condition but survived. She told NBC News, I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, Hey, isnt that the stuff theyre talking about on TV? We were afraid of getting sick.The President was flatly blamed for the mans death and the womans sickness, for talking them into taking parasite medicine for Koi goldfish, on their own and without consulting a physician, as a way to avoid getting Covid-19. Ever heard of the Darwin Awards? We recently witnesses two lovely, middle-aged women jogging down Ocean Drive (with the traffic), one on the sidewalk and the other passing her in a way so as to maintain social distancingabout six feet away, running atop the white, inside line of the bicycle lane, with RAM trucks whizzing past at 55 mph. The virus is not what is going to get these people.High school and college Classes of 2020 will be lost in history. Graduations, proms, senior years for tennis, baseball and basketball players, and most of an entire semester, gone for all our kids. While life has devolved into staring at a screen, all of the great experiences that our children are missing out on cannot be made upyoure only nine once. Its been rendered illegal to get together with your friends and family members, at least in groups larger than ten, so weve lost weddings, reunions, birthday parties and all the gatherings that make us who we areand that tend to include both new and aging family members. Most significantly to many in the Coastal Bend and around the country, is that it is now a violation to assemble for religious purposes, or any purposein direct contradiction to the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the United Statesand all in the name of a national emergency.22 THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEFEATURED: The Stories that Mattered TheCoastalBend.com'