Cyclospora: What The Media Is Getting Wrong About The “Explosive Diarrhea” Parasite – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 644

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What is the episode overview and why is cyclospora the focus?

Dr. Drew Pinsky 0:02
All right, I'm going to give you a little disquisition on cyclospora in about 40 minutes. First, I have two clips. I'm going to tell you about them in just a second. Let me read to you from the CDC website. I just clicked on it. This is current to the moment. As of July 13th, more than 400 people infected with cyclospora have been reported to the CDC from four states. 2,700 is the usual number. at the end of the year so there's going to be a lot more it appears to be that there are some regional outbreaks and those people live in those regions need to pay attention for sure and doctors and cdc and epidemiologists need to pay attention you do not it appears it does not it's an easily treated illness if you have
Dr. Drew Pinsky 0:55
immunocompromised from chemotherapy or cancer treatment, or you're very old, you might want to pay attention, especially if you're in a region where there's been an outbreak. But I'll give you all a specific. You guys ask me lots of good questions, including is ivermectin one of the treatments? I'll tell you where we have treatment. It is in this medical emergency kit, but I will explain to you what that is. In about 40 minutes. In the meantime, I've got the two Cliffs lined up. Cliff Maloney, co-author of Run Right, a complete election playbook to win, discusses his door-knocking ground game that won the midterms. And viral commentator Uncle Cliff, the auto technician who went viral, saying simple truths.
Dr. Drew Pinsky 1:38
And I just love Cliff. I just want to hear his wisdom. And you will... Enjoy it as well, and I'll share it with you in about 20 minutes. First, Cliff Maloney after this. Our laws as it pertains to substances are draconian and bizarre. A psychopath started this. He was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction, fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous. I'm a doctor. Where the hell do you think I learned that?
Unknown 2:07
I'm just saying, you go to treatment before you kill people. I am a clinician.
Dr. Drew Pinsky 2:11
I observe things about these chemicals. Let's just deal with what's real. We used to get these calls on Loveline all the time. Educate adolescents and to prevent and to treat. If you have trouble, you can't stop and you want help stopping, I can help.
Unknown 2:21
I got a lot to say. I got a lot more to say.
Dr. Drew Pinsky 2:34
Cliff Maloney is a grassroots activist from Philadelphia in the suburbs there. He's CEO of Citizens Alliance. By the age of 34, his teams of door knockers had knocked on more than 9 million doors in the United States. Confirmed victories in 41 federal, state, and local elections. Roger Stone nicknamed him the godfather of door knocking, co-author of Run Right, Complete Election Handbook. You can follow Cliff on X just at Maloney, M-A-L-O-N-E-Y. Pretty good deal that you got that X handle. Cliff, welcome.
Unknown 3:09
Thanks for having me, Doc. So how did you get involved in all this?
Cliff Maloney 3:16
Yeah, so it's actually Ron Paul back in 2010. I was a freshman in college and I really just dove in. You know, Ron was kind of an inspiration. I think I had a pretty similar path that I read about you, where I was kind of much more the libertarian type. And, you know, COVID, as I was getting involved in these campaigns, you know, COVID was a huge wake up because there were a lot of people, you know, even people that call themselves libertarian and conservative that let the fear mongering get to them. And so since the 2016 cycle, I've been putting together door knocking operations. And it's not a fun game, but it's great job security because nobody likes to do it. All the logistics and all the details.
Cliff Maloney 3:58
But Ron Paul was my entry point. Just fascinated with some of his ideas and always wanted to figure out how can I effectively make Liberty win.
Dr. Drew Pinsky 4:08
What's interesting to me is in this state of California, particularly in Southern California, we feel completely helpless to affect elections. It is just 60% one way, 100% of the time, which should tip us off that something isn't quite right. And there should be some way of mixing up at least the election process. I think a lot of people are aware of what happened with...

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