In other news, Utah is set to give Florida a run for its money for the “Stupidest State in the Nation” title:

Utah officials have already committed $800,000 on an initial order of 20,000 doses of malaria medication promoted as a possible treatment for COVID-19, according to records that surfaced Thursday as state lawmakers looked at carving out $8 million that could be for a second and much larger purchase of the unproven drug.

If approved by the Legislature, the $8 million set-aside could fund the massive hydroxychloroquine order that state health officials have been pondering in recent weeks. Officials say their idea is to procure the medicine for 200,000 coronavirus patients and distribute it to drug stores across the state, where it would be available at no cost to people with a prescription certifying their COVID-19 diagnosis.

This has got to be some kind of fucked up alternate reality we’re living in, right?