[ratacat]

I don't like this. All of the question of 'Why on earth choose WHO' aside...it is dangerous and depressing precident.

I live with a number of ladies who are very familiar with plant medicine. When this whole thing started we all started taking lots of dandelion root / hawthorne tincture. Dandelion is well known to both help your lymphatic system and support respiratory issues.

Hawthorne is an amazing heart / circulatory support. There is literary NO RISK for us in applying these home grown medicines.

We've all been infected since then, and each of us had pretty mild symptoms, that lasted for relatively short amounts of time. About two to three weeks. Many many people see 30-40 days of symptoms.

It cost us nothing. The medicine was prepared at home. Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically? Maybe it would reduce hospitalizations by 1%, or maybe it would reduce them by 75%, we don't know because there's no money to be made in it.

YouTube is a fantastic avenue for period to share their own experiences. Yes, you must take what people say with a grain of salt. You can't just believe anything you see. I feel sad that they are censoring people from sharing their own experiences in this time where are governments and medical systems are largely failing us.

[msla]

> Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically?

A lot of deaths:

https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supple...

> The inspection reports portray an industry struggling to meet basic manufacturing standards, from verifying the identity of the ingredients that go into its products to inspecting finished batches of supplements.

> Some firms don't even have recipes, known as master manufacturing records, for their products.

> Others make their supplements in unsanitary factories. New Jersey-based Quality Formulation Laboratories produced protein powder mixes and other supplements in a facility infested with rodents, rodent feces and urine, according to government records. FDA inspectors found a rodent apparently cut in half next to a scoop, according to a 2008 inspection report.

> we don't know because there's no money to be made in it.

Lots of people are making lots of money selling this stuff. It's a huge industry.

[lovich]

>Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically?

Isn't that a big point of this? Who does know? The answer is nobody, but a lot of these "alternative" medicine pushers aren't asking questions but instead presenting their "alternatives" as absolute cures

[Nursie]

Your "plant medicine" is very likely worthless, as most are.

Lots of people have few to no symptoms. Your anecdote means nothing, and is a prime example of why we don't use anecdote instead of actual data - if people are put off engaging with actual medical services and instead are bamboozled by this sort of woo, bad things can and will happen.

[mc32]

Right in the beginning even the WHO knew little about Covid19 and transmissibility, mortality , etc., so anyone questioning their initial assertions would have been banned. That’s bad. The WHO is not an infallible know-it-all.

This is bogus.