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by ViViDboarder 1919 days ago
I see an article written by someone I don’t know and a comment by someone I also don’t know. Do you have any reasons you can provide to lead me to believe there is no truth in the article? It doesn’t really appear to be anti-vax to me, but rather advocating for better treatment options.
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Shouldn't the evidence for claims be important, rather than the fact that you do or don't know someone?
it opens by presenting unconnected things and then trying to say they all have a common cause - the drug its marketing

it them goes on to question authority and saying any care that does work is ineffective by likening it all to a different failure

it then proposes a solution to a different problem once again marketing its own drug.

yet it presents literally no positive evidence for its drug.

This is standard bs

'For 25 years, ivermectin has been distributed free in 19 African countries to control parasites. Is it a coincidence that those countries had 28 percent fewer COVID deaths and 8 percent fewer cases than 35 other African nations? Is it a coincidence that the 240-million-resident Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which distributes free ivermectin, has a COVID death rate that is one-sixtieth that of the United States’? '

without a shred of evidence it is at best vague correlation, certainly not causative ... so is it even coincidence?

Are there places it is being used where it has no effect. Does this drug in those places effect some other factor that increases rate of infection - such as the illnesses it treats which arn't causative factors elsewhere?

There's mounting evidence that Ivermectin works great against covid when given early. I wont do your job but you can use this google.com thing or r/ivermectin .

The problem with Ivm (for 1st world countries) is that its cheap and not pstented, so there's no money in making scientific trials. So a lot of the trials available are from third world countries.

Here in Mexico IVM has been given by some doctors, the IMSS (which is the national health system) has it as part of the COVID cocktail . And I've seen several doctors prescribing it prophylactically.