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by cheaprentalyeti 1699 days ago
If the government were stupid and tyrranical enough to ban Human Azithromycin, and you came down with bacterial bronchitis, would you just die or would you go to the local feed store and buy some animal grade azithromycin?
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ceejayoz 1699 days ago
Ivermectin hasn't been banned in humans, though.

The situation is more akin to a few doctors deciding to prescribe azithromycin to schizophrenia patients without much evidence of efficacy, for which they'd be rightly at risk of trouble with their medical licenses.

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cheaprentalyeti 1699 days ago
I used Azithromycin for a reason, because until Covid Brand Viral Pneumonia came along, Azithromycin was considered a standard part of the treatment protocol for viral pneumonia just in case. And because of this study, which I suggest reading carefully. [0].

(And it's funny, that the surgisphere study that showed that HCQ didn't work was published straight away, even though the data was fraudulent? And a similar one that showed that ACE inhibitors didn't work too? They both got published in the Lancet straight away, and noone has any questions about _why_ that was done.)

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33465426/

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ceejayoz 1699 days ago
"Give antibiotics for pneumonia" and "give antiparisitics for pneumonia" are slightly different scenarios, yes?
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cheaprentalyeti 1699 days ago
Well, as was pointed out elsewhere on this thread, 1) earlier this decade ivermectin was being studied for antiviral properties. 2) Azithromycin's use as a covid treatment seems to be controversial, even though a couple years ago it would have been considered a standard treatment for _viral_ pneumonia to combat the _possibility_ of bacterial infection.
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ceejayoz 1699 days ago
> Azithromycin's use as a covid treatment seems to be controversial...

By itself? Or as part of the supposed protocol from HQC/zinc/zpak pushers?

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cheaprentalyeti 1699 days ago
Both in conjunction with HCQ and zinc, in conjunction with other drugs (like the antihistiamine treatment I linked to earlier), and by itself.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33465426/

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beamatronic 1699 days ago
That seems like a false choice
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