[coolhand2120]

Many countries (Japan, India) have used therapeutics prior to hospitalization. In the states therapeutics have been demonized as "horse medicine" and people have been told to say home and take NyQuil until their oxygen levels are so critically low they have to be admitted.

There has been a myopic focus on vaccines and they have performed by any estimation terribly. Any questioning this no matter how qualified are instantly demonized as anti-science. How many lives could have been saved if all options were on the table? Instead we see censorship on a level most of us never even thought possible.

[rabboRubble]

Japan relied on near universal masking (voluntary too, no mandate) and high vaccine take up. Current approved pharmaceuticals are remdesivir etc. refer:

https://www.pmda.go.jp/english/about-pmda/0002.html

If you imply ivermectin has some part in japans strategy, I encourage you to read this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/27/no-ivermect...

[robhunter]

How is the universal masking working out for Japan lately?

[rabboRubble]

Not great. But apparently neither are their special unnamed therapeutics.

[coolhand2120]

You're creating a strawman. I only said that our government has demonized self applied therapeutics and pushed vaccines only. There is no scientific reason to demonize therapeutics the way the institutions in the US have done. And what about the censorship? How can open debate happen when qualified individuals are shut down? It's all very anti-science and anti-democratic.

[rabboRubble]

What are the therapeutics to which you refer?