| There are well-established guidelines for ethically testing and prescribing experimental drugs. If the individuals who have been peddling ivermectin and vitamin cocktails had instead encouraged enrollment in randomized controlled trials overseen by Institutional Review Boards to protect the rights and safety of human subjects, we would have quickly generated high quality data to determine safety and efficacy of ivermectin for COVID. The haphazard global distribution of ivermectin meant that no meaningful data could be generated to determine if it worked. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonbatemanhouse/2017/12/20/w... The rest of your comments are distracting "whataboutisms" but to clarify: • Airplanes may have good air circulation while the plane is flying but prior to take off and in airports, air circulation isn't so good. • People were buying horse dewormer based on false claims about ivermectin. This is fact. • As we learned more about the virus (e.g. the frequency of spread by asymptomatic individuals) and as the virus mutated (e.g. to be more infectious and not as "on target" for the vaccines), recommendations have changed. |
The intent of my comment is to highlight the media's focus on one side of wrong decisions which only further divides the public.
* For airplanes, I am pointing out the requirement for masking currently even when masking is not required anywhere in California/New York (2 of the most restrictive states for COVID throughout the pandemic) for indoor. It's pure theatre to have people show up to the airport never wearing a mask and then putting it on (ineffectively no less) and then taking it off immediately when they leave the airport.
* Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic which has been prescribed 3.7 billion times (and won a nobel prize). Does it help with Covid? Current data seems to imply it does not. My callout is on the media calling its a horse dewormer (which while true is meant to mislead).
* On virus mutations, see my comment on flip-flopping.