They only way I believe anyone should feel safe recommending it would be if they are sure it’s pharmaceutical grade and quality. Otherwise… it could possibly do more harm than good, or do nothing at all.
The same is true with a generic that you buy at a pharmacy. It can possibly do more harm than good or do nothing at all. Ranbaxy sold generics for which that’s true and even after the FDA was told about that by a whistleblower it took them years to do something about it.
This the question is, even if you did, would this protocol be good enough to prevent catching Covid and transmitting it to someone that’s immunocompromised, for example.
You can ask the same thing with the vaccines. Vaccines do have the disadvantage that it’s easier for viruses to mutate to escape them. High vaccination rates in the UK and Israel didn’t prevent a rising case count but Ivermectin use (alone) coincides with it in India.
I don’t see how this is relevant. You could believe Covid is a very big deal and not have the money or means to spend ~50 dollars a month on supplements.
Price of supplements is a different issue then whether you have to take the supplement daily.
I can? I’m not the FDA, Fauci or WHO. How can I make sure 7 billion people have enough Ivermectin to take several days a week for a year or more and ensure compliance?
You don’t have the power but you also don’t have the power to set public health policy in other regards.
How would be administer 100 of billions of doses of Ivermectin and ensure people are taking them for months or year?
Public health policy is not about ensuring that people do things outside of totalitarian states. It’s about providing people with options and informing them about the value of various actions.
The same is true with a generic that you buy at a pharmacy. It can possibly do more harm than good or do nothing at all. Ranbaxy sold generics for which that’s true and even after the FDA was told about that by a whistleblower it took them years to do something about it.
Absent a studies comparing the quality of drugs from the dark web vs. the quality of drugs pharmacies, my prior is to assume that drugs from pharmacies are typically safer. Although I agree, yes, it’s not perfect. I have recourse if I discover they’re contaminated or don’t contain the medication advertised. Best I could do on the dark web is leave a mean review and hope the dealer doesn’t find a way to retaliate.
You can ask the same thing with the vaccines. Vaccines do have the disadvantage that it’s easier for viruses to mutate to escape them.
Price of supplements is a different issue then whether you have to take the supplement daily.
Price is a factor in compliance. If you can’t afford supplements, you will be less likely to comply.
You don’t have the power but you also don’t have the power to set public health policy in other regards… Public health policy is not about ensuring that people do things outside of totalitarian states. It’s about providing people with options and informing them about the value of various actions.
This is ultimately why I think this is an unproductive and to some degree dangerously misleading discussion (not just you and me, but also the vaccination vs early treatment and treatment protocols).
I don’t take any joy citing the linked author, but I do feel like we’re on a ship and we’re heading towards and iceberg and everyone is like “what about zinc? what about ivermectin?” And, yes, those are all things that deserve more attention and I’m against censoring discussion of them.
Ivermectin may yet prove to be a miracle drug, and I think the evidence there is promising. I don’t see the downsides to people taking zinc or vitamin d3 at reasonable and effective doses. I don’t see any of it as having the potential to turn the ship around.
But right now as of August 16th at ~5:45pm mountain time what we have to turn the ship around that we know works are vaccines. Yes, the side-effects are probably worse than claimed. And, yes, the public health apparatus in the US sucks for a million reasons, one of which is that they talk to us like children when it comes to vaccine safety. But all the evidence I’ve seen is that this is better than the alternative.
Since I haven’t seen other proven solutions for quickly and reliably turning the ship around, comparatively everything else seems like a distraction.
The same is true with a generic that you buy at a pharmacy. It can possibly do more harm than good or do nothing at all. Ranbaxy sold generics for which that’s true and even after the FDA was told about that by a whistleblower it took them years to do something about it.
You can ask the same thing with the vaccines. Vaccines do have the disadvantage that it’s easier for viruses to mutate to escape them. High vaccination rates in the UK and Israel didn’t prevent a rising case count but Ivermectin use (alone) coincides with it in India.
Price of supplements is a different issue then whether you have to take the supplement daily.
You don’t have the power but you also don’t have the power to set public health policy in other regards.
Public health policy is not about ensuring that people do things outside of totalitarian states. It’s about providing people with options and informing them about the value of various actions.
Absent a studies comparing the quality of drugs from the dark web vs. the quality of drugs pharmacies, my prior is to assume that drugs from pharmacies are typically safer. Although I agree, yes, it’s not perfect. I have recourse if I discover they’re contaminated or don’t contain the medication advertised. Best I could do on the dark web is leave a mean review and hope the dealer doesn’t find a way to retaliate.
I’ve heard this repeated often, but I haven’t seen evidence of it. How much as measles changed since we began vaccinating people for it? How about polio? How about smallpox? The evidence that I’m aware of also seems to be against this.
Price is a factor in compliance. If you can’t afford supplements, you will be less likely to comply.
This is ultimately why I think this is an unproductive and to some degree dangerously misleading discussion (not just you and me, but also the vaccination vs early treatment and treatment protocols).
I don’t take any joy citing the linked author, but I do feel like we’re on a ship and we’re heading towards and iceberg and everyone is like “what about zinc? what about ivermectin?” And, yes, those are all things that deserve more attention and I’m against censoring discussion of them.
Ivermectin may yet prove to be a miracle drug, and I think the evidence there is promising. I don’t see the downsides to people taking zinc or vitamin d3 at reasonable and effective doses. I don’t see any of it as having the potential to turn the ship around.
But right now as of August 16th at ~5:45pm mountain time what we have to turn the ship around that we know works are vaccines. Yes, the side-effects are probably worse than claimed. And, yes, the public health apparatus in the US sucks for a million reasons, one of which is that they talk to us like children when it comes to vaccine safety. But all the evidence I’ve seen is that this is better than the alternative.
Since I haven’t seen other proven solutions for quickly and reliably turning the ship around, comparatively everything else seems like a distraction.