Research shows that ivermectin works. Here's a paper published this past July in
The American Journal of Therapeutics. I've read in a
number of places that ivermectin is one of the safest drugs known.
No, the FDA hasn't approved its use against COVID-19. The Pfizer
vaccine wasn't FDA approved either until a few days ago. I can't
help but think that people are dying needlessly because of all the
government screaming and yelling about people taking horse
medicine, when taking horse medicine is a vanishingly small phenom.
If ivermectin has no serious side effects, why not let doctors try
it? What's the downside?
Here's a 30-page review of evidence demonstrating the
effectiveness of ivermectin in treating COVID-19. Again, if it's a
safe drug that's been on the market and widely studied for 30+
years, why not let people try it?
It's become harder and harder to find evidence of the
effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in combination with zinc.
I've looked. The early clinical experience emphasized that the two
work together or not at all. I find it weird that nearly all the
studies I've seen test HCQ either alone or with azithromycin--but
not zinc. Clinical evidence shows that the combo doesn't work well
on late and severe cases, but rather when symptoms first appear.
Still, if ivermectin works as well as recent studies show, HCQ's
moment may have come and gone.
Here are some recent stats on the prevalence of
breakthrough infections. The real eye-opener would be to know
which vaccine is best at preventing breakthrough infections. That
said, the chances of breakthrough infections occurring is very low.
If you don't read the paper, at least skim down to find the odds
chart. Cancer risk is 1 in 7. Breakthrough infection risk is 1 in
137,698. I like those odds.
Ugggh. Enough virus crap. Let's talk about something else. My
pre-2000 pandemic penny jar (a thick glass bottle that once held
cream from Straus Family Creamery) continues to fill. Last week I
got a 1950-D wheat penny. A few days ago I got something a little
odd: A 2 Euro cent coin from Ireland, dated 2002. It's almost
precisely the same size as a US penny, and if I didn't look closely
at coins I might have missed the fact that it was 19 years and an
ocean away from home. Getting pennies from the 1980s is an almost
everyday thing now. The penny jars are clearly still out there and
still emptying into the McDonald's till.