[DugwayDuke]

sageburn wrote: “No, treating with HCQ and Ivermectin in a timely manner is what prevents people getting sicker, put on ventilators and dying. It’s just hard to find a doctor that is willing to prescribe these treatments.”

Did you ever stop to think the doctors might know more about how to treat COVID that anonymous posters on the internet?

[palmer]

HCQ is an immune inhibitor. AFAICT it helps suppress the immune system overreaction to the COVID infection. Probably more useful in younger healthier patients, but I know it is used for older patients in Europe. The basic principle is to kill off the virus with a number of drugs, while using HCQ to keep the immune system from going haywire.

Don't know much about Ivermectin but it sounds similar. Also both seem to have anti-parasitic and anti-viral effects. E.g. https://www.praxis-schuster.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Fox.pdf This article explains the tradeoff between anti-viral and immunosuppressant properties of HCQ: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32714335/

It says to me like everything else there are good and bad aspects to every drug and in fact everything we ingest. There are tolerance, dose, metabolism and other factors affecting the quantity we should have. Our use of such substances should be based on tests and individual health history. The self-medication craze is kind of bizarre.

[sageburn]

Oh definitely. And doctors have been using Ivermectin for over 30 years 30 billion times.

[bagster]

Did you ever stop to think the doctors might know more about how to treat COVID that anonymous posters on the internet?

Lots of people know stuff.

Lots of people know wrong stuff.

Example: You. You know lots of wrong stuff, Mr. anonymous poster on the internet.

Listen closely. Doctors are not gods. Write that down.

[grey_whiskers]

Did YOU ever think the doctors are under tremendous pressure to toe the “official” line?
You know, just like Epstein killed himself officially?