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The false narrative on Ivermectin: Why is this drug being demonized with a near-religious fervor?
American Thinker ^ | 09/07/2021 | Peter Skurkiss

Posted on 09/07/2021 8:55:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that has been used since the mid-1970s to treat river blindness and intestinal infections. It has been documented by frontline doctors around the world to also be a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19. Ivermectin has found widespread use in Latin America and India and was just recommended for treatment against COVID in Japan.

In the United States, however, not only is ivermectin not FDA-approved, but it is demonized with a near-religious fervor.

Why is the U.S. medical establishment so opposed to ivermectin? They say it's because large-scale trials have not been done. But this rings hollow, with evidence from around the world saying just the opposite. More likely, the true answers circle back to money and reputations.

Let's break this down in some detail. Before doing so, keep two things in mind. First, ivermectin is an oral drug. It is not a vaccine. Second, ivermectin is off-patent, meaning that it is cheap.

1) The approval of ivermectin for COVID would severely dampen vaccine sales. People would reason, "Why should I take a risky vaccine when, if I catch COVID, it can be treated?" The fear of the vaccine lobby is that approval of ivermectin would fuel vaccine hesitancy, especially when they are advocating for booster shots perhaps even on a yearly basis.

2) The release of the COVID vaccines was done under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) grant. This EUA was predicated by the belief that there was no effective treatment for COVID. This allowed shortcuts to be taken for release of these novel vaccines to the public. One of the shortcuts was that possible long-term side-effects were not adequately studied. Should ivermectin be approved, this could threaten EUA for the vaccines and, in the worst case, lead to recall.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; covid1984; ivermectin
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To: BobL

#CrimesAgainstHumanity

Nuremberg style tribunals with Nuremberg style punishments.

Big Gov Public Health, Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Tech are all in on it.


41 posted on 09/08/2021 1:31:39 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: rdcbn1

Africa and Ivermectin

https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html

The infographic there is excellent. Summary: The parts of Africa where Ivermectin is in widespread use to prevent a terrible parasitic disease, African River Blindness, also have very low Covid incidence.


42 posted on 09/08/2021 1:34:15 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: qaz123

They were under $2 last December. I remember finding them online and doing the currency conversion when researching this then.

Did you Hear about the ZIVERDO Therapy for COVID-19? The inexpensive first line treatment for COVID-19 positive patients.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3919604/posts


43 posted on 09/08/2021 1:38:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: jonrick46

Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies
https://ivmmeta.com/


44 posted on 09/08/2021 1:41:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: max americana

The patent is long expired, there are no rights, no one is making big money on Ivermectin. Just as no one is making big money on aspirin or ibuprofen.


45 posted on 09/08/2021 1:44:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Cobra64
For some reason I’m susceptible to scabies. Maybe it’s from living in Kabul 6 years, although I only got them there once or twice. About every other year I’d have to go through the 3-week permethrin routine, bag clothes every 3 days, switch sleeping spots, etc. Fortunately they die after not getting a feeding, unlike bed bugs which can survive 18 months.

I was hesitant to take ivermectin internally, although I had a tube on hand. Since taking it, not a hint of scabies.

Hmm... my comment leads to this: We are not “vaccine hesitant,” but “risk-benefit assessors.” The question for others is WHY ARE YOU IVERMECTIN-HESITANT?

46 posted on 09/08/2021 1:57:45 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: SeekAndFind; Fred Nerks

Why is this drug being demonized with a near-religious fervor?>>>>>>

Beause it works, is cheap, and people could treat themselves the same way malaria is treated without supervision.

Its the “supervision” that is wanted by the totalitarian bio state, not the cure.

You get infected, you take the Ivermectin therapy, and you recover with imunity.

Public health hates it. No control.


47 posted on 09/08/2021 3:36:15 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: SeekAndFind

It is being scorned because it is cheep.
No one like Fauchi makes money off it.


48 posted on 09/08/2021 4:41:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Perhaps because the CEO of a company that produced it died in a home invasion in the year before COVID.


49 posted on 09/08/2021 4:48:17 AM PDT by Whyfor
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To: Candor7
Why is this drug being demonized with a near-religious fervor?

Probably because the emergency use of the 'vaccine' which isn't a vaccine but an experimental treatment, was granted emergency use permission, on the understanding there was NO OTHER TREATMENT available. Thus, if either hydroxychloriquine or Ivermectin are understood to be effective, all the PANDEMIC SCAREMONGERING falls down and the toxic jabs would be OUTLAWED!

50 posted on 09/08/2021 4:58:42 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because if you can treat Covid with drugs that are past their patent date, Big Pharm cannot make $10s of billions marketing new drugs.

Their PR firms are working overtime to shop around “news” stories to the fake news to attack anything they cannot control and profit from.


51 posted on 09/08/2021 6:28:20 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

And our rulers in DC won’t get their huge campaign contributions either.


52 posted on 09/08/2021 6:29:37 AM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: Trillian

Whoooo! How did I miss that? where were they?


53 posted on 09/08/2021 7:11:00 AM PDT by Whyfor
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To: Godzilla

Because Pfizer is making a COVID pill that does the same
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pfizers-new-pill-to-fight-covid-utilizes-a-protease-inhibitor-ivermectin-is-also-a-protease-inhibitor/

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AHA


54 posted on 09/08/2021 8:07:16 AM PDT by thinden
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To: Jane Long

Why is this drug being demonized with a near-religious fervor?”
Because it’s likely beneficial as a treatment for multiple diseases.
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55 posted on 09/08/2021 11:02:25 AM PDT by smileyface ("The illuminati's whole philosophy demands the use, abuse, sacrifice and consumption of children.")
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To: max americana

I just went for my annual checkup. It had been about 2 years since I’d been there in person. I wasn’t sick or anything. He just asked if I was planning on getting that vaccine and I said nope… and the visit was over very quickly after that. Hands down the worst annual exam I’d ever had, because of that conversation.


56 posted on 09/08/2021 11:09:20 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Whyfor

One was in Taiwan, I don’t remember the other one.


57 posted on 09/08/2021 11:19:34 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trillian

Thanks.


58 posted on 09/08/2021 11:53:26 AM PDT by Whyfor
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To: FreedomPoster

Thank you for continuing to post that, as well as other good info.

Sadly, the same people that keep saying that on every thread will never take the time to actually look at these studies. 🙄


59 posted on 09/08/2021 12:00:42 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer

Thanks. I know some are probably tired of seeing the big block of links, but it’s important info, and a lot probably haven’t seen it.


60 posted on 09/08/2021 12:49:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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