Posted on 11/19/2021 5:40:19 PM PST by simpson96
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.
“COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.”
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Daily use of HCQ and Ivermectin
Ivermectin is never used daily, not in Africa or anywhere else.
They take a lot of malaria drugs ...Any fool could figure this out after three months of the virus...find a map of countries with malaria and check worldometer...not just Afarica
Good question , could be the climate plays a big factor there and the fact Ivermectin is used there all over a anti-parisite drug.
The Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, Dr. Haruo Ozaki, recommends Ivermectin for use with COVID patients.
He notes that the parts of Africa that use ivermectin to control parasites have a COVID death rate of just 2.2 per 100,000 population, as compared to 13 times that death rate among African countries that do not use ivermectin.
https://surfguardcr.com/health/natural-health/chairman-of-tokyo-medical-assoc-recommends-invermectin
If you don’t have anyone over 65 and don’t have winter, you don’t even notice it.
How do you know that
I’m guessing younger median age combined with greatly reduced obesity rates compared to the US and Europe. The Zimbabwe obesity rate for males is around 15%. USA is around 40% obese with 70% + overweight. I’m guessing way more time spent outside on average. The use of medicine to treat diseases endemic to Africa.
Freegards
no TV, no democRATS?
Everyone’s dead by the times they’re 65 in Africa anyway. Plus they’re skinny. So when COVID-19 hits, they shake it off like a cold. If they feel anything at all.
ABSTRACT
Off-Label Use of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 Treatment in Africa Against WHO Recommendation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505701/
COVID-19 is continuing as a big challenge for the globe and several types of research are continued to find safe and effective treatment and preventive options.
Although there is a lack of conclusive evidence of their benefit, there is worldwide controversy to use anti-malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, for the treatment of COVID-19. FDA issued an emergency use authorization to the use of these drugs for the treatment of COVID-19.
On the contrary to the FDA, the European Medicines Agency has warned against the widespread use of these drugs to treat COVID-19. Finally, the WHO declared that clinical trials on these drugs are halted after the devastating findings of the study published in the medical journal called The Lancet. Against this fact, there are several rumors about the irresponsible use of these drugs in Africa for the treatment of COVID-19.
This work aimed to review the off-label use of these drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 in African countries against WHO recommendation. Data on the use of these drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 in African countries were searched from credible sources including Scopus, PubMed, Hindawi, Google Scholar, and from local and international media.
The study showed that many African countries have already approved at the national level to use these drugs to treat COVID-19 by opposing WHO warnings. In addition to this, falsified and substandard chloroquine products started to emerge in some African countries.
The health sectors of the African government should critically compare the risks and benefits before using these drugs. The WHO and African drug regulatory organizations should intervene to stop the off-label use practice of these drugs against the licensed purpose and distribution of falsified and substandard products in the continent.
“Can you say Ivermectin ?,
I knew that you could.”
Maybe an answer to the low Covid cases in Africa.
A bit more at https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/11/covid-19-in-africa-its-not-just.html
Ivermectin was and is a “wonder drug” as far as Africa is concerned. It was developed in the 1970’s to treat parasite infestations, which kill and cripple untold thousands in Africa every year. Wikipedia notes that “In humans, these include head lice, scabies, river blindness (onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis, and lymphatic filariasis. In veterinary medicine, the medication is used to prevent and treat heartworm and acariasis, among other indications.” Ivermectin is so successful at treating these illnesses (endemic in Africa) that its developers won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015. It’s been included in the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines. (That’s a whole lot more than CNN’s derisive dismissal of the drug as “horse dewormer”, isn’t it?) Indeed, it’s so effective and so popular that it’s an over-the-counter medication in large parts of the continent - no prescription needed. Tablets cost pennies apiece.
Hydroxychloroquine is also a “wonder drug” in Africa. It was developed in the 1950’s to prevent and/or treat malaria, a scourge that kills up to a million people every year. It’s also been found to treat “rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and porphyria cutanea tarda”. It, too, is on the Model List of Essential Medicines. Hydroxy has become a standard, over-the-counter prophylactic medication in malaria-infested areas. I took it for years in Africa when traveling through such regions, and it stood me in good stead. (It’s greatly preferred to older prophylactics such as atabrine, which is less effective and has nasty side-effects, including turning your skin yellow.) It’s also very low-cost, and freely available.
We know that both Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are effective against COVID-19, despite all the pharmaceutical industry’s propaganda against them. Why would the industry campaign against their use? Very simple: because they’re both off-patent, freely available, and very low-cost indeed - among the cheapest drugs available anywhere. In India, which has relied on Ivermectin as a primary medication against COVID-19, I understand that a prophylactic treatment for a single person costs the government 24 cents. Compare that to the cost of a single [demonstrably ineffective] vaccination, for which Pfizer, Moderna, etc. are reaping literally tens of billions of dollars. Follow the money, and you’ll find out why the industry doesn’t want freely available, low-cost medications to threaten their vaccine income.
So, given that both Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are commonly used in Africa to prevent and/or treat other diseases, I’m willing to bet that a large proportion of the alleged “undercounting” of COVID-19 cases in that continent are because potential victims are already taking medications that can potentially stop the disease before it starts. In other words, COVID-19 can’t get a foothold in their bodies. I suspect that’s a more important factor than most First World health experts are willing to admit.
Yup.
Get Fauci over there.
It will sweep the continent in 24 hours.
And he’ll pretend to not know why.
I’m a specialist in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine with 41 years experience, and I have also discussed this question recently with experts working in Africa.
Short-course ivermectin is widely used to treat worm infections, and its beneficial properties for this purpose are well known. It is not used for prevention, unlike chloroquine, a close relative of HCQ, which is consumed daily by millions.
I’m going out on a limb here but early on Fauxi (Jan 2020) said this is nothing more than a bad flu and masks don’t work with respiratory virus.
As a trained surgeon I know that that average pore size in a mask is 10,000 nm, the virus in about 100 nm.
Since then a local radio station played about a dozen Fauxi clips saying masks don’t stop respiratory viruses starting in the 80’s.
I think at this point in time, in January, Fauxi was telling the truth but after Davos he pretty much did a 180.
Found this interesting
https://blog.heartland.org/2020/10/covid-19-a-political-tool-to-reset-the-world/
Don’t know but I’m beginning to believe it’s possible. (After all we are suppose to believe Kyle is white supremist!)
Okay thanks for the information, I appreciate it.
What is your opinion on the low incidence of Covid there? Climate maybe.
My theory is China and media in africa are actively downplaying deaths vs. how we turned up the “WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!” hype machine we have here.
China wants to own Africa. They Subsidize the sub sahara with Billions of Dollars with 50 year loans.
Chinese people Run the Factories and the Trains in Kenya. Chinese people are easily spotted. If the Hype machine was cranked to 11, and “Mr. Wang killed your grandma” became a thing, there would be one Chinese person left alive on the continent.
My theory is People are dying with Covid, but they aren’t being counted.
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