What’s interesting to note, people should keep in mind many, many prescription medicines effectiveness for certain diseases have been discovered by accident.
Rogaine (now used to treat baldness) was originally prescribed for something completely unrelated. Patients and doctors noticed a side effect. So it was investigated for use in treating baldness, and eventually certified for that.
Viagra, was originally a treatment for blood pressure. And then it was found to have ... other ... side effects.
What has surprised me, medical science skepticism - a belief in “Quackery” and “natural cures” and the like, has long been something decidedly more on the left hand side of the aisle, politically speaking. There isn’t necessarily anything wrong with that, at least from the observation that Prevention is better than the Cure. The “Hippies” were right about that much.
The conspiracy theory currents ran deep in some circles however, with a common belief that Cancer was curable, or preventable, and was only allowed to fester so Big Pharma could profit off it. Also a fairly large distrust of Immunizations.
So overall it was really astonishing to me to see all the Boomer cohort and others doing cartwheels for experimental vaccines, and completely discounting any treatments whatsoever for the Covid Crud.
About 20% of all medicines are prescribed for off label use is my understanding. The story of Ivermectin is an interesting one. The discovery was practically serendipity defined. The researcher who found it was awarded the Nobel Prize. It is very well tolerated with almost no side effects, practically speaking.
To dismissively label it simply as “Horse DeWormer” is profoundly vile and offensive if you stop and think about it, because the fact of the matter is, people were forced to procure it in that form precisely because they were restricted from obtaining it in prescription form. Even without regard to the possible benefits of treating Covid 19, researchers have had their eye on investigating Ivermectin for some time on a range of possible benefits.
Given that it is practically harmless with almost no known contraindications or side effects, at worst it can’t hurt. Several respected virologists and researchers suggested or believe it has real benefits for Covid. That’s how it came under scrutiny in the first place.
Maybe all those Hippies and Granolas were right about Big Pharma. But they forgot what they learned, and sure lined up to get jabbed.
Guess normal people are the Counterculture now.
“To dismissively label it simply as “Horse DeWormer” is profoundly vile “
That’s what my PCP told me last week, as his predecessor told me in December. My screening question is “will you prescribe Ivermectin?”. (We can get it without prescription in TN now anyhow, but that’s how I learn if the doc cares more about me than he cares about Fauci.)
He went to “animal paste” immediately. I told him I knew it was invented for humans in the ‘70s, and approved for animals in the ‘80s. I got an “Ahem” and the subject was changed.
The survey they sent a day later asked if the doc encouraged me to participate in my own care. No. Told them not to be blowing sunshine up my skirt. They count on patients to be uninformed.
“a common belief that Cancer was curable, or preventable, and was only allowed to fester so Big Pharma could profit off it.”
It is not just Big Pharma that profits from cancer—there are “non profits” all over the place that have been “fighting cancer” for decades and decades and decades.
At some point you have to suspect it is a war they have no intention of winning—because if they win they go out of business.