Re: vax discussions with health care workers:
This past summer after caring for her here for over a year and a half, my mom went to a really good nursing home nearby. We’ve refused both the covid and flu vaxes they offered. About a month ago the nurse called me and said my mom had tested positive for covid, but showed no symptoms other than some minor congestion. If she did get worse they would offer Remdesivir. I said, NO, I would prefer they offered her ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Nurse said she would try and get a script for the ivermectin if she worsened. Then she said, “I think all this stuff (she meant the covid panic, etc.) is a bunch of hooey.”
Mother came out of it just fine.
I’m so happy your mother came out of it fine and that she refused the vax. Mine didn’t. She took her first vax and had a small stroke. After the second vax she had a bigger stroke and was dead in two weeks. I didn’t want her to take the vax, but she said, “I don’t want to get sick”. Mom was a hypochondriac and feared everything. She trusted doctors as though they were gods. I have been even more adamant about not taking the vax since then. This was when covid first started and was worse than the variants. I wish mine has listened.
Good on you and your mom for refusing. Making your own determinations about her care is what saved her life.
More doctors need to start prescribing IVM and other alternatives that have been proven to work.