I have seen all these graphs and graphics so you're preaching to the choir. I made no argument for a drug. I am uninterested in the various drugs per se, and in my part in our exchange have merely noted that the actual mortality rates are what they are. Subsaharan Africa's is less than South Africa's, which is significantly lower than the United States. So the Covid policies and recommendations of the US players have a factor -- I suspect a large factor -- in the US doing so poorly compared to so many "poor" nations.
Citing rates of diabetes and obesity within the overall frame of SARS CoV2 seems not enough to consider this all a true pandemic -- with a worldwide mortality rate of 0.0836 percent mortality rate over almost three years -- which declares that Covid has been in these same last 35 months 99.916 percent survivable. Such hysteria as has been generated and the economic destruction wrought by Covid lockdowns -- not lockdowns over obesity or diabetes -- are a scandal. Probably as time goes by a crime of racketeering worldwide.
Oh, I did not intend to imply you were an ivermectin fan at all. I was commenting on the article. It seemed to me the author had dug up that old article about Africa so he could jump on the ivermectin bandwagon. It’s become ridiculously political.
You are preaching to the choir about the lockdowns, overreaction, etc. I could not agree more. More harm than good.
“with a worldwide mortality rate of 0.0836 percent “
What gets left out of these discussions is what data was available to compare Covid-19 with at the beginning before its own mortality rate was known.
C-19 is a SARS virus and there is only one other known SARS outbreak, 2002-2003. That one had a mortality rate of 9%. The other similar virus was MERS in 2015, that one had a death rate of over 30%.
In light of those numbers the reaction of the medical field in early 2020 looks a whole lot less hysterical. They had no way to know what C-19 mortality rates would be. And the early reports coming out of Italy and China were far from encouraging.