I took IVM in the beginning because I was still allowed into the US but needed to test negative for covid through those blasted PCR tests. I wanted to make sure I did test negative so I didn’t let down my travelling companions or forfeit hotel deposits/airfares. I was eventually shut out of the US for not being jabbed, but then my son was put in the precarious position of not taking the jabs and having to test negative weekly in order to go to work. I didn’t want to accidentally give him covid so I kept taking it. He was laid off for not being jabbed but I still kept taking the IVM expecting that arbitration would get him hired back but he’d have to test negative again. He was hired back after 20 weeks absence without any testing requirements. At that point, I started travelling to the Caribbean again so I continued taking the IVM in anticipation of having to be tested there. I have a travel hiatus until February so I stopped taking it for now. I’ll see what the world looks like in January and make a decision then to resume or not.
I stopped through the summer because not many viruses thrive in this heat. We hit 115 and more a few times. Now that my husband is going to the doctor so much and we are hanging out in waiting rooms, I started taking it again for prevention. He won’t take it. He trusts his mask. He said if he actually gets covid, he will take it, but not until then.