RE: Well if you can’t trust a third world Zimbabwe physician and a crappy blog who can you trust?
Yep, if the attitude is you can’t trust ANYTHING that comes from any third world country because their doctors ( even those like this one who has been educated in the West )are inferior, then I guess nothing that comes from the country, no matter how carefully the studies and observations are made can be trusted.
A Swedish Doctor actually took the time to look at the PUBLISHED studies made by Doctors in third world countries ( See here: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19/ ).
Here’s an EXCERPT:
As before, it appears that rich western countries have very little interest in studying ivermectin as a treatment for covid. The three new trials that had at least 150 participants and compared ivermectin with placebo were conducted in Colombia, Iran, and Argentina. We’ll go through each in turn.
[SNIP, after going through those studies carefully]
I understand why pharmaceutical companies don’t like ivermectin. It’s a cheap generic drug. Even Merck, the company that invented ivermectin, is doing it’s best to destroy the drug’s reputation at the moment. This can only be explained by the fact that Merck is currently developing two expensive new covid drugs, and doesn’t want an off-patent drug, which it can no longer make any profit from, competing with them.
The only reason I can think to understand why the broader medical establishment, however, is still so anti-ivermectin is that these studies have all been done outside the rich west. Apparently doctors and scientists outside North America and Western Europe can’t be trusted, unless they’re saying things that are in line with our pre-conceived notions.
My bet is in a year or so, when this virus is essentially over, they’ll come clean and say something line:
“Of course Ivermectin works, we all know that because all of the data pointed the same way. Now it didn’t work as well as the vaccines and one would have to keep taking it to prevent the virus, but it would have dramatically cut down deaths and the level of sickness, thereby making the virus much more like a common cold. But if there were widespread use of Ivermectin, then support for the vaccines would have weakened and likely compromised our ability to fully wipe out the virus.”