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Vaccines are a tool, not a silver bullet. If we’d allowed more scientific debate, we would have realized this earlier
Globe & Mail - Canada ^ | Norman Doidge, MD

Posted on 01/22/2022 9:18:21 AM PST by b_Cap37

Just before Christmas, without much fanfare, Ontario became the first province to approve fluvoxamine – a decades-old drug few had heard of – for the early treatment of COVID-19. The December 20 announcement, coming at a time when Canadians were preoccupied with Omicron, and the fear hospitals would soon be overwhelmed, received hardly any news coverage.

Fluvoxamine is a “repurposed drug,” and comes from what might seem like a most unlikely source – psychiatry. It is an antidepressant used most commonly to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. The drug has had two randomized control trials, or RCTs (the highest level of evidence) and four observational studies showing it keeps people with COVID out of hospital, from requiring intubation, and helps prevent death. The discovery of its anti-COVID properties came after impressive sleuthing in France and the United States. Then a partnership co-led by a team of Canadians conducted the large randomized trial that proved what it could do.

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Grab a coffee ... you will never read anything close to this from the US media.
1 posted on 01/22/2022 9:18:21 AM PST by b_Cap37
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To: b_Cap37

Vaccines are the latest in a long line of excuses the Left uses to attempt their totalitarian regimes on people.


2 posted on 01/22/2022 9:20:36 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

A tool, not a magic bullet. Like online dating?


3 posted on 01/22/2022 9:22:08 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: b_Cap37

Some of “we” did. Remain “NON GMO”.


4 posted on 01/22/2022 9:22:37 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: b_Cap37

Thx for posting.


5 posted on 01/22/2022 9:24:45 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The argument kinda misses the point as so much published stuff does these days.

COVID and Vaccines are a tool of the dictatorial Left. Period


6 posted on 01/22/2022 9:25:12 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

That too, but the “tool” is not a useful tool. It’s a tool for evil, period.


7 posted on 01/22/2022 9:25:21 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: b_Cap37

Vaccines can and always have been recommended for those immune compromised or the elderly - that’s never been in doubt or question so long as it’s VOLUNTARY.

This mandating it to every healthy person AND CHILDREN is totalitarian oppression and EXTREMELY unscientific. Always has been!


8 posted on 01/22/2022 9:27:31 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Robert DeLong

Right.

Too many gloss over that totalitarian government cares NOTHING about your health, and unconstitutional interference by the feds into healthcare is ONLY to gain more power over you and take more money from you.

Next.


9 posted on 01/22/2022 9:28:26 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: b_Cap37

Trying to treat the Wuhan virus can get a doctor’s ticket punched. Wouldn’t it be great if some wild journalist, like Hunter S. Thompson, got curious enough to look into this anomaly? Of course, that might get their ticket punched. These are strange times.


10 posted on 01/22/2022 9:28:26 AM PST by Spok (Who is Ray Epps?)
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They’re not vaccines. And they are in beta test.


11 posted on 01/22/2022 9:29:29 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: b_Cap37

Great find. Thanks


12 posted on 01/22/2022 9:29:50 AM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Jim W N

Yep, and well stated too I might add. 🙂


13 posted on 01/22/2022 9:31:00 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: b_Cap37

Since Obamacare, the government has been pushing all kinds of vaccines. The drugstores push vaccines of all types and often take a slow and careless approach to filling prescriptions.

I got a notice on my “my chart” account that I was due another Shingles shot. What? I never authorized a first one. So who sneaked that in on me and where?


14 posted on 01/22/2022 9:32:24 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: Spok

You mean a Hunter Thompson “type” of course. The real HST is dead.


15 posted on 01/22/2022 9:34:22 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: b_Cap37

That’s one of the things that angers me. Fauci (Mr. SCIENCE! tm) banked on the mRNA shots and refused to admit anything else could be safely used as an alternative for effective treatment. (Never mind, for now, all his other lies and misdirections before Congress and flip-flopping on his stances weekly.)

Real science would explore all options, offer safe alternatives, and not conflate mRNA experimental shots with the word “vaccine.” Real science would be open and honest about what we were up against, how we got there, and what could be done. Real science would document the effort and not shut down discussion.

Real science was kicked out the minute China ginned up the fear porn machine about Covid back in 2019. Fauci, the WHO, Big Pharma, Big Tech, the Elites, the MSM, and the Left piled on and exploited it to jump start their “Great Reset.”


16 posted on 01/22/2022 9:36:42 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Robert DeLong
Shout it from the rooftops, Bro, so all may hear and recognize the lie.


17 posted on 01/22/2022 9:38:02 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: b_Cap37

Thing is a lot of vaccines are ‘magic bullets’. Back in the day, everyone got a small pox vaccine and no one who got the vaccine got small pox. Except for some bad batches very early on, no one who got the polio vaccine later got polio. I assume the same holds true for measles, mumps, chickenpox and other vaccines that came along after I had already acquired ‘natural immunity’.

But the China-virus vaccine seems to be a completely different story. It apparently doesn’t keep you from getting or spreading the China virus. They are now saying that it might help you from getting dead from China virus, but then ‘fully vaccinated’ have died.


18 posted on 01/22/2022 9:38:08 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: cuban leaf
They’re not vaccines. And they are in beta test.

Correct. If you believed the MSM despite years of 24/7 lies and took the frankenshot then you are a beta male.

19 posted on 01/22/2022 9:38:33 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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End Booster Mandates!—We Are Not Lab Rats!!!
20 posted on 01/22/2022 9:38:56 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the S tate says is a lie, everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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