Ivermectin to be investigated as a possible treatment for COVID-19 in Oxford's PRINCIPLE trial

[viva la]

55. We've seen this before-- with AIDS-- these "crank" treatments crowd out the effective

Those taking Ivermectin are probably not getting vaccinated. If they're taking it as a "preventive," they will feel little need to get a real preventive-- the vaccine. They probably think, "If I get sick, I'll just take more Ivermectin." Why bother to wear a mask, right?

They will be listening not to the doctors and scientists and public health officials, who know as much as there is currently to know about what works, but to the likes of Milo Yiannopoulus and Tucker Carlson who -- for their own perverse and usually commercial reasons-- are suggesting this as an alternative to what actually works.

This drug might be "safe" in the sense that the risks are acceptable to get the results the drug is meant to cause-- a way of getting rid of and preventing the parasites that cause river blindness and other parasitical diseases (which are quite rare in the developed world, and have nothing to do with a virus). But the drug does have side effects, and those are increased of course when the drug is not prescribed and monitored by a doctor, and are in fact self-administered without regard to the proper dose or mode.
So we see the execrable Milo Y supposedly injecting a dose of the drug meant for pigs.
(Now I very much doubt he actually injected it. The photos I saw showed the needle, then his arm with a dot of blood-- not the needle sticking out of the arm, LOL. He's likely just pretending for whatever weird reason these rightwing showmen do their weird things.)

This Oxford study might have the benefit of encouraging the gullible to wait and hear the evidence (Which will probably be-- as the studies so far have shown-- no results worth the risk).

But if it gives them another hope in hell that they can avoid the twin terrible dangers they are so terrified of-- vax and mask-- well, that's not a good thing.

Both of those are not only safe, but also do (within limits) what we hope they will do-- prevent most infection and transmission (especially in combination).

They're not some wild guess like, you know, Clorox kills germs on my kitchen counters, so it'll probably cure Covid.