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> ...or you can get vaccinated first?

Although the CDC has decided to stop counting them, breakthrough infections and even death are common among the vaccinated. There's not going to be a point where we don't need to worry about treatment unless the virus is going to go away like the Spanish flu once enough people are immune.

> And I do hope you were lucky enough to stockpile it beforehand, because you'd better not be going out too often with such a test result....

It's pretty clear from this that you have never looked into how ivermectin was used in certain Indian states or in Chiapas, where local officials readied pre-made kits which could be distributed to high risk people and those who tested positive. This would be easy enough to do in the US if we could shift the thinking on Covid away from "you have to wait until you're gasping for breath at the hospital to start any treatment other than acetaminophen."

Do you feel similarly about lockdowns being "useless" given their demonstrated inability to fully eliminate spread of the virus, and the lack of any large RCTs in support of them? I mean, I see all the same arguments made in their favor: "you have to do them early enough, you have to pair them with such-and-such other NPIs, etc"




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