AUGUST 18 — A reader wrote to me about my last column, saying that while he usually liked what I wrote this time he had to disagree with my ivermectin stance. He wrote: “If I were to lay out all my arguments against your take on the subject this note would be gargantuan so I’ll whittle it...
SARS-CoV-2 is a virus; it is not a bot, nor is it a tick, mite or flea.
The biggest argument used to promote ivermectin is that it can kill some viruses but here’s the thing: for ivermectin to work on Covid-19, it would need huge doses that would likely kill the person taking them.It sounds simplistic but for him it means getting the vaccine, staying home with his mountains of books, eating the healthy diet he has maintained for decades and well, not taking what he calls “horse pills.
It might seem like a very narrow, limited approach but it beats reading countless studies about miracle cures and getting anxious about vaccines “changing your DNA.” My friend’s mother walked for hours in the hot sun, carrying her children to the community clinic for their vaccines.
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