And immediately saw the error in his ways? Absolutely not. These people get sick to the point of dying. Go to the emergency room and get healed through real medicine and the efforts of a dozen nurses and a doctor or two. Then they leave and brag to their friends and family "see told you I'd be fine" and never give credit to the REAL medicine that fixed the issue.

My dad literally will not talk to me because I refused to say that ivermectin is a miracle cure. He’s angry at me for some study or article that he thinks I am obsessed with (I honestly have no idea what he’s talking about), and insists I retract my belief in it or we can’t have a relationship. Since I haven’t the first clue what he’s even on about, he made his choice..

Can’t wait for the next round of crackpot email forwards. Hopefully he sticks to his word and won’t contact me anymore.

Edit - the last time I spoke with him was at my step mom’s funeral, where she had just died of cancer, which they treated with….I’ll give you one guess.

We aren’t dealing with rational people.

This is one my comment talking point. When people have to think about "can I afford this?" anytime they need to goto the doctor, then they'll only go when it's serious. But they are not qualified medical professionals to decide what needs medical attention or not. So they seek advice from other people, past experiences and Internet and we have this problem.

Honestly, it shouldn't cost that much to just goto a doctor's office and return. We don't need MD for everything, have other professional people there that are qualified enough to tell you when something doesn't need attention, or simple solutions. Maybe just cleaning a scrap, or giving you a brace for minor sprain, all those without having to see MD.

Great point. Hard to trust doctors when it’s $500 to not find anything over and over and over and over.

Doesn't even need to be eliminated parasites.

"I am solving the problem by taking the medicine, and I am smart because I'm using a secret medicine they don't want me to know about" causes the brain to release the good feelings chemicals which does make you feel better.

Settle down, we are not fucked. Hantavirus has been around forever, even this strain.

People on the floating petri dishes that are cruiseships are fucked. The rest of us are in no more danger from this than we were before.

You do, it’s either self hosting, Linux or socialism

It's what happens when practicing medical physicians forget they are not really researchers. The main problem is that medical schools do teach research, but just enough to give people a false confidence in their own abilities. Medicine covers so much information that medical school is basically just a series of introduction courses. Like with most positions as a physician, your real knowledge comes from what you actually practice during your residency and specialty training.

I specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation, I can understand the mechanisms and physiology involved in studies done over rna virus replication, but I wouldn't feel confident in my ability to draw conclusions from those studies that are not explicitly stated in the study itself.

From my understanding invermectin has show itself to have some promising potential for moderating rna viruses from replicating. However, it's not very water soluble and so there are currently no effective means to actually get the medication to the affected cells. Which is why none of the studies done on cell cultures in a laboratory can't be extrapolated upon and applied to people.

Even if you are taking 100x the recommended dose, it's mainly just going to travel through your digestive tract and cause more harm than good.

Early laboratory research indicated that ivermectin could kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this was later found to require, in many cases, toxic doses far exceeding those approved for humans. Antivaxxers latched onto this and ran with it, spreading the misinformation far and wide.

Someone told them NO. You cant do that.

That made them feel mad and feel stupid.

Then someone told them that they were right and that someone else was actually the stupid one.

Then they felt better.

Better than better, they now have the secret knowledge and everyone else are the stupid ones.

There is no logic, only horse medicine.

Honestly, my suspicion is that you can easily get the stuff. I've gotten it for my dog once or twice (it's a lot cheaper than dog dewormer, despite basically being the same thing), and all you have to do is go into a Tractor supply or the like and it's right on the shelf, no restrictions or anything. This is in contrast to actual medicine, where I have to go to a CVS or the like to pay an overpriced amount for something that is more regulated, and might even be a bit of a placebo effect in the first place (look at flu meds for an example of that).

All of this mostly seems to speak more to the degrading of the American healthcare system due to costs ballooning beyond what some of the poorer in society can afford, so they are more willing to try folk remedies that may or may not work. And in the case of your grandmother, is she gonna risk paying a lot of her life savings to cure her tumors if they aren't benign (without a guarantee that it will work), or is she just gonna hope that the $10 treatment might make her feel better? If they're benign, then the $10 treatment "worked", and if they're not, then she'll get expensive treatment anyway, just probably be in a worse position to get it.

I don't. Lots of people are gonna die or get disabled because of these idiots.

Ivermectin works primarily by paralyzing and killing parasites, such as worms and mites, by binding to specific glutamate-gated chloride channels in their nerve and muscle cells.

Nothing to do with RNA viruses.

colloidal?