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Old 25th Sep 2021, 04:04
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And you seem to have this thing about the vaccines, and ivermectin. They are not the same thing. Ivermectin is being theorised as a possible treatment, not as a vaccination. The two are completely different. And it is irrelevant that Pfizer has been granted federal approval now. The fact remains that, when it was first introduced, it was done so under emergency approval regs.
Because I know how both work, and the reason why Ivermectin is a bad idea. Again the only testing done for Ivermectin that involved pregnancy was in animals ended up with possibilities of birth defects, it has similar mechanism to folidamide. The testing never went to human stage as a result which is why the company has a blanket warning for use by pregnant women.

Ivermectin is a poison, it is designed to interfere with living organism and in the case of worms, nematodes etc, kill them or knock them out so they pass out of the body. So yes, Ivermectin will kill anything in enough dosage, even covid, however it will also start to kill/affect the host as well once the dosage reaches a certain point. Because it is designed to focus also on foreign bodies it can also cause problem for developing fetus as it can cause a reaction that sees it as a foreign object or a worm. This all comes down to complex immune response issues that happen during pregnancy to prevent the womans body from rejecting the developing fetus. Ivermectin is effectively like Round-up for parasites. It's being tested because there may be some way of using it, but not in its present form.

Vaccines are designed to act as a specific target for you immune system to train it to attack similar things, ie virus cells. So they pose no risk to anything outside of that area, hence they have been deemed safe for pregnancy etc.

Now as far as Ivermectin as a prophylaxis, you would have to know you were just about to get covid for it to have any effect. Once you have detectable replication of the virus it has negligible effect to control what happens next. You can't continuously take this drug to maintain some form of protection as it will have some serious side effects as the doses build up.

One has to remember that in a lot of countries a large proportion of the population already take Ivermectin for worm control, and that does not seem to be having any effect on covid spread or severity in nations that use it regularly vs those that don't.

PS My description of how Ivermectin works is extremely dumbed down.

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