No vaccine is 100% effective. That's why we need to get it into as many people as possible. For people with legitimate medical exemptions, sure. They're few and far between.
And I'm not a fan of people dying of a disease we have a vaccine to prevent.
Your right to throw a punch ends where my nose begins. Familiar with it?
Not to mention the vaccine is not approved for anyone below 12 years old. So a ton of the nations kids.
I think we, as a nation, are going through one of our painful and periodic redefinitions of what "freedom" is.
Given that a great many people currently seem to think it's "I get to do whatever I want and you have to deal with the consequences", yes, let us redefine away.
Ivermectin actually has some merit as its been used to treat malaria. Viruses are parasites like malaria too, right?
It hasn't actually. It's been given to communities to reduce malaria transmission by an utterly mundane mechanism. If you feed a community IVM until it's coursing in their veins, mosquitos will kill themselves drinking from people and reduce the spread of malaria, as the theory goes. As mosquitos are not a major vector of spread for COVID, the same method won't be useful here.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
www.cochrane.org
Is this a serous question?
Oddly enough, I feel the same way that I do with the mandates of vaccinations to get into school, as it was always law in New York:
They've been around for a very long time and very few people have had a problem with them until this specific vaccine. Almost like their problem isn't with vaccines or body autonomy at all, and is actually just about out "conversative values"ing each other for boomer facebook clout.
Its been my observation that until people do as their asked, they will continue to be told.
Oh, man, don't remind me. That freaking shot before boot camp? Yeah, anyone who has a problem with the vaccine needs to experience that shot to know how bad that particular cocktail is. Let's just say its nickname among us was "the peanut butter shot". Not because of the color, but because of the consistency.
Mosquitos don't spread Covid, but can Ivermectin still kill Covid?It hasn't actually. It's been given to communities to reduce malaria transmission by an utterly mundane mechanism. If you feed a community IVM until it's coursing in their veins, mosquitos will kill themselves drinking from people and reduce the spread of malaria, as the theory goes. As mosquitos are not a major vector of spread for COVID, the same method won't be useful here.
Ivermectin as a novel complementary malaria control tool to reduce incidence and prevalence: a modelling study - PubMed
Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship.Malaria control using ivermectin
Yeah... tell that to Israel and Australia. Reasonably effective? Sure, I'll buy that. But 100%? Hah, no.
My bad. Misread the search result on Australia somehow. I'm pretty sure Israel was pretty high a month ago or so, but the numbers may have been changed and might be a bit fudged right now since boosters are being considered as a requirement to qualify as fully vaccinated. In either case, a claim of 100% efficacy is pretty silly given how many breakthrough cases are occurring, and how much vaccinated individuals are technically still managing to spread the virus to others.
Denmark is at 85% and pretty much all restrictions are nulified over there. Over here in the Netherlands we apparently are at 75% with most covid restrictions gone, no mask mandates except for public transport. There is the issue of wanting that extra 10%, but that would require a vaccination mandate which is already making people go pretty rabid over here too. Afterall, why would you want a cure that's free, harmless, helps you and the people around you, right?
