If you actually read the data from this this study, it is pretty inconclusive. Only 89 test subjects. At best, only 10 people from the test group improved over the control group. At best! Hardly empirical.
It's no CYDY, that's for sureThis whole ivermectin rabbit hole has an eerily similar trajectory to hydroxychloroquine.
Just flew in to say that Bezos, who owns the WaPo, owns Amazon, who has benefitted like no other from this predicament. I generally agree with your sentiment and think everybody should be vaccinated and that we should provide carrots and sticks, but media conglomerates that own the MSM and their other interests have indeed made a killing off of their other endeavors. When one thing fails, another consumable product will take its place unless the economy shrinks more dramatically than we've been told.It makes me irate all of the money big pharma and the mainstream media is making on masks, social distancing and limited gatherings.
1st of all, we're on the same wavelength here, I stayed out of that thread or was run out of that thread a couple different times in the last year. but not lately nd I largely agree with you that I have also learned a great deal thru other posters here more so than mainstream media and I also don't want to make this all media but you can see that folks immedaitely turn it into a tear down.CletiusMaximus said:MOP - You purported to start this separate thread to discuss this drug in a setting separate from the main COVID discussion. Its now devolved into a garden-variety discussion of media reliability, transmission methods and similar topics that are addressed ad nauseum in the existing threads. Where is the beef on Ivermectin? Other than your brother, is there any reliable source indicating this is something of interest?
I learned a ton from the main COVID discussion here over the past year. I don't trust media, CDC, Fauci or other main street sources on this topic. I credit the FFA thread with helping me get through the past year safely (knock on wood) while not going overboard. Its been extremely valuable to me. I'm willing to consider anything outside the mainstream recommendations. I do not want to get COVID. I am still taking daily vitamin D even though most mainstream resources say that's a waste of my time. Other than the FFA, my main source of information is my personal doctor, who recommended that I get the vaccine (which I've done).
You've not yet stated in this discussion your opinion of Ivermectin, what it is, what it does, why we should be interested in it.
Doug B said:I'm not needling the bolded. I was needling reflexive mistrust of the BBC (among other news sources).
For many agencies, I agree that they are "selling something" to an extent, as most news organs are for profit. However, the BBC does not have to satisfy a profit motive, as it is funded by British taxpayers.
Furthermore, I don't necessarily feel like for-profit news means that the informational content is hopelessly compromised. I also don't consider ubiquitous human bias to be prima facie "propaganda" -- it's a matter of degree and intent.
Unlike the BBC's domestic channels in the United Kingdom, BBC America does not receive funding from the British license fee (which is the principal funding for the BBC's channels within the United Kingdom), as the BBC cannot fund any of its channels that are available outside the United Kingdom.[2] Consequently, BBC America operates as a commercial-supported channel and accepts traditional advertising. It is also funded by television subscription fees.
Distrusting the media is one thing. Personally, if you are unable to parse truth from opinion, then you have other problems.1st of all, we're on the same wavelength here, I stayed out of that thread or was run out of that thread a couple different times in the last year. but not lately nd I largely agree with you that I have also learned a great deal thru other posters here more so than mainstream media and I also don't want to make this all media but you can see that folks immedaitely turn it into a tear down.
I'll try and just engage in the meat and potatoes, I don't claim to know a lot more than folks but I do know folks within the VA who have taken this and seem to do just fine.Personally and I have been slow to share my true POV, I'm more worried about another round of almost forced vaccines or every time a variant is declared...do some folks not understand that many of us have NEVER getting a flu shot in our lives? Never not once did I ever say I want to get ahead of cold and flu season and go get a flu shot, especially when folks who were getting them then announced they still were getting sick.
I don't want to develop into something off topic but folks are throwing links form media outlets and I refuse to allow those as the "Absolute" when almost all of them are slanted to sell a POV.
We'll try harder Cletius and thanks.
Don’t forget smallpox, the only infection we’ve eradicated from the wild...because of vaccines!Distrusting the media is one thing. Personally, if you are unable to parse truth from opinion, then you have other problems.
The bigger issue to me is the distrust in science. I cannot believe that there are people discrediting Fauci. The man has devoted his life to public health and fighting disease.
And of course, everyone would love to find a miracle cure. I hate to break it to you… Ivermectin ain’t it.
Ya know what would work?! If >90% of the population would get vaccinated!!! Here’s a short list of viral diseases all but eradicated… BECAUSE OF VACCINES!!!
polio
tetanus
rubella
measles
pertussis
mumps
chickenpox
I had to pause the TV this morning and confirm with my wife what I was reading on the TV, they had a graph with 3 yellow steps going up from left to right starting with Blacks, Hispanics and Whites....6%, 18%, and 60% that were totally vaccinated(10:1 ratio fully vaccinated), can we all take a quick spin down into the Black neighborhoods and go drive a couple folks to Walgreens or Publix and help get them vaccinated because that sure seems to be where we have a major hole in the fight to get the country vaccinated. How far are you willing to go beyond telling me the miracles of medical science in the field of smallpox? Are you willing to start knocking on doors? How about a mobile vaccination like when they show up for the blood drives and just park them in neighborhoods where we know folks need to be vaccinated?Distrusting the media is one thing. Personally, if you are unable to parse truth from opinion, then you have other problems.
The bigger issue to me is the distrust in science. I cannot believe that there are people discrediting Fauci. The man has devoted his life to public health and fighting disease.
And of course, everyone would love to find a miracle cure. I hate to break it to you… Ivermectin ain’t it.
Ya know what would work?! If >90% of the population would get vaccinated!!! Here’s a short list of viral diseases all but eradicated… BECAUSE OF VACCINES!!!
polio
tetanus
rubella
measles
pertussis
mumps
chickenpox
So why the curiosity and even wanting to know more about Ivermectin? You trust the government lock stock and barrel, right?
It's highly unlikely to catch covid from the sand itself, but it can still be transmitted in droplets outdoors as well as indoors. That should be pretty obvious when you think about it. Would you let someone with covid cough in your open mouth just because you were outside? Of course not.And we still have people who seem to like to wear masks in broad daylight outside even though its impossible to catch this virus or any virus i would assume outside in the blazing sun. Nobody caught Covid at the Beach that was an outright lie. People might have caught it in their cheap motels on Spring Break but they weren't catching Covid on the sand. In fact if we could get everyone to go camping and stay outdoors for a week or two with no AC I think we could beat this thing once and for all. Who is with me on going to Yosemite?
NJR, i appreciate your post and I want to say in reply to your 1st statement, MoP don't do a lot of Podcasts either but I do listen to comedians like Bill Burr and you can typically access his from YouTube, i like to play them over my Television and avoid cable shows whenever I can these days. Live sports is about I will watch on the TV directly.MOP I won't address the rest of your post, because I don't do podcasts, nor do I watch Joe for anything other than pure entertainment (he's a funny dude, and knows his MMA), but I will address the above.
This is not about trusting the government. They didn't make OR research these vaccines. So to answer your question, no, I don't necessarily trust the government, but I DO trust the teams of doctors and scientists that dedicated years of their life to the research and creation of the vaccines. And the teams of scientists that researched and studied them and found them to be safe and effective. Not to mention the trove of real-world real-use data that has come out since they were released confirming said effectiveness. And as soon as that same process happens with Ivermectin, or any other drug that shows conclusive effectiveness, I'll trust that too. But not before then.
We have discussed this ad nauseam and UV Rays kill these viruses in under a second, yes if someone spits right into your mouth but if we are going to use that as a barometer than we should all shelter in place for the rest of our lives.It's highly unlikely to catch covid from the sand itself, but it can still be transmitted in droplets outdoors as well as indoors.
This is patently untrue -- what were you all watching?I had to pause the TV this morning and confirm with my wife what I was reading on the TV, they had a graph with 3 yellow steps going up from left to right starting with Blacks, Hispanics and Whites....6%, 18%, and 60% that were totally vaccinated(10:1 ratio fully vaccinated)
It’s nuts. The people with the absolute biggest incentive for the drug to be used to treat Covid is straight up saying absolutely do not use it to treat Covid and there is no reason to think that it would treat Covid.DA RAIDERS said:I believe all you need to know is that the soulless, for profit company, that makes it, straight up says don’t use this for covid. Nothing vague. No quasi disclaimers. Just straight up, don’t use it, hasn’t been tested, etc. seems pretty clear.
but hey, some dude’s brother says to take it.
Local CBS/FOX affiliate in West Palm Beach, was trying to catch the weather report/surf report...I even paused it to invite my wife into the room and asked her to read to me what she saw on the screen and that's exactly what I thought I was reading...wish I had taken a picture of it now.This is patently untrue -- what were you all watching?
Dickies said:Conversely, Pfizer would much rather keep you alive long enough to sell you Viagra than kill you now with a cheap vaccine.
On WFLX? FOX 29?Local CBS/FOX affiliate in West Palm Beach, was trying to catch the weather report/surf report...I even paused it to invite my wife into the room and asked her to read to me what she saw on the screen and that's exactly what I thought I was reading...wish I had taken a picture of it now.This is patently untrue -- what were you all watching?
See how they wrote "9-percent of Blacks", "16-percent of Hispanics", "60-percent of whites"? That's not at all accurate. To see why, click on the "click here" link in the quote box above (yes, that link is also in the station's article) to see this page of the CDC's Data Tracker: Demographic Characteristics of People Receiving COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States.Taking an in-depth look at the racial disparity, the CDC's data tracker reports as of Aug. 3, 9-percent of Blacks and 16-percent of Hispanics are fully vaccinated, compared to 60-percent of whites. To learn more, click here.
MoP, I don'y have the excact graphic, but I'm pretty sure I found on Channel 29's website the information you and your wife saw. And the station flubbed it pretty badly.
Here's what the station wrote:
See how they wrote "9-percent of Blacks", "16-percent of Hispanics", "60-percent of whites"? That's not at all accurate. To see why, click on the "click here" link in the quote box above (yes, that link is also in the station's article) to see this page of the CDC's Data Tracker: Demographic Characteristics of People Receiving COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States.
Then look down a bit and look at the graph at the upper right. Mouse over the specific races shown on the bar chart. That's where the percentages come from.
It's not "9-percent of Blacks" are fully vaccinated. It's that Blacks make up 9% of the fully vaccinated Americans for which race information is captured. 37% of vaccinations capture no race information, as putting race information on the form is voluntary. See the disclaimer right above the bar chart: "Data from 165,334,987 people fully vaccinated. Race/Ethnicity was available for 104,170,421 (63%) people fully vaccinated."
There are four other racial categories on the CDC chart:Doug just to be clear, were you trying to say that if you added up the numbers you posted we get 100% or a round number of 100? I get 9 plus 16 plus 60 is like 85...I don't think those numbers work the way you are saying
We'll use your numbers but that still will leave about 2/3 of Blacks unvaccinated because the other number that flew thru the last couple days with almost no pushback in the Media(35%) and then this morning I had just 3 yellow columns on my TV screen, it wasn't presented the way you are posting Doug so guess what, the entire Palm Beach and Treasure Coast that saw this is going to think only 9% of Blacks have been vaccinated and this happens all the time on the news and TV, people see a quick graph or flash maybe just passing thru an airport and believe they've witnessed the spoken word and it must be because they just saw it on TV. But we will go with your research and that still is going to leave roughly 2/3 unvaccinated, still a huge concern and doesn't seem to be getting much National attention I guess. Just those horrible people on the beach in Florida bringing down the entire United States one Sun-ray at a time.There are four other racial categories on the CDC chart:
Hispanic/Latino - 15.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native Non_Hispanic - 0.9%
Asian Non_Hispanic - 6.3%
Black Non_Hispanic - 9.1%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Non_Hispanic - 0.3%
White Non_Hispanic - 59.7%
Multiple/Other Non_Hispanic - 8.1%
We'll use your numbers but that still will leave about 2/3 of Blacks unvaccinated because the other number that flew thru the last couple days with almost no pushback in the Media(35%) and then this morning I had just 3 yellow columns on my TV screen, it wasn't presented the way you are posting Doug so guess what, the entire Palm Beach and Treasure Coast that saw this is going to think only 9% of Blacks have been vaccinated and this happens all the time on the news and TV, people see a quick graph or flash maybe just passing thru an airport and believe they've witnessed the spoken word and it must be because they just saw it on TV. But we will go with your research and that still is going to leave roughly 2/3 unvaccinated, still a huge concern and doesn't seem to be getting much National attention I guess. Just those horrible people on the beach in Florida bringing down the entire United States one Sun-ray at a time.
Who are you actually talking to? The only person who isn't endorsing getting the vaccine in bold letters is all of you. I have done a few times in here already.Mop, the only person calling this a horse tranquilizer is you. You are just regurgitating ridiculous claims and anecdotes. Most of which are untrue or unverifiable. Or at best, misinformed. YOU are the problem here. Just stop. People should get vaccinated. If they choose otherwise, for whatever reason, good luck. Don’t look to me for sympathy. The thing that bothers me most is that these are the people who put the rest of us at risk, burden our healthcare system, and end up costing/waisting more time and money while we prolong this pandemic.
Please take that down or I gotta put you on ignore and I'm happy to remove this and trim any other post but you gotta stop man. I don't want to but that ain't right and you know it.So you’re here to rail on blacks? Do I have this right?
You seem hung up on pointing it out. Do you understand why African-Americans might be more skeptical when it comes to getting vaccinated? The lower vaccination rate is an obvious reflection of that.Please take that down or I gotta put you on ignore and I'm happy to remove this and trim any other post but you gotta stop man. I don't want to but that ain't right and you know it.
To piggyback: I also want to reiterate that there are a large percentage** of vaccinated people who don't offer up their race information on the form. This is also covered on the CDC graphs I linked earlier this morning.Do you understand why African-Americans might be more skeptical when it comes to getting vaccinated? The lower vaccination rate is an obvious reflection of that.
I'd love to answer that question if you would kindly take down that post for me, please and then we can continue the discussion and you'll get plenty of opportunities to tear me up but the race baiting I can't put up with. This will be the last time I ask nicely and then I'll shut you off because I'm not going to watch the thread torn down over race baiting or subtle jabs that have nothing to do with what we're discussing. I'm sorry you're having a bad day but please take down the post I asked, it's very offensive and we can't continue our chat otherwise.Do you understand why African-Americans might be more skeptical when it comes to getting vaccinated? The lower vaccination rate is an obvious reflection of that.
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-july-2021/We'll use your numbers but that still will leave about 2/3 of Blacks unvaccinated because the other number that flew thru the last couple days with almost no pushback in the Media(35%) and then this morning I had just 3 yellow columns on my TV screen, it wasn't presented the way you are posting Doug so guess what, the entire Palm Beach and Treasure Coast that saw this is going to think only 9% of Blacks have been vaccinated and this happens all the time on the news and TV, people see a quick graph or flash maybe just passing thru an airport and believe they've witnessed the spoken word and it must be because they just saw it on TV. But we will go with your research and that still is going to leave roughly 2/3 unvaccinated, still a huge concern and doesn't seem to be getting much National attention I guess. Just those horrible people on the beach in Florida bringing down the entire United States one Sun-ray at a time.
I flubbed this link upthread -- all the data I've been talking about today in this thread comes from this link:There are four other racial categories on the CDC chart:
Hispanic/Latino - 15.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native Non_Hispanic - 0.9%
Asian Non_Hispanic - 6.3%
Black Non_Hispanic - 9.1%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Non_Hispanic - 0.3%
White Non_Hispanic - 59.7%
Multiple/Other Non_Hispanic - 8.1%
I would like to point out that this is also patently false.We have discussed this ad nauseam and UV Rays kill these viruses in under a second,
I would like to point out that this is also patently false.
It is true that UVC rays will quickly destroy viral DNA, but UVC rays do not penetrate the earth’s atmosphere.
UVA and UVB rays take much longer the destroy viral DNA. You’re more likely to get skin cancer than to destroy the coronavirus.
But MOP said it's impossible.Just be aware that we don't yet know how much more transmissible the Delta variant is outdoors. Luckily the baseline for outdoor transmission is very low for the original virus, but the data isn't there yet for this new one.
The BBC said it was virtually impossible, MoP said for peace of mind go get vaccinatedBut MOP said it's impossible.
And we still have people who seem to like to wear masks in broad daylight outside even though its impossible to catch this virus or any virus i would assume outside in the blazing sun. Nobody caught Covid at the Beach that was an outright lie. People might have caught it in their cheap motels on Spring Break but they weren't catching Covid on the sand. In fact if we could get everyone to go camping and stay outdoors for a week or two with no AC I think we could beat this thing once and for all. Who is with me on going to Yosemite?
Just what you're typingThe BBC said it was virtually impossible, MoP said for peace of mind go get vaccinated
What are you reading on that side of the screen?