tech37 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:57 am
Geez a fan, you're still all hung up on Ivermectin. IVM is not what I've been talking about. What I 'm saying is that Paxlovid should have been available sooner. IMO, there was such emphasis placed on vaccination that the new therapeutics were put on the slow track. That strategy may have made some sense early on until vaccination numbers plateaued. Now mandates will be the only mechanism to change that. If Paxlovid had been readily available sooner for early treatment, sick people would have survived. No brainer...
I didn't say one word about invermectin. Should i pull a tech, and freak out because you're putting words in my mouth?
tech37 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:57 am
Argh. Yes, vaccines work but so will therapeutics (Paxlovid a fan)
in a different capacity. A balanced approach utilizing both doesn't make sense? We can continue to beat ourselves up over who is and who isn't vaccinated or we can add a tool most everyone will take (just like aspirin for a headache) should they come down with Covid. It should be that available/automatic IMO, then we'll beat this thing.
You're assuming that all the people taking these pills are rational, educated patients, tech. That's not who we're dealing with here.
This pill is largely for the unvaxxed. So guess what that means? Demographically? Poor, rural, skeptical of science, more likely to be uninsured.....not exactly a recipe for knowing that they have covid, and for taking the pill at the right time...which is EVERYTHING with these treatments.
How do you get an anti-vaxxer to just execute step one, which is to take a Covid test? Good luck with that. It's sad. It sucks. But here we are.....
tech37 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:57 am
Perhaps in time new Covid vaccines will be developed that don't carry the same stigma for many that the current ones seem to and more people will voluntarily get vaccinated.
So blow money on differently colored life vests, hoping that they'll prefer purple to orange?
Is FoxNation or guys like Joe Rogan shutting down anytime soon? No, right? So we're stuck.