Remember when COVID-19 was a hoax? Evil-doers were using it as an excuse to crash the economy and kill off Donald Trump’s reelection chances. Or if Covid existed, his faithful insisted, it was no worse than the flu. Meanwhile, bodies stacked up in refrigerated trailers outside New York City hospitals and in mass graves on an island in Long Island Sound. Remember when you did not need to take precautions against the hoax virus because you were “covered in Jesus’ blood“?
Or how about the many graduates of the University of Facebook School of Medicine who insisted mask-wearing toxifies the body with its own CO2 and dishonors the likeness of God?
How many who once insisted that the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax or no worse than the flu now insist that a real medicine for deworming horses is a cure for the hoax virus?
David Boulware, a researcher in infectious diseaseat the University of Minnesota began getting threats for attempting to study the drug, ivermectin, rumored to have promise in treating COVID-19. He wanted to run a double-blind, clinical trial.
Mother Jones reports:
In May, Boulware’s team put the word out about the study, aiming to recruit 1,100 volunteers. But then something strange happened: He began receiving hostile emails and messages on Twitter from people who fervently believed that ivermectin was a miracle cure for COVID-19 and that administering a placebo to some trial participants was therefore unethical. “Are you a reembodied NAZI Josef Mengele?” wrote one in an email. “WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? Eliminate your plan to abuse people as needless controls. You have a duty of care.”
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There is a growing divide between people who believe the key to ending the pandemic is in preventive measures—vaccines, masks, and distancing—and those who favor treatments. Clearly, these two public health approaches should not be mutually exclusive, but somehow in the current climate, they are. Angela Reiersen, a clinical researcher who is studying potential COVID treatments at Washington University in St. Louis, has seen this pattern play out on her own Twitter feed. “If I post something about vaccines as positive, then I will have a lot of people jumping on that and attacking me, and it’s these people who are all pro early treatment,” she told me. When she tweets good news about potential treatments, on the other hand, she has noticed that she provokes the ire of vaccine advocates. “They kind of seem to suppress any information about early treatment,” she said, “maybe because they feel like it’s going to make people think they don’t need to be vaccinated.”
Covid hoax, we hardly knew ye
The divide is not necessarily partisan, writes Kiera Butler. On the left is Team Prevention., and on the right is Team Treatment. If God the Omnipotent is taking sides, he’s not talking. Except to televangelist Jim Bakker.
Roy Edroso puts on his inner preacher in his newsletter this morning, warning faithful patriots neither to ingest the recently approved Deep State’s medicine nor to wear its Face Diapers because “all the real medicine you need is down at your local veterinarian’s office.” Be ye not sheeple:
There’s literally nothing you need in the way of cures, treatments, and tonics that you can’t get from animal medicine. Fighting a bacterial infection? Forget high-priced amoxicillin and take Enrotex Broad Spectrum Antibiotic Bird Supplement that comes in convenient powder form, which makes it easier to give to infants. Got arthritis? Phenylbutazone is good for your dog and good for you. Daughter knocked up? LutaLyse takes care of it in pigs and it’ll take care of it in her. (Tell her so and maybe she’ll get the hint and mind you next time!)
Let the sheeple feed at the trough of phony “science” while we prosper and grow strong from the simple remedies down at the feed store. Wolverines!
