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The one treatment that's proven to work in almost all cases is the human immune system. Well before the vaccine was available, people all around the world were infected in the millions and a figure well over 99% recovered, many not even knowing they were infected.On the contrary- where people have adopted such staunch beliefs (the vaccine doesn't work, ivermectin is the cure or whatever falsehood de jour they present with today) and then subsequently proven incorrect at every juncture, they are trapped and have no mechanism for a climbdown. No one on this entire forum can explain to me the rationale of becoming so heavily personally invested in a fudging random drug which has been about for 50 years. If I'd started 3 years ago telling folk emphatically that paracetamol is the cure for covid, you'd have assumed I was nuts. Even though it too has been around since Christ rode a camel there was no contemporary evidence that it worked on viruses and no known logical mechanism that it could have worked. If I had said dexamethasone was the cure (it too being around since Christ rode a donkey) there would have been some logic to that belief- it's a drug that has been used in respiratory medicine for decades and costs the NHS pocket change a packet.
How then do you explain the level of zeal so many contributors on this thread have for ivermectin? You can't, even their worshipful devotion to one crack pot doesn't explain it. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. They just can't stand losing face to say so. My hopes for various drugs being found useful were dashed on multiple occasions because I looked for those with a plausible or at least understood mechanism of action in relation to viral diseases. Some very expensive and pretty seriously sharp edge drugs were trialled and found to be next to useless.
At every juncture I have sought data supporting the idea that ivermectin works. None has ever withstood proper scrutiny. And now they are scrabbling around looking for their next 'cure'. Surprise surprise it's Vitamin D. Like none of us ever saw that coming- but that's all part of the conspiracy along with the complete bullship that we were told a vaccine 'stays in the arm', despite 10+ years of work in vivo showing that this demonstrably was never the case.
But settle yourself in: next week it'll be zinc or selenium. Vitamin C the week after that. Maybe eventually some study will turn up some data that shows amitriptyline is useful and they'll seize on that as being part of the falsehood that everyone was acting to conceal the truth all along when the reality is no fudger even thought to try it in the grip of a global pandemic.
We don't need a magic cure in ivermectin or vit D or anything else just look after your health and your body will very likely keep you alive. Admittedly those in very poor health, not helped by age, will be at a greater risk but those will also be at risk of a multitude of illnesses, not least existing risks such as the flu.