It wasn't my intent. But I will stand down out of respect.
@jmyrlefuller The point about the zinc is that there has been a concerted effort to discredit any treatment that has shown a degree of effectiveness at a low cost. The anti-parasitic drugs fall into this category. These treatments are not new. Their effectiveness was discovered during the SARS-1 and MERS outbreaks, and garnered the recommendation of the NIH for the last 15 years.
Now fast forward to 2020. Faced with a new version of SARS, doctors combed through the research that had been posted by the NIH. They discovered that there was already an effective treatment regiment available, and they pursued that method. But at the same time, Fauci and our government took an active role to discredit and reverse their very own published findings. They did so by conducting more studies, but with subtle differences to the treatment regimens that made them far less effective.
Zinc became the poster child of this discrediting attempt. They pretended to conduct studies to the successful and promising trials of their peers, except that they intentionally altered the study for the intent of failure. Examples included omitting the zinc, omitting the zithromycin, waiting until patients were on respirators before starting treatment, lowering the dosages of the anti-parasitic, etc. The VA study was particularly heinous in that they employed all of these alterations with the expressed purpose of discrediting the proven (and cheap) anti-parasitic treatment. Thousands of our veterans died as a result.
So when
@Smokin Joe brings up zinc, he is doing so to remind everyone of the dishonesty of those who falsely discredit the findings of successful treatments against SARS-2. And unfortunately, you have bought into the false rhetoric of those behind this.
The bottom line is that there are doctors all over the world who have employed this treatment method with great success. At the same time, there is a pharma industry working on vaccine innovations that could bring in hundreds of billions of dollars in profits. And if they have to omit zinc from a drug cocktail in order to discredit a study and then buy off media hacks to launch a political campaign against it in order to protect that income stream, then they will do it. So no, this isn't about zinc, zinc, zinc. This is about people in our government lying to us and allowing people to die as a result, all in the name of mammon.
I would strongly recommend that you go back to 2005 and find out what the NIH position had been from 2005 to 2019.