Ivermectin, 'Noble Lies,' and Whom Do We Trust?

[Elderberry]

American Thinker by Keith Jackson, MD 9/11/2021

The controversy around the use of ivermectin and, previously, hydroxychloroquine joins a long list of things where the left's pursuit of the "Noble Lie" is judged more important than honest debate.  This particular piece of dishonesty claims that vaccinations, masking, and social distancing alone will eradicate COVID-19, and all other "side hustles" like these inexpensive medications are mockable, "snake oil" obfuscations.  Whom we choose to align with in these debates is unjustifiably and destructively polarizing, especially when facts may not line up with the pursued plans of those we trust to lead.  Why we trust and how we justify lying come into question.

By now, most of us know that there are studies, many of them from our own CDC, that show the effectiveness of ivermectin when given early in the course of COVID-19.  There is real-life proof that countries like Japan have already had success with the medication.  The medicine is cheap and safe when used properly.  Like hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin is nevertheless demonized by the political left, its mainstream media, and the medical establishment, the last despite published studies by reputable investigators.

For some unexplained reason, we can't be allowed to have alternate treatments, apparently because the narrative of the left may get undermined in the eyes of the voters, the "Noble Lie" being more important than our health.  Alternatives to any of the Left's "Noble Lie" agendas are always panned by the media as non-scientific and undermining our communal good.  Healthy skepticism is akin to flat-Earthism, with no room in between, contradictory facts and unexpected consequences be damned.

Regular Americans are all too aware that they are being lied to practically every minute of every day, with roughly half of voting Americans hoping it is in our best interest to accept the lying.  All of us are put into the uncomfortable situation of having to choose political sides while not really knowing the truth.  And the choice of whom to believe is not as black and white as one would assume, especially when reminded of the axiom that we don't really know what we don't know.

Do we Americans join the team of our sports and movie icons, the "cool" people living dream lives, who ridicule the use of the "horse medicine" ivermectin for COVID-19?  They tell us that the rubes voicing alternative treatments for COVID-19 also want a polluted, scorching-hot planet, endless wars against non-whites, and Jim Crow racism, throwing black Americans back into chains.  We are just as evil and stupid in their eyes if we question why we shouldn't be looking for all possible means to survive.

But we knew we couldn't trust the left and its complicit, apparatchik media when they told us at the onset of this viral plague that if we would all just wear a mask for a week, this would all go away.  Then "our betters" told us that you can't trust a vaccine that is a product of President Trump's efforts in the battle against COVID-19, apparently because "Orange Man bad" — dishonestly politicizing the virus to defeat the political opposition.  Now they want us all to trust the vaccine manufactured to fight last year's virus (not the delta variant), use masks (even outside!) that don't really work, and not seek alternative therapies.

More: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/ivermectin_noble_lies_and_whom_do_we_trust.html

[Smokin Joe]

From:

MINI-REVIEWIvermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction withindicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2052297521000883?token=C13FAE1C7170A9CE95751C1D6BB1DED3625BD9926F8918E3B255D885AFEA6942BC485DB49935C1E5657CFA5320EFA99E&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20210912040556

Abstract: In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior,honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world’s most devastating tropical diseases.Since March 2020, when IVM wasfirst used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs)have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 foundnotable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru,excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments.
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Conclusion We believe that the evidence to date supports the world wide extension of IVM treatments for COVID-19, complementary to immunizations. The indicated biological mechanism of IVM, competitive binding with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is likely non-epitope specific, as reviewed [8], possibly yielding full efficacy against emerging viral mutant strains. IVM has been safely used in 3.7 billion doses since 1987, well tolerated even at much greater than standard doses [34,35]and used without serious AEs in the three high-dose COVID-19treatment studies noted above [34,36,37]. In the current international emergency of COVID-19, with mutant viral strains, vaccination refusals and potentially waning immunities over months presenting new challenges, IVM can be an effective component of the mix of therapeutics deployed against this pandemic.