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December 15, 2021

Anti-vaxx Doctors Prescribe Ivermectin

By William P. Homans

Ivermectin, as part of the continuing ramifications of anti-vax activism-- and desperation

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Me and Sancho Panza, in Madrid, Spain
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I first became aware of ivermectin's involvement in the ongoing saga of CoVid-19 when a fellow member (of ninety years of age or so) of www.opednews.com who is an antivaxxer mentioned it as an alternative to vaccines. That person did not know whether ivermectin was to be used as a prophylactic-- something to prevent you from catching the disease-- or a therapeutic-- something to make you feel better once you had caught it. Nonetheless he stood foursquare behind it.

I did some reading that my fellow member had prescribed for me about the drug, and though it was clear that ivermectin has been highly effective in fighting bacterial infections and deworming both animals and humans-- at least one codesigner of the drug was awarded a Nobel Prize-- there was no reliable research that concluded that the drug was in any way effective against a virus or its consequences.

A few days later, one of my onetime investigative colleagues, and longtime friends, answered a post I had written about my first encounter with the idea that ivermectin was effective against CoVid-19, and about the increasing presence in Mississippi and Alabama emergency rooms of patients who had taken random doses of ivermectin they had bought-- quite legally-- in agricultural stores that sold veterinary products. He presented me with the news that his family had all caught CoVid, and he had bought and administered ivermectin from the feed store, claimed they had all improved, and in so many words, didn't give a (expletive deleted) whether people believed him or not.

The conversation deteriorated from there. It stopped entirely when I asked him how he determined what the proper dosage for the drug was to administer to adults and/or to children. I have never heard from him again.

Fast-forward: in the beginning of August, my business partners and their daughter (none of whom could take the vaccine because of other medications they were taking) contracted the virus. I happened to be out of town, in Missouri, a heavily CoVid-slammed state, playing shows. Me and my band were vaccinated, and when we returned to Mississippi we all got tested, and were found to be negative, regardless of our trip into risky territory.

They are all recovered now, but during the latter part of the recovery process, the husband went to one of his usual doctors in Memphis for an issue unrelated to CoVid, and while there asked the doctor to get him a therapeutic. This doctor referred him to another doctor who prescribed (in one brief visit) ivermectin. When Joe (not his real name) found out independently what the doctor had prescribed, he discarded it immediately.

From this first-hand account from trusted friends, to the story I am providing the link for here, it is clear that DOCTORS THEMSELVES are spreading, widening, and prolonging the misinformation about ivermectin, and even using the drug as a talking (and acting!) point against the taking of CoVid-19 vaccines.

Not all doctors (or Physician Assistants or Nurse Practitioners, who also can prescribe medications), or even a majority. But some of them. I wish Joe had held onto the medication, and the doctor's prescription, so I could have begun investigating the incident.

Here is the story of one who was fired by the hospital he worked in (or at least banned from practicing there; he may never have been an outright employee) for administering ivermectin to CoVid-19 patients in the hospital, instead of an approved therapeutic, remdesivir, that they had been on.

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If desperate people continue to "treat" themselves, or contact wrongheaded and opportunistic-- even, rebellious-- physicians and get "treated" in unapproved ways, a magnitude more desperate people will hurt themselves. And worse, extreme rebels of the right-wing will find continuing justification for their pushing conspiracy theories about CoVid-19, and conflating those with the Trump-and-Bannon-pushed lies that are INTENDED-- Bannon told us flat-out, as early as Trump's President-Elect period-- to disrupt American democracy.

Dr. Goebbels would have been much elated by Bannon, Trump, Gen. Flynn, Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and the whole cabal of liars. They have hammered on the lies, including the Big Lie-- that the election of 2020 was stolen from Trump by fraud-- until something around half the voting population has apparently bought the whole ball of wax, and until even medical doctors, who theoretically should be the most responsible citizens in our entire society (next to airline pilots!), are conducting open rebellion against proven methods of battling a deadly disease that grips the entire globe.

I'm as shot-up as a person can be, 2 Modernas plus the Booster. I've had plenty of vaccines in my life, and I have never contracted any of the diseases which those vaccines were supposed to prevent. Seems like a heckuva good deal for me!

Y'all know I am an American patriot, besides being a planetary citizen. It is my opinion that people are committing un-American acts in personally resisting the vaccine, and even more un-American acts by spreading resistance against approved and reliable public health efforts via bleeping social-media engines-- and even, as the story of my former investigative colleague reveals, inculcating that resistance in their children.

And at the other end of the bench, Don Quixote de la Mancha
And at the other end of the bench, Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Authors Website: http://www.watermelonslim.com

Authors Bio:

My name is William Perkins Homans the third, but probably more people know me as the bluesman (and artist) Watermelon Slim.



I've been in the fight against war, fascism, injustice and inhumanity for 47 years. I was at MayDay, 1971, and at the moratorium March the week before. I was one of the leaders of the Great New Jersey Turnpike Stall on my birthday, April 25, 1971.



I bear the scar on my left shin from a neoNazi jackboot, when I was one of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War who bounced the NSWPP from Flamingo Park at the Republican National Convention of 1972. My father fought the Nazis in the North Atlantic and Anzio, and I met their spawn in Miami.



My formal education has been first-rate. I wouldn't trade my degrees for Harvard ones. I was raised in the finest private Catholic and Episcopal high schools.
I earned my BA in History and Journalism from the University of Oregon/Eugene. I was also captain of the U of O bowling team, 1984-1986. High game 299. Mentors: Dr. W. Gordon Rockett, Dr. Daniell Pope
1997-2000: Oklahoma State University. M.A., History, 2000, plus the school-teaching curriculum. Mentor: Dr. Ronald Petrin

I am a world survivalist. My politics transcends right and left, perforce. I watch for signs we may transcend in some yet-unknown fashion the vectors and indicators in my environmental and geopolitical analysis.
As Tiny Tim said, "God bless us, every one!"


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