Originally posted by
Octopus Garden
It's not a black and white issue, but if I were to boil it down to its essentials, most Canadians feel that public safety during a pandemic trumps individual freedom. During a pandemic, we truly are 'all one.'
There is a lot of confused messaging coming from governments but drug companies have made it clear for a few years that the vaccine would be highly effective for the first wave, not so much for delta and even less for future variants.
At this point I am no longer getting boosted as I had too strong a reaction to the last booster I had and the cost/benefit of getting it now, weighs more on the cost side, due to side effects. I would rather catch a variant, provided it's not too virulent.
I was familiar with ivermectin way before most people as I was on a forum dedicated partly to inform about vaccines and ivermectin and the FLCCC. It may have been before the FLCCC was formed. I was going to forgo vaccines and opt for ivermectin, but due to my own health issues, I had to clearly establish whether ivermectin could possibly cross the blood brain barrier, for one.
What I found after querying the forum leader who is best buddies with Pierre Kory, was nothing. They weren't looking into it. The forum and Kory ended up too, using information that turned out to be, not just wrong but WAY wrong, about Uttar Pradesh and how well they did with ivermectin. Also wrong about Japan and its experience with the drug for covid.
It took me at least a year to get enough clarity on all this to make a choice. I could see a unwarranted general consensus on ivermectin forming in right wing circles along with a lack of cynicism about the perverse incentives motivating alt media personalities, like Russel Brand.
The alt media personalities have made way more money than any drug company executive, on this subject. To dismiss that, isn't approaching the vaccine topic objectively, imo.