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Here was my critical thought process as a patient.

Ivermectin and HCQ have been prescribed safely over billions of doses and have an extremely high safety profile. Even if they don’t work, they won’t harm me.

So that’s why I took ivermectin when I got Covid. Did it help? I basically never had a fever and had the equivalent of a head cold for about a week. Maybe it did nothing. Maybe it was placebo. Maybe it helped. It definitely didn’t harm me though.

I have consistently been wary of all new drugs and medical technology until it is proven over a period of years and not withdrawn from the market or hit with a black box warning. Long before the pandemic came along.

This is why I was afraid of the mRNA vaccines and did not take them, although I have nothing against people who chose to, like my spouse.

I still feel that I made the most reasonable choice. Could I have been an unlucky one who died from Covid? Yes, and I accepted that risk and felt it was lower than the risks of adverse reactions taking new medicines like mRNA or paxlovid. If I had been wrong, I would have accepted that I miscalculated the risk and admitted I made a terrible error and dealt with the health consequences.

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The kids did a great job of evaluating that hydroxychloroquine study. As a follow-up, the kids should be presented with a second study where hydroxychloroquine was utilized in the manner in which it has been found to be efficacious, ie. at the initial onset of symptoms. The students should understand that studies are also published where it is clearly the goal of the trial designers for the drug to fail.

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