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“xxx kills cancer cells in a petri dish”
As does soap and water.
What about bleach? Or maybe ultraviolet light?
If you don’t schedule your appointment at Trump Clinic right away, it’ll be so sad.
Even that doesn’t really answer the question, though. Why was a lab even testing the effect of ivermectin on viruses? Were they just doing preliminary tests on hundreds of different established medicines, and that’s the one that got green jellybeaned?
In 2012 the same lab and researcher published results of treatment trials which identified the molecule as having properties which inhibited HIV interactions.
In a worldwide search with a degree of some urgency for a COVID anti-viral, why wouldn’t you give that a burl?
There’s an XKCD for everything!
I don’t know the answer to your question.
AIUI, it’s not a “green jellybean” situation: ivermectin really does have antiviral effects on cell cultures in a petri dish at high concentrations, and these results are reproducible. What’s left out is that the required concentration for a measurable therapeutic effect is higher than what is safely achievable in a living, breathing human being.
So, what you are saying is that if they take enough, they won’t be suffering from COVID anymore.
They won’t be suffering from anything.
Ah, it’s a cure all.
I believe the suggestion to ingest bleach also falls into this category.
Trump made the bleach claim after receiving a letter from a huge scammer, someone that started a religion around selling a toxic bleach compound for human consumption. He claimed it was a miracle cure for everything, including autism, cancer and Covid
He believed if he framed his scam as a religion, and the bleach product as a sacrament, he could evade the law. He was wrong, he’s since been arrested and the scam has been shut down. But it was still going strong back when Trump promoted it on TV.
The Genesis Church MMS bonanza may be over, but quackery promoters are still cashing in on the loony belief that ingesting or bathing in chlorine dioxide bleach is a wonder cure.
There are lots of ads on Amazon and eBay for “water purification kits” composed of bottles of chemicals which when combined, produce chlorine dioxide. Somehow I doubt that all those buyers are going camping or preparing for the breakdown of civilization and municipal water treatment.