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Mary Lou Tringali, PhD's avatar

Congrats for being so brave and true to your conscience! We need more practitioners like you. I take ivermectin once a week as a preventative among other supplements! Blessings! Stay strong!

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Guy Montag, E-451's avatar

"I then looked up the Daily Beast Article..."

. . .

I can relate. Last April, I took a 3 day detour on Amtrak just to attend RFk Jr's announcment speech (unforturnately, I had to leave 5 minutes after he actually started speaking to catch my train out to Seattle for a backpacking trip). I was seated on on the far left side, and took the opportunity to speak to a Daily Beast reporter.

I tried to explain to her that I wasn't an "anti-vaxxer," but an "ex-vaxxer." I got an annual flu shot for 28 years and a bunch of shots in the Army. As a firefighter, I was one of the first to get the Phizer shot in Dec 2020.. A week after my 2nd shot, I had DVT in my calves and the following week was on an IV drip in the hospital for PE in both lungs. It was after an outpatient surgery, so I thought it was coincidental.

It wasn't until next year, when I was considering a booster shot, that I dug into the "conspiracy" theory that the Covid vax was NOT "safe & effective". . . . No booster shot for me, and I made damn sure that my teenage son and nephews didn't get it either over the ojections of my wife and sister-in-law.

I also explained that I was not MAGA, had (regretfully) held my nose and voted for Biden as supposedly the "lesser of two evils", and had campaigned door-to-door for Bernie. Of course, the resulting "Daily Beast" article was a smear job. "Everyone" she talked to was a MAGA, anti-vax, conspiracy theory nut who hated Biden!

P.S. I actually dug into the IVM controversy in June '21 (thanks to Matt Taibbi and Bret Weinstein). I went through all the data and discovered for myself that Kory, Tess Lawrie, etc. had the data and evidence on their side. I even read through the BS Cochrane meta-analysis, where they hid the successful results of a prophalaytic IVM trial in tiny footnotes and like page 298 out of 300!

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