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I took ivermectin prophylactically back at the height of the pandemic, and never caught Covid, even though my vaccinated husband had it. While I no longer take it orally, ivermectin continues to play a daily role in my health. I have suffered from rosacea for years and never had any success with any of the standard treatments. Now there is a topical prescription cream called Soolantra that contains ivermectin as the active ingredient. It truly has been a game changer for me. My skin has been completely clear and free of the sores that used to haunt me. People regularly comment on how beautiful my skin is, compliments I’m not used to receiving! I give all the thanks to ivermectin and readily tell people. Ivermectin is truly a miracle drug!

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Soolantra been available at least a decade. And the dear doctor is completely skipping his testimony 12/20 which quickly became a hard video to find. I did catch a nasty persistent cough 2/20 in FL and just double downed on my immune support. All good since

What Weinstein left out of his tell all is the death protocols & hospital incentives. How many died/injured from that? As a DPOA, I’m still in a constant battle now with nursing home re my sister whom was vax injured then twice isolated alone with no TV. She’s barely with us.....and yes, the TV re vax plus the hospital mafia refused a legal “right to try” request when hospice ordered. Wrote to every rep in Florida

Almost every congress critter is implicated including the sometimes a hero Rand Paul whom invested in Remdesivir

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Very heartening. How was it recommended to for your rosacea ? Ivermectin’s anti inflammatory / autoimmune activity properties appear to have come into play here. It is a wonder drug. No doubt it enjoys a rare status of a World Day. I implore medical researchers to research this drug extensively for a myriad of diseases, related or unrelated. Including in cancers and autoimmune diseases. It is the most celebrated drug in Covid, nearly two thirds of humanity benefiting from it. It is anti viral, anti bacterial, anti parasitic, anti inflammatory, immuno modulatory and works by different mechanisms in different indications. I have always believed that most common drugs have multiple uses, their primary indication apart. Ivermectin must be explored against 100 diseases. Half the world population requires quality, affordable ( cheap) medicines. Ivermectin is one immediate answer. Big Pharma will not explore it. It is the responsibility of individual researchers and labs to make it reality. In the meantime, Cherry, stay safe and well.

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Thanks, Moro! I tried a new dermatologist when the previous dermatologist kept trying to prescribe the same medications that never worked. This new dermatologist also had rosacea and told me she had had excellent results with Soolantra. That’s all I needed to hear. I was sold! Now, I have the skin I always wished I’d had when I was younger.

I am in full agreement with you on everything that you said about ivermectin. Big Pharma has no interest in it because it’s cheap and readily available. I witnessed this greed up close and personal when my father-in-law was in the hospital with sepsis. Having read about Dr. Marik’s HAT protocol, I told the attending physician that the family insisted that it be incorporated in my father-in-law‘s care. The doctor told me he had no problem with ordering it and getting it started but he felt that the pharmacy would kill the orders the next morning. I was stunned. I had no idea that the pharmacy could override a physician! I’m sure it’s because the components of the HAT protocol are cheap and readily available, and it was going to impact their profits. That made me so angry! 😡 Fortunately, my father-in-law recovered. However, my faith in modern medicine did not, and this was long before the pandemic!

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That is the reason why I find the US medicinal system very strange, entangled with insurance, and generally not helpful to the patients. Also the range of OTC medicines available there is very very few. I have elaborated it in several of my comments here. You may have a look. After Ivermectin, your faith in classical medicines ( rather than very modern like Paxlovid) should stay stronger. Incidentally, a 30 gm, 1% IVM cream here costs the equivalent of 2 dollars. Famotadine, the all purpose stomach aide costs about 6-7 dollars in USA for a pack of 50 tablets. The same lot (same strength) would cost here the equivalent of 30 cents.

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Excellent news Cherry!

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You cannot catch a disease that does not exist.

Anyone who believes there ever was such a thing as "COVID" must also admit that they are willing to believe a story told to them by proven pathological liars and psychopaths (Drosten, Ferguson, Gottlieb, Fauci, Gates et al) and believe a story as told to them by institutions that have a decades long record of multiple felony offenses.

Anyone who is perpetuating the falsehood that there was such a thing as "COVID" is forwarding the agenda of these same sociopaths and criminal institutions. Wittingly or not is irrelevant.

This includes quite a collection of those who position themselves (or have been positioned) as "leaders" of the ersatz "health freedom movement."

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You are a fool and a liar and a distraction.

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You just used Logical Fallacy. Please review logical fallacy arguments.

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It doesn’t change the fact that he is wrong.

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Dr. Sam Bailey has proven he is right. And Christine Massey with the FOIAs. Among many other names out there if you care to look up these two, the rest are easily located.

Or you could watch this from Barry Trower. https://rumble.com/v29amxi-5g-microwave-as-a-weapon-dr.-reiner-fuellmich-and-barrie-trower.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Learn what really happened in the past, what is currently happening, and will happen in the near future.

Or bury your head in the sand. I don't really care at this point.

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LOL. https://drsambailey.com/

"She is the co-author of Virus Mania, which examines how the medical industry continually invents epidemics to make billion-dollar profits at our expense."

I suspect they're not the only ones making a profit from the 'pandemic.'

https://drsambailey.com/about-dr-sam-bailey/

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So, microwaves, eh?

Who is Dr. Sam Bailey and how has he proven anything?

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????

Doesn’t change the fact that he is all of those things.

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"You cannot catch a disease that does not exist."

How do you prove that something doesn't exist? Atheists have been struggling with that one for over 300 years. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Any good scientist knows that. It's right behind correlation is not causation.

I've never seen a photon, but for some odd reason when I switch on the lights or turn on the TV, they magically appear! Not to the naked eye of course, but there's far fewer things we have direct evidence of than you might imagine. How do I know you're real, for example? ChatGPT is getting pretty good these days.

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So what were they doing at the The Wuhan Institute of Virology all these years? Not to mention the dozens of NIH funded labs in Eastern Europe and elsewhere?

https://tass.com/defense/1732501

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It's called money laundering.

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And who are you anyway?

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I understand what you are saying. My understanding is that a virus has never been actually verified. However,something has made people sick. For the most part,at least in my world ( I did not get “it”) its seems like any other flu. I trust Dr. Kory that SOMETHING he’s been treating has been responding to ivermectin,etc. I don’t doubt,at all,that much of our social experience is manufactured with some agenda,and,for a very long time…

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I agree with you: COVID as a free disease agent does NOT exist however that does NOT

exclude the strong possibility of a variety of bioweapons being used against populations including electromagnetic grids as synergistic agents.

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Is the cream on available by prescription?

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Yes, by prescription only. I am fortunate that my insurance covers it because it can be quite expensive. However, I use it sparingly every morning on the vulnerable areas of my face. As a result, a tube will last me nearly a year.

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Try to get it from friends/contacts or through small import sources from India. It will be cheap and no need to go for insurance reimbursement.

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Good to know! Thank you. I will try that!

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The ivermectin paste, I use for my horses,has been VERY effective used topically on skin issues, and,viral skin irruptions. It’s 1.87% ivermectin,and,very inexpensive..I use it ( it’s easy to figure the correct dose) internally,when ever I feel a little something trying to come on. I have not had a cold,flu,etc,in the 3 years I’ve been using it!

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My dad was hospitalized with Covid in August 2021 and was denied IVM and HCQ because the doctors insisted that there was no supporting evidence and it was not “protocol”. These doctors had a moral obligation to be current on their medical knowledge or at least intellectually open to investigating alternative treatments. Their willful blindness caused so many unnecessary deaths.

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Through out 2020 and in early 2021, the usefulness of Ivermectin was being established in many places, mostly in small levels. Publications also began appearing in late 2020 and I am sure the protocol was getting across the world through social media also. The case of Africa was also known, who use Ivermectin extensively for their other conditions, it was one of the least vaccinated and least infected. Perhaps, the extensive use of IVM, both prophylactically and therapeutically in a raging infection ( delta) could be India by about mid 2021. In August 2021, it was in wide spread use here and the horrendous wave earlier was distinctly ebbing. Even without being keenly focused on current knowledge, the doctors in USA would have known about Ivermectin being at the centre stage in many parts of the world, Asia, Africa, S. America…..but their hands were tied, by the medicinal system there. We have discussed it extensively here in these comments boxes. That is the bane of this pandemic in the USA, with no one being held accountable for its worst record in the world. We are very sorry your dear father became another unfortunate victim for this record. In India, in August 2021, your father would have been saved by the free, intrepid doctors. Would anyone tell me if Ivermectin is approved for Covid, at least now, in 2024 ? There are thousands of more lives, waiting to be saved, as the virus still refuses to withdraw fully.

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As you know , I and millions of others used the great “horse dewormer “ drug both as preventive & therapeutic starting as early as the summer & fall of 2020. My deepest appreciation to you ( and others) for your bravery & perseverance in defending it.

Billy Davis DVM

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early on stories from India emersed that testified how provinces of India where Ivermectin is used on regular basis for parasites, barely had any covid sicknesses. Surprisingly India refused the pfizer shots but not the other garbage, instead of using IVM. I also read that a company in South KOrea making chloroquin, burned to the ground, must have been mid2020

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When all this anti-IVM was happening, I was working with a colleague in India, and interviewing Indian companies to do research...and this topic came up frequently. My colleague was in a province that gave everyone IVM, while others on calls didn't get it, and the discussions of the amount of covid was drastic from these states. But I don't see any of that dialog anymore. I think Bill and Melinda Gates have shut down Indian media about it. (side note, I do find it funny that everyone still uses the Bill "and Melinda" Gates when they are divorced, but she already doesn't like Bill's repeated trips to Epstien Island, so I wonder how she feels as her name is spewed as just as much hatred as Bill's about the evill things he is doing. How come no one asks her? Would she take her name off the foundation's masthead? I really, really want to know!)

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From India. I don’t think the mainstream media here covered the sponsored use of IVM in the state of UP very extensively during our crippling delta wave in the second quarter of 2021. In a quick wave by mid 2021, the use of IVM appeared every where, but mostly with other common drugs like Azithromycin, Montelukast, Levocetrizine and a few others. I have seen dozens of prescriptions in that period and they always had a combination of these, sometimes without IVM also. By the third quarter of 2021, that devastating delta wave was going down as quickly as it appeared months earlier. These drugs were used in our short Omicron wave in early 2022. This virus is a non-talk here ever since. All these drugs are part anti virals, in addition to being what they are. In combinations and given early, they provide sufficient anti viral heft to prevent viral load build up in an infected. So effectively, that those individuals will not become spreaders in their own household. Multiplied over thousands of households in the society, the virus cannot spread. Slowly it has disappeared. A job that the vaccines will no do. That is our story.

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when the news of the divorce came out, I read that she was still going to work together with bill, for the foundation. So I guess she does not mind. You can hardly name a foundation the bill gates and (melinda whatshername) foundation, not to think of when she were to remarry. And think of all the millions she is still raking in from the foundation

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I heard a theory that they divorced so that they would have a plausible reason to liquidate certain shared assets that would have looked like insider trading if they did it just before the markets shifted.

When interviewed together about pandemic threats they both looked too smug to be innocent ot even ignorant of what was coming down the line.

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It would not surprise me at all, these people stand for nothing. I don't watch them if I can avoid it, I don't even look at his smug pics. If there is one person in the world I hate it will be him. To inject little girls with known poison and add something to make them infertile. A criminal if ever there was one - just the kind of Fauxi

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Special places in Hell for both of them.

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I just saw this presentation from Dr Martin

https://rumble.com/v491s56-david-martin-great-set-up.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

in it he states that dr Z used the protocol from Dr Baric, which is the antidote to the virus

both man made -

zinc, vitamin D and HCQ or Ivermectin, just like the 'dissident' doctors used! of course, if there were an antidote, no need for the poisoned needle!

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Did you take the pills or paste? If paste, how did you know how much to take, thank you..

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This was the source we used for this information. If the link does not work just internet search Ann Barnhardt Ivermectin and it will come up. https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/ My spouse and I personally used the 1% veterinary liquid ivermectin.

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JF, I have this info but in pdf form. There’s a formula you use. I wish there was a way to DM you this info. I’ll see if I can find the source again.

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Thank you 😊❤️

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Ok, thank you! Or you can send it to Janfer6@gmail.com

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It's not complicated; the horse paste follows the same normal dosing as humans, pound-for-pound (assuming 12 mg for an average human).

Just pretend you're a horse, and measure out your weight. ;-)

To get Dr. Kory's higher initial dose (24mg), just double your weight. Let's hope we no longer need to pursue such tactics, the (human) pills are more convenient, and should NOT be expensive. Leave the dosing to doctors if at all possible, though their past recommendations might be a place to start, in emergencies.

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Same for our family (also have a DVM who guided our use of it).

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Could you please tell me the dose and schedule you use/used both prophylactically and therapeutically? TIA. DBirch,M.D.

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“I didn’t know public health agencies were supposed to be snarky but whatever”

I love the meta-snarkiness in this aside—Jenna’s wicked sense of humor is rubbing off on you 🤣

Pierre, I know you and likely many of your readers are fellow Apocaloptimists, so I want to take a moment to celebrate three of *many* pieces of good news this week to supercharge everyone’s morning:

1) From Tess Lawrie—“Good News: The UK’s membership of the WHO seems to be unlawful and legal action is pending”: https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/the-peoples-lawyers-claim-that-the

2) “Canadian Truckers Score Big Victory Over Trudeau in Federal Court”: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/canadian-truckers-big-victory-trudeau-federal-court/

Anyone who needs a refresher course on Trudeau’s treachery and Canadian tyranny can check these out:

• “Letter to Justin Trudeau”: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-justin-trudeau

• “Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers”: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-the-canadian

3) CJ Hopkins was found NOT GUILTY of thoughtcrimes at his trial on Tuesday!

I urge everyone to take five minutes to read the HISTORIC speech CJ delivered in court as it is possibly the most electrifying speech I’ve ever read on totalitarianism, and its performance in the context of a totalitarian trial makes it all the more significant:

• “The Verdict”: https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-verdict

For the cherry on top, please consider signing the thank-you card I have written to Substack for standing firm against censorship by adding your name to the comments of this post:

• “On Fearing Freedom—Plus Thanking Substack for Standing up to the Censorship Bullies”: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/on-fearing-freedomplus-thanking-substack

My goal is to get this to 500 comments before (re)presenting it to Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj Sethi, so I would be grateful to any and all who are willing to take just a moment to add a note of thanks!

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Never charge a playwrite with a crime unless you have a really solid case. :-)

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My sister lives in Canada, and early in the pandemic, went to her own physician to get a prescription for ivermectin to have on hand in case she or my elderly mother contracted the disease. He told her it was unavailable and that he was unable to provide the prescription, but after she demonstrated to him that she had done her homework (she knew more than he did, in fact) and that she knew about the illegitimate smear campaign against this drug, he admitted that he had a bottle of veterinary grade ivermectin in his own cupboard for just such a moment, thus giving her silent affirmation that that was a perfectly reasonable tactic given the stupidity of the powers that be. 

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Pierre, I don’t have the resources or reach that you do, but I have a friend who was a pharmacist before he was a physician & who is married to a woman who raises and shows horses. We discussed veterinary ivermectin at some length and he said it was essentially the same (different vehicle & flavor--apple). This before I started taking it for prophylaxis, I never did prescribe the veterinary formula for patients, for fear of regulatory liability. Instead I started importing it from India to dispense to patients. Being in Amish country, bunches of my patients just went to the feed store and got it for themselves (there is a gauge on the plunger of the tube that gives you the dose for your body weight).

As I have reflected on the issue of the purity and safety of the veterinary product, I don’t think it is of any less purity, quality, safety, then human preparation of ivermectin. Think about it: The owners are regularly using this on show horses and racehorses many of which cost millions of dollars to purchase, not to mention how much it cost to feed and maintain them, transport them to races and shows, etc. Also, realize that this is used on dairy Farms and cattle Farms where the health of the animals is absolutely crucial to the economic viability of the farm. The people who own and run these farms and animals are not stupid. They wouldn’t have the money that they do if they were and they would not be putting some second rate product in an animal that cost minimum hundreds of thousands of dollars and upwards of millions of dollars.

Like everything that our government and it minions have spewed in the last four years, at least, the denigration of veterinary, ivermectin were lies.

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Thank you for your well said, beautifully stated comment. My spouse is a DVM and he would agree with you 100%.

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This.

Secretariat doesn't get shitty, ineffective, or tainted drugs.

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In Ontario, Canada, the government immediately ordered pharmacies to stop ordering and stocking it in 2020 and removed it from the list of funded drugs for seniors. My elderly demented mother was in a nursing home and I was illegally prohibited by the home from entering to visit or care for her between March 2020 and December 2022 because I had refused the jabs. The government quietly owned up to the misuse of the jab mandates in late 2022 but didn't punish anyone for applying a nonexistent order that resulted in significant suffering and death and was not authorized by the provincial emergency laws. Due to neglect and isolation (which I certainly would have prevented had I been allowed in) my mother developed scabies. The doctor at the home was reluctant to risk going through all the flaming barbed wire hoops that the government had put in place to stop doctors from prescribing ivermectin for ANY reason, even though it was the official nursing home standard of care for treating scabies, so my mother suffered unbearable torment for FIVE MONTHS with untreated bleeding itching sores all over her body, until I blew the whistle. A buck's worth of the drug, in two doses, cured her scabies. It cost me $90 Cdn. She died shortly after but was at least free of scabies. Ask me if I'm still bitter.

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So much unnecessary suffering happened to the elderly during the pandemic, I think many were just left to die by themselves. It’s incomprehensible that all that happened was allowed to happen. I’m so sorry for what happened to your mother, I hope she’s at peace now 🙏

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I wish I could make every bureaucrat, hospital or nursing home administrator read your post (and millions like it), not to mention the nimnus who claim that there was no virus.

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Already a dozen such stories of despair, suffering and loss in this podcast comments alone. And all this in a rich, well resourced country, world’s medically most advanced country. How sad and ironic ? We are sorry for you, Aliss that you could not save your other after a miraculous recovery from the earlier torment.

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A thousand thanks for your clear-eyed and fully-informed defense of Dr Hoffe. In BC our health authority Dr zBonnie Henry has never read a study on ivermectin AND NEVER WILL. Her authority and her paycheque rest on the Trudeau government's huge investment in Pfizer, and the consequent necessity of distributing the countermeasure to every Canadian, of every age, until it's all gone.

The uninformed tyranny of the College continues to threaten doctos' licences if they insist on actually practicing medicine.

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Dr. Hoffe is a hero.

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".....the consequent necessity of distributing the countermeasure to every Canadian, of every age, until it's all gone."

Or until everyone is all gone.

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The sickest thing is that many lawmakers themselves took ivermectin (privately) and then touted the big pharma policy line depriving millions

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Yup, I used animal ivermectin and not only did I not die or overdose but I didn’t even get a cough when I had covid and I’m asthmatic. Go figure 🙄🙄

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In response to my recent comment ( concerning Dr. Kory’s brave IVM defense), no one can “ recommend “ use of animal products for humans. However, I am fully aware of hundreds of people who were FORCED to use the animal versions because it was the only medical choice they had . NO ONE had any issues whatsoever related to their intake of these drugs. Lives were saved & infections were cured . People are free to do whatever they wish . As a coincidence ( for 40+ years) , I happen to be a veterinarian who used IVM in dozens of species & thousands of animals for those 4 decades.

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Dr. Kory,

Thank you for these facts, your research and commitment to helping HUMANITY.

Very much appreciate the free access to your valid information. Thanks to you, your staff AND your subscribers...

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Dr Kory - This is a very belated response to your kind reply to a comment of mine from Jan 10 when you wondered if you potentially treated my mom for Covid during your time in Wausau. I read somewhere that you worked at Aspirus at some point, but I didn’t know the timing. However, you definitely did not treat her. My father was treated in the Aspirus ICU in 2019 for his pneumonia, but in 2021, my mom was only treated locally in Minocqua by two ICU docs who alternated weeks. One seemed like a genuinely good physician who was clearly grappling with the ever-evolving limitations of the hospital treatment protocols. He had at least figured out that remdesivir wasn’t helping whereas the other was still a fan of both trying both remdesivir and baricitimab. As you explained to me in your reply then and in this article today, the timeline of the anti-ivermectin propaganda campaign plus when they started restricting access perfectly overlapped with the course of her illness; a circumstance that is equal parts astonishing and heartbreaking.

The description you provided in your reply of the difficulties in treating Delta was helpful for me to come to grips with what happened to her, so thank you for explaining things from a very informed ICU doctor’s point of view. Moving in with the person you love most in the world with the primary goal of being their health advocate only to be restricted to doing so over the phone with a series of nurses’ and doctors’ voices you’ll never meet for an illness as bizarre and polarizing as Covid armed with treatment protocols you’ve curated off the internet requiring drugs you can’t obtain here in the supposed land of the free definitely messes with your head. There will always be aspects to my mother’s passing that will make me question if I did everything I possibly could for her (e.g., reading this piece makes me wish that I had been brave enough to locate and try the vet version of ivermectin.) However, there were just as many odd events that made me feel like God was moving His chess pieces around such that it didn’t matter what I did. He had decided now was her time and all of my efforts were minor impediments at best.

Thank you for all of your efforts, then and now, to keep us informed while fighting on our behalf for medical freedom. It’s sincerely appreciated.

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Heart breaking story, yours. The irony is that you are in USA which gave most of the medicines saving humanity today, including the most widely used drug by humanity, Ivermectin. In a third world country like mine, your mom would have been happily alive today, thanks to the freedom the doctors have to think out treatments. In this podcast, as also elsewhere and with my friends settled in the USA, I have been discussing the lop sided medicinal treatment system there - it started with the ban on Ivermectin for Covid - heavily loaded against the patients. You must thank yourself that every one of you manage to survive through it all.

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when the US forbid Ivermectin for humans, (I heard later on the govt bought all what was available) I ordered dog-capsule since my dog takes it for heartworm. The vet is so sure it works fine, that he omits the testing. I bought enough in case I got sick, then started giving it to the dog. Unfortunately the animal lab is in Ukraine and probably got shot to smithereens.

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Can you please address this article? Apologies if you did and if so anyone have a link?

https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/pierre-korys-new-york-story

We need to get to the root of the COVID story and you were there in New York, experiencing a very different emergency than many others that did not see the chaos that they threw you and some others into.

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Dr. Kory,

Thank you for a refreshing look at the fact that reasonableness and putting the patient first did not flee from every Physician when the Covid lies and manipulation via Medical and Pharmacy Boards was in full swing over the past few years.

I know several people who avoided Covid by using veterinary versions of it and none of them experienced any side effects.

I was lucky to live in a State where there was a Pharmacy that kept a supply of 3 mg Ivermectin Tablets and I was able to get a 5 day series, appropriately dosed for my age and weight from that Pharmacy. The Ivermectin literally "knocked out the Covid" and I now have an immunity that no one who took a "vaccine' can claim.

Sadly, most Physicians, Physician Assistants and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses at the Hospital where I had practiced Anesthesia fell right into line with the lies from the CDC et al.

The damage the CDC and Medical and Pharmacy boards did to the Medical and Pharmacy Professions is, in my estimation, CRIMINAL!

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"I know several people who avoided Covid by using veterinary versions of it and none of them experienced any side effects."

Some people reported a craving for oats which passed after a few days.

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Good one. There was one fellow who said when he laughed, it sounded like he was neighing like a horse!

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