Ivermectin is the SARS-CoV-2 game changer

In fact, it’s not only a game changer for SARS-CoV-2, but also for viral disease as we know it, and also some bacterial diseases (including antibiotic-resistant diseases like tuberculosis).  

It has minimal side effects, and has been used around the world, especially in third-world countries, for decades.  It is very, very safe, even if you take too much.  It is on the WHO’s list of essential medicines.  It is very cheap and widely available.  In third-world countries, it is given out once a year to both treat diseases and as a prophylactic.  

Why have you never heard of it before?  Leaving aside political implications, probably you haven’t heard about it because it was developed as and is generally considered to be an antiparasitic drug.  We don’t suffer from a lot of parasites generally in countries like the USA, so most people don’t use it much, except to give to their pets.  

But SARS-CoV-2 has caused a lot of re-thinking about how viruses work.  What we learned growing up about viruses vs. bacterial infections, that only the latter are really treatable (because antibiotics are the only treatment in existence), is just not true.  The “search for a cure” for HIV has led to a lot of antiviral therapies, but ordinary doctors don’t generally prescribe them for ordinary viruses.  

Ivermectin goes after not just active viruses, but retroviruses, including those used in vaccines.  You’ve probably heard that you can get shingles if you had chicken pox (or, as it turns out, a vaccine) because the virus hides in your spinal fluid, and then when you get run down, your immune system can’t cope with it anymore, and the virus re-emerges as shingles.  It’s not a new infection;  it’s something you’ve had for decades.  

Ivermectin can hunt those hiding viruses down and kill them, too.  And there are lots of them.  Every virus you’ve ever had is still in your body. 

If everyone took Ivermectin once a year prophylactically (as they do in Africa, for example), our general health would improve over time.  Because the less your immune system is compromised by residual viruses, the better it can handle opportunistic infections and chronic conditions. 

A healthy person has no perceptible response to Ivermectin.  A sick person’s reaction can vary widely, depending on their condition.  An otherwise healthy person diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 who takes Ivermectin will get well in a few days.    

A team of doctors recently presented a briefing to Vice President Pence about Ivermectin. (The timing was interesting:  it was while that press conference by a group of doctors talking about HCQ was being censored by Big Tech.)  I hope that the word about Ivermectin gets out to doctors but not the press.  I don’t want to see another HCQ debacle, and the press is already trying to downplay Ivermectin. 

(There were some articles a few weeks ago about the success of Ivermectin in other countries, and the few press reports all talked up how dangerous it was:  two people out of thousands reported diarrhea!  O, the horror!)

On a personal note, I’ve taken Ivermectin several times in the past few months and I can attest that it is a powerful drug that really, really goes after long-term persistent viruses as well as acute infections.  I am also taking zinc picolinate (which in that form can get into cells and disrupt viral replication).