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Phenylephrine is back on the menu, boys!
That's the best case.
I'm thinking thalidomide.
Maybe we can get LSD pregnancy medicine to market this time
can we only test in on men too?
I was thinking whatever those horse tranqs were back during COVID days.
Elon took all the horse tranqs (ketamine).
The horse paste majic covid cure (trust me bro, my brainworm never lies), was Ivermectin.
Is that what killed the brainworm? Fuck
... somewhat ironically, it is at least barely, slightly plausible that ivermectin could have taken out the brain worm...
it is an actual anti-parasitic, but uh... its only been tested and approved as an anti-parasitic for humans via oral ingestion...
... but it is intravenously administered to cows and pigs as an anti-parasitic.
So... IV ivermectin in a human could potentially work, but ... good luck figuring out the right dosage, and hopefully human bio chemistry and blood brain barrier just function identically as within pigs and cows.
I am not a medical expert, but I suspect that latter part just maybe might not be a great assumption.
Ooh, I get to do an ACKSHUALLY here. They do have it for topical treatments too, like for rosacea.
https://www.drugs.com/soolantra.html
Generally if it's effective orally, it'll be effective intravenously, so I would expect it to work...the issue with dosage is more likely to be in the opposite direction, with significant side effects due to overdosing.
I suppose if you overdose hard enough, it would cure COVID in addition to the brain worm
Yes, I wasn't clear enough about it, but that is what I would be worried about, lol.
Its... probably not just as simple as a direct proportion between cow weight:cow cow dose to human weight:human dose... as ... humans are not cows.
I remember reading hermancainaward posts about idiots who did actually take waaay too much oral (or in some cases, suppository...) ivermectin...
So now they're on a ventilator from the covid, and also uncontrollably shitting themselves and massively dehydrated.
Can't say I remember a case of ivermectin OD leading to CNS shutdown... but yeah.
Covid skeptic/deniers were and still are astoundingly, lethally, suicidally stupid.
EDIT: Also, ... ataxia.
Could ataxia lead to muscular control difficulty with say... your diaphagm, your throat?
Boy would that be counter productive as a covid 'cure' fucking christ...
Ivermectin (anti-parasitic) aka horse dewormer.
...and human dewormer.
Nobel prize-winning anti-parasitic for humans, yes.
Several studies show no statistically significant effect on COVID-19 length or severity.