This is a merry go round from hell and we all need to get off.
The merry-go-round isn't the goal. Coup is the goal. Propaganda --> mind control --> national control. People need to think critically and call these dangerous propagandists like Glenn Beck out.
Using the fact that there is a decent, but far from certain, medication for covid patients to not get a vaccine is foolish.
Indeed and it isn't an either/or question because vaccination is for prevention and to reduce the pandemic itself, while reactive expensive treatments like these other things are for individuals who get it until we have something even better for treatment. The dichotomy isn't merely prevention vs treatment, because we are not just trying to prevent an individual occurrence but a whole societal occurrence. Glenn Beck is not a mere irresponsible turd either. He's a bullshit artist, creating problems for freedom in the country because he's supporting a propaganda war that will lead to a right-wing takeover.
On the other hand, wanting to downplay the effectiveness of fluvoxamine or even wanting to deny it to people who are not vaccinated as a way to spite them is what some people are doing.
I don't know who is doing that or why, but it's probably not proven yet. I mean a study showing population correlation doesn't prove a biological mechanism or give data on issues of that dosage if it's different than for mental health. For all I know, people who take it start getting more rational and as such start leading more productive, healthy, sanitary lives, start taking their other medicines more regularly, not hiding them from nurses, though I doubt that's what is going on.
Of course, The Lancet study wasn't done on omicron either which is a bit different. Vaccinations are showing to be effective with omicron but far less effective, especially since people took them a while ago. There's no updated info for the other experimental treatments.
This has corrosive effects for trust in the vaccine and a misplaced excessive faith in fluvoxamine in a certain subset. The vaccine is pretty good stuff and so is fluvoxamine to a lesser and more risky degree.
Okay, but it's again not a strict separation of this or that. People ought to get vaccinated. Their newly declared, out-of-the-blue declaration for being anti-vax is a bullshit lie because the same criticisms could have been lodged against HCQ.
and guess what else?
Fluvoxamine also used embryonic cell lines in its R&D, just like the Pfizer vaccine.
Using the main use for long term administration of fluvoxamine to smear its short term emergency coincidental use is really beneath you.
Well, maybe, which is why I haven't done it, but then again, it's not proved effective against omicron variant, and my greater point has been the hypocrisy, not counter-spreading propaganda.
Do you just care about winning arguments on the internet? Are you mental health shaming? Not asking sarcastically.
Is there a part of you, Don, that doesn't want fluvoxamine to have a strong positive effect on Glenn Beck?
Yes and no.
I honestly wouldn't mind if he died at his own hands because (1) it would be his own fault and (2) it would save lives. I might feel bad for his family but the adults among them should have told him to knock off his bullshitting a long time ago, too.
If the medicine started to work for his mental illness, if he has it, you might think that would be good for him and then society, but unfortunately mental illness is not the end of his problems, if he has it--there is a giant problem with being a con artist, that would still be there and if he were mentally competent, on some level he might be even more dangerous in helping the inevitable fascist coup takeover of the country.