I don’t know in other countries, but in France there was a sort of cult from some media around Raoult, who was, at the time, a respected name. So maybe it’s not that simple.
People are talking about dead people and just call them morons. Without any idea of what they went through. Amazing.
My wife’s aunt is married to a Frenchman and the level of worship he displayed for the guy was incroyable. No matter what came out disproving how ineffective Hydroxychloroquine was in tests during 2020/2021 he was absolutely certain that Raoult would prove to be right in the end.
sorry, but my empathy for those people is zero after the last few years. toddlers tantrum over masks, ignoring social distancing while partying, protesting against lockdowns while the ICUs were overfilled, spreading bullshit on social media about the vaccine and calling people nazis over the idea that mandated vaccination might be smart - i will call them morons over and over again, regardless of nationality, and will cite studys like the OP whenever someone asks why. i’ve been called worse for masking up when it wasn’t required, our little snowflakes will have to endure it.
Dr. Wakefield was also (once) a respected doctor. Go ahead and look that shit head up (spoiler alert: father of the modern anti-vax movement). Just because folks can find a doctor to tell them what they want to hear doesn’t mean they should ignore the countless others saying the opposite
I get what you’re saying, I really do, but it was widely known (at least here in the US) that it was not a solution, that at best there were some “interesting studies in France,” and that people should not be self-medicating with it. So many people did it out of political allegiance, not because a doctor told them to. Again, in the US.
For us it’s hard to decouple all the Trump bullshit from ivermectin and HCQ usage. Because if he and his fanatics didn’t push it, most people wouldn’t have ever touched that stuff. They found a few “doctors” to support it and that was that. Usage fell along political lines which is bonkers to me. People taking non-prescribed meds for a virus they didn’t believe was a big deal just to “own the libs.”
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I don’t know in other countries, but in France there was a sort of cult from some media around Raoult, who was, at the time, a respected name. So maybe it’s not that simple.
People are talking about dead people and just call them morons. Without any idea of what they went through. Amazing.
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My wife’s aunt is married to a Frenchman and the level of worship he displayed for the guy was incroyable. No matter what came out disproving how ineffective Hydroxychloroquine was in tests during 2020/2021 he was absolutely certain that Raoult would prove to be right in the end.
Have you paid attention to the rhetoric from unvaccinated people?
sorry, but my empathy for those people is zero after the last few years. toddlers tantrum over masks, ignoring social distancing while partying, protesting against lockdowns while the ICUs were overfilled, spreading bullshit on social media about the vaccine and calling people nazis over the idea that mandated vaccination might be smart - i will call them morons over and over again, regardless of nationality, and will cite studys like the OP whenever someone asks why. i’ve been called worse for masking up when it wasn’t required, our little snowflakes will have to endure it.
Dr. Wakefield was also (once) a respected doctor. Go ahead and look that shit head up (spoiler alert: father of the modern anti-vax movement). Just because folks can find a doctor to tell them what they want to hear doesn’t mean they should ignore the countless others saying the opposite
I get what you’re saying, I really do, but it was widely known (at least here in the US) that it was not a solution, that at best there were some “interesting studies in France,” and that people should not be self-medicating with it. So many people did it out of political allegiance, not because a doctor told them to. Again, in the US.
For us it’s hard to decouple all the Trump bullshit from ivermectin and HCQ usage. Because if he and his fanatics didn’t push it, most people wouldn’t have ever touched that stuff. They found a few “doctors” to support it and that was that. Usage fell along political lines which is bonkers to me. People taking non-prescribed meds for a virus they didn’t believe was a big deal just to “own the libs.”