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.”