Dammit! +ve covid test

dragoner · Dec 10, 2021

@Morrus My condolences, I hope you feel better soon!

Zaukrie · Dec 10, 2021

Good luck and a speedy recovery!

Umbran · Dec 10, 2021

Mercurius said:
there are quite a lot of doctors and other health care practitioners that are recommending it and other approaches for treatment.

Yes, but there are health care practitioners that recommend Reiki and homeopathy, too. My wife has watched a fellow veterinarian go down an anti-vax rabbit hole to the point of thinking the vaccines are part of a depopulation conspiracy. One medical practitioner, close to the previous US Administration, is quoted as thinking that sex with demons was a primary cause of illness in the world.

Medical practitioners are human beings. They are subject to all the foibles of humans. And that includes tons of cognitive biases.

The processes of science are there to filter out those biases, and protect us from people who, for one reason or another, have gotten it wrong. If you aren't applying those filters, that's a problem.

It is not like ivermectin hasn't been studied, you know - it has, to date, failed to show appropriate results. So, when your medical professionals can come up with statistically relevant results, we can talk. Until then, they can take a hike, as far as I am concerned.

Mercurius said:
Throwing around terms like "medical misinformation" in this day and age is tricky, because it depends upon who you are talking to. In the end, it comes down to who you trust, and what makes sense to you.

What makes sense to me is actually measuring results well enough to know that what you are doing works. If you trust something else, that's your problem.

I will not have this site be responsible for some poor gamer crapping out the lining of his intestine because we allowed unproven advice to proliferate.

Olgar Shiverstone · Dec 10, 2021

Take a knee, face out, drink water, take Motrin. (j/k)

Hope you recover quickly and feel better!

the Jester · Dec 10, 2021

Sorry to hear that, Russ. Best wishes- I hope it's mild and passes swiftly.

Dannyalcatraz · Dec 10, 2021

Mercurius said:
I just want to say that while the mainstream medical establishment doesn't endorse ivermectin for covid, at least in the west, it isn't just some nebulous "the internet" that does - there are quite a lot of doctors and other health care practitioners that are recommending it and other approaches for treatment.

Throwing around terms like "medical misinformation" in this day and age is tricky, because it depends upon who you are talking to. In the end, it comes down to who you trust, and what makes sense to you.

And to clarify, I am not recommending for or against any particular avenue of treatment. But I do take issue with this sharp duality of "the mainstream is true, and everything else is misinformation." That is a very dangerous place to find ourselves.

To date, the only context in which I know of that ivermectin has been used successfully in treating human patients with Covid was in India and nearby countries in which large numbers of the infected were ALSO known to be suffering from parasitic infections.

IOW, the ivermectin was used to rid the patients of their parasites, thus reducing the strain in their immune system and allowing the doctors to use other treatments for Covid.

Levistus's_Leviathan · Dec 10, 2021

Like the others have said already, I hope you get well soon and can avoid spreading it to others. It also sucks that the 3rd post in this thread was Covid-19 misinformation.

Blue · Dec 10, 2021

I know there's a train of people already wishing you well @Morrus , but add me to it. With all of the precautions we take and how we let it interrupt our lifes, it doesn't feel fair that it's still dangerous. But it is, and hopefully like the preponderance of people who had been previously vaccinated, I hope your breakthrough is mild and short.