>>13233637Because it doesn't work. The frontline antibiotics like amoxicillin are also cheap, and they were effective. And then they started feeding it to everything with legs on the planet and it ended up driving antibiotic resistance.
Like this McCullough doc, he has his covid19 patients hemorraging all over his clinic, and as a doctor he can try all sorts of shit to stabilize a patient- who is not necessarily dying from covid19, but the comorbidities associated with it (sepsis, internal bleeding, secondary infections, etc). In those situations doctors apply strategies, like a drug for the bleeding, an antibiotic for the infection, etc. That is not the same thing as what an epidemiologist does. Their scope is susceptible populations, not individuals. A clinical trial determines a population-level effect of a therapy. They cannot say, take the example of a few case studies and generalize a treatment program for the specific problem.
Or to put it another way, imagine if antibiotics prevent the establishment of organisms that cause disease and they are only $0.003/dose. Why NOT take them every day? We know what happens: the evolution of resistance: what was once valued at $0.003 becomes, practically speaking, worthless. For a unit price of $0.003 we save a human life, worth about $10M (guessing at the adjusted figure). For now ivermectin is useful and reliable against some particular pathogens and cheap. What we risk with widespread prophylaxis is unknown, biologically, or financially. What is clear is that it is not a vaccine. It will not stop the spread of the virus. If a patient is headed downhill, then a doctor should be able to try anything. But you, apparently healthy, taking it on the recommendation of not-your-doctor is ill-advised if for no other reason than it is a false sense of security.
