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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by NewRoxFan, Feb 23, 2020.

  1. deb4rockets

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    And as a reminder, Ivermectin won a Nobel Prize for human use in 2015. From NobelPrize.org:

    The discoveries of Avermectin and Artemisinin have fundamentally changed the treatment of parasitic diseases. Today the Avermectin-derivative Ivermectin is used in all parts of the world that are plagued by parasitic diseases. Ivermectin is highly effective against a range of parasites, has limited side effects and is freely available across the globe. The importance of Ivermectin for improving the health and wellbeing of millions of individuals with River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, primarily in the poorest regions of the world, is immeasurable. Treatment is so successful that these diseases are on the verge of eradication, which would be a major feat in the medical history of humankind. Malaria infects close to 200 million individuals yearly. Artemisinin is used in all Malaria-ridden parts of the world. When used in combination therapy, it is estimated to reduce mortality from Malaria by more than 20% overall and by more than 30% in children. For Africa alone, this means that more than 100 000 lives are saved each year.

    The discoveries of Avermectin and Artemisinin have revolutionized therapy for patients suffering from devastating parasitic diseases. Campbell, Omura and Tu have transformed the treatment of parasitic diseases. The global impact of their discoveries and the resulting benefit to mankind are immeasurable.​
     
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    Yes, ivermectin is a miracle drug for a wide range of parasites and certain insects like lice. There are countless lives saved from those two pests.

    By that logic, you should take it off label for cancer and pray to Al Nobel for a cure?
     
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    This make it in yet?

     
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    Anybody following SciTimeWithTracy? She's got a PHD in immunology and Microbiology an takes apart anti-vax arguments. It's pretty funny and informative stuff.
     
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    LOLZ - the people that keep referencing this exact thing. Holy crap.
     
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    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    What do you mean? Einstein won a Nobel prize for the photoelectric effect, so you should definitely use a tanning booth set to high and see if you can get some electric current in your skin. :D
     
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    Paste Eaters Beware: Ivermectin Is Coming For Your Sperms

    It's been a while since we've heard anything about Bill Gates and his evil plan to use the vaccine to inject everyone with the Mark of the Beast, and that is largely because the kookosphere has landed on another theory. That theory, which I cannot stop thinking about, is that world governments spent a year making everyone freak out for no reason over COVID-19, a completely benign virus that isn't any worse than the flu, all so they could push a vaccine filled with poison, for the purposes of depopulating the earth. Or "depop" as people who want to sound official like to call it.

    And yes, this makes more sense to them than it would to just create a virus that kills people. Because apparently the goal is to get the population of the earth down to 500 million, as per a random sculpture in Georgia.

    Now, sometimes the vaccine kills you (and also harms the healthy unvaccinated people around you when you shed your "spike proteins" everywhere like so much dandruff), but sometimes it lets you live and renders you infertile. If you are a vaccinated person wondering why you are not dead yet, that's because you either got a saline shot instead of the death shot or the death part is more of a time-release situation. Obviously they couldn't have us all dropping dead at once — as it would be difficult to get other people to take it. So there's something in it that will kill us in a few months, once enough people have taken it.

    Anyway! All of this incredible "critical thinking" got me thinking. How is the horse paste these dopes are gobbling up affecting their fertility? Because boy, wouldn't that be quite a twist. So I googled Ivermectin and sperm count and wouldn't you know it ... there are several studies, dating back years, suggesting that Ivermectin lowers sperm count and sperm motility. Most of them have to do with animals (unsurprisingly), but one did analyze the effects of Ivermectin on the sperm count of men using it to treat onchocerciasis, or "river blindness."

    From a 2011 study on Ivermectin and sperm count in humans:

    For normal fertilization to occur the sperm functions must meet the minimum required sperm functional capacity as shown in table 1 which serve as normal control in this study. From the results obtained, it is evident that ivermectin therapy has significant adverse effects on the sperm functions of male onchocerciasis patients so treated. There was a significant reduction or drop in the sperm counts of the patients after their treatment with ivermectin. Furthermore, the study showed a significant and remarkable drop in the sperm motility of the patients after their treatment with ivermectin. As for the morphology of the sperm, there was a rise in the abnormal sperms after treatment compared with the morphology before the commencement of treatment. These changes no doubt are as results of the effects of the drug on the sperm function of the patients.

    Although, there were no noticeable changes in the sperm volumes, sperm viscosity and the sperm liquefaction time the results of this study is enough to cause infertility in these patients.

    This is similar to the findings of Tanyıldızı and Bozkurt in animals, thus, they recommended caution in the use of ivermectin in animals met for breeding.
    So, just to be clear, while there is ample evidence that Ivermectin causes infertility in men, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that the COVID vaccine affects fertility in any way.

    more at the link
     
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    Posted by someone who has a SSN, driver's license, Tax Number, bank accounts, a credit card score and from a computer with an IP address that get's billed to a physical address or from a phone that collects your data and your current whereabouts.

    But yes, this is the gateway to being a digital slave lmao.
     
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    Horses beware, Ivermectin users will be coming for your sperm.

    Only a matter of time until some GOP cult leader cons his/her base of idiots into butt-chugging horse sperm.
     
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  15. Rashmon

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    From the mojomein files...
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  16. Rashmon

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    Hey, but they've leveled off, right? Let's make sure we keep the schools open and not require a mask...

    COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas level off just below the pandemic’s winter peak

    The numbers have stayed within a few hundred of a grim milestone as the state battles the pandemic’s latest surge.
    by Karen Brooks Harper Sept. 3, 20215 AM Central

    With at least 13,790 COVID-19 patients, most of them unvaccinated, hospitalized in Texas on Thursday, the state marked a week hovering at just below the record set in January for hospitalizations during the pandemic, according to numbers released by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

    The state’s previous pandemic peak of 14,218 hospitalized COVID-19 patients was reported Jan. 11 during the deadliest wave of infections the state had seen since the virus was first reported in Texas in March 2020.

    During the current summer surge, the largest number of COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals has been 13,932 on Aug. 25. But with just a couple hundred fewer patients statewide than the record — and a much more exhausted and depleted workforce than they had over the winter — hospitals have been operating at or above capacity for weeks.

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    Lost a bud today to covid. Another is in the hospital doing bad. Both were vaxxed.

    I am sure yall have talked about it but it does seem that black folks are not faring well against this virus. Both of these gentlemen are/were under 45.
     
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    Condolences on the passing of your friend. Too many people are still dying...
     
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