Posted on 05/09/2024 5:58:12 PM PDT by george76
If you want a perfect summary of why people don't trust the media anymore, and in particular CNN, this is it.
Back in September 2021 Joe Rogan announced that he had contracted COVID and was taking a "kitchen sink" approach to fighting it off. One of the drugs he took was Ivermectin.
Immediately, as in that same day, CNN started in on a campaign to mock Rogan for taking "horse dewormer."
*On Sept. 1, CNN host Erin Burnett said: “Controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, who’s railed against vaccine requirements, says he has covid and took a drug intended for livestock.” She articulated similar descriptions two additional times before interviewing a doctor and noting that the drug is prescribed for people as well.
*The same day, CNN host Anderson Cooper said, “One of those drugs he mentioned, ivermectin, is something more often used to deworm horses.” On that same show, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said, “When you have a horse deworming medication that’s discouraged by the government that actually causes some people in this crazy environment we’re in to actually want to try it. That’s the upside down where we’re in with figures like Joe Rogan.”
*Also that day, host Don Lemon said, “The United States is now averaging 160,455 new covid-19 cases every day, including controversial podcast host Joe Rogan saying that he tested positive for covid and that he says he is taking several medications including a drug meant for deworming livestock.”
And it continued like that for several more days. One of the people who jumped on the bandwagon was then-CNN host Chris Cuomo.
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Chris Cuomo just said that ivermectin works, he takes it daily, and that the medical community knew it couldn't hurt you if you took it for Covid
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Given the history it comes as something of a shock that Chris Cuomo admitted this week he is now taking Ivermectin for long COVID.
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Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo admits he now takes Ivermectin *everyday* to treat his Covid vaccine injury
You can’t make this up
For years, he bashed Joe Rogan & others who took Ivermectin
He pushed everyone to get the jab
Now he’s a cheerleader for Ivermectin b/c it WORKS
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He starts to take issue with Rogan one more time and then pauses and corrects himself.
“Everyone’s going to say ‘Joe Rogan was right,’” Cuomo continued. “No, Joe Rogan was saying – yeah, he was right – that’s not what matters. What matters is, the entire medical community knew that Ivermectin couldn’t hurt you."
First of all, the issue with Rogan wasn't that he was right it's that CNN lied about what he was taking. He was not taking horse dewormer but pills designed for humans that were prescribed by a doctor. Second of all, everyone knew at the time that Ivermectin was a safe medication (when taken in proper doses of course). They knew because it had been given to hundreds of millions of people over the span of more than 20 years. The fact that Ivermectin was safe for humans was not a secret that was withheld from Chris Cuomo or anyone else at CNN. This is from Nature and was published in 2017:
Perhaps more than any other drug, ivermectin is a drug for the world’s poor. For most of this century, some 250 million people have been taking it annually to combat two of the world’s most devastating, disfiguring, debilitating and stigma-inducing diseases, Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic filariasis. Most of the recipients live in remote, rural, desperately under-resourced communities in developing countries and have virtually no access to even the most rudimentary of medical interventions. Moreover, all the treatments have been made available free of charge thanks to the unprecedented drug donation program...
Recent research has confounded the belief, held for most of the past 40 years, that ivermectin was devoid of any antiviral characteristics...
It has been shown to have potent antiviral action against HIV-1 and dengue viruses, both of which are dependent on the importin protein superfamily for several key cellular processes. Ivermectin may be of import in disrupting HIV-1 integrase in HIV-1 as well as NS-5 (non-structural protein 5) polymerase in dengue viruses.
The point is, whether or not Ivermectin was helpful in the specific case of COVID, it was widely considered a wonder-drug in humans something which CNN's hosts could have known in 2021 with a quick Google search.
Rogan did eventually get a chance to confront CNN in the form of their chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta who eventually admitted CNN was wrong to frame Rogan's treatment the way it had.
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Joe Rogan asks Sanjay Gupta if it bothers him that CNN outright lied about Rogan taking horse dewormer to recover from covid. This is fantastic:
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The heart of this debate has been purposely confused and ultimately lost. It’s never been about livestock versus human dosage of Ivermectin. The issue is that a powerful voice in the media, who by example and through his platform, sowed doubt in the proven and approved science of vaccines while promoting the use of an unproven treatment for covid-19 — a drug developed to ward off parasites in farm animals. The only thing CNN did wrong here was bruise the ego of a popular podcaster who pushed dangerous conspiracy theories and risked the lives of millions of people in doing so.
So it sounds like Chris Cuomo has learned his lesson and good for him for admitting it, but of course he's no longer at CNN. The network still has a long way to go.
There were Freepers who were very against Ivermectin.
The “disinformation” during the “pandemic” was pushed by the government and big pharma, and believing as they do that the deep state government is always right the Left in the media pushed that disinformation as “truth” which it never was.
Long before anyone had heard the word “Covid”, I was prescribed ivermectin (in a topical cream form) for rosacea, which I’d suffered from for 20+ years. Let me tell you — it took less than 3 weeks for my symptoms to clear, and I’ve been free of it for several years now, even after discontinuing the cream. So when I heard people talking about ivermectin for Covid, I was totally onboard. Look, there are multiple drugs that are initially used for one thing, and then discovered to be useful at treating others. Why was ivermectin shunned for this? There’s really only one logical answer: POLITICS!
Wouldn’t Cuomo once have called everything he’s now saying “misinformation”?
Why was ivermectin shunned for this? There’s really only one logical answer: POLITICS!
$$$$$
Main reason.
There were Freepers who were very against Ivermectin.
FR $$s
Most, thankfully, have disappeared.
Imagine that.
Politics. Money.
All the same thing! **spit**
I recall the daily death count/butchers bill threads where a Karen poster would berate us daily.
Merck patented ivermectin in 1981.
Ivermectin (marketed as Mectizan®, Merck & Co Inc, Whitehouse Station, NJ) is an extremely effective and safe drug for mass treatment of onchocerciasis (“river blindness”).
Typical dosage for me and my wife is 16mg in TABLET form, not paste.
Since the FDA essentially outlawed it, we sourced tablets from overseas.
True.
The planned-emic was to force you to get the vaxx.. The vaxx was to force you to get the vaxx passport.. The vaxx passport is to force you into the ESG / social credit system.. The social credit system is to force you into digital currency / obeying the tyrants.. ~Emerald Robinson .
Uh huh, now they’re coming out of the woodwork, saying Ivermectin is safe and effective for treating Covid and Long Covid. I am so glad I ordered it those two years ago. I still have it, and I still take it. I’m going to order more soon.
I’ve done the same thing. I ordered some from India, and I’m going to do so again here soon. It’s the one medicine I don’t want to ever run out of.
Yup.
Too hard to say “Trump was right” I guess.
Ivermectin links. More than you probably want to know about Ivermectin:
General info on use vs. Covid, etc.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Huge meta study
https://ivmmeta.com/
Doctors using it and protocols
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/
https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/
Emory University has a very prestigious medical school. The Dean of Emory Medical School has Indian heritage, and co-wrote an article in the Times of India advocating using Ivermectin against Covid, among other things. This has gotten =ZERO= coverage in US media, including his hometown paper, the AJC, and his hometown news network, CNN.
Try to convince me that isn’t newsworthy - both his original article and the non-coverage of it by US media.
Link to the article discussed above, and Emory’s leadership page.
Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
One of the authors appears below as Dean
https://www.med.emory.edu/about/leadership/index.html
Africa and Ivermectin
https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
The infographic there is excellent. Summary: The parts of Africa where Ivermectin is in widespread use to prevent a terrible parasitic disease, African River Blindness, also have very low Covid incidence.
Interesting Twitter account that has linked many Ivermectin and other med studies on Covid treatments.
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher
Discovery of Ivermectin. A National Historic Chemical Landmark per the American Chemical Society. Not something to be derided as “horse dewormer”.
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/discovery-of-ivermectin-mectizan.pdf.
“The Story of Ivermectin”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZqVlyy6YtNiz/
https://rumble.com/vr0rim-the-ivermectin-story-original-and-uncut.html
Good 24 minute summary.
Ivermectin and Cancer
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/12kFnAdfAW/ivermectin-cures-cancer-/
India’s Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout-—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html
Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf
Regular Use of Ivermectin as Prophylaxis for COVID-19 Led Up to a 92% Reduction in COVID-19 Mortality Rate in a Dose-Response Manner: Results of a Prospective Observational Study of a Strictly Controlled Population of 88,012 Subjects
https://www.cureus.com/articles/111851-regular-use-of-ivermectin-as-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-led-up-to-a-92-reduction-in-covid-19-mortality-rate-in-a-dose-response-manner-results-of-a-prospective-observational-study-of-a-strictly-controlled-populatio
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective by Andy CRUMP and Satoshi ŌMURA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
Dr. Omura was one of the Nobel Prize in Medicine winners for discovering Ivermectin. Article is at NIH, and is from the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, a prestigious medical publication.
Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
Nice Dr. Omura meme: https://patriots.win/p/15JmxJouZN/dr-satoshi-omura-/c/
if cdc/fda had approved it as a treatment for covid
the vaxx would not qualify for EUA
so yes money
I have been taking Ivermectin on and off for almost 20 years
but I never take it daily for long term
Chris Cuomo might be setting himself up for other problems
I was going to state that there was a lot of misinformation going around, even coming from Doctors who were misinformed.
Today I would say the government intentionally lied, committed fraud, crimes against humanity. So it was all a deadly scam! I’m waiting for the Nurenberg court to be reconvened.
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