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.
Has the price come down since those early days of Covid?
if cdc/fda had approved it as a treatment for covid
the vaxx would not qualify for EUA
so yes money
Exactly!
What do you consider a high price?
I just remember that the price of Ivermectin sky rocketed during the pandemic. In talking about the paste but I’m sure the pills also went up.
There was a large group (freepers and others) that bought into the safe and effective vaccine propaganda. If it was so safe and effective then why interfere with taking ivermectin or HQC since neither would interfere with the S&E gene therapy ? Neither of those drugs were particularly dangerous or had huge side effects. My opinion they, CDC and FDA should have embraced people taking things off label to hide the side effect of the Vax. I guess they were short sighted. Ok they were stupid and can’t think past Tuesday.
I am completely against forcing people to take a medication, especially one that is under EUA. The next 5 years will be interesting.
not me- took it almost as soon as i heard about it- had covid 2 times i know for sure, and possibly 1 more time i didn’t get tested- (Same symptoms- very weak)
I took ivermectin as soon as i knew i was sick- and within a day- 3 at most, symptoms were nearly gone and i was recovering- I’ve taken it at the first signs of ‘ordinary’ flues too, and almost immediately started to feel better- back up and out the door the next day for most of them-
We’ve paid the same, since 2020.
Wide Awake Media
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MUST-WATCH: Prof. Stefan Homburg explains, with surgical precision, why there was no pandemic starting in 2020.
“There were no more severe respiratory ilnesses than usual in 2020 and 2021. Corona came, influenza disappeared.”
“Age-standardised mortality was not higher in 2020 than usual. Mortality only increased since 2021 [just after the “vaccine” roll-out started].”
“The idea of a ‘pandemic’ arose exclusively from new types of mass testing... [which] led the public to believe that there were more sick people and deaths than usual, which was not true.”
“One must also ask whether the measures [masks, lockdowns etc] were really intended to prevent infection, which they clearly did not, or rather served the purpose of breaking down vaccine hesitancy.”
Credit:
@SHomburg
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1788492700586500173
I just put in an email to the supplier I bought it from before in India. I’ll find out soon.
Erin the Cow would KNOW livestock drugs...
Kozak was his name. An absolute horse’s ass. But he was/is hardly alone. There are still plenty of those clowns here. Easiest way to shut their stupid pie/lie holes is to confront them with logic - they shrink from it like cockroaches from light.
Hahaha … reality has a funny sense of humor.
I remember.
Checked up on him.
He backs Zelensky too.
As relayed by a relative of mine: We knew that Ivermectin likely worked for Covid, but the problem was finding a suitable ‘financial model’ (their term) for its widespread usage in the general public.
Coumo is probably wracked with anxiety and depression due to COVID. His soul is screaming to God to forgive him. He is not like his callous brother, so COVID is his come to God moment. He probably thinks it’s all physical and keeps trying to find the right treatment, but it’s his soul that is sick. To get over anxiety you have to change. You have to change for the better.
According to the gov’t and media there was only one treatment for Covid — the vaccine, which was proclaimed to be 100% safe and effective.
Total lies in every way.
“Fredo” Cuomo finally admits the truth.
Someone here recently pointed out a potential liberal strategy if Trump survives all these court cases and wins the election, they will go after him on Covid and only then will they declare the vax isn’t safe and millions of lives were affected and he needs to go to jail since he “rushed” the vaccine and bypassed regulations which I’d “illegal” and they will just keep harping on that till he is in jail.
Simply devastating to The Narrative.
He backs Zelensky too.
It seems several of the $hot $hills/govt $hills back Zelensky.
What a coincidence, eh?
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