Thread by @ghostofkt

an honest accounting of the saga would fully explain that it’s been chugging along in the background as a kook treatment for over a year, displaced hydroxycloroquine as king of designer covid treatments once the hydroxy bubble burst, & these pundits are way late to the game

this is not a knock on @MattGertz but on the other incomplete and/or half assed attempts that miss a lot of key context in favor of focusing on the delicate fee-fees of the folks taking it & pushing it

again, there’s a get-rich-quick mlm scheme at the heart of this thing consisting of a bunch of teledoc’s pushing scripts on a pills-for-pay system. not everyone promoting it has a cut of the action. there are a lot of clueless rubes just hoping to find their angle

the angle for most of the late-to-the-game promoters is strictly using it as an influencer tactic to maintain divide and signal allegiances. the angle for the early-to-the-game promoters is more likely to be actual cash flow

it is not a coincidence these favorite designer drugs tend to have minimal adverse symptoms unless grossly abused, have long been in abundant supply, largely used for obscure conditions, are not controlled substances, and are pretty far off the radar for the fda

they accomplish nothing therapeutically unless you have one of the obscure conditions they’re intended to treat, but they won’t kill your ass dead, and you need to pony up cash for a script to get them. normal docs won’t write those scripts, so presto! teledoc market

the gamestop stock shorting adventure is a really strong analog for ivermectin. only a handful of folks actually engineered the demand & made any money, a lot of pundits glommed on to cheerlead it despite knowing better than to invest in it themselves, and ordinary joes got hosed

the scheme engineers rely on the cheerleading (but non-invested) pundits to keep the hype train running. if you remove that element of kayfabe controversy, the juice fizzles out and the ordinary joes stop shoveling money at the snake oil

“hey why SHOULDN’T the ordinary joes try hydroxy/crypto/gamestop/ivermectin, huh??? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING BY TRYING TO DETER YOU, MR ORDINARY JOE?”

meanwhile they’ve got their money in mutual funds & real estate & ran out to get the vaccine as soon as they could

dana loesch is not sitting around eating gelatinized beet residue. ben shapiro is not popping homeopathic caffeine pills. laura ingraham is not taking hydroxycloroquine, and tucker carlson is not sucking down ivermectin. that’s for their idiot audiences.

mmm you don’t say

just gonna be up here on my flagpole screaming the same thing over & over & over again: the antivax movement is now a function of free, readily available, highly effective vaccines presenting an existential business threat to people who profit off selling tribalism & quack cures

this is not a good information vs bad information thing. it’s coke vs pepsi, if coke was free & saved millions of lives, and if pepsi was expensive as hell but made you feel a dopamine rush over owning the libs as a virus tries to kill you