Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

1. There is no "unexplained adverse event signal in VAERS." I'll return to this in the next thread.

2. IVM does not "address escape variants." There is scant evidence it does anything at all, no less address these variants. What's more, the reasoning is backward:

https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1419539034565607424

Even if it were effective, it's therapeutics, *not* vaccines, that should cause us to worry about escape variants. See:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… The way to avoid those variants is to get as many people vaccinated, with both doses, as possible. As fast as possible.

It's especially important to prevent the spread of the disease to the immunoincompetent, which for obvious reasons requires *the whole community* be vaccinated.

3. There have been *no* reports of ADE from the vaccines. They've looked for it in animal studies: None.

They've looked it in human studies: None. They've looked for it in real-world data: None. The very opposite, in fact. medpagetoday.com/special-report…

4. "Protects the vaccine hesitant?" Hey, I have a better idea: Why not stop fuelling vaccine hesitancy in the first place? Why not tell people the truth? The truth: Our vaccines are extremely effective and extraordinarily safe. Claims to the contrary are bullshit.

5. "Poor countries." Meaning? Covid19 vaccines range in price from $3 to $37, depending on the vaccine. Eight generic tablets of ivermectin range in price from $11.38 to $45.

What's more, vaccines actually work.

About 25 percent of the world--3.85 billion doses--has been vaccinated. What poor countries need is *more vaccines,* faster. Support GAVI and Covax gavi.org/covax-facility; and let's send *these* vaccines, immediately, to Burkina Faso: abcnews.go.com/Politics/world…

6. "Protects breakthrough cases and those downstream." Scant evidence of this. To protect against breakthrough cases, vaccinate more. The good news: this will work. Our vaccines are more effective than anyone dared to hope at the outset of the pandemic.

7. Reversibility. You can no more reverse the effect of swallowing a medication than you can reverse the effect of injecting one. Damage to your liver or your testicles isn't reversible. Also, why would you *want* to reverse the effect of vaccines?

Covid19 vaccines protect you, your parents, your kids, and your community from a deadly infectious illness. Do you imagine people will one day wake up and regret that they didn't have Covid19 or pass it along to their loved ones?

In any event, the dose required to replicate the antiviral effects seen in vitro, IVM would probably be irreversibly hepatotoxic. doc.rero.ch/record/289419/…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17072195

And indeed, we now have anecdotal evidence from around the world that people are harming themselves with IVM: olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/02/11/…
sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-afr…
I don't put much stock in anecdotes like that, but if you're the kind of person who does,

that's surely as good as the anecdotal reports of people developing [twitches, tics, hemorrhoids, strange powers of telekinesis, lupus] after being vaccinated. If you don't like anecdotal evidence, however--and you shouldn't--

Do a Google Scholar search under "ivermectin+hepatic+Wistar rats."

These risks would be worth taking if we had good evidence ivermectin worked. But we do not.

These risks would be worth taking if ivermectin worked and our vaccines were dangerous. But they are not.
Our vaccines are safe. References to an "unexplained adverse event signal in VAERS" are nonsensical.