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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by boredprograming on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:04PM (#27565343)
Yes. Anybody trying to rationalize not getting one of the extremely effective vaccines will be grasping at straws for any other effective treatment. It's a natural outcome.

The vaccines are as effective as the one that eliminated smallpox. To be against it, you need some serious FUD

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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by ghoward on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:24PM (#27566185)
FUD like the fact that the vaccines have had no completed studies on their long-term effects? Or being part of a demographic that has a low risk from COVID?
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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by jacquesm on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:21AM (#27577830)
Yes, that's FUD. You can't have a completed long term study when a vaccine has not been on the market for a long enough term. That's pretty obvious.
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Re:Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infec... by sjwalter on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:25PM (#27608881)
Right, so how is it FUD if you simply want to avoid being part of a clinical trial? Vaccines take at least 7 years (usually 10ish) to complete long-term trials.

For young people, the cost-benefit analysis isn't clear at all--much less risk of anything bad at all from covid itself, plus far more years of life to lose or suffer from vaccine injury, which is a totally unknown risk.

To boot, the vaccines contain at least three entirely new technologies never before adopted in vaccine treatment.

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