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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by civilized on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:56AM (#29119268)
I think that crowd will hate on this new drug. It's from Big Pharma, very expensive, it's probably full of GMOs and brain-controlling chips from Bill Gates. They'll stick with their cheap, generic ivermectin.
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by RicoElectrico on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:58AM (#29119303)
In Poland the "wonder drug" was amantadine and the "martyr" was dr Bodnar.
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by kibwen on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:02AM (#29119357)
And to be clear, this drug is not related to ivermectin: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-067310377629
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by pjkundert on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:46PM (#29125052)
Except that they are both potent protease inhibitors.

Other than that, you mean?

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by thehappypm on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:10PM (#29125239)
Why would a parasite drug have protease inhibition properties? Parasites don’t have protease enzymes
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by pjkundert on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:04PM (#29127139)
That’s why it was spectacularly interesting to begin with!

Why would an anti parasitic drug exhibit any measurable response? Yet, it did.

That is when I realized that science was, if not dead, then severely wounded.

No interest at all, from the “scientific” people.

Now, it turns out we probably know why; it happened to (probably accidentally) be a potent protease inhibitors - and that happened to be important.

We could have found this out a year ago, and begun exploiting this attack vector.

But, no: everyone who found this interesting and worthy of further study was derided and threatened with job losses.

What a shit-show.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by tclancy on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:01AM (#29119341)
And LUCIFERASE!
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by adrianN on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:12AM (#29119521)
That's the enzyme you take when you have trouble digesting Satan?
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by tsywke44 on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:02AM (#29119355)
No they won’t. conspiracy theories are based on instincts and emotions not any science or rationality.

pills are basically just food(=good) to the subconscious lizard brain, zero negative connotations from evolution, zero conspiracy theories

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by civilized on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:05AM (#29119416)
But if that were an iron truth, wouldn't people be comfortable with GMOs?
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by tsywke44 on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:08AM (#29119451)
GMO’s is emotional, largely based on the public image around the word ”mutant” meaning a hulk like green person that was irradiated by a James Bond villain etc
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by base698 on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:18AM (#29119611)
Or maybe spraying roundup on everything and suing small family farms for not using your GMO seed makes them the James Bond villain.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...

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