About that new antiviraldrug for covid...

[ShazzieB]

Has anyone heard how the antivax crowd is reacting to the news about the new antiviral drug for covid? I'm just wondering if they're going to be willing to take it if they get covid. Seeing as how it was developed by the company (Pfizer) that makes one of the vaccines they don't trust any farther than they can throw a grand piano, will they mistrust the antiviral, too?

The way I see it, if they accept that drug, they will no longer have any excuse to refuse the vaccine, and we can all point and laugh at them.

I'll be interested to see how this shakes out.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. They're probably awaiting what Trump says about it.

Or maybe awaiting QAnon to supposedly decipher "code words" from him, or something.



EDIT: And if Democrats come out strongly FOR it, they'll probably refuse to take it.

[mucifer]

6. trump got vaccinated . he admitted it. he didn't encourage others to

get the vaccine. But, he said he was vaccinated.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. I remember.

He definitely downplayed masks and the vaccines, though.

His cult followers were already paranoid, of course, being convinced by right-wing media that the pandemic was a ploy to damage Trump's supposed "great economy", despite how that was a false narrative in itself.

[Dorian Gray]

2. I would imagine

that they'd be happy there is something to help them when they're sick, but I also think that people will get to the point of needing it because they refuse to be tested or admit they have covid until it's too late. (The indications are to take within three days of symptoms, right?)

[hlthe2b]

3. Merck wins either way. The rest of world will use its antiviral & anti-vaxxer Americans, ivermectin.

Eventually, their antiviral/protease inhibitor pill will go head to head with Pfizer's in the US but until then...

[Klaralven]

4. Merck makes some ivermectin, but most is made by generic drug companies

It is off patent.

[hlthe2b]

9. I am very much aware. That hardly diminishes the point. Merck still dominates the market.

Just as Acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin®) was one of the first drugs to go generic in the US and has been for decades--remains the 38th most prescribed medication in the US--while Bayer (Aspirin® continues to drive the market despite a long-expired exclusive patent .

[Klaralven]

10. Ivermectin Doesn't Help Covid, But Generic Drug Makers Are Cashing In

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-13/ivermectin-demand-sends-sales-soaring-for-foreign-generic-drugmakers

[hlthe2b]

11. Totally obvious to literally EVERYONE here. Perhaps you should post this on a COVID denial site.

Do you REALLY think you need to tell DUers that Ivermectin doesn't work for COVID-19? REALLY?
The point was MERCK is selling a lot of it and wins regardless. Which is true.

[AllyCat]

15. Do we really need to jab at this poster?

It’s an interesting article and hardly Covid denial stuff. Relevant because it talks about big drug makers.

[hlthe2b]

16. My response was not to the original post but the reply to me, AllyCat

I suspect you did not read the subthread and thus made a wrong assumption. But, regardless this was not the case.

[jaxexpat]

5. Yeah and wait'll you see their faces......

when they try to get that pill into a syringe. Or, even better, when they find out the pills will cost $ while the government provided vaccine injection was free.

Hey, but that's what pharmaceutical companies do, right? Like medical "rangers", they tame the wild, the borderlands of health options, harnessing the power of disease, turning it into business.

[mucifer]

7. I suspect they will use the excuse that the pill has been around for a long time

and will see it as something way different and take it.

[pnwmom]

12. This will ADD to their excuses. Ivermectin, etc. They've ALWAYS been willing to take a pill. nt

[genxlib]

13. Actually

Since Merck was the first pill to come out and Merck also makes Ivermectin, they are accusing them of simply repackaging it for a profit.

I have seen that theory many times already

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. "they will no longer have any excuse to refuse the vaccine"

They don't need a reason.

[Phoenix61]

17. They don't have a problem taking Regeneron

so I’d guess they’ll be fine with taking it. Oddly, it’s just the vaccine that’s been politicized.

[Takket]

18. I wonder how Bill Gates will get the imbedded chip to "stick"

In your gut rather than passing through. Difficult to pull off. That’s why injections in the arm are so much easier.

[Wicked Blue]

19. They won't accept it if it won't expel tapeworms

[lark]

20. They won't like it because the profits aren't going to the seditionist funder.

They love monoclonal antibodies because the owner is the largest donor to Death Sentence & Abbott and drumpf owns a piece of the co. too.