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My guess is that: - anti-vaxxers will eagerly take the pill, but believe that Merck covered up Ivermectin's efficacy to get this drug to market. the claim the
by gfodor 5y ago
My guess is that:
- anti-vaxxers will eagerly take the pill, but believe that Merck covered up Ivermectin's efficacy to get this drug to market. the claim the vaccine's EUA was held up by lack of evidence of such pills will be memory holed
- the pro-mandate authoritarians will swallow the pill (figuratively, pun intended) when the powers that be celebrate this as a success and it begins being widely deployed.
in other words, we all win. the failure mode is if a divisive political figure takes a strong position on the pill being safe or not safe. fortunately I don't see this happening.
- yupper32 5y agoI don't think it's a win that a significant portion of the population will only take a medication if it's wrapped in a conspiracy theory.
- gfodor 5y agoWell that ship already sailed. My point about the win is that the memetics of a safe, effective pill imply to me that it will actually be widely adopted by unvaccinated and will also calm a lot of people down who currently are having a bit of a mental crisis over the existence of said unvaccinated people. So we should be happy for several reasons of this news.