The point is not whether ivermectin turned out to be the best tool against Covid, the point is that it's safe for humans to take and early in the pandemic when

The point is not whether ivermectin turned out to be the best tool against Covid, the point is that it's safe for humans to take and early in the pandemic when everything was being tried, it was not crazy or dangerous to try ivermectin. There was an actual censorship campaign to stop open discussion by qualified medical professionals of anything but the state-approved solutions, the vaccines with a shifting official story which turned out not to be vaccines. The excoriation and censorship of ivermectin before a study showed the confounding parasite idea, and the subsequent coming out of the woodwork to embrace that study, served to increase the sense that it was not about truth and research, but about only allowing certain messaging.