Is this a specifically American thing? I don't think Ivermectin is available in the UK, hardly anything is without a prescription and that includes animal grade medication.
Part of me thinks that they're "in on it" like they act so dumb that it has the effect of making anyone who is vaccine hesitant, with genuine fears, come across as just another conspiracy loon.
Another question I have is, if I got the virus in Feb 2020 and had a rough cough for 6 weeks, which I did, and then I got better and have no lingering effects then do I have a natural immunity now? Like how is the vaccine supposed to be superior to any immunity I have developed from recovery?
It is certainly an Americ
as thing, was widespread in S America last year
Unchecked ivermectin use in region is making it difficult to test anti-parasite drug’s effectiveness against the coronavirus.
www.nature.com
with Brazil’s president Bolsonaro being particualy egregious in peddling it and hydroxychloroquine over vaccines
Seems at least someone thinks there is an market for it off label in the UK if these seizures are ny guide
Ivermectin: Northern Ireland seizures of unproven horse drug used for Covid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58569354
As for your last question, found this whole article interesting but this bit is particularly relevant - especially as without tests being widely available at that time lots of people who think they had it in early 2020 turn out to have had just a regular cold/flu and no Covid antibodies.
Anyone who’d rather have COVID-19 than get vaccinated is taking two gambles: that immunity will stick around, and that symptoms won’t.
www.theatlantic.com
Growing evidence suggests that the
combination of infection and inoculation might even be synergistically protective,
outstripping the
defenses offered by either alone—something the immunologist Shane Crotty calls
hybrid immunity.
Some reports have shown that “people who have previously been infected then get vaccinated have
higher antibody levels” than people who have only one of those experiences, Jackson Turner, an immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told me. Antibody
potency, too, seems to get souped up, potentially equipping the molecules to
better grapple with a
wide range of coronavirus variants, even ones they haven’t seen before. Accordingly, the hybrid-immune seem to be
reinfected less often. “You basically supercharge your immune response,” Goel told me. This could all be good news for the durability of protection as well. Viruses and vaccines will inevitably prod different subsets of immune responses—a more comprehensive education than any single teacher can accomplish alone. The pairing is a good way, Wherry said, to goad immune cells into doubling down on their lessons, and acquiring more sophisticated attack plans over time.
