Joe Rogan downplays the need for a vaccination and gets covid

Same. I have no skin in this game and found the sudden "You aren't a horse so why would you take this?" memes that flew around the internet pretty absurd. I only looked into Ivermectin for the first time a couple of days ago because of it.

It sounds like Hydroxychloroquine 2.0. That was seen as some alt-right thing, and then in the biggest medical scandal of the entire Covid-19 saga, the world stopped researching it based on 100% false science submitted to the Lancet.

Everyone, including governments, latched onto that research because it perfectly conformed to this notion that alt-right retards were pushing nonsense onto the masses. It was politically easy for the world to say "We told you so." and not even check the data.

The subsequent trials of its effectiveness don't actually here because my point is that we're seeing the same thing happen again with Ivermectin at the early stages. It's a "conspiracy theorist" drug, only used by anti-vaxxers, and only a horse should take it. You are an animal if you see this as an option. Remdesivir was lambasted by the same people because Trump took it. It's like the opposite of being an anti-vaxxer is becoming pro-vaxxer-and-everything-else-is-useless.

Again, I don't specifically care about Ivermectin. I don't even think it's used in the country I live in. But I do care that everything that is not a vaccine is being attacked by politically associating them with the other side. Meanwhile, many of us know people who are alive because of off-label use of things like anti-malarials. We're not convinced by stupid "Are you a horse?" answers to genuine questions.

Vaccines are all that matter, because responsibility can be tied to getting one, and that lets people attack others for being stupid not getting one. That's all a lot of people care about. They don't want Ivermectin to work because it would make them wrong.