+1 to last paragraph.In agreement. I was on the fence about the severity of covid when I first got it, which led me to put off taking fluvoxamine (the only other covid treatment I had on hand) thinking I'd just bounce back in a few days. Then I had the worst headache of my life, intense chills, and started having trouble taking full breaths. Scary stuff. Stayed in bed for two weeks. I was without strength for weeks afterwards.
If someone is young and healthy, they can probably get through covid with no serious issues. But it's wise to have treatments on hand, just in case, and take them as soon as you start exhibiting symptoms. If I could find my azithromycin I'd be taking that, too.
The whole response to covid was such a clusterf*ck, it was difficult to tease apart what was true, what was spin, what were 'noble lies,' etc... The shots are harmful, but so is covid. The "there's no such thing as a virus! It's never been isolated!" or "it's harmless for 99.99%!" people are useless when you're actually sick with something that is manifestly very different from other flus you've had before.
Well said.
Also, when the s*** hits the fan, you don't have the ability to do trial and error and figure out what works. That's the other tricky part. So ideally you want to experiment with anything you haven't tried prior to that, in stages, so you know it's at least not going to harm you.
But going through this thread and seeing both IVM and HP Nebulization (although he used 0.05% instead of the recommended 3% during illness) shot down has me a bit troubled. I want to say to myself "That can't be right, maybe they weren't using it properly, or the quality was bad, etc.". That doesn't mean those are off the table, it just gets factored into my thinking as we go along.