Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Sam Seder Goes Off On "Left" Ivermectin Grifters" video.

@timekeeper2538 Peru had one of the highest, if not the highest, uses of ivermectin in the world. It also has the highest covid deaths per capita rate in the world.
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@John Dew No, there's no sense to it. China has lower emissions per capita. Combined, all the countries with higher emissions per capita have a similar total population but much higher total emissions. China isn't the biggest problem. Plus, they do have a zero emissions plan.
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@dirkdiggler7277 Biden didn't shut down any functioning pipelines, so didn't reduce delivery. OPEC prices have been historically cheaper. They kept oil prices pretty steady in the $15-30 a barrel range, for years. It was American oil companies that wanted prices higher, because oil production in N America costs more. Bush broke having lower, and fairly steady, gas prices. Gas prices dropped during the height of the pandemic, and are now back up to pre pandemic levels. They were lower because so much was shut down ... so lower no thanks to Trump, who argued against shutdowns, and higher thanks to all the states opening up. Trump could have avoided having as many shutdowns by not having a completely incompetent covid response. He could also have had better oversight for businesses that took covid money to keep paying employees, but instead took covid money and fired employees. Countries with excellent to mediocre covid responses also weren't as negatively impacted economically. Trump was a xenophobe for only stopping foreigners coming from China. He let a ton of Americans return from China, and keep traveling to and from China, as if Americans were immune. The first vaccine out of the gate had nothing to do with Trump's "operation warp speed". Vaccines in other countries, that had nothing to do with ows, also came out at similar times to ones that did. There's no evidence that Trump did anything that actually sped up the vaccine rollout.
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@adamcramm The 1% covid mortality rate is 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Should we do away with street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough for you?
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@adamcramm There are tons of laws and regulations based on that philosophy. Even if the majority of the population isn't getting raped, but many are, we take away the individual's freedom to rape people ... or murder, assault, etc. The majority of people might not be getting food poisoning, but many are, so we take away a business' freedom to not wash, wear gloves, sell past expiration dates, etc. And on and on and on ... there are tons. Your slippery slope isn't as slippery as you think. It's a slow roll, that can be stopped wherever we want.
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@adamcramm No it's not. There are the rare cases where malfunctioning lights, some issue with a vehicle that got through safety testing but later is recalled, a shitty driver got through licensing, or whatnot. That's equivalent to your vaccine "risk" right ... that something dangerous has got through testing, or malfunctions when it comes to you, as an individual?
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@adamcramm Polio has a 0.5% paralysis rate and 0.05% mortality rate. Do you want to ditch the polio vaccine?
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@Aaron Dickson Oh, do tell, what did I get wrong?
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@whyamimrpink78 A surge in demand can cause inflation, which happens when you reopen. Your argument against Biden is incoherent, if you actually wanted Trump to provide more covid relief, as well. The house had already passed two different HEROES Acts. All the senate had to do was vote either through. McConnell didn't even allow a vote on either. You're spewing nonsense. Countries with much better pandemic responses also tended to have better economies, and it wasn't because they did nothing and simply stayed open no matter what. Almost all of the best response countries quickly had very high testing rates (tests per confirmed case), testing 50+ people pcc. The mediocre response countries, were testing 15+ people pcc. The US, on the other hand, had a pathetic covid testing rate, testing about 5 people pcc, for months, that Trump did nothing about. The US had pathetic mask use, encouraged by Trump. If things were getting out of control, in some areas, and more severe measures were taken, Trump encouraged defying them. Nothing you blathered about states, or your politician anecdotes, was an actual argument that they had better economies or better health responses. Just a big nothingburger. Nope. There's no evidence ows actually sped up the development of vaccines. Again, the first one out of the gate had nothing to do with ows, and others that had nothing to do with ows were coming out at similar times to those that did. At most ows was about ordering enough supply and distributing it. Trump didn't order as much as he could, didn't leave enough of a supply, and wasn't prepared to distribute as much as he possibly could.
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@ken-nf2eg Peru has the most covid deaths per capita on the planet, and one of the highest ivermectin uses.
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Yeah, Peru used it and has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. Show a single study, that has passed peer review, which shows its effective against covid. Even the manufacturer doesn't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions, if it was.
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@carmenharvey6611 Japan has not approved using it. Mexico has surpassed the US in covid deaths per capita, and is widely considered to be underreporting deaths. A huge "study" out of India was just pulled from print, for obviously fabricated and manipulated data.
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NoFreedoms Idiot. Sweden was often the worst in Europe for weekly covid cases, and has 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbors.
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@ken-nf2eg None of that is true.
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NoFreedoms Sweden has 5-10x the covid deaths per capita of its neighbors, ffs. It has one of the worst rates in Europe. It was repeatedly the worst in Europe for weekly cases.
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NoFreedoms Rofl. The UK had a shit covid response. Boris barely took it seriously, until he got it, and then still half assed it. Sweden is worse than Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Russia, ... Why do dimwits aim to be like another top 40 worst countries in the world, instead of aiming to be amongst the best?
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NoFreedoms US suicides went down 20% in 2020, actually. Right wingers haven't given a crap about mental health, as suicides increased in previous years. Do you think the US should have the same kind of mental health services, and coverage, as Sweden?
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NoFreedoms Sure, it's only 5x more deadly than automobile accidents. We should also do away with street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., so people can truly enjoy their freedumb.
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NoFreedoms Did you look up that there's an estimated 10m unreported automobile accidents a year, on top of the 6m reported automobile accidents? Apparently not. Also, 3x deadlier still means it's deadlier. So ... do away with all rules of the road, because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough?
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NoFreedoms What is the mortality rate for smoking a pack of cigarettes, or eating a big mac, exactly? Cancer mRNA vaccines were already being worked on before the covid vaccines. Should nobody take them, once they're developed? Yep. Not sure what you aren't grasping. If you want no masks, distancing, vaccine requirements, etc., because the virus isn't deadly enough for you, then why aren't you trying to get rid of all rules of the road, that infringe upon your freedoms? Funny you don't seem to grasp how question marks work.
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@user-ii9kh4ux3o Have any studies claiming ivermectin is effective against covid passed peer review?
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There was a real world test in Peru. They have the most covid deaths per capita in the world.
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@brothermine2292 That's why I gave Peru as an example. They've had one of the highest, if not the highest, uses of ivermectin.
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@brothermine2292 You would have to believe that Peru found wildly amazing results, from its high ivermectin use, but then didn't expand its usage, and that they had to have extremely horrible results otherwise, to bring them down to being the worst in the world.
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Increasing the number of loons viewing, commenting on, and liking, their anti-vax crap makes them money.
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@accountowner214 The only real problem with the analogy is that cloth, and standard disposable, masks are to protect others from the wearer, and have been shown to be effective in doing so. There are studies going back decades, to when surgeons first started using cloth masks, that show the masks reduce the spread of germs from the surgeon to the patient.
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@dirkdiggler7277 Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, and have never been hesitant to use the law to do it. There is still an FCC protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Right wingers have made anti-bds laws. They try to make it harder, or more dangerous, to protest. They're making laws to cancel local mask mandates. They're making laws to cancel voters. And that's on top of them also attempting to use public pressure to get people fired, boycott businesses, etc.
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@UncleRicoOSU No pro ivermectin study has passed peer review. Peru, which used ivermectin a lot, has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world ... they could make billions off of it, if it actually worked ... and even they don't recommend it as a safe covid remedy.
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