"Secondly, there was a health risk associated with people taking ivermectin in an attempt to prevent infection rather than getting vaccinated. This was viewed as a risk to the person as well as the wider public."

What a total load of bullcrap.

You think I don't remember all those chief medical officers running around saying 'we need to get the numbers up to 70%' and
'Australia aims to be the most vaccinated nation'
- Like the whole thing was a damn competition.

Do you think I've forgotten?

Ivermectin has been around for decades, its proven to be safe for use.
Tell me if I drink bleach, is that a risk to the wider public too?

- The risk they were talking about was the belief they needed to get high vaccination rates.

This was an attempt to coerce people to take the vaccines, there was no law that we had to, but they did everything short of holding people down and injecting them against their will.

There was peer pressure and vilification from the vaccinated in the community,
I know of 27 year old women with kids who were coerced into taking the vaccines by their parents and who ended up having a stroke.
My housemate was doing Uber and picked her up and talked to her about it.
How the hell is she going to properly care for her kids now and have a happy dignified life?

DAMN YOU PEOPLE FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE.

[Cont.]
They also almost killed his father (my housemate) in the hospital.

He was sick in hospital, near death (unvaccinated, age 82) and nursing staff tried to go behind the family's back to vaccinate him, but luckily his daughter was a Head Nurse for many years at the Mater, (and had come to visit him at the hospital he was at (Not her hospital) saw what they were doing and stopped it.

They assumed he had Covid, but misdiagnosed him, he actually had Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Also the antivirals have side effects like liver damage.
- Paxlovid and Remdesivir.
I know of numerous people who were forced out of government jobs;
- Nurses, School Principals etc. forced out of their careers because of their stance against the vaccines.

Our nation lost good people from their professions, and many have suffered side effects and death.
Some can't take care of their kids, some even lost their kids.

I even spoke to my own doctor of 20+ years about the gag orders and quickly quipped "Don't even get me started on that".

The one thing you'll learn about this forum is there's always another side of the argument you probably haven't considered, and people rarely change their opinions no matter what info is presented to them, and everyone is their own person and holds a different point of view.

Apparently the next vaccines are already on the way...

I'll finish by adding this meme from twitter again.
You may all want to pretend that we forgot what happened.
I want to remind you that some people haven't forgotten at all.

http://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1679177280025772046

Yuyutsu states:

"WTF has my personal health to do with any of this?"

But earlier state "so why wouldn't they allow me to get my own vaccine?"

So you are talking about your personal health i.e. a vaccine for yourself.

I did not initiate a discussion about your personal health so I did not ask about it - you brought up the subject so I assume it is important to you not me.

My discussion was around the changes and reasons for the lifting of restrictions on a particular drug.

In other words why is the "regime" freeing up access to a drug?

Armchair Critic states: "What a total load of bullcrap."

Probably time to simplify things for you.

The general covid vaccination started on 22 Feb 2021.

The TGA put the restrictions on Ivermectin on 10 Set 2021 after the vaccine was introduced and the public response to that was taking shape.

Three reasons were stated for this and they can be found at the start of this thread.

The public situation was changed so the TGA was able to lift its restrictions.

Restrictions have been lifted on health workers in QLD.

Why? The public situation was changed so the restrictions have changed.

There is no big mystery here.

Dear WTF,

«My discussion was around the changes and reasons for the lifting of restrictions on a particular drug.

In other words why is the "regime" freeing up access to a drug?»

I suppose that particular restriction no longer serves them.

At the height of the pandemic that particular drug was frequently used as a means of protest, so banning it was used to crush and humiliate dissidents and instill fear and obedience in everyone else. Since COVID is no longer an issue, the regime no longer cares to suppress that particular drug.

Mind you, they still punish dissidents for trying to import this and most other drugs and vaccines, both good and bad, if not done through their particular channels and authorised conforming doctors.

Thanks for the reply Yuyutsu.

Receiving coherent input is so much easier to follow than some of the disjointed and rambling off topic responses sometimes posted.

You state: " was frequently used as a means of protest, so banning it was used to crush and humiliate dissidents and instill fear and obedience in everyone else."

The number of dissidents over self-medicating and causing toxic reactions is sited as one of the three reasons for its restriction - it was never banned.

This was initially observed in the U.S. and in highest in those over 60. I believe I understand the reasons for that.

You also say "Since COVID is no longer an issue."

Health experts continue to monitor the ever evolving virus and its many new forms.

"Covid: Here We Go Again" was a discussion topic started by one of the regular contributors just a few days ago - an overreaction I believe but constant monitoring is required.