• takeda@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    Apparently vitamin A can help with measles, but that’s, helpful when you get it. It won’t help preventively, which is the most likely way (and likely in large quantities) those people will be taking it.

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      9 hours ago

      Of course it can, that’s how these people operate. There will almost always be a kernal of truth buried under miles of bullshit.

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      14 hours ago

      iirc it’s also only helpful if you’re already deficient in vitamin A, which the majority of Americans aren’t. It’s the same thing with Ivermectin: it looked like it was helpful for covid in aggregate, but only in developing countries where parasites are common. So, treating someone’s parasites with a horse dewormer made the person healthier overall and meant their immune system could commit more resources to fighting covid, but someone without parasites (meaning the majority of Americans) would get absolutely no benefit.