How do people take such incompetent and dishonest morons seriously?
They bugger everything up but here we are: Merlino takes swipe at national vaccine rollout. The figures come as Victorian Acting Premier James Merlino again took a swipe at the Commonwealths delayed vaccine rollout on Monday morning, saying Australia is falling behind the world. In terms of where we are right now, we are well behind where we need to be, he said. Victoria has recorded one new local coronavirus case in the past day, as the nations leaders meet to discuss the troubled vaccination rollout. Eight new cases were recorded in hotel quarantine. More than 16,000 test results were processed in the past 24 hours and more than 10,900 people received their vaccine doses. Oh the figures in question refer to the all-but-non-existent pandemic. Meanwhile, in the US, Ivermectin has crossed an important threshold in that it has shown up today in Instapundit. You never know. The word might eventually get out even to our own Ministers of Health and Chief Medical Officers who always seem to be the last to know. On December 8, 2020, when most of America was consumed with what The Guardian called Donald Trumps desperate, mendacious, frenzied and sometimes farcical attempt to remain president, the Senates Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the Medical Response to Covid-19. One of the witnesses, a pulmonologist named Dr. Pierre Kory, insisted he had great news. We have a solution to this crisis, he said unequivocally. There is a drug that is proving to have a miraculous impact. Kory was referring to an FDA-approved medicine called ivermectin. A genuine wonder drug in other realms, ivermectin has all but eliminated parasitic diseases like river blindness and elephantiasis, helping discoverer Satoshi Omura win the Nobel Prize in 2015. As far as its uses in the pandemic went, however, research was still scant. Kory had been trying to make such a case, but complained to the Senate that public efforts had been stifled, because every time we mention ivermectin, we get put in Facebook jail. A Catch-22 seemed to be ensnaring science. With the world desperate for news about an unprecedented disaster, Silicon Valley had essentially decided to disallow discussion of a potential solution  disallow calls for more research and more study  because not enough research and study had been done. Once, people werent allowed to take drugs before they got FDA approval. Now, they cant talk about them. I want to try to be respectful because I think the intention is correct, Kory told the committee. They want to cut down on misinformation, and many doctors are claiming X, Y, and Z work in this disease. The challenge is, youre also silencing those of us who are expert, reasoned, researched, and extremely knowledgeable.  You shouldnt silence anybody, but thats a different story although extremely relevant at the present time since try getting Ivermectin mentioned on Facebook or Twitter, never mind The Age or The Oz.