OPINION
Peter Allan Williams
Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week
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Remember ivermectin?
Of course you do. It’s history in the last three years is just bizarre. But it illustrates how the pharmaceutical industry captured governments all around the world during the Covid years.
Let’s go back more than a decade. A 2011 article in the American National Library of Medicine says this about ivermectin: “There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had the greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide – especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people.”
That was published 12 years ago.
Early on in the Covid era drug authorities all over the world like the FDA in the US, the TGA in Australia and Medsafe in New Zealand banned the prescribing of ivermectin to treat Covid, despite several trials showing that it had some success in both preventing and curing people with the coronavirus.
But in the last few months guess what has happened?
The FDA, in a court case brought against them by some American doctors, had its lawyer admit in court that doctors “do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat Covid”.
In Australia the Therapeutic Goods Administration, the TGA, lifted its restrictions on the wonder drug from June 1st this year.
I don’t know whether it’s readily available in this country, again, but if it’s good to go in the US and Australia, why not here?
But it begs an important question and raises even more suspicions about the motives of Big Pharma.
How come a drug which was legal and loved and cheap and effective for number of diseases from its invention in the 1970s up till 2020, but was then banned for two years, is now becoming safe and available again for any number of ailments?
I think we all know the answer to that. It has been corruption of the highest order between Pfizer and governments around the world.
But who will make that admission on behalf of our government and will there be an apology to us?
Because we deserve one.
While I’m at it, which politician with any chance of being in the next Parliament has the courage to call for a real inquiry into our Covid response, to answer the question about ivermectin and others about Covid treatments?
I’m only hearing of one. He’s 78 years old and first went to Parliament 45 years ago, but his ear for a cause among a sizeable chunk of the population is once again impeccable.
Welcome back Winston.