Originally Posted by
Jenni
It has antibacterial effects against mycobacterium tuberculosis and chlamydia trachomatis, including multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant clinical strains of mycobacterium tuberculosis. And since Ms. Clanton taught me well, citation: Lim LE, Vilchèze C, Ng C, Jacobs WR Jr, Ramón-García S, Thompson CJ. Anthelmintic avermectins kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant clinical strains. Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy. 2013;57:1040–6
It also has broad-spectrum in-vitro antiviral activity against many RNA and DNA viruses, including HIV-1, dengue virus, influenza, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, a flavivirus, pseudorabies virus, and Zika virus. I have a personal interest in this as I had Eastern equine encephalitis as a child. Everyone was shocked it didn't kill me. All I remember was it was incredibly hard to wake up. There's nothing for it, even today. No vaccine, no meds, just basically comfort care and you get to watch and wait to see if your person dies. It pisses me off to no end that the left fussing about "horsey paste" may stop development of the drug for these uses. The Venezuelan version is less fatal in humans but still, research shouldn't be stalled because it hurts feelings of those with an agenda to push. And Zika's new enough we definitely need research on it.
You know, if I was being attacked and my neighbor came to help me, I'd be damn glad for the assistance. But I wouldn't expect my neighbor to spend their entire lifetime helping protect me rather than me rectifying the issue on my end. In that moment it's a moral imperative, perhaps. Not for decades after, though. And I'd want to rectify the situation. I wouldn't want to be dependent on others for my safety and security. I'm not sure hoping in on our government's forays into "democracy building" is the best argument. Anything post WWII is probably a bandwagon one shouldn't be proud of being on. But my point remains. Do it for themselves. So that that "let you build" is truly "let" and not that they owed us because we're playing nanny. No American anything comes without strings, why be beholden?