Yes, this is a real story about something that really happened and apparently this isn’t the first time either.
The story, in brief;
- Unvaccinated knobstick gets Covid and ends up in the hospital
- to be completely honest, neither side in this drama has commented on the knobstick’s vaccine status but, given the circumstances, I think it’s a safe bet
- Knobstick’s condition deteriorates and he ends up in the ICU on a ventilator
- Mrs. Knobstick demands that the hospital give him ivermectin
- Everyone from the nursing assistants to the Chief Medical Officer at the hospital thank Mrs. Knobstick for the suggestion but inform her that Mr.Knobstick will continue to receive treatments that have actual evidence supporting their use and not something someone on Facebook said was a miracle cure.
- Mrs. Knobstick goes doctor shopping and finds some quack who prescribes Mr. Knobstick ivermectin without ever having examined, or even seen him.
- Mrs. Knobstick triumphantly presents Dr. Quack’s ivermectin prescription to the hospital. The hospital informs her that Dr. Quack doesn’t have privileges at their facility and, therefore, isn’t allowed to admit or treat patients there.
- Mrs. Knobstick SUES THE HOSPITAL AND WINS. The judge orders the hospital to grant temporary privileges to Dr. Quack and to begin treatment with ivermectin
So here you have a judge, someone trained in law and not medicine, overruling the entire medical staff of a hospital in favor of a single doctor who is promoting a treatment that THE FDA HAS SPECIFICALLY WARNED AGAINST USING
A little more detail on Dr. Quack; he is a member, or maybe the founder, of an organization with some Orwellian Newspeak name like “Front Line Covid Treatment Action Alliance” that actively promotes the use of ivermectin for covid. He also has said that ivermectin is more effective than any of the vaccines at preventing covid (it isn’t) and that the FDA not authorizing its use is comparable to the Holocaust (WTF?!)
The hospital, of course, complied with the court order but the ICU staff did exactly what they should have under the circumstances and refused to administer the ivermectin. No one in the facility had ever given ivermectin before, it wasn’t in the hospital formulary and it hadn’t been verified by their pharmacy. Mr. Knobstick still got the ivermectin but Dr. Quack had to come do it himself.
Neither side has commented in detail about Mr. Knobstick’s condition since starting ivermectin. The most a spokesman would say is that he “hasn’t gotten worse”.
Edited to add; and when Mr. Knobstick inevitability dies from complications of Covid-19, do you think Mrs. Knobstick will change her thinking about vaccines and the validity of FDA approved or authorized treatments? Of course she won’t. She’ll go on Facebook and every mommy blog or fitness blog in existence and lament how her poor husband would still be alive if only the Pharmaceutical-Hospital-Reverse Vampire axis of evil had given Mr. Knobstick ivermectin before it was too late, oh and, by the way, don’t forget to follow the link to the Knobstick Memorial GoFundMe page.