Why do many expats find the US State Department's travel warnings for Thailand excessive or unfounded?

I'll assume you're siding with the detractors. That is understandable considering all the misleading press surrounding the medicine. if you have any facts counter to what I've spent months trying to convey to the public, then please state them.

Here's how it works and the problems affiliated with the official approval process involved...

The medicine is at its most effective when used as a preventative measure or for early treatment up to at least 97 percent effective at dosages ranging from .2mg to .6mg.

For late treatment, effectiveness lessens down to 30%, unfortunately.

Randomized control trials are expensive and usually reserved for big pharma. In addition, proof of prophylactic effectiveness is harder to come by than treatment based (especially now given the vaccine rollouts). Also, dosage administered in numerous trials previously were far below the effective amount needed for positive outcomes resulting in lower ratings.

There are two major trials coming up.. The Oxford PRINCIPLE study and the Malaysian study..The Oxford study involves over 5,000 Covid patients with no more than 14 days of positive Covid results. .3mg per Kilo of bodyweight will administered (.4 to.6mg would've been optimal for the Delta variant but it's an improvement).

The Malaysian governmental study is expected to be completed in September and it involves 12 hospitals with 2nd to 3rd stage Covid patients receiving .4mg dosage. Due to ethics, they cannot perform RCTs involving prevention, in which I find unfortunate given the higher outcomes that would result.

With that said, I find the parameters for both studies acceptable. If the trials show very little benefit then I will happily retire from the crusade and move on. If not...watch out!

BTW, here are a few more 'facts...

Dr. Kory, the world's leading #1 outspoken Ivermectin proponent and head of the FLCCC, introduced the medical field to corticosteroid use for Covid and won the British Medical Association’s 2015 President’s Choice award in medical textbooks for his work on Point of Care Ultrasound. This man is far from being the quack the media is painting him out to be.

Ivermectin isn't the only player in town. Being an Ivermectin advocate doesn't make one anti-vax (I'm still pro-vax, just slightly less than I used to be given my exposure to numerous alternatives). If you think vaccines are the only way out of the pandemic, then you might be in for a major overhaul of your worldview after viewing this..

@Steve *********

Agreed! Unlike the impolite Karens in 'Murica...the only Karens you'll find here are these: 😉

@Garrett **********

I was living in Florida and people would ask me how I could feel safe traveling around SE Asia and Central America alone. I laughed. I told them I felt much safer than in a city where people were shocked that I lived alone without a gun. Enough said.