It gets tiresome when we are months (if not years) ahead of the news cycle. No one is listening when it is important for them to listen. I don't want to be the "i told you so I guy." I want to be the "Aren't you glad you listened?" guy.

Here's an example:

I paid very careful attention to what the doctors prescribed Trump during his bout with COVID. If anyone is non-partisan, it is the military doctors assigned to treat the President. Aside from monoclonal antibodies and remdesivir, they prescribed him: vitamin d, zinc, melatonin and Pepcid.

When i read the list, I didn't understand the Pepcid. Then I started to dig. Pepcid was linked to markedly better patient outcomes in multiple studies. The reason is that it suppresses H2 - a histamine which can cause immune system overreaction. Immune system overreaction is likely the cause of death for many.

I won't get in to Vitamin D and zinc - because we all know what they mean to COVID.

Fast forward a few months and I get COVID. I take a multi-vitamin, d3, zinc and pepcid. My symptoms were: loss of taste and smell for ~7 days. No fever, no aches, no cough.

When my friends got COVID, I told them about pepcid. They laughed at me. They had objectively worse symptoms: many days of fever, chills, aches, pains, coughing. Some say they now have "long covid."

Fast forward to December 2021. Joe Rogan had Dr. Malone on and Rogan asked, " How did you treat yourself for COVID? You had an early infection." I nearly fell off my chair when Dr. Malone said, without pause, "Pepcid." To be fair - he had a rougher go of it than I did. But he was never hospitalized - and never believed he was in any immediate danger.

All we could do is tell people what we know. if they do not want to listen, that is on them.

NB: Pepcid is not a prophylactic. It is something you take at symptom onset/positive test.