My friend's mom just got diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma (brain cancer). Knowing about Ivermectin, I've been looking up scholarly research articles to present to my friend so it doesn't just get brushed aside as a tinfoil-hat kind of snake-oil cure. Yes, there are promising signs for how Ivermectin can treat different types of cancers, including glioblastomas.
However, in researching doses, I came across an article about treating cancers with Doramectin (which, as the name suggests, is an anti-parasitic related to Ivermectin; however, Doramectin is almost exclusively used in veterinary medicine, whereas IVM is used in both humans and animals).
One line in the study (I looked up the full text through my local library) stood out to me:
[Doramectin] is absorbed more quickly, and has a longer lasting effect and plasma half‑life in animals compared with IVM ...
So I'm thinking, the elites were scared of Ivermectin getting publicized, not so much because they don't want us to get our dirty little hands on Ivermectin, but because Ivermectin is the gateway drug, so to speak, to other forms of related drugs that could be even more potent.
In a broad sense, I have similar thoughts. There's a lot of good published studies on Ivermectin's efficacy as a broad-spectrum anti-viral and a moderately affective treatment for certain types of cancers. These studies just haven't been heralded for all the obvious reasons.
The data is good on ivermectin for cancer, but not the end all be all. FenBen is considerably more effective (though both together is most effective).
What I'm getting at in a very roundabout way is that I agree, I've had the sense that Ivermectin and HCQ were touted by the President as you say, a "gateway drug" to show the public that there are cheap, effective treatments via off-label usage of established compounds.
Add in some of Q's comments, and I'd say your theory is even more substantiated.
And at the risk of getting a bit "woo woo", I strongly suspect that a day will arrive where we will learn that we can affect healing in the body via more spiritual means beyond prayer. Whether that day happens in our lifetimes or our children's lifetimes remains to be seen.
High quality post, Lawjic.