The first paragraph makes it sound like they were afraid because their roommate is a dumbass taking ivermectin for covid, then the second paragraph hits.
No, you're both total morons and have absolutely no idea what actually works in the real world against viruses. If you think ivermectin is going to help with COVID, you're a total asswipe and a total moron, there's no ingredient in ivermectin that has any effect on the COVID virus whatsoever.
And no "god" is going to protect you from the horrible outcomes of your own ignorance. You don't get vaccinated, you take your chances at being killed by COVID, it's that simple. Period.
There were hypotheses that ivermectin initially looked like it was helping with covid outcomes because it was being used in regions with high amounts of undiagnosed parasite infections. So, by clearing out the parasites, they improved the outcomes of covid co-infections.
I'm not sure why that would improve outcomes of covid co-infections since COVID is a virus, not a parasite or bacteria, but I think people talk themselves into believing stuff works that couldn't possibly actually work, (like people who take Prevagen).
Thieves smells fantastic, but that’s pretty much all it does. If you just want a way to refresh your kitchen after cooking a smelly dish, then by all means go ahead and wipe down your counters with it. But since it’s directly attached to a bunch of hyper-religious pseudoscience nutjobs who are attempting to set society back several decades, it’s difficult to recommend for anything beyond “I mean I guess it smells good” purposes.
They'll VERY likely be fine, and would be fine if they did nothing at all instead of ineffective or even harmful "alternative remedies". The reason COVID is such a bitch is that everyone gets it, so even if deaths are under a single percent of people infected that's millions of deaths. Add in all the seriously affected people who survive but need expensive/labor-intensive/lengthy medical care and you can see why it's a big deal.
These folks can get away with anecdotes about their horseshit saving them because COVID was unlikely to kill most of them anyways. They are, however, more likely to be more seriously ill for a longer period of time with worse "long COVID" symptoms."They found initially and during recovery from symptomatic COVID-19, fully vaccinated participants had lower concentrations of inflammatory markers than unvaccinated participants, suggesting vaccination is associated with short-term and long-term reduction in inflammation, which could in part, explain the reduced disease severity, mortality and risk of long COVID in vaccinated individuals."
Vaccination is at least as much about shorter, less severe illness with less likelihood of long-term effects for survivors as it is about preventing death. So the Ivermectin user will probably survive (and thus will likely claim they never needed the vaccine), but they and the roommate will have a harder time of it than they would have otherwise both during and after infection.
What really gets me is these people refuse to take the vaccines because they don't know what's in them, or because it has chemicals, or because they don't trust doctors/scientists/the government, yet they will take Ivermectin and bleach...
Vitamin C or Zinc helping with covid is just as much pseudoscience as invermiacin helping with covid.
Technically both can help but the situation where they do will almost never apply in developed countries. A severe parasite infection will make it harder for your body to fight off covid so invermectin could help there by getting rid of the parasites. But most people aren't walking around riddled with parasites let alone to the point where it starts impacting their immune system.
Likewise if you are deficient in zinc or vitamin C it will harm your immune system and in that case they could help with covid. But most people in developed countries get plenty of both from their diet. You get vitamin C from far more than citrus, it's also in potatoes, onions, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, and many non citrus fruits. It's also in a lot of artificial drinks. Likewise zinc it plentiful in meat, dairy, and grains especially in processed grain foods like cereals which tend to be fortified with it. Consuming excess of either vitamin just makes you pee the excess out. If your diet is bad enough that you aren't getting enough zinc or vitamin C then odds are you're going to notice before those two become too deficient anyways because you're going to wind up with something like an iron or magnesium deficiency which are both far more common and pretty noticable.