While both are very promising, there are… differences.
And so, as a savvy driver of your own health-care choices, should the need arise — it would be smart to stow this away, in the unlikely event that — as a fully vaccinated and boosted US resident, you might (improbably) contract a case of suspected COVID (or a variant, most likely, now).
Do go read it all — it is a fine “plain English” explainer. Here’s a bit, though — applicable to both the Merck, and the Pfizer regimens:
…[Both of] the Covid pills come with a key challenge of their own. They’re most effective when given early in the infection, so people need to be able to get tested and get their prescription rapidly. And the U.S. testing landscape is still limited. PCR tests can take days to return a result, and though the Biden administration has upped its effort to expand the availability of at-home rapid tests, finding one at a store is still hit or miss — success feels like scoring this holiday season’s hottest gift.
Any delay in getting diagnosed undercuts the power of these pills; even a day or two has real implications for a treatment meant to clear out an acute infection like Covid-19….
Now you know — as ever, you should take every precaution that is sensibly available to you. This is no time to take any foolish risk — mask up in tight public places, like groceries, even if fully vaxxed. That’s the best approach. Smile…. do be excellent to one another. Baby girl in two days… back from a full-year of living in sunny coastal Mexico.
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Powerline Lies... 
“If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied during 1930s Germany, now you know.” — Banner of a Covid-19 protester
The saying goes “SEEK the truth and you shall find it” –and NOT that you find the truth by passively ACCEPTING what authorities tell you is the “truth” like herd animals unthinkingly obey their shepherds’ orders. Yet almost nobody ACTIVELY SEEKS the truth, they only PASSIVELY ACCEPT as “truth” what the authorities tell them and so become UNthinking members of “herd stupidity.”
Do YOU actually SEEK the truth or are you a mindless member of “herd stupidity”?
I suggest you study (not briefly scan) “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” at [redacted].
You can ONLY see the official lies IF you SEEK the truth…. it means you must LOOK “behind the curtain” — behind the official narratives.
“The inhumane abominations, issued by the highly credentialed professional class of psychopaths-in-control and their lauded sycophantic minions, of “No Jews Allowed” and “No Colored People Allowed” of yesterday is the “No Unvaccinated People Allowed” of today.” (from cited article)
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Well. Thanks, Rosie. You’ve provided precisely… nothing of value, here.
But it will remain — as a reminder of what people without analytical skills, or bio-science training… are telling themselves. Nutty.
The only substantive point I’ll make in opposition to your rant above is that the use of vaccines in public health emergencies / global pandemics… is in no matter akin to any holocaust or Jim Crow. It just isn’t.
But you are a grown up — feel free to believe whatever nonsense you like.
Me? — I stay more than ten feet away from people like you (I’m sure you don’t have a mask on in public)… even though I am fully vaxxed and tomorrow will be Moderna-boosted. Who knows what other dread diseases you carry, right?
I hope you live a long healthy life, despite your reckless risk-taking.
Cheers (I will inactivate your links now — because I don’t amplify… liars, here).
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