Crucially, unlike other medical freedom organizations, Four Thieves isn’t suggesting people treat COVID with Ivermectin, isn’t shilling random supplements, and doesn’t have any sort of commercial arm at all. Instead, they are helping people to make their own, identical pirated versions of proven and tested pharmaceuticals by taking the precursor ingredients and performing the chemical reactions to make the medication themselves.
“We don’t invent anything, really,” Laufer said. “We take things that are on the shelf and hijack them. We like to take something established, and be like ‘This works, but you can’t get it.’ Well, here’s a way to get it.”
A slide at his talk reads “Isn’t this illegal? Yeah. Grow up.”
Why are we at a point where we need something like this? Our neighbors to the top and bottom of us both get free healthcare. I’ve known doctors that were trained in Mexico and then were doctors here in the US. It is not the quality of healthcare, it’s that we’re greedy and don’t take care of our own.