Who knows, maybe invermectin might be the next big thing, but we cannot wait for the next big thing, we have to accept what we have now.

A couple of analogies come to mind.

First: When that next big thing happens then it's the same as when we bought that new TV that was 70% off just a month later, we still have a great TV and we had the money to pay 100% a month ago, that doesn't make the TV worse or our decision wrong because we don't have a crystal ball to have known it would be discounted. So if invermectin comes out in a year and it's God's gift to curing prostate cancer then, yea, we missed it, but if we waited for it we might just be in far worse condition for the wait. But we can use it if the cancer comes back and kill it. We'll just simply call that an after-the-sale rebate on the TV.

Second: For decades people have sought the magic pill for weight loss. No exercise, no diet changes, just take a pill and look like an Adonis. Consider all the fad diets, the crazy snake oil pills that all promised much but delivered little. Then GLP-1 (i.e., Ozempic) came out and it was the biggest thing since the wheel and everyone jumped on the new medication that finally gave all of it to us without any effort on our part. They did this without knowing the side effects because, damn it, we waited a super long time for this. Now the side effects are widely published and we're only getting started, it turns out that while it might show promise it's at the expense of other long term health problems in many cases. In other words: it still doesn't exist and now you might be worse off for trying it.

We could all wait until a cure is found and die waiting or we can dive into the deep end with whatever medicine has to offer us today and have no regrets if 10 years from now a completely side-effect-free cure comes along because we actually lived long enough to see it, something that wouldn't have happened if we waited.