The belief that things like ZPaks and ivermectin help is rather ironic, since the main claim of most anti-vaxxers is that 99% (or thereabouts) of people recover from COVID, so it is nothing serious, nothing more than a flu (of course, some argue falsely that it is the flu). However, when they get COVID, they take medications to "help." They then attribute their getting better to the medication rather than their belief that most people get better from COVID without intervention.
So, either they actually believe COVID is more serious than they state and we need medication (or other medical intervention), or COVID isn't serious and at least some of the medications do little to nothing.
I find the psychology of anti-vax/anti-mandate people quite interesting. As an example, my step-dad and his wife ("step-mom") disagreed with the health mandates up here (mainly just masking and distancing) and believed at least some of the misinformation about vaccines, despite being retired health professionals. So, they went to Texas, one of the worst places to go during this pandemic (I suspect it is also where most of their misinformation was coming from as her daughter lives there). Sure enough, they both got COVID, bad, a couple of weeks before Christmas. My step-mom was able to get monoclonal antibody treatment but my step-dad's disease was too advanced. He died at the very beginning of this year, never having left the hospital. But now my step-mom is saying that she got COVID and was fine, completely ignoring the fact that she got a treatment that very likely saved her life. She also claims he didn't die of COVID. She has to believe that because cognitive dissonance can't allow her to admit it was COVID, or else she is culpable in his death (as are all who spread misinformation about the vaccines and the pandemic).
And it was almost certainly avoidable just by getting vaccinated and following the mandates.
