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(269,172 posts)a vaccine - which has more risks?
Bangs head!
Initech
(100,103 posts)I personally blame Facebook for all the anti vaccine shit that's been going around. I wouldn't mind seeing Mark Zuckerberg dragged before a Senate committee on this.
malaise
(269,172 posts)from there, I am clueless. That said I always choose science over BS
Initech
(100,103 posts)So my dad found someone connected to my cousin (who is probably more left-leaning liberal than I am) and the made a post favoring Ivermectin. And that gets reposted and reposted and people start believing it. My rule of thumb right now is that if it's on Facebook it's bullshit. But that's just me.
womanofthehills
(8,771 posts)Its being used in parts of India, most of South America, South Africa, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia plus many more countries and yesterday Japan said they will start using it. Research countries using Ivermectin for Covid online
Ivermectin pills for animals & people are the same med but the animal pills are too strong for people.
It has been labelled one of the Triumvirate of human drugs that is, ranked top three among all time, all-important essential drugs in human history, along with penicillin and aspirin because it has saved so many lives in 3rd world countries- from river blindness to encephalitis.
GoodRaisin
(8,929 posts)Everything even remotely associated with Trumpism dies.
NickB79
(19,271 posts)And Japan has been studying Ivermectin since last September. It's still not showing promise.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210824_09/
And I'd point out that Ivermectin use was widespread in India BEFORE Covid hit as an antiparasitic. Didn't stop them from seeing 4 million dead. Same goes for Brazil's staggering death toll.
womanofthehills
(8,771 posts)in third world countries. WHO calls it one of the most important meds in third world nations. The people pill and animal pill are the same but being its prescribed by weight, the animal pills are too strong for a person. The person pill has very few side effects - billions have taken the people version of this drug with no major side effects.
malaise
(269,172 posts)NickB79
(19,271 posts)Not against viral infection.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)By allowing Facebook Groups to encourage people to take near lethal doses of a veterinary de-worming concoction they are conspiring with them in what will inevitably be the deaths of gullible fools.
It is time to regulate Facebook now!
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,567 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Crazy how they won't get vaccinated, because they claim they're unproven and "experimental," but will experiment with Ivermectin. Goes to prove the reason they're not getting vaccinated is because it doesn't allow them to "own the libs."
Mister Ed
(5,944 posts)Straight from the horse's mouth.