Stores Selling Out Of Horse Dewormer Because Conservatives Falsely Think It Treats COVID - RoF

[Rhiannon12866]

Conservatives and anti-vaxxers will do anything to avoid having to actually protect themselves from COVID, even if it means taking medicines that aren't designed to treat the infection. The latest craze is Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug used to get rid of worms in horses, which right wingers and conspiracy nuts have been claiming can treat COVID (it cannot.) This is why things are still so bad in the United States, and with idiots like these pushing pseudoscience, we could be in for another spike in the near future. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

Link - https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/ivermectin-covid-cure-farm-supply-stores.html

[magicguido]

1. They should listen to their Orange Cult Leader Guru; and have a Pint of Fresh Bleach. Cheers.

[packman]

2. Well-- I can see why

[ShazamIam]

3. I wonder if they are dosing their children and their elderly?

[LaMouffette]

4. Hey! Let's start a rumor that avocado toast will treat Covid! Maybe then they'll stop teasing us.

Yeah! Avocado toast, but only if washed down with a latte. Yup. Covid cure-all, for sure!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. "We won't get vaxed....Now if you'll excuse us, we're off to the farm store for animal medicine."

I have seen this drug promoted on the RWNJ sites.

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd's latest COVID drug, finds 'no effect whatsoever'

The RWNJ sites are really pushing this quack cure. This medicine is for horse deworming

Link to tweet

Ivermectin, the latest supposed treatment for COVID-19 being touted by anti-vaccination groups, had “no effect whatsoever” on the disease, according to a large patient study.

That’s the conclusion of the Together Trial, which has subjected several purported nonvaccine treatments for COVID-19 to carefully designed clinical testing. The trial is supervised by McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and conducted in Brazil.....

Among the 1,500 patients in the study, he said, Ivermectin showed “no effect whatsoever” on the trial’s outcome goals — whether patients required extended observation in the emergency room or hospitalization.

“In our specific trial,” he said, “we do not see the treatment benefit that a lot of the advocates believe should have been” seen.....

The findings on Ivermectin are yet another blow for advocates promoting the drug as a magic bullet against COVID-19. Ivermectin was developed as a treatment for parasitical diseases, mostly for veterinarians, though it’s also used against some human parasites.

[Stuart G]

7. Too many people think this is .."some sort of game"...The virus has killed 1/2 million in U.S.A...

just to put that in perspective....Auto crashes kill 40,000 a year...that is 12 times as many die in auto crashes......

and preventing death from...... COVID IS AS SIMPLE AS GETTING A COUPLE OF SHOTS.....Is that correct?

I had 2 shots...some say 3....so I will get a third.....So What?....This ain't a game...it is to prevent death...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Guess the UV light enemas weren't working

[HUAJIAO]

10. Ivermectin is FDA approved for human use so to claim it is NOT safe, as some do,

is nonsense....

That's all I will say right now.

The last time I typed the word 'ivermectin' in a post it was removed and I was castigated for saying anything.. THIS on a liberal discussion board..

'Incoming' 5---4---3---2----

[milestogo]

11. Well at least they'll get rid of the worms they got from the horse.

[magicguido]

12. Rule 1: Substances don't work just because you "believe" they work