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    My parents legitimately believe ivermectin is a cure all and are stockpiling it. They take it for just about anything. They also believe plenty of other wacky things like viruses don’t exist and cancer is just a fungal infection.

    My dad last year nearly lost his foot after it got infected. They let it fester for months and only treated it with like essential oils or some other pseudoscience. He eventually had to go to the emergency room and stay at the hospital and receive antibiotics. 🙄

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      And immediately saw the error in his ways? Absolutely not. These people get sick to the point of dying. Go to the emergency room and get healed through real medicine and the efforts of a dozen nurses and a doctor or two. Then they leave and brag to their friends and family “see told you I’d be fine” and never give credit to the REAL medicine that fixed the issue.

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        Many of my relatives are diehard MAGA. So, when Trump said not to wear masks or quarantine, my aunt and her husband and son went out of their way to basically spend every second they could at superspreader events. They were warned it was dangerous, not restricted in any way, but still felt the need to act out to validate political feelings.

        Naturally, they all caught COVID in the early days. My uncle and cousin both passed, leaving my aunt as a devastated shell of a woman. When we would see each other at family dinners she would usually just sit with a far-off, forlorn look. Every once in a while she would tune in for a bit to spout some pro-Trump bullshit. I wanted to scream “He helped to kill your family!”

        I decided to just stop spending time with these people before I said something I would regret.

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          But would you really regret screaming ‘he helped to kill your family’? I think it would be awesome … unless there’s a significant inheritance at stake.

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            The woman’s mind is broken. She’s a cult victim. If she’s not actively harming OP, why would being cruel help now? She’s already killed her husband, in her mind. She’s fucked already.

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              She’s already killed her husband, in her mind

              Are you sure? Sounded like she might still be in denial.

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            I’m a bit baffled by the upvotes on this.

            I get it, I’m also furious at the MAGA crowd, but, considering this actually happened, I just feel sorry for that woman.

            Losing your family must be horrible either way and if that doesn’t make her reflect, do you think yelling at her will?

            You wouldn’t yell at a mentally disabled person, I hope, that’s basically who you’re dealing with.

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              Mentally disabled or not, these people are destroying the country. They are hurting lots of other people. They should know better. They have made a choice to be that way and refuse to change even with the brutal consequences made very clear. If they won’t see reason they deserve ridicule.
              We don’t say ‘oh the poor Nazis, they were mentally disabled’ - no, we fought them and sacrificed big time to destroy their evil ways.

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              The problem is that American politicians are gutting the school system because they WANT more mentally disabled people. “I love the poorly educated” - DJT. People like this lady, who will manslaughter their families for Trump, are spreading his propaganda. I don’t care how sad she is, if she’s spreading his propaganda and telling other people to go through the same tragedy. Someone needs to speak up and stop the cycle of pointless deaths.

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              If that mentally disabled person was killing people? Yeah, I’d yell at them. Other people dying doesn’t mean anything to these people because they don’t care about other people. The only thing they understand is themselves

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          she would tune in for a bit to spout some pro-Trump bullshit

          “Hey Marge, how’s the husband and son? Still dead? Still Trump’s fault?”

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      My dad literally will not talk to me because I refused to say that ivermectin is a miracle cure. He’s angry at me for some study or article that he thinks I am obsessed with (I honestly have no idea what he’s talking about), and insists I retract my belief in it or we can’t have a relationship. Since I haven’t the first clue what he’s even on about, he made his choice…

      Can’t wait for the next round of crackpot email forwards. Hopefully he sticks to his word and won’t contact me anymore.

      Edit - the last time I spoke with him was at my step mom’s funeral, where she had just died of cancer, which they treated with….I’ll give you one guess.

      We aren’t dealing with rational people.

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        I guess I can somewhat understand his obstinance towards you. If he admits he’s wrong, he also has to admit he had a hand in killing his wife through willful ignorance.

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        refused to say that ivermectin is a miracle cure

        What sucks the most is that ivermectin is a miracle cure! It just isn’t helpful again COVID or Hantavirus. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded (in part) for discovering ivermectin.

        It’s what frustrates me the most about discussion with people like this. They’re willing to take a random drug, a drug that is fully backed by the medical community, but they’re not willing to take the drug actually recommended by the medical community.

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          This is my favorite anti-anti-vax argument. You won’t take one medicine, here have another with the same medical backing 😂

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        I have a similar experience with my own father after he started using TikTok and Instagram, though it’s not about ivermectin (spoiler: he thinks I’m a “commie”). I think old people are just not equipped to survive on the internet. It’s like they lack the instincts to known when they’re being scammed.

        It gives me a tiny bit of hope for the future, because even though gen alpha aren’t exactly the brightest generation so far, they’re at least all fully attuned to the internet and (hopefully) better equipped to navigate its many perils.

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          I think old people are just not equipped to survive on the internet

          I think its people in general

          During lock down when people were at home and having to amuse themselves some made bread and did arts and crafts, whilst others ended up jumping off a cliff into conspiracy theories and right wing bollocks

          One guy I know of suggested ivermectin and dog dewormers to treat my bf’s cancer because ‘cancer is caused by parasites… there’s plenty of information on the internet… you can do your own research…etc etc’

          I used to think the average person was mostly decent and sensible, but not anymore

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            Never underestimate the strength of small town loyalty, where obviously everyone knows better than a century-spanning corpus of medical research

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          Idk what the hell happened to baby boomers. When I was growing up my parents (boomers) constantly reminded me you can’t believe everything you read online and that the “girl” I was chatting with on AIM could actually be some fat 40 year old pedo.

          That wasn’t uncommon, that was the same experience all my buddies had and same thing was drilled into us at school.

          Now, I’m seeing these folks treat memes on Facebook like it’s the gospel truth. Or some random mommy blog post with zero references as straight facts. It’s so maddening … What happened to these people?

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      My mom died a couple years ago (she thought “vibration therapy” would cure her cancer), and when my sister and I were cleaning up her house to sell it we found so many empty bottles of ivermectin as well as other crazy stuff. It’s just the stupidest scam. Oh, medicine, biology, chemistry, etc is all bullshit, but horse medicine? Yeah, that’s legit.

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        My mother, a once slightly famous biochemist, died in December from influenza. Tragic that someone who had been a health nut her entire life (other than the 2 pack a day smoking habit she fostered from 11 to somewhere in her 40s) became a complete anti science loon as she got older.

        She always believed in new age crap. She was confined that she could see auras and perform psychic healing when l was a kid. She’s the reason that I was dosed with ghastly spinach ‘smoothies’ instead of surgery to relieve the pressure on my brain after a TBI when I was 7.

        But it ramped up massively in the information age. No longer relegated to fringe bookstores, her rampant need to be a keeper of the secret teachings was validated by a cadre of charlatans and lunatics online. She became rabidly anti-vaxx, except when forced to so she could travel to southeast Asia… right as lockdown happened in the US. Did she reconsider this ill conceived motion? He’ll no!

        She managed her sky high cholesterol with a variety of herbs or whatnot. Same with blood pressure issues. Then had a catastrophic stroke not too long after that covid road tour. Never recovered and very likely was receiving poor care while sick with influenza.

        What an incredibly stupid end.

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      At least it’s not shungight. Viral medical trends are problematic when they get sold as cure calls, bad when it’s unfounded, worse when it’s half true. Poisons the well.

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      Well at least they don’t have worm parasites.

      It does work well for those things.

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    Even with the best medical care, Hantavirus has a 20% fatality rate.

    Let’s just hope that conservatives continue being so anti-vaccine… a few more pandemics with human-transmissible highly-fatal viruses and maybe we can get that socialist utopia that the right always cock-blocks us from achieving.

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    Just so everyone is clear, this is total bullshit — I understand MTG has had her broken clock moments but she’s still batshit insane.

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    IMO, this is one of the consequences of not having universal health insurance that isn’t talked about enough. If the bar for going to the doctor is “about to lose a limb from infection”, then people become vulnerable to pseudo-scientific garbage, simply because they hardly ever receive advice from actual medical professionals.

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      This is one my comment talking point. When people have to think about “can I afford this?” anytime they need to goto the doctor, then they’ll only go when it’s serious. But they are not qualified medical professionals to decide what needs medical attention or not. So they seek advice from other people, past experiences and Internet and we have this problem.

      Honestly, it shouldn’t cost that much to just goto a doctor’s office and return. We don’t need MD for everything, have other professional people there that are qualified enough to tell you when something doesn’t need attention, or simple solutions. Maybe just cleaning a scrap, or giving you a brace for minor sprain, all those without having to see MD.

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        I have a lump that my doctor recommended I go see a specialist for a look. But I am waiting for my insurance to settle the bill / or wait to be able to afford both bills.

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      Great point. Hard to trust doctors when it’s $500 to not find anything over and over and over and over.

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      I agree with you 100%. When the prospect of a health emergency or chronic condition means bankruptcy, people can’t help but look for alternatives.

      Under a capitalist system where anyone can sell ‘supplements’ and any other random ‘treatment’ under the radar long enough to make a quick buck, misinformation abounds and the desperate roll the dice.

      Health care isn’t just that. It’s what keeps families together, it’s what keeps communities together, and it’s a tragic farce that too many of us see it as a privilege and not a right.

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        That’s great, but I’m talking about broad coverage of health care needs and a general habit of seeing a doctor when you’re sick, injured etc.

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      Many of my fellow Canadians fell for that shit, and they have free access to doctors.

      (Not all of them, because our healthcare system is weirdly understaffed, but many of them)

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        The bar for a lot of us is also at “about to lose a limb from infection”. The only difference is that we don’t get a hospital bill to go with that visit.

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    In the US, people don’t go to the doctor when they have a problem, they go as a last resort because they have to ask themselves how much it would cost.

    18% of Americans haven’t ever seen a doctor and 40% of Americans haven’t seen one for 5 years.

    A number of studies in low income communities in the south show that over 60% of people in those communities have intestinal parasites. That’s just the ones we know of.

    One thing we know for sure is that ivermectin is about as magic as they say it is for parasites only. It’s a fantastic drug for that.

    Over 60% of low income citizens would likely feel much better after getting their parasites removed from ivermectin. So what they are seeing, seems true. They could be sick from something else but get rid of a long standing comorbidity of a pariste infection, you bet they are feeling good. They just think that relief from the varied symptoms from parasite is actually something else cured.

    This ivermectin religion has real miracles, it’s just not the ones they think they are. This belief is entirely created because Americans don’t have healthcare. That’s why this belief isn’t found elsewhere.

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        Actually by sheer volume they were taking all the horse paste away from the horses who needed it so rural supply stores had to lock down their supplies for only people who could prove they owned livestock.

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          Humans were consuming so much horse paste that there was a shortage?! That’s wild.

          I guess I never really knew why so many people associate ivermectin with horses. I would not have guessed that 😆

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    This doctor was previously suspended for vaccine misinformation and now has a complaint against her by the texas medical board for numerous violations of professional conduct, including prescribing medication without ever meeting or examining a patient.

    She filed a defamation lawsuit against the hospital which she lost. Ouch. Best of luck to her in keeping her certification, and in finding a new job! She should become trumps personal dr.

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    Nothing says ‘we learned nothing’ like speedrunning the exact same miracle-cure discourse all over again.

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    Covid spread easily; I don’t think hantavirus is as easy to spread. However, it’s much more deadly and can be dormant for 60 days, spreading itself.

    We’re pretty fucked.

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        Honestly. So much overreaction about this. Everyone is letting the news work their manipilative bullshit spreading panic and fear so you keep tuning in and clicking o

        Its pretty sad to see how many people on the fediverse are falling for the bs

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          It does with this strain/variant which is why this story is newsworthy. But the usual one does not. There have been localized outbreaks of this one in the past but never a worldwide pandemic.

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          The andes strain has been around for some time and can be transmitted from person to person but it requires long term exposure and liquid exchange. If it spread it would be very slow to do so.

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      People on the floating petri dishes that are cruiseships are fucked. The rest of us are in no more danger from this than we were before.

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          Probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference for a ship registered in the Netherlands that never made port in the US.

          Will probably be a problem down the road though

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            As much as I agree with the sentiment of the comment you responded to, I appreciate you for keeping the conversation grounded and honest. You deserve every upvote.

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        More to the point, on a boat with any kind of outbreak… it’s usually always related to the food storage. Main reason why I’d never go on a cruise.

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        If it hadn’t left the ship you’d be right, but it has. A Swiss man left the cruise and tested positive later. If he rode public transit during rush hour even once while infected it could be bad.

        I’m not as familiar with Swiss transport, but I’ve been packed ass to face many of times on a train in Europe

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          Notable that the virus has a 1 to 8 Week incubation period. The first guy died 5 days into the trip. Implying that he(and probably his wife) brought it onto the ship.

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            Right if you read the article he was the only one that both left the ship and was later confirmed as infected. There was another Dutch couple that left while sick and quickly were hospitalized. My concern is he was able to move around freely all while he was unknowingly infected. He seems to be the one that had the most opportunity to spread the infection.

            Others also left early and have been quarantined. They have not shown symptoms so I didn’t bring them up when discussing spread. One infected couple left early as well, but they were already sick and didn’t leave South Africa. Although they may have infected a flight attendant, still waiting on tests.

            Of course the virus can have a long incubation period. So these individuals may be more relevant to discussion later. There are those that were evacuated to recieve medical treatment elsewhere, but it’s not like they are walking around their respective countries.

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              So first, i don’t think that article says they tracked them all.

              And second, if you can test them and rule out infection with certainty, why would they be ordered to isolate?

              I think the incubation period does play a role there.

              Authorities in St. Helena, the volcanic British territory in the South Atlantic where passengers disembarked, said they were monitoring a small number of people who were considered “higher risk contacts.” Those contacts were being told to isolate for 45 days, the St. Helena government said.

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                Yes those higher risk contacts in St. Helena are those that interacted with the passangers/crew when the ship was in port. They are not the people that were passangers on board the ship that left.

                And second, if you can test them and rule out infection with certainty, why would they be ordered to isolate?

                I did not say this. They are testing an already ill flight attendant. You can’t test during the incubation period. Which is highly variable with this virus.

                The incubation period is huge. In 40 days we’ll know if we are having another pandemic or not.

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          Hantavirus is not COVID. Every contagious disease isn’t spread through aerosols. Hantavirus needs close, extended contact to transfer, unlike COVID. You’re not going to get hantavirus from walking into a store.

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            Yes I understand that. Being crammed against another person for a long enough period of time seems right. During any major holiday if you take a train you can easily spend 1 or 2 hours pressed against a few people. Seems fairly close and extended to me. Especially considering there may have already been spread of the virus from contact in an airplane.

            Rush hour commutes you might be pressed against a couple of people for 20 minutes or so depending on your commute. This is close, but maybe not extended enough.

            The potential is there

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              For transfer exclusively to people who spend extended time on very crowded public transit, maybe, but that describes a very tiny portion of Americans.

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                Okay now I’m confused. I was talking about the Swiss guy who returned to Switzerland and the public transit system of Europe.

                I suppose we’re on a thread talking about some American public figures huffing Ivermectin, but I was more concerned about the spread. Which seems like it will kick off in Europe first

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                  Oh, I misunderstood, because of the OP I thought we were talking about the US. I still wouldn’t worry about it, you need bodily fluid contact to transfer it. Monkeypox is more contagious and it never took off.

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      What little Ive seen documented:

      1. It was relatively new(20 years 30 years) to the southern end of South America, they beat out an initial pandemic of it, has been endemic there since.
      2. Not too much reaearch has been done on it, i.e. few experts.
      3. It appears that it is most, and potentially only infectious when symptoms are showing, particularly the fever, but is very easily spread during that small window.
      4. It seems like it isnt as easily spread as covid, but yeah, is much nastier.
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        There’s kind of two varieties. The Americas one is different to the other and was discovered more recently.

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          Three that I know of.
          The Eurasian/African one that is the least dangerous and doesnt transmit human to human.

          The continental Americas strain that is pretty dangerous(lethality in the 30-60% range) but doesn’t spread human to human.

          The new kid on the block, the Andes strain, an offshoot of the Americas one. Last Outbreak was in a small town in Argentina in 2018, first discovered 1995, first human to human 1996. ~40 known infections, 11 deaths. Can spread human to human. It has already been confirmed we are dealing with this one.

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      That’s almost as good as my idea. I thought like a really light version of COVID with nothing but light symptoms like fever and sneezing, but it would change your DNA just the right way, so you develop a hidden FFI prion infection, leading to you eventually not being able to sleep until you die.

      By the time anyone realizes it is even a thing, nearly everyone would be infected, just a few prions would be 100% fatal, and there would be nowhere on Earth to hide.

      Everyone dies from lack of sleep induced dementia.

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    The new hot cure to hantavirus: bloodletting! Balance your humors and align your chakras with this one simple trick!

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      I’ll sell you leeches from an ancient bloodline! This storied lineage of leeches have drained foul and dangerous humors from some of histories great men!

      From Caligula to Kissinger these leeches have left a wake of well balanced, totally sane statesmen. For only three easy payments of 20.99 you too can be drained and join in greatness!

      But wait!!! Order now and receive a camo snuggy and a box of tissues, COMPLETELY FREE

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        Instructions unclear, one of the leeches drank too much of my blood and started a rampage around the neighborhood. Also, I’m feeling real heavy, just gonna nap for the rest of my life i guess

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    And remember, if you get sick with the hantavirus you can get over it quickly by taking 2x the LD50 of Tylenol. A couple of days and you won’t even feel sick. Be sure to tell all your conservative friends because the government likes to cover up this kind of information.

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    What’s the thing with ivermectin? Do they own shares from the manufacturers or something?

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      Early laboratory research indicated that ivermectin could kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this was later found to require, in many cases, toxic doses far exceeding those approved for humans. Antivaxxers latched onto this and ran with it, spreading the misinformation far and wide.

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      Well, there was evidence that it helped and then mainstream pharmaceutical buried the evidence and killed all the scientists. Cause it’d affect their bottom line. And then you’ve got the secret kabal controlling everything that wants us hooked on their drugs for mind control. The anti-christ is alive, right now, and his name is healthcare /s

      The real reason is probably that it was a dewormer that helped some very sick people feel better when they had covid, and then conspiracies about it took off when scientists said “yeah, that’s probably not helpful for covid”. Science is a messy process, but because of the authoritative way it’s taught, people have trouble connecting the process of finding answers in real time with the firmness of the results. That, plus grifters pumping people full of fear and anxiety so they keep coming back for the next hit. It’s not pushing ivermectin because they have stake in it. It’s pushing ivermectin because it fits a pre-established narrative and thinking is, like, real tough, y’all. You gotta, like, put effort into that. Which is dumb. I’ve got this one drum, I’mma bang it all day.

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        I wanna believe that Ivermectine is so consistently reported by these people as helpful because they all have parasites from raw meat diets. So when they get sick with covid the wormer does make them feel better, but not because of the covid.

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      Much like every culture war issue the right grabs onto: there’s no logical basis for it. It became an in-group thing to signal to others that you’re “one of the good ones”. Sane people pointed out how bad it was which only made ivermectin more entrenched as THE healthy thing like crystals, red light therapy, essential oils, basically anything not backed up by a healthcare expert.

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      Having worms is common in poorer parts of the world and deworming humans is quite common. I imagine it’s made its way through immigrant communities and then white people latched on.

      Something else white people stole 🤣