Calm down, it’s Arkansas. What did you expect? Just something else for them to stockpile along with their closet full of incandescent bulbs and 55 gallon barrel of bleach.
No, which is why I will continue to vote for people who like medical realities. 2/3rds of the voting age population is fine with insane asylum rejects running their country/state/county.
Maybe you should ask them if they’re OK with children being victims of medical malpractice made mainstream, instead of the people who are outnumbered 2 to 1.
This statement is extremely ironic given your username.
I was replying to an argument that the drug isn’t very harmful by showing a study that documents multiple instances of neurological damage caused by misuse (which is an even greater risk when not used under a doctor’s supervision), and it has even resulted in coma and death.
So you should read my “nothing big” comment in that light, and again remember your username.
(And this shit certainly isn’t water, unless you’re comparing it to potentially contaminated water.)
Former horse owner here: No, tack and feed stores carry the stuff in syringes for squirting into the animal’s mouth, whether they liked it or not [narrator: they don’t] and normally there’d be no problem getting it, or any other anthelmintic, but during COVID stores I shopped at put up signs on the shelves limiting the amount you could buy, and ivermectin was often in short supply.
Because that’s inaccurate, heavily implying it’s only used for horses.
If it’s done tongue-in-cheek, like calling a salad “rabbit food”, that’s one thing. But a lot of people were spreading misinformation during the pandemic, and mischaracterizing ivermectin was part of it.
No, I’m saying that’s not the only source or usage of it.
Too many times it was reductively and mockingly called “horse dewormer” during the pandemic, to imply that it was insane for a human to ever take it. So the criticism of that terminology was completely worth it, and your snark about that criticism is totally unwarranted and ignorant.
No, it was called that because that’s what it was. Humans were taking medicine for themselves that was literally intended for horse deworming. That same medicine is also available in a formulation for human use, but humans were still taking the horse formulation. Even if the active ingredient is the same, it’s stupid to take a medicine that’s formulated for one species, and administer it to a different species.
Yeah, shelves at animal supply stores were regularly empty during the pandemic. People were and still are literally buying horse de-wormer to use themselves. It is not reductive, though it IS mocking (rightly so), when it is the literal truth of the situation.
And before that, there was HCQ. Because it was getting touted as a COVID “cure”, one couple ingested chemicals intended to clean their fish tank. And they’re not the only ones to have poisoned themselves trying homebrew “remedies” based on things they heard from irresponsible officials.