It is a neurotoxin as most of the levels these yahoos are taking.
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I have a nephew with a PhD in Communications, married with a baby, living in Los Angeles. He and his wife won’t get vaxxed because it’s not ‘FDA approved’. A formal education doesn’t mean you can think effectively and rationally.
(A doctorate in Communications was listed as one of the least useful degrees in an assessment of financially useful post-secondary education published about 2 years ago in several newspapers. YMMV)
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The question I’ve asked some virus skeptic/off-label use enthusiasts: Why doesn’t ANYONE ELSE in the world use hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin/azithromycin and see the magic results of easily treating the disease? There are leaders in Iran/Iraq/Pakistan/Russia/Brazil/China who would kind of like their citizens to not die, they aren’t crazy about Biden and wouldn’t mind making him seem incompetent, and it’d be a boost to their national image. Why are they not showing up the rest of the world? Doctors everywhere publish, a doctor/scientist who came up with a cheap simple cure would be a world hero.
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I imagine the answer would be “fake news”, or some conspiracy shit.
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Both Trump and Rand Paul have touted ivermectin as a treatment for covid. Does that tell you anything about the other things they promote?
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IIRC, it is a OTC drug here in Brazil and people living in rural areas and/or small kids usually take them once a year against worms, so it should be safe at a low/infrequent dose.
It is a shame that a great drug got associated with the anti-science people, and i hope it doesn’t get stigmatized later (but i think the vax people probably won’t care about it).
Bolsonaro recommended them, but the results are similar to the us, no miracle drug and a lot of schadenfreude.
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A lot of people are already frequent customers at the Equine Medications warehouse…for the steroids, mainly.
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So what is it going to take to indict Rupert Murdoch for murder?
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The more this kind of stuff goes on, the more I feel like we’re just witnessing natural selection at work on a shorter timeline.
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No. This is the results of right wing, white supremacist propaganda that is being spread by people who are attempting to end American democracy.
None of this is happening in a vacuum.
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You cannot have been slumming in the squalid corners of the Interlattice, where for the last year it has been “Brazil uses hydroxychloroquine / ivermectin / azithromycin and kept the case numbers to 0!”
“India uses hydroxychloroquine / ivermectin / azithromycin and kept the case numbers to 0!”
“Peru uses hydroxychloroquine / ivermectin / azithromycin and kept the case numbers to 0!”
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I think everyone in power on BB discourages victim blaming, but we might have different definitions.
Like, if someone posts a video of a gender reveal party with explosives gone wrong, is it victim blaming to say the parties involved in said explosions were being stupid?
Because (to me) that’s essentially what this guy was doing. And he was also actively encouraging others to handle explosives irresponsibly (metaphorically speaking).
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Trump hasn’t mentioned it. Though ivermectin-pimping is a scam targetting stupid people who worship ignorance, so it is natural to associate it with him.
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And the dosage the person is getting is probably going to kill them, although they’re already on Death’s doorstop, commenting about how shiny the doorknocker is.
The human dose is 3mg once, 6mg in extreme cases.
This person is getting 30mg DAILY for 21 DAYS. That’s 21000% the normal dose.
To compare - l love a chocolate chip cookie. A soft, chewy one, warm out of the oven? Mmmm, good. But I don’t want 21,000 of them!
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Fanatics are the most dangerous because they are so convinced that they know what’s true… when they don’t.
Darwin Award winner? Or is that too morose?
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He probably spent a lot of time destabilizing his Latino neighbor’s family. Longstanding CIA tradition.
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Oh sweet, I’m checking in and demanding an amphetamine push.
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[emphasis added]
Utilitarianism /pedant_off 
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yeah, i had almost written “vaccines” generically then i thought of rabies, and i think tetanus is like that too.
for covid, the current guidance says:
People with COVID-19 … should wait to be vaccinated until they have recovered from their illness and have met the criteria for discontinuing isolation. This guidance also applies to people who get COVID-19 before getting their second dose of vaccine.
part of that is just to lower the risk of infecting other people. but i think for covid, viral load peaks right around when symptoms show – so by the time most people know, they’re already inundated.
maybe monoclonal antibody treatment though?
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oh right at the start there was a doctor in texas ( so people said ) who was bucking the system and treating people with zinc just like they do in taiwan and japan. that’s why there were so few deaths in those countries.
even though the numbers clearly didn’t work that way, people had done their “research” and knew the government was hiding the truth
trying to reason with people who don’t want to listen to reason is exhausting.
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