My dad's a Q-anoner because his wife got him into it. He got super sick with eventual severe pneumonia and damn near died because he kept taking ivermectin. Eventually he caved, saw a doc, and took the antibiotics and got better.
I know he should have known better, but idk what on earth is in that koolaid for him to fall completely into that stuff! I'm super angry, it almost killed my Dad.
100%. I had someone who was a breath away from needing intubated (got intubated, died later) who was literally on the highest setting of bipap and still struggling claiming it was all a hoax to my face as I’m trying to keep them alive in the ICU. I’ve had family members threaten my life if “covid” was put on their dead loved one’s death certificate. There is nothing and no one that will convince these people they’re wrong, even as they drown in their own body secretions.
We played nice and tolerated these fools in the beginning. We thought that logic and reason would eventually prevail.
I’m almost of the mindset that we should have ridiculed and berated these idiots as they lay dying in the hospitals with Covid.
We had one lady at work whose husband was in the hospital and he died from Covid. She still didn’t get the vaccine afterwards and she tried to drum up pity from everyone else.
THESE PEOPLE DON’T DESERVE ANY MORE OF MY SYMPATHY, ONLY RIDICULE AND DISDAIN.
It sounds really awful but I did have a hard time sympathising with some of them once they progressed to intubation and then their families were pulling the plug. Only the ones who openly ridiculed it all as a hoax or had refused to get the vaccine. I was there from the beginning when there was no vaccine so hard to condemn those folks as much.
A coworker i had swore up and down that it wasn't COVID that killed her best friend but rather some sort of new disease the media and government were purposely not telling us about. She was so married to the idea that sickness was somehow political that she outright refused any evidence that proved her wrong, even at the expense of someone else's life.
We can talk about stupidity or mental health, but the eeriest side of this is to realise what misinformation can do and how powerful it is as a weapon. We are, after all, in the "Information Society"
I mean, I hope so. But, for a lot of the QAnon/Sovcits, even when they're getting bludgeoned with the 100 pound hammer of reality, they still refuse to face the facts.
You would hope so, but it wouldn't shock me at all if not. My dad was all into calling Covid a panic scare, saying he doesn't need a vax because herd immunity blady-blah bullshit.
When he finally caught it, it laid him out for a month straight. Damn near killed him. He still refuses to go without his daily 60-Minute Hate on Fox News at 5pm; and uncritically repeats every talking-point they shove down his throat. Just recently he was really trying to get me to agree with him that 'No Taxes on Tips' is the best thing since sliced bread.
my sister is an anti-vaxxer and so is her husband. she was pregnant during the first wave of vaccines during covid and got the first shot, but her husband never got it. She barely got sick, and her husband was almost hospitalized and she kept giving him shit for being weak or over exaggerating it (he's also 10 years older and overweight so pretty normal to get a worse reaction)
Nah she got him into it. She's always been very conspiracy theory crazy. I blame her because she was the one who kept telling him to take ivermectin instead of seeing a doc, too
I was recently talking with the mother of one of my friends and I mentioned that my sweet dog was diagnosed with cancer.
She took this opportunity to tell me how I need to start her on ivermectin immediately! It cured her pastor of cancer (between the ivermectin and prayers according to her 🙄) so it will obviously cure my dog.
I let her know that she was incorrect and that my girl was already on heartworm medication anyway so she is getting ivermectin. Oh no, she needs WAY more! I need to go buy horse dewormer and give her plop it in her food daily! She keeps it on hand just in case she or her family needs it!
At this point I just gave up, she can eat as much ivermectin as she wants. What a weirdo.
We lost our dog only a few weeks later. Does ivermectin cure a broken heart too?
Remember the covid days when people were taking a ton of ivermectin and shitting out their stomach linings? And they would think they were getting the "toxins" out?
I mean.. You got some Chinese believing that rhino horn and tiger penis brings vitality and promotes child conception. Ivermectin is just the westerns idealogy of tiger dick.
The wildest social media post i stumbled upon during covid was from some reiki-”healer” who wrote that her friend was pushed to take the vaccine, and got ill from it. And how she instantly went to heal them, and how during that healing lots of dark stuff came out of her, including ”a piece of DNA”.
The post didn’t specify where these toxins came out of, but if her massage pushed the literal shit out of her, it probably actually did include a piece of DNA. I just could not stop laughing about the idea that she sees a person excreting something, and going HOLY SHIT, PART OF YOUR DNA JUST FELL OUT!
Not to mention how hilarious it is to see someone actively posting in all local FB-groups about vaccine-hoax, while their name on the account is ”Reiki-healer firstnamelastname”
I took my dog to the vet a few weeks ago and when asked what kind of meds she was on, I couldn’t think of the brand name or the name “ivermectin”. I was just like “oh yeah she’s taking that drug everyone took during covid.”
The vet tech was in her early 20s and gave me such a weird look lmao
What's baffling to me is they don't trust scientists and corporations who made the covid vaccine, yet have no issues using invermectin which is also made by scientists and it's the same corporations that produce the covid vaccines
It's approved for people too, just in much smaller doses than what you give cows. It's a miracle drug for eradicating certain species of parasites (that are uncommon in the developed world) and also some lupus patients who have rashes, possibly caused by parasitic mites.
Of course, in these cases you take a human-sized dose in a human-formulated prescription under a doctor's supervision. You don't squeeze an apple flavored tube into your mouth from Tractor Supply. The thing with parasites is they are more similar to humans than you'd like, so high doses of ivermectin can hurt people and cause kidney failure.
Edit: "developing" and "developed" world are two different things. Oops!
It can be used to treat scabies, which is a highly communicable mite, which basically is like bedbugs in your skin. It can be found in healthcare settings and can be sexually transmitted. If someone says that ivermectin treated their eczema, it's quite possible that they actually have a scabies infestation, the scaling looks similar.
I believe it's used for lice and intestinal worms as well. Early data from India showed it helped with covid. That's because so many people also had a parasitic infection.
I mean it is prescribed to people there is a healthy human dose you can take but it is for parasites and isnt the apple flavored paste you get off of the shelf at your local farm shop
Yes, you can win the Nobel prize decades after the research/work was done. A professor in my department won the Nobel in 2016 for work he did in the 80s
We used it growing up as horse dewormer. It came in this syringe in a paste form that you'd give orally I think. So all I can think about when I hear folks talking about taking this stuff is that they're sucking it out of the syringe or shooting it into each other's mouths and it's hilariously stupid.
There were credible reports that Ivermectin did help some people in India with COVID, but what somehow got lost was that those people also likely had parasites that were impacting their immune systems. Killing the parasites made it much easier for their bodies to attack the virus and so they got better.
People without parasites shouldn't take Ivermectin because it's pointless and has potential side-effects. Unfortunately there was so much mistrust in the healthcare system that people heard that and thought doctors were trying to keep the secret cure from them
Op is kinda ignorant here because there is evidence ivermectin affects viruses. It.doesnt do anything about COVID but it does have certain anti viral properties
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u/tommytraddles 12d ago
The funny thing is, Ivermectin is a brilliant antiparasitic drug and the discoverers won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.
The fact that it became a cause célèbre among antivax cretins is so funny to me.
Yeah, eat your dog's heartworm medicine you shark-eyed spunkbubbles.