Sigh, I grew up in a farming family. I didn't live on the farm, I only spent summers there before it was sold off. However, the issue with ivermectin is not new

Sigh, I grew up in a farming family. I didn't live on the farm, I only spent summers there before it was sold off. However, the issue with ivermectin is not new because there has been a history, predating the covid pandemic, of rural Americans self prescribing drugs from the local feed shop. Sometime they get sick from it and sometimes they don't, but even so it seems a decent risk because the drugs are cheaper than getting it from the pharmacy. Here is an article circa 2017: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bradesposito/fish-antibiotics https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bradesposito/fish-antib... The problem isn't ivermectin consumption per se, its more of the fact that ivermectin has not shown substantial therapeutic value in covid cases, and therefore doctors don't generally prescribe it for that use. To get around that folks are getting the kind made for livestock to consume. That is what is dangerous.