> What am I missing? Talking about ivermectin is almost always done in the context of political discourse, and political discourse is a shitshow In this parti

> What am I missing? Talking about ivermectin is almost always done in the context of political discourse, and political discourse is a shitshow In this particular case, (some) advocates for ivermectin promoted it as a miracle drug alternative to getting vaccinated, which became tied at the hip to anti-vaccine ideology, which is tied to particular political ideologies So ivermectin became a subset of a larger political debate, wielded as a weapon to show that your opponents are anti science (either because it’s effective and the other side won’t admit it because they’re tied to vax; or it’s ineffective and the other side won’t admit it because they’re tied to antivaxx) If this weren’t true nobody would have ever cared for or against ivermectin