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Ya, this is pretty much how I felt about the whole Ivermectin thing. Who am I to tell someone not to take horse de-wormer, when I also advocate for the freedom
by wedn3sday 4y ago
Ya, this is pretty much how I felt about the whole Ivermectin thing. Who am I to tell someone not to take horse de-wormer, when I also advocate for the freedom to take psychedelics? If someone _really_ wants to make sure they dont have horse heart worms, I dont see how they're hurting anyone else (besides being a disease vector, but thats not going to get worse).
- catapart 4y agoSame. It's dangerous to tell people that it does stuff that it doesn't do (more dangerous as an audience grows to the point that anecdotal data should be left out entirely, for audiences of an appropriate size), but as long as you're just doing you, have at it. But then, I'm that way about pretty much everything, including rat poison. Do what you're gonna do to yourself, just don't make it other people's problem (note that suicide is almost universally going to be someone else's problem, so that's not an endorsement of taking rat poison).
- blisterpeanuts 4y agoIn addition to veterinary applications in horses, Ivermectin is approved for human use and is a powerful anti-viral that is effective against "wide range of RNA and DNA viruses, for example, dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and others"[1]. There is, to date, no evidence that it is effective as a treatment for the Covid-19 variants. However, it's certainly harmful to post in a public forum that it's just "horse de-wormer", which could lead patients to reject approved treatment for these other diseases. 1. https://www.drugs.com/ivermectin.html https://www.drugs.com/ivermectin.html