It is irrelevant whether or not people got more ill from taking Ivermectin (though many did get sicker from delaying actual treatment in favor of horse dewormer

It is irrelevant whether or not people got more ill from taking Ivermectin (though many did get sicker from delaying actual treatment in favor of horse dewormer). Your argument was the consumers should be responsible for discerning a good course of treatment from a bad one. The use of Ivermectin to treat a viral disease is completely inline with the assertion that the average American has no education on this stuff, and will take what the TV and trusted figures tell them to.