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I had actually been thinking of this specific scenario whenever I wrote the above comment. People refer to the medication you are referencing as “horse dewormer
by SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
I had actually been thinking of this specific scenario whenever I wrote the above comment. People refer to the medication you are referencing as “horse dewormer” like it’s a bad thing - in reality it’s also a “people dewormer” as well that has been used safely as a first line anti-parasitic in humans for over 50 years.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoto be fair some people were actually trying to buy it from veterinarians
- cempaka 3y agoThat was because FDA pressure campaigns made it impossible to obtain the human formulation for off-label use. I had a prescription filled in January 2021 before it became a political hot potato. Ten months later the same pharmacy practically hung up the phone on me when I asked if I could get it filled.
- jurimasa 3y agoOh wow you are an ivermectin crackpot
- dang 3y agoYou can't attack other users like this, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. We've had to warn you about breaking the site guidelines before. If you keep this up we're going to have to ban you, so it would be good if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.
- micromacrofoot 3y agosure but it’s not a drug to treat viruses (covid in this case), these weren’t people looking for valid off label use sometimes pointing out people are being dumb is completely valid - if you buy horse dewormer from a vet to treat yourself ineffectively you kind of have it coming