"We won't get vaxed....Now if you'll excuse us, we're off to the farm store for animal medicine."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I have seen this drug promoted on the RWNJ sites.

Link to tweet

[Effete Snob]

1. WE ARE NOT SHEEP!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. LOL

Thank you for posting this

The RWNJ really thing that this crap is magic

[Princess Turandot]

9. Baaastards! nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. But!........

WWGONEWEGALL!

[GulfCoast66]

3. That nut-wing radio host on a ventilator in Tennessee was reportedly taking this.

And the vaccine is free.

[madaboutharry]

4. What is wrong with people?

Why would anyone think medicines or products made for animals would be ok for humans?

Brainwashed, mislead, and stupid is a dangerous mix.

[ms liberty]

15. In all fairness, some animal meds are exactly the same as the human version

And some very innocuous products are harmless and can be used by humans.The problem is that these idiots don't know what facts are, where the boundaries are, or how to research something. They just believe what they're told by people they trust, and they're shitty at judging who's trustworthy.

[Klaralven]

16. The active ingredients may be the same, but the later steps in manufacturing may be different

Ivermectin is used to treat worms in humans as well as in animals. Due to efficiencies of scale, the ivermectin drug is likely produced in the same factory.

However, the compounding of ivermectin with inactive ingredients and its packaging in form for sale is likely different. The animal preparations may be manufactured under much less control than the human preparations.

[ms liberty]

22. Just to clarify, I wasn't inferring that Ivectin was one of those

I was thinking primarily of some prescription meds that get filled at a pharmavy. I've had several scrips for dogs over the years that were filled at the drugstore.

[obamanut2012]

17. Fish Mox is exactly the same antibiotic as what humans get

Literally, the same pill made in the same factory, and poor people with no way or money to see a doctor will buy it and use it. 100% not ideal, but it is human grade.

This, however, is not the same. It is not a med humans should use. Period.

[Scrivener7]

19. What is it, like amoxycillin? I've never heard of fish mox.

[lagomorph777]

23. Shhh...those "fish" pills are our little secret....

They've saved me many a trip to the urgent care with my chronically ill caregivee.

[MuseRider]

5. Oooh I was just at Tractor Supply and

did not see that! I will have to go back and look. I knew that horse people were doing this and no matter how hard you tried you could not convince them that worms and virus were not the same thing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. They may have been sold out

Or they are asking for prescriptions

[MissB]

7. I have an old box of invermectin in the basement

(I keep chickens)

Wonder how much I could get for it 😂

Seriously though it’s so far out of date that it’s in the pile to go to haz waste next time I’m at the dump.

[GulfCoast66]

8. People are saying the older it is the better it works!

Read it on the internet.

[Midnight Writer]

12. I heard it's good for crabs, too.

[MuseRider]

18. I had to throw some out

as well just a month ago. I shoulda rubbed it all over my body and put some on my morning cereal. I swear that this has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard but I think we are set for the rest of my life anyway with this large crop of nutbags we have let out of school WAY to easily.

[Renew Deal]

21. You should sell it and clearly mark it as expired.

Might make some money off of garbage

[dalton99a]

10. Great stuff - highly recommended for Trump enthusiasts

[vercetti2021]

13. Are people seriously taking animal medication?

What the actual fuck is going on with the humans right now? Idiocracy came five hundred years too fucking early

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. This stuff has horrible side effects if you take too much. nt

[MineralMan]

24. Ivermectin is an effective drug for getting rid of some parasites in livestock.

However, COVID-19 is not a parasite. It is a virus. Ivermectin has no effect on viral infections.

Science is a wonderful thing. Anti-vaxxers don't like science. They won't take the COVID-19 immunization, but they'll rush to the farm supply store to take a goat medicine for worms, instead.

Morons abound!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd's latest COVID drug, finds 'no effect whatsoever'

The RWNJ sites are really pushing this quack cure. This medicine is for horse deworming

Link to tweet

Ivermectin, the latest supposed treatment for COVID-19 being touted by anti-vaccination groups, had “no effect whatsoever” on the disease, according to a large patient study.

That’s the conclusion of the Together Trial, which has subjected several purported nonvaccine treatments for COVID-19 to carefully designed clinical testing. The trial is supervised by McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and conducted in Brazil.....

Among the 1,500 patients in the study, he said, Ivermectin showed “no effect whatsoever” on the trial’s outcome goals — whether patients required extended observation in the emergency room or hospitalization.

“In our specific trial,” he said, “we do not see the treatment benefit that a lot of the advocates believe should have been” seen.....

The findings on Ivermectin are yet another blow for advocates promoting the drug as a magic bullet against COVID-19. Ivermectin was developed as a treatment for parasitical diseases, mostly for veterinarians, though it’s also used against some human parasites.

[GoodRaisin]

26. At least we can find bleach again

now that animal medicine is their new treatment preference.