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marmar

(77,073 posts)
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 10:34 AM Aug 2021

Mississippi Poison Calls Soar As Vaccine Skeptics Turn To Livestock Drug For COVID-19



Mississippi health officials are pleading with state residents not to take a livestock drug to treat COVID-19 as calls to poison control centers soar.

Fearful Mississipians skeptical of the safety of vaccinations are shockingly turning instead to swallowing ivermectin — generally used to eradicate or prevent parasites in livestock.

“Do not use ivermectin products made for animals,” Mississippi’s Health Department flatly stated in a Facebook post Friday. “Animal doses are not safe for humans.”

“I think some people are trying to use it as a [COVID-19] preventative, which I think is really kind of crazy, so please don’t do that,” Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said at a press briefing Wednesday. ..............(more)

https://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-poison-calls-soar-vaccine-035845930.html




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Mississippi Poison Calls Soar As Vaccine Skeptics Turn To Livestock Drug For COVID-19 (Original Post) marmar Aug 2021 OP
Make sure you chase that horse paste down with some bleach. Wingus Dingus Aug 2021 #1
We're back to pre-embalming people. Hugin Aug 2021 #2
Poor Dr. Dobbs! Haggard Celine Aug 2021 #3
More stupid than usual Bayard Aug 2021 #4

Wingus Dingus

(8,052 posts)
1. Make sure you chase that horse paste down with some bleach.
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 10:38 AM
Aug 2021

Better safe than sorry where the 'rona is concerned!

Haggard Celine

(16,844 posts)
3. Poor Dr. Dobbs!
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 10:51 AM
Aug 2021

He's been doing his best, but he's had to deal with all of these antivaxxers and a stupid governor. He's been kind of like Fauci was with Trump. I hope the people who are living in reality down here appreciate all that Dobbs has done. Hope he gets some kind of award after all this is over, if it ever ends.

Bayard

(22,061 posts)
4. More stupid than usual
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 12:11 PM
Aug 2021

Covid is not a parasite/worm. We do not give Ivermectin to horses as a preventative. Its given every 6 months to get rid of whatever they have picked up off the ground, or been laid on them (like bot flies).

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