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The data is in: being double vaccinated reduces your risk of catching COVID-19 by up to 60 percent and your risk of dying by more than 85 percent. And so naturally tens of thousands of people have done the sensible thing and ... totally rejected the vaccine in favor of scarfing down obscene quantities of foul-tasting goo designed to kill parasitic worms inside horses.
Thousands of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers have gone to extreme lengths in recent months to get hold of ivermectin, a medication for diseases caused by parasites in horses. The idea is that this will cure or prevent COVID-19, an illness that is notably not caused by a parasite and affects horses very differently to humans.
It's got so bad that the FDA has had to issue a reminder that people are not horses. In fact, now the universe itself seems to have weighed in, with some of the conspiracists who managed to choke down the disgusting paste developing a nasty case of pooping themselves in public. Ignoring even this hint that maybe their chosen curative might not be the wonder drug theyd been told, ivermectin true believers have continued dosing themselves with dangerous levels of horse de-wormer and while their COVID-19 is probably no better, some have noticed another side effect: the appearance of rope worms.
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Well, as you may have guessed from the title and general tone of the article so far, those
arent worms.
Rope worms, or to use the scientific term, bits of intestinal lining that have been sloughed off because youre ingesting poison and your body cant handle it, have a rich history in pseudo (which is to say, anti) scientific circles. The idea dates back to 2009, coincidentally not long after one Jim Humble started marketing what he called his Miracle Mineral Solution, or MMS. This, he said, could cure cancer, AIDS, malaria, autism pretty much anything short of death itself. So why havent you heard of this miracle cure? Well, you probably have but under a different name. You probably know it as industrial bleach.
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-ivermectin-is-not-making-people-poop-out-rope-worms-the-truth-is-much-worse/
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vanamonde
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Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)plimsoll
(1,668 posts)jaxexpat
(6,815 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)And I say if these people want to ingest weird stuff into their bodies then I can't stop them and I don't want to stop their freedoms.
But to wrap my head around this weirdness is taking a toll.
They don't want to listen to the science but will listen to wackadoodles, should tell us everything we need to know about them.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Multiple posts today extolling the wonders of Ivermectin.
This same DUer has right-wing views on climate change and other topics.
I suspect a troll.
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"ivermectin is great" or "climate change is no big deal" or "vaccines are failing"
Taken individually, hard to say they are factually false. Collectively, looks like the kind of garbage I hear about from Facebook users, a barrage of insinuation and doubt.
Kali
(55,007 posts)or to me in a PM, I will let them know the troll has been noticed. (they likely already know and are watching, but when others notice it can help tip decisions)
that is if it is somebody new, if it is somebody that has been here a while send a PM to EarlG directly.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)And who has done it for a long time. It's just an obviously active disinformation campaign now. Very, very dangerous.
Kali
(55,007 posts)obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)Every little bit we can do to stop disinformation may literally save a life.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)posting anti vax garbage for years, but it's now officially stepped into active and dangerous CV19 disinformation, and I share your concern.
Is there a way we can ask EarlG about this? It makes DU look very bad, and it also legit dangerous.
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Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I've been modded for simply discussing Fox New's garbage talking-points-of-the-day.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)stuff. For example, pointing out the number of deaths of vaxxed people, without the context that they represent a tiny fraction of all COVID deaths. Or pointing out that Ivermectin has legitimate uses - without pointing out that none of those uses has anything to do with COVID. A series of posts, that collectively, coming from an apparently coordinated group, are intended to gradually sow confusion and doubt. Each, individually, is just barely not alertable.
IronLionZion
(45,411 posts)is how it's prescribed in human sized doses by qualified physicians who supervise and monitor their patients under controlled conditions. It is NEVER recommended to self-medicate with doses meant for large farm animals.
Liberals should know better. The poster I think you're referring joined us last year during the pandemic.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)This looks like professional-grade propaganda.
Itchinjim
(3,085 posts)Makes you poop out the lining of your intestines.
I'll stick with the vaccines.
BannonsLiver
(16,352 posts)Aerator
(189 posts)A judge in Butler County Ohio just ruled that a hospital must give a patient the drug after being sued by the patients wife .Her husband is on a vent in ICU and demanded that he be given the drug .
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)To make a public service announcement for these fools?
Initech
(100,060 posts)There is no such thing!
DemUnleashed
(633 posts)I had to keep looking for where this would say The Onion...but alas that was nowhere to be found!!