The run on ivermectin shows that the GOP base is really scared. They

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are just blocked from taking other measures, measures that in fact work like masks and the vaccine, by some mental block/loyalty to their tv hosts/politicians. How sick is that. Their tv and podcast hosts, and right wing politicians, are not loyal to them and their health.

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Edited to add:

Look at Rand Paul soldering the conspiracy theory in place:

"SNIP....

Rand Paul: 'Hatred for Trump' blocking research into ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment

https://thehill.com/homenews/569975-rand-paul-hatred-for-trump-blocking-research-into-ivermectin

BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO at the Hill

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested researchers are not pursuing ivermectin as a possible COVID-19 treatment because of their disdain for former President Trump.

"The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they're unwilling to objectively study it," Paul told dozens of constituents at a meeting in a suburb just south of Cincinnati on Friday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. 

"So someone like me that's in the middle on it, I can't tell you because they will not study ivermectin," the senator added. "They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump."

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Americans last week not to take ivermectin, a drug sometimes used to treat parasitic worm infections in humans and livestock.


.....SNIP"

[dalton99a]

1. The cult of sadism

The leaders - Trump family & staff, GOP governors and congresscritters - took the vaccine, but they want their cult members to suffer and die in ignorance.

[lunatica]

2. Invermectin treats hoaxes really well.

If they think COVID is just made up by Bill Gates or something why are they taking Invermectin? Why take any medicine?

[C Moon]

26. Very true!

[Sanity Claws]

3. Scared? I think it shows how stupid they are.

They all seem incapable of admitting that they were wrong when they chose to follow Trumpty and his claim that COVID is a hoax, etc.
Instead of admitting error, they keep going down further the same route -- you know, they're lying to us, blah-blah.

This reminds me Bush jr. who kept talking about Stay the Course. This seems to be the same thing. They can never admit error.

Their personal lives must be so screwed up since they can never admit error.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. They seem to make a big deal that the CDC keeps changing their advice on the best ways to fight the

virus spread. Like, yeah, when the facts change or the science becomes clearer....the CDC should be updating their recommendations. Seems like our side follows the best advice wrt to the science and understands that this advice will change as we learn more. They have a real problem with change...of any kind.

[plimsoll]

21. I'm going to point out that many are biblical literalists.

They talk about biblical inerrancy. Things must never change. They're inflexible.

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. "biblical inerrancy"

What does that even mean in our present Godless environment. Looking at you Evangelicals- You pious, totally full of shit, religious .hypocrites.

You just want to control the 65% that don't look like you.

[Metaphorical]

9. Admitting they're wrong

I don't think it's a matter of stupidity (though these are not the brightest people in the world). I've noticed that most Republicans are strongly extroverted - they are very conscious of their in-crowd, and one of the lessons that is drilled into them from childhood is "never admit that they're wrong" - to their spouse, to their boss, to their friends, to their social peers, and most importantly to themselves. It's part of the reason that divorces are so common among social conservatives especially. In this mindset, the worst thing that can happen is for a person to lose face.

I've long had my suspicion that many people who vote Democratic have been ostracized socially at one point or another in their lives, and have learned some hard but valuable lessons as a consequence. Republicans, not so much.

[NutmegYankee]

27. +1 nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

28. Admitting you are wrong

Is a thing narcissists cannot do. That and take responsibility for anything they say or do..

[aggiesal]

30. Statement by unknown person ...

"Covid started out as a virus, but turned into an IQ test."

[Hortensis]

4. It seems likely. I hope more are slipping into pharmacies,

surreptitiously in the next town if need be, to get vaccinated instead.

Like their parents who got scared right out of the gate and vaccinated as soon as they could be. That was early days, before their kids became so mind-fucked that they can't claim risk of death as a valid excuse for betraying the cause.

[womanofthehills]

5. Lots of Republicans I know are vaccinated.

Trump said he got vaccinated so they had no problem with it

[hadEnuf]

18. And if Trump hadn't been vaccinated would they be refusing it?

It's sad that some people base their healthcare decisions on the actions of a cartoon character.

[Baked Potato]

7. This line of attack is just for the ignorant part of the base.

The rest of them have taken the vaccine. They really need the less “informed” badly, to win.

[LakeArenal]

8. If media would just not cover these idiots they would die away quietly.

Pun intended.

[NCjack]

10. Those idiots should be concerned about counterfeit Ivermectin. Made in

home shops of such stuff as dried paint flakes, dirt, sawdust, etc.

[soldierant]

23. Might be safer than the real thing,

which is a neurooxin.

The most poisonous of poisonous snakes' vemon works as neurotoxins.

For comparison, rattlesnakes have haemotoxic venom, which acts more slowly and is easier to treat.

[greenjar_01]

11. Agreed...this was my thinking too reading through their insane Ivermectin Facebook groups

They are very much worried about the virus. They just live in an alternate universe where the vaccine and masks are as harmful as the virus. It's actually quite sad. They're trying "everything," and have developed a whole discourse around various "protocols." The detail and futility of it are disturbing, and will be studied by social scientists and psychologists for years to come. The closest thing I have seen to this is the "self-treatments" that developed around HIV/AIDS in the mid-late 80's. Of course, there was no vaccine, so that's what makes the conservative Ivermectin in-group self-treatments so very, very weird.

[Champp]

12. Free clue for Republicans: Don't listen to liars

[paleotn]

13. Cult endgame? Just look up Jonestown.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. What alarms me

is they think their judgment is perfectly normal

[soldierant]

24. Actually, they think their jusgment is way better than perfectly normal

They think it is excellent.

People with only perfectly normal judgment can't possibly protect themselves as well as they (MAGAts) do. They think.

[IronLionZion]

15. It's disgusting they encourage their voters to reject American institutions

Sowing distrust of CDC, NIH, etc. is dangerous to America's public health.

It's not comparable to some of our criticisms of ICE or TSA, which are 2 agencies I don't trust.

[lagomorph777]

16. We have some DUers promoting it too.

[monkeyman1]

17. More morgue trail's please! loyalty to one person will get you dead ! oh well. "BYE "

[Scalded Nun]

19. Most of their tv hosts/politicians have gotten the vaccine.

[Initech]

20. The Great Anti-Vaxxer Die-Off

Brought to you by Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, and Facebook.

[Pepsidog]

22. They are so thoroughly invested in their rw media that taking the vaccine would be traitorous in

their minds.

[SergeStorms]

25. But liberals are sheep.

Everytime they say that, the stupid oozes from every pore of their body. Now one of them is reading this and saying, "dumb shit can't spell 'pour'."

[Johonny]

29. Both were studied, though.

So he's full of shit.

[Progressive dog]

32. Ivermectin is used to prevent heartworm in dogs,

and it comes in meat flavored treats for them.
Of course, when there are several highly effective vaccines readily available, only someone as dangerous as Rand Paul would continue to promote snake oil cures.