Horse paste enthusiasts are threatening hospital workers. Maybe don't go to the hospital then?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Here's an NBC story about the new trend of people getting mad when they show up at hospitals with severe COVID-19 symptoms and the doctors refuse to give them horse dewormer to fix it. Well, it's mostly a story about the families of COVID-19 patients getting mad when their alleged loved ones aren't being given horse dewormer, since the actual patients may or may not be in a state where they can argue with anyone. It's worth reading for the brief rundown of the time a semiprominent Montana Republican octogenarian was hospitalized with COVID-19 and the family had the Republican freakin' state attorney general badgering the hospital to provide horse dewormer, including threatening to arrest hospital workers.

She died, by the way. It's not explicitly written that she died of COVID-19. It's possible that she died from having shitty family members so wrapped up with trying to get junk "Republican" treatments shoved into her mouth that doctors couldn't focus on giving her actual treatment, for all we know. Not a lot of details there.

We did not have very far to go, between throwing actual literal parades for our medical heroes and people threatening them with violence if their relatives are treated with anything other than Farmers' Choice Premium Horse Paste, TM, because in truth hospital staff members have long been used to patients and those with patients getting violent, or making threats of violence, when doctors or nurses disagree with them about what their diagnosis should be or what drugs should be dispensed to fix it. There's something particularly Republican about this new strain, though.

Who thinks ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine represent miracle COVID-19 cures? People who listen to Donald Trump or to the many, many grifters who duct-taped themselves to Donald Trump in order to boost their own fortunes. People who believe Facebook-promoted conspiracy theories. People who listen to malignant conniving jackass Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, or other Trumpian figures who have attempted to convince their supporters that the entire medical profession is wrong and the real COVID-19 remedy is either the drug being boosted by a major donor in case A, or realizing that dying of COVID is just God's way of stamping you as a true patriot in case B.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/2/2067273/-Horse-paste-enthusiasts-are-threatening-hospital-workers-Maybe-don-t-go-to-the-hospital-then

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. I say if they get nasty and threatening, throw them out.

I don't care what their condition is, that does not give them the right to threaten the health and safety of others.

Fuck these clueless, ignorant, self-centered assholes.

[Aristus]

2. I must be lucky.

Not one of the patients I have diagnosed with COVID-19 has asked for ivermectin. Granted, I work in primary care, and the perception seems to be that ivermectin is for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. But still, the myth that ivermectin will cure COVID-19 is prevalent enough that I'm surprised that no one in the out-patient setting has asked me for it.