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BTW the whole “horse medicine” angle on this is a dramatization. Ampicillin is also a horse medicine, if you buy it from a veterinary supply house. Both medicines are also for humans, if obtained through the right channels.

The scientists who developed Ivermectin were given the Nobel prize for it. For humans. The point here is not to say that proves it works for COVID. The point is just to note that calling it “horse medicine” is hyperbolic.

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It's called "horse medicine" when people take Ivermectin tablets intended/dosed for horses.

no, it's called horse medicine when people want to imply the people taking it are stupid.

No kidding, but then other people read that headline and get the wrong idea. For example Drudge Report is screaming that Joe Rogan is taking horse medicine. No, he’s not.

Right. It would be more accurate to say that he is using an unproven treatment and is putting himself and others at risk by not getting vaccinated.

Just wait till they wrap their minds around this chemical killer, Dihydrogen Monoxide.

https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

It kills more than covid every year!

While you meant it as a joke, your link comments that H2O "is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths" each year.

This low-balls the actual numbers. Worldwide, about 300K people die of drowning - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/drowning-deaths-by-age-gr... .

"Exposure (heat and cold)" is another ~50K - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-b... .

By comparison: "As of Jun 10, 1,884,146 people have died of COVID-19 in 2021, compared with the 1,880,510 in 2020." - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/06/global-c...

COVID kills at least 5x more than water in the last two years. And those numbers are from only 1/2-way through 2021.

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