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2021-08-23 -Land of the Free
'You are not a cow!' FDA warns Americans to stop taking livestock de-wormer drug Ivermectin as an unproven treatment for COVID-19
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The FDA says it has received reports of people self-medicating with Ivermectin, a drug intended for cows and horses

  • People took the anti-parasitic drug as they wrongly thought it could work against COVID-19

  • One person was hospitalized for ingesting the horse de-wormer medication to treat the virus

  • An FDA warning said that ivermectin 'is not an anti-viral' and that 'taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.'

  • The agency has not approved ivermectin for use of treatment in COVID-19 patients
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Just People Seeking an Alternative To

FDA Ignores New UK Study Showing Pfizer Vaccine Destroys T Cells, Weakens the Immune System
Posted by Throting Black5338 2021-08-23 00:25||   2021-08-23 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 We are not sheep either.
Posted by Craving Schwarzeneggar2193 2021-08-23 00:37||   2021-08-23 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 you're going to get him stirred up.
Posted by Chris 2021-08-23 00:41||   2021-08-23 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Thunderous silence from the moderators - as expected.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-23 03:07||   2021-08-23 03:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Reminds me of the lie that hydroxycloroquine is fish tank cleaner.

Ivermectin is is a very safe drug for humans. (Probably used in animals too, like a lot of drugs) The doctor who discovered it over 30 years ago was awarded the Nobel prize for it’s discovery. There is mounting evidence about it’s efficacy for Covid. That’s probably why they are doing such a hit job on it. If there is a pretty good, safe therapeutic then emergency use authorization for a “vaccine” is not needed. Perhaps also why there is a mad rush for full approval of the vaccine.

Here’s some peer reviewed science from the American Journal of Therapeutics:

American Journal of Therapeutics link
Posted by Mad Eye Shomoting1943 2021-08-23 05:59||   2021-08-23 05:59|| Front Page Top

#6 

#4, Repeat post in O-Club.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-08-23 06:36||   2021-08-23 06:36|| Front Page Top

#7 FDA cannot legally issue an emergency approval of the vax if there are treatments available.

Also, this is blatantly dishonest. Ivermectin has human indications approved by the FDA. Like many drugs, it also happens to have veterinary indications.
Posted by Angstrom 2021-08-23 09:34||   2021-08-23 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 We are not rats either but it does not stop experimenting on humans.
Posted by Airandee 2021-08-23 11:37||   2021-08-23 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 'You are not a cow!'
ivermectin 'is not an anti-viral'

All nominally true, however...
Humans and cows are both mammals which means they have a lot in common, from gross physical anatomy down to cellular structures, and metabolic pathways.

Nobody said ivermectin was an anti-viral drug. If I understand correctly, it has an anti-inflamatory effect which comes in handy when dealing with parasites and other invaders.

Given all the bad public health messaging, I hope someone is taking notes because Covid is going to be a textbook case of how not to do public health.
Posted by SteveS 2021-08-23 11:49||   2021-08-23 11:49|| Front Page Top

#10 SteveS: When Satoshi Omura went on youtube to talk about Ivermectin and antiviral properties, he got censored.

So... we're lied to continually by the Technogarches, told "shut up redneck..." but the censorship falls on a smart guy from one of the supposedly smart races with a Nobel Prize that he didn't get for a horse dewormer.

All of this shit is politics from the people who think politics is just another way to make war.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-23 11:59||   2021-08-23 11:59|| Front Page Top

#11 All we need to know it is working. I have seen the results myself. Works very fast as well(within 24 hours). So now they will shut it down to control people. First do no harm, yea right.
Posted by Dale 2021-08-23 13:08||   2021-08-23 13:08|| Front Page Top

#12 'You are not a cow!'

The FDA people don't lower themselves to shop at Walmart do they?
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-23 14:58||   2021-08-23 14:58|| Front Page Top

#13 as with a lot of treatments, taking to high a dosage of ivermectin or taking it while also taking drugs which are antagonistic to ivermectin, e.g., blood thinners, could be dangerous

it is true that some studies are underway on use of ivermectin as a therapy for covid

it is true that some results of these studies are positive

it is true that studies take too long and this is frustrating

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-23 18:05||   2021-08-23 18:05|| Front Page Top

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