Oh FOR FUCK’S SAKE!
Ivermectin doesn’t do shit for hantavirus. I know. I treated multiple cases in residency. Can we stop with the antihelminthic for viruses shit already?!? It was an OK theory, but it hasn’t panned out, and dumb motherfuckers who just can’t seem to live their lives without pissing away their savings on some grifter’s horseshit need to find a better snake oil. Jesus. Fuck.
@mcnado Horseshit, indeed! Ivermectin: making sure your horses shit healthy poo that's not full of active parasites...
(I know you know this already. I just couldn't resist the connection, after actually giving ivermectin to horses and dealing with literal horseshit. I'm sorry so much of your job is now dealing with metaphorical horseshit. Way grosser.)
@edsullivan @sundogplanets @mcnado yeah, I had to dose it accurately for pet rats from a tube of horse wormer paste. TL;DR is, I learned a lot about the dangers of overdosing (no animals suffered in this).
Which always makes me think about how likely it is for people who would use it on themselves for weird reasons to also get the dosage right, and what that means for their brain health.
@mcnado 6 years ago all it did was make stupid people clean out the supply of horse paste to "cure COVID" so it wasn't there for the people who actually needed it for its intended purpose: to kill off intestinal worms in livestock.
Dumshits.
@mcnado I followed the Ivermecting story from hope to analysis to "not gonna work." Like theres a whole recorded history.
Yet people had to make goddamn horse paste a political signifier. Performative medicine.
@Scienceisnotopinions @mcnado before it had been properly investigated, it wasn't such a far-fetched idea that ivermectin could have off-target benefits like mitigating covid symptoms. after all, weirder things have turned out to be essential medicines, like the compounds produced by mould (penicillin). there are also some existing medicines that work, even though we don't know how (like lithium).
of course now we know that ivermectin is useless against covid. but dismissing unusual ideas without investigating them could mean leaving future cures undiscovered.
@ignova @mcnado I just hate that people are flocking to these wellness gurus who often have no medical background and a political agenda.
And yes, there are lots of things that benefit us that aren't talked about in main stream health. I just found out that gelatin helps build muscle if taken with vitamine C. And then there is the creatine benefits that have recently come up.
Okay, but wouldn't you agree that taking 8 quarts a day of tea brewed with swamp water and poison ivy and civet poop will prevent you from ever getting a virus?
Just joshing. Please don't firebomb my outhouse. 🥴
So...you're saying buy methylene blue from Alex Jones? Got it, thanks doc!
I don't understand.
Why do people believe in a new form snake oil when it doesn't work?
Medicine by populist politics is a non-starter …
Do I need to know about the OK theory?
@mcnado
Biology and medicine still remain domains where 100% precise information does not yet exist.
Where there is too much uncertainty, contradiction, and unverifiable hypotheses, fraud, manipulation, and false hopes inevitably appear.
That is why humanity needs systems built on maximum precise and verifiable information.
@mcnado Treated several cases in residency ? Ouch.
Which country are you based in ?
(Also, were the specific strains involved identified ? How was the rate of survival in your case.)
(And 
for anyone preaching Ivermectin again)
@mcnado from what I recollect the thinnest sliver of Ivermectin correlation came from a study done in the developing world.
The developing world it turns out, has a non-trivial amount of parasite hosting people. Which is what ivermectin was actually used for in veterinary medicine - treatment of intestinal parasites. So yeah, a statistically significant amount of people got better in these studies.
It took time to identify what was really going on in that study. All of this flies 7,000' above Joe Rogan's head and gets left completely out of the conversation happening around Ivermectin by then.
In the context of the hunta virus however... Just no. Like WTF stupid. It's flood the zone BS. Noise. Stupid shit to occupy the limited mental bandwidth of the bottom 1/2 of the bell curve.
@mcnado The real cure was announced in April 2020. It brings ultraviolet light inside the body, which should handle the virus more quickly than the release of the Epistein files.
As a backup, there are disinfectants such as bleach that can also go inside the body, maybe as an injection or something like that.
/s
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