Good grief. America's Frontline Doctors, a group of quacks who claim to know more than actual experts are pushing the use of ineffective parasite med to prevent and or treat COVID.
On a personal note, my hubby works for a farm store and has overheard customers explaining to each other how to dose animal wormer for people. This is in a community that is anti-mask, anti-vaccine, let's just all get infected. Up until, you know, they need hospitalization .
Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
10 minutes ago, Horseshoe said:
I literally just read a conversation on facebook:
Young dialysis patient goes to hospital with Covid. He was dismayed to be getting medicines that "can cause kidney failure." He checked himself out of the hospital and is literally taking the horse paste version of Ivermectin-this is by his own admission. Many of his friends are applauding him for his common sense. A lot of them stated they used "the paste" with great results. A few caution him to make sure he is taking the correct dose...he says he is confident that he is. Another friend offers to help him get a physician to prescribe the human formulation that he can get from a compounding pharmacy and he refuses, saying he is good with "the paste" that he got at "Homers feed and supply in Hildebran." Unbelievable.
This young man is a body builder and pretty young and fit in spite of his comorbidities. He may survive this - IN SPITE OF, NOT BECAUSE OF-Ivermectin. At least I hope he does.
All of this behavior is the direct result of reading misinformation on social media.
Sometimes the truth is actually stranger than fiction...
facebook is the best place to catch up on propaganda and conspiratorial paranoia.
In some of the ivermectin groups, the administrators — the people in charge of moderating posts and determining settings like whether the group is private or public — gave instructions on how to evade facebook’s automated content moderation.
In a group called Healthcare Heroes for Personal Choice, an administrator instructed people to remove or misspell buzzwords and to avoid using the syringe emoji.
An administrator added, referring to video services like Youtube and ***ute: “If you want to post a video from you boob or bit ch ut e or ru m b l e, hide it in the comments.” facebook rarely polices the comments section of posts for misinformation.
As we've seen, quite a number of people fall down these propaganda and nonsense rabbit holes designed by social media and think that it would be a good idea to share that garbage here. Endless circular arguments using pseudoscience and flawed logic to increase vaccine hesitancy are at record high levels in these threads.
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facebook is the best place to catch up on propaganda and conspiratorial paranoia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/technology/facebook-ivermectin-coronavirus-misinformation.html
As we've seen, quite a number of people fall down these propaganda and nonsense rabbit holes designed by social media and think that it would be a good idea to share that garbage here. Endless circular arguments using pseudoscience and flawed logic to increase vaccine hesitancy are at record high levels in these threads.