No surprise there. Plenty of stupid people and plenty of crazy people, mostly anti-vax Republicans spreading FUD and BS. They are killing people.
There seem to be a few but as usual Madcow's 70% does not seem to be backed up with facts. I suppose part of the problem is they simply OD on the stuff. You can't extrapolate dog doses of much of anything to humans and the ivermectin at the feed store is formulated for horses, not dogs. You really need to watch the dose there.
I currently live in Mississippi, but I don't speak for the idiots down here.
I haven't heard anything about people actually taking ivermectin (or hydroxy). The local news has been busy reporting that the number of available ICU beds is a steadily growing negative number, meaning they have people lying around while they wait for someone in the ICU to die and free up a bed. Apparently, the neighboring states of Alabama and Louisiana are in the same boat. Critical cases are being flown to Tennessee, probably Memphis. That plan doesn't seem like it will scale well.
Lots of online news reports ..
That's not it. I wanted to know if you'd get me some. I don't want to ask at the farm stores here. Someone might recognize me.
Although I should add that at least one of the articles said that ivermectin was approved for both animals and people and the version for animals is more concentrated than for people. I wonder if the people taking it don't realize this, or what.
Has school started yet? I heard the governor of Misssippi on C-span radio iirc saying no mask mandate, but that was a week ago. Things could have changed.
When I was in public school, it always started the day after Labor day and ended before Memorial Day, afaik, everywhere in the country, but things have changed, and I know in Floriday classes started last Monday I think. And in some state there are already hundreds of kids in quarantine.
Do you have kids in school? Even if you don't, it's another way to spread this, so it gets you eventually..
The news mentioned that no actual numbers of calls to poison control was provided, but this extract might show them; "85% of the callers had mild symptoms, but one individual was instructed to seek further evaluation due to the amount of ivermectin reportedly ingested"
So if that one caller represented 15% of the callers, that's 7 total callers about ivermectin and that would mean 10 total callers about posion, "At least 70% of the recent calls". Doesnt' say how recent, but aiui except maybe unless there is some nationwide number, and probably not even there, there is no full-time person taking poison calls. It's just an extension in some hospital where they are doing other things too, and assuming people are prudent, there shouldn't be many calls to poison centers.
I once called the poison control center in NYC, after a neighbor girl came looking for help after she drank some bleach. Bleach wasn't listed in my two poison booklets, which I kept in the medicine chest, nor was it listed in the list of the woman who answered the phone. I pressed her and she went to find a doctor. He told her it was okay (unless I'm guessing someone drank a lot.)
As with any medicine one must take a dose that does the best good without any or very little harm.
Such as some drugs may cure you of one thing but have a reaction that gives you the squirts for a week.
.. for the sheep incident ? :-) John T.
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Now that's funny!
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Now don't get me started...
For sure. Of course ivermectin won't prevent or cure you of covid in any dose, It kills parasitic worms or one can use it as an ointment for external parasites like head lice. It doesn't kill or hurt viruses.
Please don't bring up the sheep incident. The sheep are all okay now.
For sure, especially since it takes a month to be 1 week after the second shot.
I saw a report today that said people are buying the horse-dose of ivermectin. Given the obesity rate down here, that actually seemed to be a good choice but then I hear that people are being admitted to the ER for overdoses. Maybe they should have gone for the pig-dose, instead. I know, I'm shocked, too.
Yes, school is back in session and kids are wearing masks as they get on/off the bus in my neighborhood. I asked the teenage girl from across the street if they wear the masks all day, versus just the bus ride, and she said yes, it's all day.
Physically OK. Mentally, still some scars.
I heard it was a super-spreader event < Micky's night tending the flock >
all involved tested positive for ovine-19 ! ... it's a STD sheep-transmitted-disease. John T.
I don't have any in school. HOwever when school started this year masks were optional, but after a week the school board met and made them mandantory in classes. Seems like cases started going up and that was a special board meeting.
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