Ivermectin and ignorance

[cajungirl0717]

I saw this on our state DOH page today. Apparently people are buying Ivermectin for personal use against COVID. I don’t know where they got the idea that it was ok, but come on people! So just a warning, Ivermectin might be in short supply if misinformation gets out it against COVID.

 

[Coops Dad]

My best friend is a vet tech and used ivermectin when he caught covid. He's mid 60's, obese, smoker and diabetic. He came through it with symptoms of a mild cold and has had no lasting effects.

A doctor can prescribe ivermectin prophylactically or to treat covid symptoms. It appears that, for self administration, getting the dose correct would be the hard part.

 

[cajungirl0717]

My best friend is a vet tech and used ivermectin when he caught covid. He's mid 60's, obese, smoker and diabetic. He came through it with symptoms of a mild cold and has had no lasting effects.

A doctor can prescribe ivermectin prophylactically or to treat covid symptoms. It appears that, for self administration, getting the dose correct would be the hard part.

Yes, if a doctor prescribes it, I’m sure it would be fine. I believe the calls are for people who are using google as a science book and trying to prescribe something for themselves.

 

[Coops Dad]

People in the country tend to have a decent grasp on math especially when they're dosing for cattle, sheep, etc. and the dosage is for body weight. It's easy enough to take 1cc of 1.87% ivermectin paste and come up with a "close enough" dosage for yourself, ie: 25mg/day to fight an active infection or 12/mg every other day as a prophylaxis.

I wouldn't do it, just like I wouldn't personally take fish antibiotics unless it was a last ditch type of thing. But I do my own sutures unless I'm cut in a place I can't easily reach.

 

[Isadora]

I saw this on our state DOH page today. Apparently people are buying Ivermectin for personal use against COVID. I don’t know where they got the idea that it was ok, but come on people! So just a warning, Ivermectin might be in short supply if misinformation gets out it against COVID.
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This has been happening ever since covid was a thing.

 

[Yowza Wowza]

 

[KarynVA]

Apparently people are buying Ivermectin for personal use against COVID. I don’t know where they got the idea that it was ok, but come on people!

Judging by posts on Covid threads over the past year, I'd say there are a considerable number of people on this BYC forum who have done/ are doing this.

It's sad, really. To live with such intense distrust, simply because "Big Pharma" makes money from medications and vaccines. Do they think Merck sells ivermectin at cost/ no profit for them?

 

[Gizabelle]

Oh good grief.
"i'M noT tAkEIN sUm vAcCInE cUz tHe gUVmEnt sAYs i sHouLd, ROscOes dEWoRMeR wILL cURe iT"

 

[Coops Dad]

I don't distrust pharma for making money on their drugs. Remember, this vaccine was supposed to stop the disease and allow us to get on with normal living but it's done anything but. I do have an issue with a vaccine that doesn't prevent the patient from contracting the virus, doesn't prevent the patient from spreading the virus and doesn't prevent the patient from being symptomatic, sometimes seriously so.

 

[KarynVA]

Well,actually, the only thing they ever said the covid vaccines could do is to:
1) help people avoid severe illness/ hospitalization for Covid
2) avoid dying from Covid

It's not a preventative. It's not a magical force field that keeps everyone 100% free of the virus. It was never touted to be.

Does ivermectin prevent people from spreading it, prevent people from being symptomatic, or "stop the disease and allow us to get on with normal living"? At least the vaccine shows our immune system what the virus looks like so our own natural defenses can do their job. With an entirely new virus, our immune systems don't know the particle is harmful, so that's why vaccines are necessary.