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This is a great article, however, unless you are a doctor, there is no reason to scare people over the animal form of Ivermectin. It's all the same medicine. Ivermectin is available without a prescription in many countries because it is so safe. We should be pushing to make it available without a prescription to get around the roadblocks with doctors and pharmacists.

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Troll…….

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Pretty much this.

We spent a year hearing good news about Ivermectin, HCQ, among other drugs, from the dark corners of the internet. So when the FDA tried to meme it into oblivion over "horse paste", people got curious and researched it.

On my own, I found internet reviews dating back years of people using the veterinary stuff for scabies, common colds/flus, etc. I saw long, and very informed discussions on how to dose the veterinary stuff in humans, what side effects to expect if something goes wrong, and particularly the advice to take it with a meal so that it doesn't all just go in one hole and come out the other. I saw people experimenting on themselves for science, taking all necessary precautions. I even got the answer to a question I'd held for a long time, why Ivermectin is often paired with antibiotics. It's because it *will* deworm you, whether that was your intent or not, and if you're especially infested, the antibiotics help prevent secondary infections from the rotting corpses of parasites.

And get this: Farmers have been taking the stuff for colds/flus for years. It didn't start with COVID-1984. Anyone who doesn't believe me can hunt these reviews down themselves, though I suspect anything on amazon has long been taken down.

Something strange occurred to me on this. We grew up hearing "there is no cure for the common cold". It was a meme beaten into our heads since childhood that it was impossible. Take your Nyquil and knock yourself out for a week and just deal with it. Go to the hospital if you get the flu. See a doctor. Get proper care. Etc.

If there *was* a cure for the common cold, how much money would be lost?

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