TikTok Is Full of Videos of People Promoting Ivermectin, the Horse Deworming Medication Falsely Touted as a Covid Cure Quote:“How y’all doing? I don’t know how y’all been vaccinating, but I’m gonna show y’all how I have been,” says the man in the video. He pulls out a small needle and a syringe, followed by a box with a horse on it. He puts one cc of the medication into the syringe, then puts it into a bottle of orange juice, which he proceeds to chug. “I been vaccinated,” he says. “So y’all go out there and get y’all’s vaccine.”
The medication the man is chugging in the video is ivermectin, a drug that has gained traction in recent months as a “cure” for Covid-19. Best known as a deworming medication for animals such as horses, cows, and dogs (though it has been approved by the FDA for human use as a treatment for parasitic worms, or topically to treat conditions like head lice), ivermectin has, in recent months, been promoted by far-right pundits such as Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson as a Covid-19 cure. Feed stores around the country have reported that it’s selling quickly.
Quote:On TikTok in particular, misinformation about ivermectin is rampant, with the hashtags #ivermectin4covid and #ivermectinworks garnering over 997,000 views and 13,000 views respectively. (TikTok removed those hashtags after receiving a request for comment from Rolling Stone.) Many creators are making videos advocating for its use or even — as is the case in the above video — posting tutorials for how to use it, racking up hundreds of thousands of views in the process.
I'm absolutely convinced the world has gone insane.
Oh, and...
Quote:The FDA has made pleads for people not to poison themselves.
Nice try but I'm sure most of the idiots won't take any notice.
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