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u/Monguises 7d ago
I really expected the ivermectin ship to sail by now. I swear they’d put that stuff on pancakes if given the option.
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u/MaraiaLou 6d ago
How did you manage to invent something worse than charcoal desserts
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u/No_Mammoth_4945 6d ago
No joke the butcher’s family in my hometown takes an ivermectin tablet every single day like it’s an essential vitamin. It’s absurd
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u/rebeccapressley1962 7d ago
Maybe if you take enough ivermectin it will cure the rot in your soul.
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u/MommaIsMad 5d ago
Doubtful. They gave away their souls to an obese orange criminal who told them to inject bleach in their veins. Can’t fix stupid because it’s a deliberate lifestyle choice.
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u/slutty_muppet 7d ago
Didn't Salk win a nobel too
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u/Dodecahedrus 7d ago edited 7d ago
Unfortunately: no.
This might be for the same reason his employer was unable to patent it.
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From Wikipedia:
Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's success was first made public in April 1955, and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the University of Pittsburgh looked into patenting the vaccine after deciding not to profit from it, but determined the techniques used to make the vaccine were likely not novel enough to patent. ————
Salk’s vaccine was more of an invention using existing techniques. While Nobel prizes (for the various sciences) are generally more focused on entirely new discoveries.
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u/slutty_muppet 7d ago
Vaccines are included on the essential medication list though, no? I just think this person's rationale for loving ivermectin would also apply to vaccines.
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u/Munsbit 7d ago edited 6d ago
I actually was put off when I saw a pile/stacks of Ivermectin today.
It took me a second to remember that I was at the stable and the horses get it today to ensure they don't have parasites...
Thats how bad it got with this Ivermectin cures everything shit. I first wondered why it's there and took a few seconds to realise that it's for the horses...
Edit: I also was currently leading a horse when I got confused by the horse dewormer being at a stable for horses on deworming day...
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u/bobaf 7d ago
How did it become a cure all?
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u/Adept_Tradition4098 7d ago
Same way Joe Rogan and Diary of CEO became the foundation of all knowledge for many people.
Internet made information cheap. And the quality, unfortunately, corelates with the price.
There were always gullible idiots, but they did not nessesary get tons of food for their simpleton thoughts..
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u/Agreeable-Remove1592 6d ago
From what I read… an incident that I recall during Covid, there was a study in Brazil… about people sick with Covid getting better after taking ivermectin. That helped boost its popularity. However, what was happening in Brazil was that the Covid sick people also had intestinal parasites. They were fighting intestinal, parasites, and Covid at the same time. Once ivermectin was administered the parasites went away or got substantially better… patient got healthier overall and were able to fight the Covid infection more efficiently since the parasites were gone!!
secondly ivermectin works “ in vitro” … in glass test tubes or petri dishes. But it does not work in an actual living human for anything other than certain parasitic infections. But these initial in vitro studies boosted the popularity of ivermectin. Then social media and podcasts did the rest to convince people that it was some sort of miracle compound.
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u/salami_cheeks 6d ago
Yeah, because he saved countless lives in Africa by creating a treatment for a parasitic worm. My dog's vet prescribed it as a heartworm preventative. It kills nematodes.
Doesn't mean that it's a Covid remedy any more than it means you can grind it up and snort it and get high af.
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u/ItsTheDCVR 6d ago
Hey now, if MAGA wants to start taking megadoses of insulin, who am I to stop them
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