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[sampo]

> horse dewormer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ivermectin

You are not being truthful, labeling ivermectin only a "horse dewormer". Ivermectin is used as an antiparasitic drug also for people. And not only as a dewormer, but also against lice and mites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin

[kragen → sampo]

Indeed. One of the most disheartening things about the covid pandemic has been seeing how many people are willing to propagate the most egregious health-related misinformation, such as that ivermectin is only or primarily a horse dewormer or that it is dangerous, as long as it identifies them with the desired faction. Such depravity should not have come as a surprise to me, but it did.

I've taken ivermectin—for parasites, not for covid. I wonder how many people will die of parasitic infections or more toxic antihelminthics and acaricides in the next few years because they or their neighbors refused to take ivermectin after they heard it was a dangerous veterinary-only drug from unscrupulous liars during the covid pandemic.