“There is a bizarre propaganda underway in the United States of America to brand Ivermectin a ‘horse dewormer,’” mused OpIndia, in its coverage of Joe Rogan’s recent brief bout of COVID and Alex Jones’s on-air Ivermectin ingestion stunt, “despite the fact that a version of the drug is known to be used for human treatment.”
The origin story is instructive. “The propaganda appears to have been triggered by an ambiguously worded tweet by the US Food and Drugs Administration.”
Well, ambiguity is in the eye of the beholder: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” This FDA tweet led to virality of invectives against Ivermectin users.
Then Katelyn Ogle, of KFOR in Oklahoma, upped the hysteria ante, claiming that a “rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups.”
This then went stampede, with Rolling Stone taking it up.
Apparently without a fact check.
In hardly any time at all, the hospital in question issued a statement repudiating the whole brouhaha.
It was Fake News — capital F and capital N — and Rolling Stone had to issue a … well, it wasn’t a retraction.
Journalist Glen Greewald offered his take: “The only reason Rolling Stone is calling this an ‘UPDATE’ as opposed to what it so plainly is — a RETRACTION — is because liberal outlets know that their readers don’t care at all if they publish fake news as long as it’s done with the right political motives and goals.”
Dismissing Ivermectin as any kind of “de-wormer” is fraudulent. That this strain of invective against its COVID-suffering users was started by the government is especially galling.
Lots of people swallowed the meme.
Will they develop immunity to future, similar spin?
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This is just the latest reason I have zero trust in anything coming out of the FDA or Fauci or any of these public health ‘experts’.
That the FDA would do this is more than galling. It is destructive.
I think everyone on here should take Ivermectin every day. Not only does it cure COVID, it cures many other diseases also.
Missing from any of the “reports” is the fact that Ivermectin has been approved by the FDA for human use since 1996.
Pam, I’d agree in the case of one person here; more specifically, you. And I think that you should consider getting a booster shot of vaccine every day.