Raise Your Hands if You've Stopped Eating Lettuce?

 

I miss my summer salads, they're quick and light and easy, right?

But now that we've learned it's NOT just the one farm with cyclospora, nope - no more lettuce for a while, right?

No lettuce at all for me - restaurants OR at home. Nope, not risking it, right now. No salads, take it off sandwiches and burgers - nope, nope, nope!

Also, though Taco Bell is usually a mainstay of my DoorDashing, all orders stopped for about a week, and now IF I get a Taco Bell dash, they put "No lettuce" on their orders. Good idea!

So of course, the internet does what it does about it ... 

I mean, it's a good question?

Then Taco Bell strikes back with THIS?

(Just kidding - no, this is not a Taco Bell real sign.)

😂😂😂

Now cyclospora parasites, Ladies and Gentlemen, would be an appropriate use for ivermectin - but only under a doctor's instruction and only if you actually have cyclospora, not as prevention - because Ivermectin builds up in the human body over time and can become toxic!

Just saying, because I sometimes still see people with no background in healthcare, never having read any of the clinical studies at all on ivermectin themselves, still trying to push ivermectin as a prevention/cure for COVID, simply because right-wing politicians do, who likely own pharmaceutical shares.

(These people apparently can't independently think for themselves or research anything on their own, they just drink the political Kool-Aid.)

I swear, if Trump told people to drink bleach, they would.

(Oh wait, that already happened -  he publicly speculated about injecting bleach of some sort during COVID and people actually did that or tried to drink it!)

So ... ivermectin is an anti-parasitic, not an antiviral.

Yes, sometimes we use "off-label" drugs to treat certain things, particularly for symptom relief -  but ivermectin is not one of those things. 

Ivermectin is still prescription-only rather than over-the-counter in humans for a reason - and that reason is, ivermectin builds up over time and becomes toxic - yes, lethally toxic.

And if you'd actually read the clinical trials on ivermectin and COVID  for yourselves, rather than regurgitating what your politicians (who likely have pharmaceutical shares in these companies) tell you, you would clearly see that all studies  proved ivermectin was ineffective at either preventing or curing COVID.

There WAS one a small statistical difference in COVID symptom relief in one small study; however, another study did not find any  statistical or clinical difference at all in symptom relief.

What HAS been proven is that ivermectin kills parasites (not viruses) AND that although perfectly safe short term, in large doses and/or for prolonged periods of time, ivermectin builds up to toxic levels in the human body - thus, this is why the medication is prescription only; otherwise, you could buy it over the counter!


So though your horse or your dog or cat can take ivermectin as prevention for parasitic infections, humans cannot - and there is NO evidence whatsoever ivermectin either prevents or cures the COVID virus; just one small study showed a small statistical difference in symptom relief, but others did not.

Which means, essentially, even IF the 1 small study (contradicted by other studies) was correct, ivermectin had even less symptom-relief than over-the-counter decongestants with COVID, which are safer, and thus why they are over the counter and ivermectin is not.