"Your Horse Has Sugar Diabetes"*

Can you identify the class of persons (1) as a result of believing other sources, and persuaded by their tone, inclined to take horse dewormers but (2) persuadable by sober messaging from establishment authority but (3) now alienated by mild joking on the subject? https://t.co/Z3NQMJK3Ba

— UtterDebacleHat (@Popehat) August 22, 2021

I have eaten the horse dewormers
That were in the feed store
And which you were probably saving for livestock

— DiscoPriest (@DiscoPriest) August 22, 2021

And since that tweet made the rounds:

(Morgan Freeman Voice): Don’t take horse medicine for your human illness.
(Father Jack Voice, whispers): You feckin’ eejits. https://t.co/pZOdDm9z27

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 22, 2021

Meanwhile, in Paradise:

Absolutely bonkers pic.twitter.com/e3SonxnxfE

— Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro) August 22, 2021

And, of course, on Facebook:

Everything's going great on the very active public Ivermectin Facebook groups.

Only a few people taking 10x what everyone else is taking, wondering what to do with a bottle of the injectable kind with a picture of cattle on it, or begging for earnest medical advice. pic.twitter.com/y22aJrtot3

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 23, 2021

In case you're as curious about this as I am, Nature has a very good article on how we got here, and why we shouldn't have.  Bottom line:  we don't know if ivermectin works on covid, or not.  But the stuff you get at the feed store to de-worm horses is not in a form suitable for consumption by humans.  And besides, unless it comes from your doctor, you're probably either giving yourself nothing, or you're poisoning yourself.

And still you won't get the vaccine?

*Punchline to the wrong joke