• toofpic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Maybe let a doctor decide on what your body really needs, not the price of the bottle?

  • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
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    3 months ago

    It’s irritating that ivermectin now carries the stink of weird alternative medicine people. Its really helpful for treating rosacea (for which it is approved by the fda as a topical prescription drug, under the name soolantra)

    Like its a perfectly useful antiparasitic and antiinflammatory, but now it will always just be “that weird horse dewormer that dumbfucks take”

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Just about everything has been turned into a political issue in the last decade. Medicine (not Healthcare… modern medicines/drugs themselves), beer brands, avocados on toast, beef, eggs, children’s films/books (that’s not new, I guess, just hitting new levels recently), gas stoves, holidays, black pilots, etc.

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        3 months ago

        I’m convinced that conservatives wake up in the morning and just choose something to be mad at. Green MnM losing her high heels, gas stoves, Starbucks, avocado toast, etc.

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          3 months ago

          It’s not that far from the truth, it’s just the thing they pick is what they saw on Fox News that morning.

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          3 months ago

          Holy shit 🤣

          My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.

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            3 months ago

            I think the tragedy is the mom not realizing that the mayo on the shelves today is for the most part only a distant relative of the “oil and egg yolk emulsion” she used to eat as a child.

            That is, Millennials are justly rejecting a 100% chemical mix supposed to taste like a natural food, but whose ingredient list looks like a who’s who of food processing science, while it makes her fondly remember something that spoiled quickly if not eaten after opening. You can’t blame the young’uns for not having your memories.

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    “only objective understanding”

    Too late. Should have started with that, dumbass.

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      3 months ago

      Exactly this! They started from some emotional/political/vibes-based treatment that didn’t work because obviously, then suddenly they want to be all facts-driven when they could face some criticism for gumming up our healthcare system with their nonsense.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It’s polite to warn the people responsible for saving your life that you’re gonna be a frequent flyer

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    3 months ago

    Horrific, anyone have a good explanation for what I went through?

    Well, it wasn’t a high quality educational system, that’s for sure.

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      Hey, it’s a perfectly reasonable solution for humans suffering from parasites. Just because some idiots take it for other things doesn’t reduce its usefulness as a drug for humans under specific conditions.

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        My personal theory is that a not insignificant number of the people who took it and felt better outside of normal disease progression curves just had worms too.

        • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Makes sense to me. I mean the odds that people that stupid are also riddled with parasites from ingesting shit crawling with parasites are pretty high.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      It’s really not. I wear flipflops with jeans with some frequency but still manage to believe in real medicine, and especially don’t believe that pairing two antiparasitics (one not approved for human use) is a cure-all or even a vaguely rational treatment for anything other than being riddled with parasites.

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        3 months ago

        Why not wear shorts if it’s so hot? Glad you’re sane otherwise ;⁠-⁠)

        Btw, I’m only joking about all this. I went to college when that look first took off. I’ll never do it, but that’s just me.

        • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Flops are just comfortable, it doesn’t necessarily need to be that hot out, so long as it isn’t actively cold or wet.