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The horse dewormer thing iirc comes from the fact that ivermectin is a prescription drug, and doctors obviously wouldn't prescribe it for covid. So people resorted to one of the very few ways you could still purchase it: as the horse dewormer variant.
Of course this version is much stronger and intended for horses, not humans. IIRC this led to a few hospitalisations and even deaths.
That's why when people advocate you should take ivermectin, the counter claim is that they're telling you to take horse dewormer, since that's the only way to get it. It's not out of a general 'disrespect' for ivermectin.
Are ivermectin's feelings hurt when it's disrespected? Or does it kind of get off on it? And why are all these people posting at great length to remind us all that it has some other use than the one we are talking about?
Presumably to avoid people from believing the opposite: that Ivermectin is a quack drug that doesn't do anything, which might lead them to reject the drug if prescribed for some parasite or other ailment that is treated by ivermectin.
I'm pretty sure there were actually some doctors who were prescribing it
There's a depressingly non-trivial number of doctors who aren't above making a quick buck through quackery.
Yeah, and those (handful of) people were not taking horse dewormer.
Everyone else on ivermectin though...
Yes, and most were disciplined because they were describing medication that was not intended for nor effective at treating covid. Still, there were very, very few doctors who did so.