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I think the horse thing came from the fact that some people were actually buying the horse version of ivermectin and presumably self-medicating. There were some reports of shops restricting horse-ivermectin purchases to people who could prove they owned a horse.

The absurd response seemed to be in response to absurd behaviour, as far as I can tell.

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To be fair, it wasn't necessarily easy to get Ivermectin in human form. The CDC and FDA both came out strongly against doctors prescribing it for COVID, and some health system wouldn't allow doctors to prescribe it or pharmacies to fill prescriptions.

Hard to blame people for taking the horse version if that's all they could get. Also hard to blame pharmacies for not wanting to give out medicine that doesn't work, although pharmacies seem more than happy to sell other kinds of snake oil.

....which itself was a result of the insane overreaction to covid from the same media convincing people they were all going to die.

Not all, but millions of people did die, including over half a million Americans. That's not exactly nothing.

Also overcrowded hospitals. Maybe this was not case in America but in many places other treatments were partially blocked by Covid overflow.

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