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You think the average consumer has an education in biochemistry and pharmacy science? I’d like to visit the version of America you are living in.

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Is the implication that one needs a postgraduate degree in biochemistry to understand that "opiates are addictive" - in a country where almost everyone has instant 24/7 access to almost all of human knowledge ever recorded?

If that's your argument, it's a miracle these people didn't die earlier from drinking bleach, thinking it was a tasty beverage.

If doctors and television were promoting it as heavily as they did opiates, people would absolutely die from it. People got very sick during COVID from trying bleach and ivermectin because a reality TV star told them to. Again, your America sounds amazing, I’d love to visit someday.

Out of curiosity, do you have any sources on people getting more ill from ivermectin than from COVID, or any sources of anyone actually trying to consume, ingest, or inject bleach?

It is irrelevant whether or not people got more ill from taking Ivermectin (though many did get sicker from delaying actual treatment in favor of horse dewormer). Your argument was the consumers should be responsible for discerning a good course of treatment from a bad one. The use of Ivermectin to treat a viral disease is completely inline with the assertion that the average American has no education on this stuff, and will take what the TV and trusted figures tell them to.

Or they took the advice of an authority figure who suggested drinking disinfectant to cure a certain viral disease. JK

Personally, I much preferred sunlight injection therapy to lung bleach therapy! ;)

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